More or Less Unnatural: Semantic Similarity Shapes the Learnability and Cross-Linguistic Distribution of Unnatural Syncretism in Morphological Paradigms. [PDF]
Morphological systems often reuse the same forms in different functions, creating what is known as syncretism. While syncretism varies greatly, certain cross-linguistic tendencies are apparent. Patterns where all syncretic forms share a morphological feature value (e.g., first person, or plural number) are most common cross-linguistically, and this ...
Saldana C, Herce B, Bickel B.
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The article presents categorical description of the phenomenon of language syncretism, called by the author as linguistic syncretism on the material of time forms in the German language for the first time in linguistics.
Viktoria A. Beresneva
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The Role of Case Syncretism in Agreement Attraction: A Comprehension Study [PDF]
Natalia Slioussar
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Directional syncretism without directional rules [PDF]
Johannes Hein, Andrew Murphy
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Speech genre theory through the prism of modern linguistics [PDF]
The article deals with the status of the speech genres theory (SGT) and its contribution to the development of modern linguistics. In his polemical article Professor V. V. Dementyev argues that SGT is characterized by the wide range of research problems,
Maslova, Valentina Avraamovna
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Compendiums of knowledge associated with linguistic terminology and linguists: history, classification features, and genre polyfunctionality [PDF]
The author explores the historical development of Ukrainian linguistic terminology within the framework of national terminography, lexicography, encyclopediography.
Mykola Stepanenko
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Linguistic and statistical analysis of the lexical ‘Langue-Parole’ dichotomy in a restricted domain
Development of new digital methods for analyzing the ‘Langue-Parole’ dichotomy is one of the most sought-after, but least researched problems of modern theoretical and applied linguistics. This determines the relevance of this study, the purpose of which
Svetlana O. Sheremetyeva, Olga I. Babina
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Pragmatic Syncretism in the Use of Hedges (Based on Russian Thesis Reviews)
Introduction. The article deals with pragmatic syncretism and syncretic aspects of hedges – words and phrases used to mitigate claims, that is make them vaguer, more tentative and more uncertain.
E. Yu. Viktorova
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Features of a lullaby as a type of polycode text [PDF]
The article is devoted to identification of the features of the Karachai-Balkarian lullaby as a text of a complex semiotic nature and determination of the role of verbal and non-verbal components in the organization of an integral communicative space. It
Ariuka I. Gelyaeva +1 more
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SYNCRETISM IN LINGUISTICS: SYNTACTIC ASPECT
Syncretism has become the subject of various fields of science. Especially, its properties in the field of aesthetics, art criticism, and cultural studies have been studied to the maximum. It means that linguistics will also need to rethink the function of syncretism. The author of the paper touches upon the problem of syncretism in linguistics.
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