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Nonverbal Clause Constructions
ABSTRACT There are about a dozen well‐recognised types of nonverbal clause constructions, but the terminology by which these subtypes are known varies widely. This paper gives an overview of the major types and defines each term carefully, from the perspective of general syntax.
Martin Haspelmath
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This study applies the framework of the ecology of language, defined by Einar Haugen as the study of interactions between a language and its environment, to evaluate the reliability of population census data for sociolinguistic analysis.
Gulnara F. Gabdrakhmanova +1 more
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A typology of denominal verb formation strategies
Abstract This article aims to fill a gap in the typological literature by discussing the typology of overt denominal verb formation strategies, that is, morphosyntactic strategies other than conversion/zero‐derivation that are used to derive a verb from a nominal base.
Simone Mattiola, Andrea Sansò
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Yukaghir is a small language family comprising two closely related languages, Kolyma Yukaghir and Tundra Yukaghir, previously analyzed as dialects of one language. Both are spoken in the northeastern part of Siberia. Mainstream linguistics maintains that
Nikolaeva, Irina
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The language of Siberian Eskimos as recorded by Jan "Eskimo" Welzl
In the present study the numerals of Siberian Eskimos recorded by Jan "Eskimo" Welzl are analyzed in context of the "Arctic" languages, wide-spread from Greenland to the archipelago Novaja Zemľa, concretely Eskaleutan, Chukcho-Koryak, Yukaghir, Yakutic ...
Václav Blažek, Michal Schwarz
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Verbal numeral classifiers in languages of Eastern Eurasia: A typological survey
This article presents a typological survey of verbal numeral classifiers (VNCs) in languages of Eastern Eurasia. As classifiers of occurrence (e.g., to V once, to V twice), VNCs are prevalent in languages of East Asia and Southeast Asia, yet the ...
Honkasalo Sami, Yurayong Chingduang
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Focus case outside of Austronesian: An analysis of Kolyma Yukaghir [PDF]
Case is traditionally approached as a lexical phenomenon in HPSG. The LinGO Grammar Matrix customization system, an HPSG-based grammar engineering toolkit and also a typological meta-resource, includes several options for case assignment, and one of them,
Zamaraeva, Olga, Bender, Emily M.
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Para os Yukaghirs da Sibéria, a presa é vista como uma amante que precisa se “entregar” ao caçador, demonstrando desejo sexual por ele. Consequentemente, o caçador busca seduzir a presa transformando seu corpo na imagem dela.
Rane Willerslev
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On the Phonological Interpretation of Long Vowels in Kolyma Yukaghir
Looking at the vowels of Kolyma Yukaghir, a minority language spoken in the upper reaches of the Kolyma River in northeastern Siberia (mainly in the Sakha Republic of the Russian Federation), both short and long vowels can be found.
ENDO, Fubito +3 more
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WYMIERAJĄCY JUKAGIRZY. GENY, ETNICZNOŚĆ I KULTURA W PÓŁNOCNEJ JAKUCJI
Almost one hundred years ago Waldemar Jochelson, a member of North Pacific Jesup Expedition to Siberia, wrote that Yukaghirs were on the edge of extinction. It seems however that “the edge of extinction” is quite flexible phenomenon, because more than a
Jarosław Derlicki
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