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Deixis as the Origin of Language [PDF]
, 2004 International audienceA cross-linguistic, typological, phylogenetic, ontogenetic, diachronic, and synchronic analysis, takion in account semantic, pragmatic, phonological, morphological and syntactic data points at deixis as the probable origin of the ...
Kirtchuk, Pablo
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Risk and its others: Toward an anthropology of “protection” in rural Mongolia
American Anthropologist, Volume 127, Issue 1, Page 69-79, March 2025.Abstract Anthropological studies of risk have long focused on how people respond to and aim to manage potential harm. But despite its long and important genealogy, this article suggests that risk can pose an analytic blind spot that potentially occludes other ways of understanding how people aim to live well in potentially harmful situations.
Joseph Bristley
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Are Big Gods a big deal in the emergence of big groups? [PDF]
, 2015 In Big Gods, Norenzayan (2013) presents the most comprehensive treatment yet of the Big Gods question. The book is a commendable attempt to synthesize the rapidly growing body of survey and experimental research on prosocial effects of religious primes ...
Atkinson, Quentin D. +2 more
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Nonverbal Clause Constructions
Language and Linguistics Compass, Volume 19, Issue 2, March/April 2025.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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Verbal numeral classifiers in languages of Eastern Eurasia: A typological survey
Open LinguisticsThis 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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A typology of denominal verb formation strategies
Language and Linguistics Compass, Volume 18, Issue 3, May/June 2024.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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Focus case outside of Austronesian: An analysis of Kolyma Yukaghir [PDF]
, 2014 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,
Bender, Emily M., Zamaraeva, Olga
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WYMIERAJĄCY JUKAGIRZY. GENY, ETNICZNOŚĆ I KULTURA W PÓŁNOCNEJ JAKUCJI
Etnografia Polska, 2016 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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What we have learned from complex annotation of topic-focus articulation in a large Czech corpus [PDF]
, 2012 After a short summary of the theory of Topic-Focus Articulation (TFA) the present contribution documents on several examples illustrating the annotation of the basic features of TFA on a large corpus (the Prague Dependency Treebank) that corpus ...
Eva Hajičová
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