Masoud Mohammadirad,Shuan Osman Karim
Masoud Mohammadirad
Contemporary dialects of Goranî (a Northwestern Iranic language spoken in Kurdistan) exhibit considerable variation in the formation of tense-aspect-mood categories. It has long been recognized that compatibility of the indicative/imperfec...
Aspectual reduplication in Sign Language of the Netherlands: reconsidering phonological constraints and aspectual distinctions [0.03%]
荷兰手语中的方面重复：重新考虑音系制约和方面的区分
Cindy van Boven
Cindy van Boven
This study investigates the use of predicate reduplication to express aspectual meaning in Sign Language of the Netherlands (NGT). The study focuses on three aspect types that have been found to be encoded by reduplication across sign langu...
Between (anti-)grammar and identity: a quantitative and qualitative study of hyperdialectisms in Brabantish [0.03%]
介于（反）语法和身份之间：布拉班特语超方言的定量和定性研究
Kristel Doreleijers,Stefan Grondelaers
Kristel Doreleijers
Incomplete mastery of dialect grammar engenders 'hyperdialectisms' which may be unconscious errors, but which may also be the result of indexical resourcefulness, viz. the profiling of a regional identity. Fifty younger and older speakers f...
Jana Pflaeging,Bradley Mackay,Erik Schleef
Jana Pflaeging
This study contributes to a growing body of research on the social meanings of linguistic variation with particular interest in the cognitive processes governing their emergence. Our research follows in the tradition of Labov et al.'s (2011...
Allen Asiimwe,Maria Kouneli,Jenneke van der Wal
Allen Asiimwe
Determiner spreading, the phenomenon whereby adnominal modifiers carry an 'additional' determiner, has been studied extensively for a variety of languages, most notably Greek, Semitic, and Scandinavian languages. Interestingly, the same phe...
Camil Staps,Johan Rooryck
Camil Staps
This article argues that the [+distal] feature of demonstrative that is also present in complementizer that, and has not bleached away. In particular, we argue that complementizer that is referential: it refers to an element in the Shared D...
Henry Davis,Lisa Matthewson
Henry Davis
This paper provides an analysis of the 'frustrative' marker séna7 in St'át'imcets (Lillooet Salish), and compares it to similar elements cross-linguistically. Séna7 appears in a range of discourse contexts, including when events have an ...
What's hidden below definiteness and genitive: on indefinite partitive articles in Romance [0.03%]
definite和genitive之下隐藏着什么：关于罗曼语系语言中的不定属格文章
Francesco Pinzin
Francesco Pinzin
In French, Italian, and other Romance languages indefinite nominal phrases can be introduced by what appears to be the conflation of a genitive preposition and a definite article, the so-called "indefinite partitive articles" (e.g., Fr. Je ...
Multi-variate coding for possession: methodology and preliminary results [0.03%]
多变量编码对于物体持有研究的方法论及初步结果
Natalia Chousou-Polydouri,David Inman,Thomas C Huber et al.
Natalia Chousou-Polydouri et al.
In this work we are presenting a database structure to encode the phenomenon of differential possession across languages, considering noun possession classes and possessive constructions as independent but linked. We show how this structure...
Avoiding stress on non-lexical material in nouns and verbs: predictable verb prosody in Serbo-Croatian stress standard varieties [0.03%]
避免在名词和动词中非词汇材料上的重音压力：塞博克罗地亚语重音标准变体中的可预测动词韵律
Marko Simonović,René Kager
Marko Simonović
We consider two asymmetries reported in the literature on word prosodic systems: the tendency to allow more prosodic contrast in nouns than in verbs and the tendency to avoid stress on functional material. We focus on the interaction betwee...