Linguistics

This note proposes a neutral, falsification-oriented framework for evaluating how plausibly a given string of symbols could correspond to spoken language systems at the level of language families. Rat - lingbuzz, the linguistics archive

The nature and status of abstract objects have been at the center of metaphysical debate for a very long time and they form a topic that bears a particular connection to natural language. Philosophers - lingbuzz, the linguistics archive

We argue for a structurally uniform account of slur-based definites (SDs), focusing on the systematic ambiguity between descriptive and epithet readings of SDs in Brazilian Portuguese. We show that th - lingbuzz, the linguistics archive

I argue that definite relative clauses, despite their stable strong island status cross-linguistically, lack island status in Adara. The structure is neither selective nor weak, but rather completely - lingbuzz, the linguistics archive

Morphophysics models morphological structure as a dynamical field in which grammatical categories, affix positions, and co-occurrence constraints emerge as attractors shaped by a shared geometry (cu - lingbuzz, the linguistics archive

This article argues that Y is neither a vowel, nor a glide, nor an energy conduit. Y is instead a ghost connector: a silent predicator and directional operator that assigns transitions between vowel - lingbuzz, the linguistics archive

In the generative tradition, the conditions on subextraction (i.e., the extraction from a phrase XP) have been captured by either one of the following incompatible formulations: (i) a formulation base - lingbuzz, the linguistics archive

This article provides a morphosyntactic and semantic analysis of nine yes/no question constructions across English and Chinese varieties (e.g., Mandarin, Yixing, Nanjing, Suzhou, Hefei, Kunming, Liang - lingbuzz, the linguistics archive

This is a continuation of my recent research examining whether the naive use of the current AI systems can lead to research misconduct. Building on the previous observation that current AI systems can - lingbuzz, the linguistics archive

This article develops a single internal claim that recurs across the Morphodynamics program: the primitive inventory that drives grammatical evolution is particle-stratified. Free or weakly bound di - lingbuzz, the linguistics archive

Clitic placement with European Portuguese uninflected verbs is problematic for prosodic analyses. While ‘proclisis triggers’ give rise to obligatory proclisis with inflected verbs, they often lead to - lingbuzz, the linguistics archive

The study of speech categorization has a long history. Two phenomenological laws of speech categorization are statable based on this extensive history: monotonicity and sigmoidality of the identificat - lingbuzz, the linguistics archive

This note describes an auxiliary, exploratory extension to a previously proposed phonological plausibility framework for evaluating unknown or ambiguous symbol strings. The extension introduces a phon - lingbuzz, the linguistics archive

Writing an academic text can be challenging for English learners, including Indonesian students studying at Hungarian Universities (HUs). These students must learn to write in a second language while mastering grammatical structures and lexical resources, as well as distinguishing between academic English and conversational English in terms of conventional words, phrases,and sentence structures.This study is aimed at examining students’ experiences in English academic writing during their master

This dissertation explores the syntax of subsententials in Hindi/Urdu (H/U), with an empirical focus on sluicing and fragment answers. Such phenomena represent instances where all clausal material is unpronounced, except for a (wh-)phrase (e.g., A: Who did John see? B: Mary.). With evidence from various connectivity effects, I argue that a non-structuralist analysis of such configurations, which does not assume the presence of tacit material, is untenable. Rather, subsententials in this language

This paper puts forward a restrictive approach to subsegmental architecture, which assumes that sub-skeletal representations are composed of obligatorily binary branching nodes and substance-free emer - lingbuzz, the linguistics archive

I discuss two colloquial Italian idioms expressing respectively emphatic negation and objection, col cavolo (lit. ‘with the cabbage’) and un cavolo (lit. ‘a cabbage’). Despite superficial similarities - lingbuzz, the linguistics archive

In some Indo-European languages, a fraction partitive (FP) which embeds a plural DP licenses an optional-agreement phenomenon—-in the appropriate syntactic position, an agreeing predicate can copy the - lingbuzz, the linguistics archive

This paper is focused on existential (and possessive) sentences in Tagalog that are constructed around a verbal existential verb (which I refer to as the Dynamic Existential). Although this verb appea - lingbuzz, the linguistics archive

In this paper, we present a comprehensive corpus-driven analysis of Bangla literary and newspaper texts to investigate their lexical diversity, structural complexity and readability. We undertook Vā - lingbuzz, the linguistics archive

In this paper, we present a comprehensive corpus-driven analysis of Bangla literary and newspaper texts to investigate their lexical diversity, structural complexity and readability. We undertook Vā - lingbuzz, the linguistics archive