Linguistics

This article discusses the phonological status of diphthongs and their role in the melodic and rhythmic organization of vowel and consonant sequences. We examine the nature of rising diphthongs and th - lingbuzz, the linguistics archive

Metaphorization is a robust semantic process that underpins the development of grammatical categories and associated language variation and change. This study adopts a process-based approach to invest - lingbuzz, the linguistics archive

This paper focuses on the peripheral hierarchy of Mandarin interrogatives. Based on question markers’ embeddability profiles in a series of nonquotational subordinating contexts, this paper argues for - lingbuzz, the linguistics archive

Typological universals often dissolve because analysts collapse language-internal categories with the cross-linguistic comparanda they are meant to instantiate. When English noun or Hebrew subject is - lingbuzz, the linguistics archive

The frequency of the preferred order for a noun phrase formed by demonstrative, numeral, adjective and noun has received significant attention over the last two decades. We investigate the actual dist - lingbuzz, the linguistics archive

In some discourses, a given inference would be natural at one point, but impossible at the next. We focus here on such cases with inferences of temporal and causal order usually described as ambiguit - lingbuzz, the linguistics archive

This paper develops an argument in support of the claim that the embedded subject position of Control constructions is an anaphoric variable of the type represented by PRO. The evidence is based on an - lingbuzz, the linguistics archive

I describe and analyze a pattern of morphosyntactically conditioned realization of a glottal stop morpheme-ʔ in A’ingae (or Cofán, an endangered Amazonian isolate, ISO 639-3: con). The glottal stop -ʔ - lingbuzz, the linguistics archive

This PhD thesis arises from the lack of an in-depth study about Corrective Feedback (CF) in the Foreign Language (FL) classroom in Portugal. The research reported in this thesis, which is part of the field of linguistics and language teaching, aimed at investigating learners and teachers’ beliefs on oral CF, the several types of CF provided by English as a Foreign Language (EFL) teachers and the effects of CF on the learners’ linguistic knowledge. The present research seeks to provide a signific

I am the author and maintainer of the LinguisTiX bundle (ctan.org/pkg/linguistix) developed for enhanced support for linguistics in LaTeX. It’s a free (as in freedom) software. It is available at no cost with the latest (and updated) TeX Live 2025. I am currently working on a package that provides linguistic glosses in an accessible manner with LaTeX. Many of my peers from the LaTeX community have recommended me to discuss the software ideas with blind linguists (I am using blind as an u

This article examines two operations which are used to encode focus in Czech: word order alternation and stress shift. Based on data from a previous production experiment, we ran a rating study where - lingbuzz, the linguistics archive

Most literature on 'too' has focused on its "regular" uses, where, as a first approximation, 'too' triggers a presupposition that one of the focus alternatives to its prejacent, distinct from the prej - lingbuzz, the linguistics archive

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D-quantification and A-quantification are two basic apparatuses of meaning in natural language. There has, however, been a recent attempt to reduce the former to the latter, especially for exclusive f - lingbuzz, the linguistics archive

This article introduces the Reverse Entailment Diagnostic (RED), a bidirectional inference mechanism that demonstrates the universal capacity of all parts of speech—nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs - lingbuzz, the linguistics archive

Japanese nominal adjectives (NAs) are often analysed, in parallel with "NPs + the copula =da", as "so-called NA stems + the copula =da" — e.g. gakusei=da "it is a student" and sizuka=da "it is quiet/s - lingbuzz, the linguistics archive

Predication has been recognized as the fundamental grammatical relation defining clausal structures in all (and only) human languages ever since the canonical model of Ancient Greek linguistics. This - lingbuzz, the linguistics archive

This paper explores the influence of English and Urdu loanwords on the Hindi language, examining how these words have entered everyday speech and cultural expressions. It discusses the linguistic impa - lingbuzz, the linguistics archive

I separate the semantic category of definiteness from the morphosyntactic category of \textsc{deitality} and treat each as a homeostatic property cluster. On the syntax side, deitality comprises co-te - lingbuzz, the linguistics archive

These are the handouts of my ESSLLI 2025 advanced course together with the initial proposal (which deviates somewhat from the content of the handouts) - lingbuzz, the linguistics archive

This work aims to investigate the elaboration of (nominal) copular sentences in three different experimental para- digms involving a reading task: an acceptability judgment, a self-paced reading and a - lingbuzz, the linguistics archive

A longstanding debate about conjunction concerns so-called ‘asymmetric’ interpretations with additional causal or temporal inferences. Some theories posit a semantic component of conjunction as part o - lingbuzz, the linguistics archive

This paper presents a pattern of complementizer displacement in the Ethio­Semitic language Tigrinya (Ethiopia, Eritrea) that argues for the existence of a morphosyntactic operation of lowering that - lingbuzz, the linguistics archive

This paper proposes a new analysis of the Japanese so-called copula dearu and its contracted form da. Traditionally, dearu has been regarded as a single copular verb equivalent to English to be. Howev - lingbuzz, the linguistics archive

This chapter investigates the status of the locative constituent in Greek locative and existential sentences. Given that several types of sentences qualify as locatives and existentials in the languag - lingbuzz, the linguistics archive

Post-Interpretive Criticism: A Philosophical Departure from Post-Criticism Author: Dorian Vale This essay establishes Post-Interpretive Criticism as a clear philosophical departure from Post-Criti - lingbuzz, the linguistics archive

This paper provides a comprehensive analysis of non-canonical wh-questions from a cross-linguistic perspective. This study claims that they are encoded through the interaction of various functional el - lingbuzz, the linguistics archive

This is a squib on doublyfilled Comps and an exercise in dealing with a tight spot. Not everything that is rated acceptable is grammatical, and not everything that is rated unacceptable is ungrammatic - lingbuzz, the linguistics archive