Linguistics and Cryptophilology
I compare language and text as research objects and discuss the status of text linguistics aka cryptophilology. The latter exploits the philological concept of text, which is masked by the use of ling - lingbuzz, the linguistics archive
LingBuzz > PhonologyKartvelian and Lexical Contact in the Ancient Caucasus
This paper will survey what kinds of lexical contact affected Kartvelian languages in the ancient Caucasus: what kinds of lexical items were borrowed, and when, and what light such patterns shed on ph - lingbuzz, the linguistics archive
LingBuzz > PhonologyОбязательный местоименный экспериенцер и смена семантического типа [Obligatory Pronominal Experiencer and Semantic Type Switching]
The obligatory encoding of the experiencer by pronominal clitics in Bulgarian brings about a more rigid contrast of internal vs external states compared to Russian, despite the overt similarity of con - lingbuzz, the linguistics archive
LingBuzz > PhonologyAn Overview of Peircean Semiotics, With Applications to Modern Linguistics
This paper is a preliminary introduction to Peircean semiotics. It is still very much in progress. However, because of the potential interest of Peirce's theory of semiotics for linguistics, it is bei - lingbuzz, the linguistics archive
LingBuzz > PhonologyRight dislocation, defocus, and variations in syntax-prosody mapping
This study bridges the notion of (de)focus with the prosodic phrasing of right dislocation (RD) and its variations. We show that RD in Cantonese and Mandarin displays a syntax-prosody mismatch: while - lingbuzz, the linguistics archive
LingBuzz > PhonologySound symbolism can count three segments (whereas phonology presumably cannot)
Some researchers have recently argued that sound symbolic requirements can cause phonological alternations, and others have claimed that the relationships between sounds and meanings can be likened to - lingbuzz, the linguistics archive
LingBuzz > PhonologyThe Taming of the Clitics. Review of: Zrinka Kolaković, Edyta Jurkiewicz-Rohrbacher, Björn Hansen, Dušica Filipović Đurđević & Nataša Fritz. 2022. Clitics in the wild: Empirical studies on the microvariation of the pronominal, reflexive and verbal clitics in Bosnian, Croatian and Serbian (Open Slavic Linguistics 7). Berlin: Language Science Press. 461 p.
This paper is a review of: Zrinka Kolaković, Edyta Jurkiewicz-Rohrbacher, Björn Hansen, Dušica Filipović Đurđević & Nataša Fritz. 2022. Clitics in the wild: Empirical studies on the microvariation of - lingbuzz, the linguistics archive
LingBuzz > PhonologyPlusperfect Auxiliaries in the Russian Language of the 14th - 16th Centuries [Связки плюсквамперфекта в русском языке XIV - XVI вв.]]
This paper discusses the syntax of the past tense auxiliaries in the vernacular Old Russian plusperfect construction of the type дал был, дал есми был. I prove that the past tense auxiliaries behaved - lingbuzz, the linguistics archive
LingBuzz > Phonology[Do They Deserve it: Are Endoclitics Necessary for the Description of Russian Grammar?] Так им и надо: нужны ли эндоклитики для описания русской грамматики?
The paper is addressed a number of morphosyntactic phenomena in Russian grammar, which can be explained as regular or occasional endoclitic insertion. The insertion of Russian prepositions in negative - lingbuzz, the linguistics archive
LingBuzz > PhonologyInvestigating the universality of consonant and vowel co-occurrence restrictions
Certain phonotactic constraints on the co-occurrence of segments appear to be much more common across the world's languages than others. In many languages, similar consonant co-occurrence is restricte - lingbuzz, the linguistics archive
LingBuzz > PhonologySliding-window reduplication: an overgeneration problem for BR-correspondence theories
This squib begins with a novel observation concerning overgeneration in Base-Reduplicant correspondence approaches to reduplication. When the target of reduplication is a marked structure, a language' - lingbuzz, the linguistics archive
LingBuzz > PhonologyDative Subjects and Semi-Expletive Pronouns in Russian
This paper discusses Russian sentence patterns without overt nominative subjects and analyses them in a framework with syntactic zero categories and oblique subjects. These are subclassified into 'str - lingbuzz, the linguistics archive
LingBuzz > PhonologyКорпусная грамматика количественных групп в русском языке [The Corpus Grammar of Russian QPs]
The paper is addressed the corpus grammar of Russian quantifier phrases (QPs), with focus on two issues: (i) subject-predicate agreement patterns in sentences with a QP in the position of a grammatica - lingbuzz, the linguistics archive
LingBuzz > PhonologyRussian e-verbs and thematic vowel change
This paper argues for an ablaut process (thematic vowel raising) targeting the thematic vowel -e- of second-conjugation verbs in the present tense, as well as in several other environments. I will arg - lingbuzz, the linguistics archive
LingBuzz > PhonologyСвязка ложь, да в ней намек: формы 3 л. глагола «БЫТЬ» в древнерусском языке [A Tale of Two Auxiliaries:Third Person Forms of BYTI in Old Russian ]
The current estimates for the period when the zero copula ‘BE’ was grammaticalized in the history of Russian, date this process to the 15th–18th centuries. This is a mistake prompted by misleading tex - lingbuzz, the linguistics archive
LingBuzz > PhonologyHistorical Text Corpora and the Conclusiveness of Linguistic Analysis
I discuss the methodology and conclusiveness of the corpus-based historical linguistics and analyze two formal models predicting the language-internal variation in Early Old Russian syntax. Linguistic - lingbuzz, the linguistics archive
LingBuzz > PhonologyLinguistic theory, psycholinguistics and large language models
Recently much attention has been paid to whether large language models (LLMs) can serve as theories of language (Piantadosi 2023 and replies to other scholars in it). Unfortunately, the discussion has - lingbuzz, the linguistics archive
LingBuzz > PhonologyA reply to Moro et alia’s claim that “LLMs can produce ‘impossible’ languages”
This is a reply to Moro, Greco & Cappa (2023), published as a viewpoint in "Cortex", and Bolhuis, Crain, Fong & Moro (2024), published under correspondence in "Nature", also lingbuzz/008093 and lingbu - lingbuzz, the linguistics archive
LingBuzz > PhonologyClitic templates and discourse marker ti in Old Czech
This paper aims at solving two problems of Slavic syntax – a) to prove that Old Czech had a discourse clitic particle ti1 attested in other Old Slavic languages, b) to describe Old Czech clitic templa - lingbuzz, the linguistics archive
LingBuzz > PhonologyJapanese speakers can infer specific sub-lexicons using phonotactic cues
Phonotactic restrictions do not usually hold uniformly across the entire lexicon of a particular language, and thus the lexicon of a natural language is often assumed to be organized into different su - lingbuzz, the linguistics archive
LingBuzz > PhonologyThe blueprint model of production
This paper introduces the blueprint model of production, which characterizes the phonetics-phonology interface in terms of typed functions. The standard modular feed-forward view to the interface is t - lingbuzz, the linguistics archive
LingBuzz > PhonologyL’origine et de la signification du glossonyme lingala
This article argues that the names Lingála or Mangála, used as glossonyms, are short-forms or elliptical expressions of mangála má libɔkɔ, or sometimes lingála lí mabɔkɔ, which mean ‘the language of m - lingbuzz, the linguistics archive
LingBuzz > PhonologyProsodic Rephrasing and Violations of the Phase Impenetrability Condition
According to the Phase Impenetrability Condition (PIC), phasal domains are opaque to further syntactic operations. Some researchers claim that the PIC applies in the phonological component of grammar - lingbuzz, the linguistics archive
LingBuzz > PhonologyCase and the syntax of argument indexation: An analysis of Sorani Kurdish
This is the second draft of our book on case and the syntax of argument indexation. We argue for an approach in which case labels ('Nominative', 'Ergative', etc.) are shorthand for bundles of decompos - lingbuzz, the linguistics archive
LingBuzz > PhonologyReview of Gippert & Dum-Tragut "Caucasian Albania - an International Handbook"
The review examines the contributions of the first comprehensive handbook on the Caucasian Albanian people, who until the 8th century CE ruled the lower Kura river basin in what is today Azerbaijan. T - lingbuzz, the linguistics archive
LingBuzz > PhonologyThe complex relationship between the tunes and pragmatics of Greek wh-questions
This paper discusses the tunes used with canonical (information-seeking) and non-canonical wh-questions in Greek and presents their pragmatic interpretation based on a compositional approach to intona - lingbuzz, the linguistics archive
LingBuzz > Phonology