Linguistics

This article argues that Amorite exhibits substantial structural affinity with Classical Arabic and that, in several phonological, morphological, and grammatical features, Arabic provides closer corre - lingbuzz, the linguistics archive

My previous studies have demonstrated that current AI systems can readily assist users in performing questionable research practices (QRPs) when prompted to do so. This paper shifts the focus from doc - lingbuzz, the linguistics archive

Traditional macro-comparative linguistics has historically struggled with stochastic acoustic noise and subjective lexical alignments. This study resolves these vulnerabilities through an automated, d - lingbuzz, the linguistics archive

"Taskmaster" is a British game show where contestants attempt to complete a series of challenges. "Syntaxmaster" is a linguistic version of one of the tasks from S12E4 [ https://www.youtube.com/watch? - lingbuzz, the linguistics archive

[This is part of a larger project to build a formal grammar of Japanese.] I propose phonosyntax as part of the phonological component, in which phonological strings are recursively merged to build the - lingbuzz, the linguistics archive

I defend the following three claims under the assumptions of Logical Phonology: Universal Grammar makes available an inventory of 3^n segments; there are 3^n natural classes; and the cardinality of - lingbuzz, the linguistics archive

This work proposes a mechanistic model of sound change based on pressure-resistance dynamics and tipping-point behaviour. It explains how small phonetic biases can accumulate, stall, or suddenly accel - lingbuzz, the linguistics archive

Messapic is an Indo-European language attested in inscriptions from pre-Roman Apulia. Its possible relationship with the prehistoric ancestor of Albanian remains disputed. Messapic bilia and Albanian - lingbuzz, the linguistics archive

How did human communication first escape the "here and now"? The capacity for displaced reference — referring to entities not present in the immediate perceptual environment — is widely recognized as - lingbuzz, the linguistics archive

Proto-Indo-European featured a complex system of accentual and ablaut paradigms. In this paper, I outline a proposal for the development of accentual mobility in Pre-PIE. The accent-ablaut system is m - lingbuzz, the linguistics archive

Previous work has reported that several Armenian varieties show ejective or glottalized stops, a claim with significant implications for the reconstruction of the Proto-Indo-European stop system. This - lingbuzz, the linguistics archive

Frequency matching has been proposed as a central principle underlying phonological knowledge and learning. A central example comes from Hungarian vowel harmony, where stems with back vowels followed - lingbuzz, the linguistics archive

This note discusses some recent findings in Nacireman phonology. This language makes suprasegmental use of overtones on each syllable to encode lexical meaning. This typologically unusual feature is i - lingbuzz, the linguistics archive

Nicholas Shea’s *Concepts at the Interface* (2024) identifies concepts with temporary working memory (WM) labels: ‘two-ended’ devices connected to stored information at one end and composing with othe - lingbuzz, the linguistics archive

We make the double claim that the domain of Content (‘lexical meaning’) is not a constituent, ‎but a Span, and that the search for atomic Content is contingent on phonological representations. ‎We arg - lingbuzz, the linguistics archive

I see the concern about AI and the future of scientific fields such as pure mathematics and linguistics somewhat differently. AI opens new perspectives much more than it closes disciplines—everything - lingbuzz, the linguistics archive