Linguistics

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

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

This thesis investigates the overgeneralization of the causative alternation in second language (L2) English, with particular focus on over(anti)causativization errors, whereby non-alternating transit - lingbuzz, the linguistics archive

In the first part of my paper, I render the notions of argument raising and A-dependencies and show that case licensing in the upper clause is neither a necessary precondition of raising nor its unive - lingbuzz, the linguistics archive

This article attempts to examine the linguistic phenomenon of folk etymology and to ascertain its contribution to the probable initial introduction and later survival of Latin loans in Standard Modern - lingbuzz, the linguistics archive

This is a fifth experiment of my general research program, which empirically explores how current generative AI systems behave with respect to research ethics. This time, I addressed the question of w - lingbuzz, the linguistics archive

The aim of this work is to offer a comparative analysis of the construction of [article + proper noun] in Río de la Plata Spanish (e.g., "la Samara") and Brazilian Portuguese (e.g., "a Samara"). Despi - lingbuzz, the linguistics archive

This paper examines the Ā-extraction of oblique arguments and adjuncts in the Mayan language Mam(San Juan Ostuncalco dialect), focusing on the distribution of the enclitic =(y)a’ (‘MVMT’), which appea - lingbuzz, the linguistics archive

The Voynich Manuscript (MS 408) has resisted all attempts at systematic analysis for over a century. This paper argues that the persistent failure of cryptographic, linguistic, and statistical approac - lingbuzz, the linguistics archive

Thispaperproposesananalysisofanunexpectedlinearorderingofthegen andnum markers in a set of non-standard Romance varieties spoken in Lunigiana, Italy. This linear ordering is unexpected because it app - lingbuzz, the linguistics archive

The verbal paradigm of Iranian Armenian has undergone a striking case of analogical extension, separating it from conservative varieties of Eastern Armenian. The past perfective pattern that was histo - lingbuzz, the linguistics archive

This paper investigates the emergence and distribution of weak definite articles in German prepositional phrases (e.g. vom) at the expense of strong articles (e.g. von dem). While reduced weak forms a - lingbuzz, the linguistics archive

This paper proposes a unified framework for understanding three ancient language families — Hurro-Urartian, Kartvelian, and Tyrsenian (Etruscan/Lemnian/Raetic) — as descendants of a common Caucasian H - lingbuzz, the linguistics archive

Eliciting linguistic data from speakers of non-standardized varieties presents well-known challenges. Traditional acceptability judgment tasks have been widely used to probe grammatical knowledge, but - lingbuzz, the linguistics archive

This position paper proposes a more-than-human and holistic approach to language that moves beyond entrenched divides between structuralism, constructivism, positivism, and methodological camps. Writi - lingbuzz, the linguistics archive

This is the condensed version of “Ergativity demystified”, but supplemented to include causative and applicative constructions.The grammatical elegance of ergative languages becomes evident when they - lingbuzz, the linguistics archive

The research reveals new connection between well-established language families. More material will follow in the very near future. - 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 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

This monograph develops a two-level architecture for grammatical description in which (i) a lexical module computes category formation, phrase-internal selection, and headed structure, while (ii) a sy - lingbuzz, the linguistics archive

This monograph develops a two-level architecture for grammatical description that separates (i) a lexical module responsible for head category, phrase-internal selection, and local constituency, from - lingbuzz, the linguistics archive

Quantum-inspired approaches to language often model word meaning as a superposition of potential interpretations, collapsing to a specific sense only under contextual “measurement.” This analogy has g - lingbuzz, the linguistics archive

This squib argues that English ‘quantified partitives’ like some of the sheep are underlyingly some sheep of the sheep with the partitive-PP extraposed and the stranded NP sheep d - lingbuzz, the linguistics archive

This is a review of a recent textbook, Morphology: A Distributed Morphology Introduction, written by Jeffrey P. Punske, and published by Wiley-Blackwell in 2024. This is the only linguistics textbook - lingbuzz, the linguistics archive

In Mongolian, division of labor is clear for the anaphor öör and the reflexive-possessive suffix, -aa, the latter being the hallmark of reflexive binding: öör marks binding not intertwined with verbal - lingbuzz, the linguistics archive