Linguistics

This document offers an introduction to grammatical analysis, using the Yucatec Maya language as a focus of study to illustrate fundamental linguistic concepts. It emphasizes the need for a patient an - lingbuzz, the linguistics archive

This article tackles the morpho-phonological complexities of compoundspecific phonological effects in Malayalam. We argue that all effects of lengthening and their interaction with epenthesis underli - lingbuzz, the linguistics archive

According to the DP hypothesis, the merger of a determiner and a noun yields a determiner phrase (DP) rather than a noun phrase (nP). Focusing on Spanish, I defend the DP hypothesis but reject - lingbuzz, the linguistics archive

In this paper, we show that the Eastern Nilotic language Bari exhibits extensive evidence for a pattern so far unattested in the phonological literature: suppletive allomorphy of tonal affixes which i - lingbuzz, the linguistics archive

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In this paper, we will put forward an argument for the claim that the syntax-prosody mapping must apply cyclically in a bottom-up fashion. Smaller prosodic categories are constructed before bigger pro - lingbuzz, the linguistics archive

How do we create new language? Drawing on the observation that some languages—such as Pirahã—are almost entirely without a number system, this work explores what other features of human language could - lingbuzz, the linguistics archive

Goal of this talk: To capture the difference between bare noun definites and Dem-NPs in Korean by applying the analysis proposed in Kim 2023b to non-subject anaphoric data, with implications for ot - lingbuzz, the linguistics archive

Inflectional gaps (*forgoed/*forwent) and doublets (dived/dove) can seem surprising in light of common assumptions about morphology and learning. Perhaps understandably, morphologists have troubled th - lingbuzz, the linguistics archive

This paper presents a syntactic-based model of Tense in complement clauses, with special focus on non-finite contexts. The various notions of Tense are first separated into morphological, syntactic, a - lingbuzz, the linguistics archive

This paper discusses syntactic features of Slavic possessive clitics and Slavic constructions with so-called “Possessor Raising”. I prove that only a minority of Slavic languages have true phrase-leve - lingbuzz, the linguistics archive

This paper discusses the interaction of syntactical and information-structural factors in the ordering of Bulgarian clauses with clitics. I define clitics as a subset of prosodically defective and com - lingbuzz, the linguistics archive

What does ‘good’ ethical conduct in linguistics look like from the perspective of the communities with whom we work? We address this question by drawing on observations from a community-bridging and k - lingbuzz, the linguistics archive

The language of the 21st century encompasses a wide array of texts, many of which can be found on the Internet. While the language of Internet blogs, posts and memes has received considerable attentio - lingbuzz, the linguistics archive

This paper presents the first comprehensive analysis of the forms and functions of mouth activities in Turkish Sign Language and focuses on the role of Turkish full/reduced mouthings (i.e., /var/, /va - lingbuzz, the linguistics archive

While studies of gestures generally focus on their co-speech use, gestures can also (more rarely) be produced on their own, with a dedicated time slot. The meaning and grammar of such 'pure' gestures - lingbuzz, the linguistics archive

By acknowledging efforts or contributing to improvements, researchers have a basic responsibility to dictionary writers and readers of research. This study investigates phonological and lexical incons - lingbuzz, the linguistics archive

`forest' is a pgf/tikz-based package for drawing linguistic (and other kinds of) trees. This manual provides a quickstart guide for linguists with just the essential things that you need to get start - lingbuzz, the linguistics archive

We discuss the intersections of linguistic typology with other branches of linguistics and outline several research fields where the implementation of the parametric approach in typology is appropriat - lingbuzz, the linguistics archive

We aim at establishing universal and language-specific mechanisms of communicative marking and information ordering. The developed model of the communicative-syntactic interface is defined for an open - lingbuzz, the linguistics archive

This paper discusses the non-uniform behavior of different affixes in phonologically conditioned affix order in Yidiɲ. I present evidence from final syllable deletion illustrating that the word compri - lingbuzz, the linguistics archive

It is a well-established fact that different phonological behaviours can co- exist within the same language. In this paper, we focus on what we call ‘interstratal differences’, namely patterns where - lingbuzz, the linguistics archive

Languages are widely known to become more regular over time, yet not all variation is regularized — some forms resist regularization and remain stable over many generations. A large body of work has e - lingbuzz, the linguistics archive

A predominant assumption in the vast literature on the Mirror Principle is that exceptions to the principle are due to morphology (Hyman 2003; Ryan 2010; Popp 2021). In this paper, we provide evidence - lingbuzz, the linguistics archive

Mandan’s (Sioux, North America) 1pl affixes exhibit a correlation between phonological and morphological exceptionality. I argue that vowel deletion, the phonological exceptional behaviour, and the ex - lingbuzz, the linguistics archive

Irish has different complementizers depending on whether a clause is formed by an A-bar dependency without movement, via movement, or via binding of a resumptive pronoun. Despite these distinctions, t - lingbuzz, the linguistics archive

This work is about how language emerged. Language emerged as verbal communications long before it was written down. Mother of all human languages was a spoken language. It emerged in Homo Erectus, i - lingbuzz, the linguistics archive

Affixal phonological selection tends to be coarse-grained rather than granular. Stress, syllable count, and C/V composition figure in many examples, while subsegmental/featural generalizations are les - lingbuzz, the linguistics archive

How do languages become national by motivating diverse populations to converge on a target of learning? The study by Professor Chen begins with the period in Chinese history following the 1911 Revolut - lingbuzz, the linguistics archive

The main purpose of this paper is to classify and characterize Mongolian causatives according to their morphological, syntactic and semantic properties. Adopting a typological method, this paper demon - lingbuzz, the linguistics archive