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All about ablaut: a typology of ablaut reduplicative structures 关于 ablaut：ablaut 重複结构类型学

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Linguistic Typology Pub Date : 2024-05-23 DOI: 10.1515/lingty-2023-0018

Grace Wivell, Veronica Miatto, Ayla Karakaş, Kalina Kostyszyn, Lori Repetti

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Gender, number and person: a three-way interaction 性别、人数和人物：三者之间的相互作用

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Linguistic Typology Pub Date : 2024-05-20 DOI: 10.1515/lingty-2023-0025

Thomas Berg

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Headless relative clauses with a gap: a typological trait of Mesoamerican languages 有间隙的无头相对从句：中美洲语言的一种类型特征

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Linguistic Typology Pub Date : 2024-04-19 DOI: 10.1515/lingty-2022-0080

E. Palancar, Roberto Zavala Maldonado, C. Chamoreau

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Objects as human bodies: cross-linguistic colexifications between words for body parts and objects 作为人体的物体：身体部位和物体词汇之间的跨语言复用

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Linguistic Typology Pub Date : 2024-04-11 DOI: 10.1515/lingty-2023-0032

Annika Tjuka

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Establishing the limits between Polarity Sensitivity, Negative Polarity and Negative Concord 确定极性灵敏度、负极性和负协之间的界限

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Linguistic Typology Pub Date : 2024-04-04 DOI: 10.1515/lingty-2022-0083

Urtzi Etxeberria, M. Espinal, Susagna Tubau

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Levshina, Natalia. 2022. Communicative Efficiency: Language Structure and Use. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. xviii + 291 pages. Print ISBN: 9781108840798 Levshina, Natalia.2022.Communicative Efficiency：Language Structure and Use.剑桥：xviii + 291 页。印刷版 ISBN: 9781108840798

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Linguistic Typology Pub Date : 2024-03-26 DOI: 10.1515/lingty-2024-0013

Laura Becker

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Towards a new typology of comparative constructions in East Asian languages 建立东亚语言比较结构的新类型学

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Linguistic Typology Pub Date : 2024-01-22 DOI: 10.1515/lingty-2023-0028

Chenlei Zhou

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Encoding of nominal predication constructions: a typological investigation in verb-initial languages 名词谓语结构的编码:动词首语的类型学研究

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Linguistic Typology Pub Date : 2023-11-06 DOI: 10.1515/lingty-2023-0035

Liwei Gong, Satoshi Uehara

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Frontmatter 头版头条

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Linguistic Typology Pub Date : 2023-10-01 DOI: 10.1515/lingty-2023-frontmatter3

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Grammar highlights 2022 2022年语法要闻

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Linguistic Typology Pub Date : 2023-09-27 DOI: 10.1515/lingty-2023-2001

Jorge Emilio Rosés Labrada

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