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Semantically negative adverbial clause-linkage: ‘let alone’ constructions, expletive negation, and theoretical implications 语义否定的副词分句连接："别管 "结构、祈使句否定及理论意义

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Linguistic Typology Pub Date : 2023-07-24 DOI: 10.1515/lingty-2022-0066

Jesús Olguín Martínez

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Linguistic Typology Pub Date : 2023-07-01 DOI: 10.1515/lingty-2023-frontmatter2

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Review of Antipassive: typology, diachrony and related constructions 反被动语研究综述:类型、历时性及相关结构

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Linguistic Typology Pub Date : 2023-05-26 DOI: 10.1515/lingty-2023-0006

Bettina Spreng

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Towards a phonological typology of the Kalahari Basin Area languages 卡拉哈里盆地地区语言的音系类型学研究

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Linguistic Typology Pub Date : 2023-05-12 DOI: 10.1515/lingty-2022-0047

Hirosi Nakagawa, Alena Witzlack-Makarevich, Daniel Auer, Anne-Maria Fehn, Linda Ammann Gerlach, Tom Güldemann, Sylvanus Job, Florian Lionnet, Christfried Naumann, Hitomi Ono, Lee J. Pratchett

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Linguistic Typology Pub Date : 2023-05-01 DOI: 10.1515/lingty-2023-frontmatter1

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Investigating the ‘what’, ‘where’ and ‘why’ of global phonological typology 研究全球语音类型学的“什么”、“在哪里”和“为什么”

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Linguistic Typology Pub Date : 2023-04-28 DOI: 10.1515/lingty-2022-0076

I. Maddieson

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The interplay of contrast markers (‘but’), selectives (“topic markers”) and word order in the fuzzy oppositive contrast domain 对比标记(“但是”)、选择标记(“主题标记”)和语序在模糊对立对比领域中的相互作用

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Linguistic Typology Pub Date : 2023-04-20 DOI: 10.1515/lingty-2022-0019

Bernhard Wälchli

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Lawyer, Lewis C. 2021. A grammar of Patwin. Studies in the Native Languages of the Americas. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press; Bloomington: In cooperation with the American Indian Studies Research Institute, Indiana University. ISBN 9781496221193 (hardback), ISBN 9781496222770 (pdf). 律师，Lewis C.2021。Patwin的语法。美洲土著语言研究。林肯：内布拉斯加大学出版社；布鲁明顿：与印第安纳大学美国印第安人研究所合作。ISBN 9781496221193（精装本），ISBN 978149 6222770（pdf）。

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Linguistic Typology Pub Date : 2023-04-12 DOI: 10.1515/lingty-2022-0061

U. Balodis

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Directionality in the psych alternation: a quantitative cross-linguistic study 心理交替中的方向性:一项定量的跨语言研究

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Linguistic Typology Pub Date : 2023-04-11 DOI: 10.1515/lingty-2021-0060

J. Rott, Elisabeth Verhoeven, Paola Fritz-Huechante

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On the expression of mistaken beliefs in Australian languages 论澳大利亚语言中错误信念的表达

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Linguistic Typology Pub Date : 2023-03-31 DOI: 10.1515/lingty-2022-0023

William B. McGregor

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