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Discontinuous past interpretation in Abaza 阿巴扎的不连续过去解释
IF 0.5 3区 文学
Studies in Language Pub Date : 2024-06-06 DOI: 10.1075/sl.23026.kly
Evgenia Klyagina
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Morphosyntactic retention and innovation in Sheng, a youth language or stylect of Kenya 肯尼亚青年语言 "笙 "的语法保留和创新
IF 0.5 3区 文学
Studies in Language Pub Date : 2024-06-06 DOI: 10.1075/sl.22017.gib
Hannah Gibson, C. Githiora, Fridah Kanana Erastus, Lutz Marten
{"title":"Morphosyntactic retention and innovation in Sheng, a youth language or stylect of Kenya","authors":"Hannah Gibson, C. Githiora, Fridah Kanana Erastus, Lutz Marten","doi":"10.1075/sl.22017.gib","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/sl.22017.gib","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 This paper examines the morphosyntax of the East African Swahili-based urban youth language or stylect Sheng.\u0000 Research on urban youth languages has often focused on these varieties as sites of rapid change and linguistic creativity.\u0000 However, we show that many of the structural features which appear to make Sheng stand out when compared to (Standard) Swahili are\u0000 widespread across East African Bantu languages. We examine nominal and verbal domains, as well as clausal syntax, and highlight\u0000 areas in which Sheng exhibits features in common with its contact languages, as well as features which appear to reflect instances\u0000 of independent innovation. The study shows that Sheng is not a “simplified” version of Swahili which deviates from the grammar of\u0000 Swahili in a range of ad hoc ways. Rather, the language exhibits features of retention and contact-induced borrowing, as well as\u0000 systematic changes which are reflective of variation across the Bantu languages.","PeriodicalId":46377,"journal":{"name":"Studies in Language","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2024-06-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141379241","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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What can be said? 还能说什么呢？
IF 0.5 3区 文学
Studies in Language Pub Date : 2024-05-23 DOI: 10.1075/sl.22074.cra
T. Crane, Remah Lubambo, M Petrus Mabena, Cordelia Nkwinika, Muhle Sibisi, Onelisa Slater
{"title":"What can be said?","authors":"T. Crane, Remah Lubambo, M Petrus Mabena, Cordelia Nkwinika, Muhle Sibisi, Onelisa Slater","doi":"10.1075/sl.22074.cra","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/sl.22074.cra","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 We employ a cluster approach to explore the comparative semantic maps of several markers of modal possibility –\u0000 the “potential” prefix nga‑ and expressions meaning, roughly, ‘know how to’ and ‘be able to’ – in four South\u0000 African Nguni languages: isiNdebele, isiZulu, isiXhosa, Siswati. We also compare the Nguni results with results from Xitsonga, a\u0000 closely related language outside of the Nguni clade. The languages exhibit cross-linguistic differences in the expansion of core\u0000 meanings, some of which do not appear to follow the cross-linguistically common diachronic pattern in which goal-oriented modality\u0000 precedes deontic modality. In addition, the distinction between inherent and learned ability is salient in several of these\u0000 languages. Semantic maps of the markers’ functional distributions further show the diversity of modal systems that can be found\u0000 even in closely related languages in significant contact with one another.","PeriodicalId":46377,"journal":{"name":"Studies in Language","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2024-05-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141103110","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Inflection class interactions and valency changes in Matlatzinca Matlatzinca 中的词类相互作用和词性变化
IF 0.5 3区 文学
Studies in Language Pub Date : 2024-05-06 DOI: 10.1075/sl.23018.pal
E. Palancar, Leonardo Carranza Martínez
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Asymmetry in temporal specification between affirmation and negation 肯定和否定在时间上不对称
IF 0.5 3区 文学
Studies in Language Pub Date : 2024-05-06 DOI: 10.1075/sl.23036.mie
Matti Miestamo, Olli O. Silvennoinen, C. Yurayong
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Specificity contrasts in Lalo Yi 彝族拉洛人的特异性对比
IF 0.5 3区 文学
Studies in Language Pub Date : 2024-04-25 DOI: 10.1075/sl.23038.hu
Yaqing Hu, Andrew Simpson
{"title":"Specificity contrasts in Lalo Yi","authors":"Yaqing Hu, Andrew Simpson","doi":"10.1075/sl.23038.hu","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/sl.23038.hu","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 Lalo Yi (Tibeto-Burman; China) makes systematic distinctions in the encoding of specificity with\u0000 numerically-quantified nominals. Whereas specific indefinite NPs involve the presence of an article nikhe in an\u0000 NP-internal position [Noun nikhe Numeral Classifier], non-specific existentially-asserted indefinites require the\u0000 use of a syntactically discontinuous floating quantifier pattern [NP…Numeral-Classifier…]. A third, distinctive patterning is\u0000 found with weak, non-specific indefinites (indefinites that are not existentially asserted). This paper describes these previously\u0000 undocumented contrastive forms in Lalo Yi and how the language has developed a strikingly transparent linking between\u0000 morpho-syntax and semantics/pragmatics in the domain of nominal phrases.","PeriodicalId":46377,"journal":{"name":"Studies in Language","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2024-04-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140654949","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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The links between evidentiality, modality, and grammaticalization 证据性、语态和语法化之间的联系
IF 0.5 3区 文学
Studies in Language Pub Date : 2024-04-08 DOI: 10.1075/sl.24011.mel
Eric Mélac
{"title":"The links between evidentiality, modality, and grammaticalization","authors":"Eric Mélac","doi":"10.1075/sl.24011.mel","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/sl.24011.mel","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 This paper introduces the main notions that are addressed in this special issue, namely evidentiality, modality,\u0000 and grammaticalization. It defines each notion and briefly synthesizes the literature. It also presents some of the controversies\u0000 which surround the ideas that prevail in these research fields. Crosslinguistic examples illustrate the main evidential and modal\u0000 categories, and clarify why the two domains are both distinct and related. The paper then sketches the main pathways of\u0000 grammaticalization of modal and evidential markers as they have been documented in typological work. Finally, it introduces the\u0000 contributions to this special issue, highlights the new insights, and discusses what remains to be investigated on the links\u0000 between evidentiality, modality, and grammaticalization.","PeriodicalId":46377,"journal":{"name":"Studies in Language","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2024-04-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140730793","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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The action reference construction in Mandarin Chinese and typology of lexical flexibility 普通话中的动作参照结构与词汇灵活性类型学
IF 0.5 3区 文学
Studies in Language Pub Date : 2024-03-14 DOI: 10.1075/sl.23010.gon
Liwei Gong, Satoshi Uehara
{"title":"The action reference construction in Mandarin Chinese and typology of lexical flexibility","authors":"Liwei Gong, Satoshi Uehara","doi":"10.1075/sl.23010.gon","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/sl.23010.gon","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 The parts of speech system and lexical flexibility in Mandarin Chinese (henceforth Chinese) has long been subjects\u0000 of debate due to the pervasive zero coding of action reference constructions. In this article, we analyze properties of the\u0000 Chinese Action Reference Construction from the perspective of Radical Construction Grammar (Croft 2001, 2022), focusing on its structural coding, behavioral potential,\u0000 productivity, and semantic shifts. We also discuss typological features that potentially reinforce lexical flexibility in Chinese,\u0000 and the implications that the language-specific properties of Chinese present for cross-linguistic discussions of parts of speech.\u0000 Specifically, reference, instead of predication, is the most flexible information-packaging function in Chinese, challenging the\u0000 privileged status of predication established in previous studies on parts of speech and lexical flexibility.","PeriodicalId":46377,"journal":{"name":"Studies in Language","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2024-03-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140243395","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Sequentiality 顺序
IF 0.5 3区 文学
Studies in Language Pub Date : 2024-01-30 DOI: 10.1075/sl.23044.cam
A. Campbell
{"title":"Sequentiality","authors":"A. Campbell","doi":"10.1075/sl.23044.cam","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/sl.23044.cam","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000This paper examines a hitherto unreported use of the Gã Perfect gram termed the ‘sequential perfect’. The sequential perfect represents a late stage of grammaticalization as it no longer conveys any aspectual information on its own, instead deriving its semantics from verbal categories in the prior discourse. It is primarily modal, being used for irrealis, habitual and iterative situations. It occurs in the non-initial clause of multiclausal constructions and signals that the event it marks is temporally posterior to another event. It also imparts the epistemic modal meanings of inevitability and certainty. I propose that these newer functions are developed from the core semantic components of change-of-state and completion. This involves grammaticalization via domain extension, where change-of-state within an event is extended to change between events. The investigation introduces a new pathway for grammaticalization of the perfect, which has implications for studies of the perfect and grammaticalization generally.","PeriodicalId":46377,"journal":{"name":"Studies in Language","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2024-01-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140481371","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Evidentiality as a grammaticalization passenger 作为语法化乘客的证据性
IF 0.5 3区 文学
Studies in Language Pub Date : 2024-01-29 DOI: 10.1075/sl.23009.mel
Eric Mélac, Joanna Bialek
{"title":"Evidentiality as a grammaticalization passenger","authors":"Eric Mélac, Joanna Bialek","doi":"10.1075/sl.23009.mel","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/sl.23009.mel","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 This article investigates the grammaticalization patterns of evidentiality from a cross-linguistic perspective\u0000 with a focus on Lhasa Tibetan. It documents the history of the evidential morphemes ’dug, -song, -bzhag, and\u0000 =ze from Old Literary Tibetan to modern spoken Lhasa Tibetan. Our analyses show that these morphemes started\u0000 grammaticalizing before encoding evidentiality. We argue that, through pragmatic strengthening, evidentiality tends to infiltrate\u0000 forms which have already grammaticalized to express other semantic domains. These patterns of grammaticalization are confirmed by\u0000 diachronic and reconstructed data from genetically unrelated languages. Evidentiality thus tends to be a ‘grammaticalization\u0000 passenger’ (i.e., a conventionalized meaning which used to be merely implied from the recurrent contexts of a grammaticalized\u0000 form) rather than a ‘grammaticalization target’ (i.e., a functional domain which triggers grammaticalization). This may explain\u0000 why evidentiality is less often grammaticalized than other notions, such as time or modality, in the world’s languages.","PeriodicalId":46377,"journal":{"name":"Studies in Language","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2024-01-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140488996","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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