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Do languages spoken in multilingual communities converge? A case study of reflexivity marking in Mano and Kpelle 多语言社区的语言趋同吗？马诺和克佩勒反身性标记案例研究

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Linguistics Pub Date : 2024-05-01 DOI: 10.1515/ling-2022-0111

Maria Khachaturyan, George Moroz, Pe Mamy

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Geographic structure of Chinese dialects: a computational dialectometric approach 汉语方言的地理结构：方言计量学计算方法

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Linguistics Pub Date : 2024-04-23 DOI: 10.1515/ling-2021-0138

He Huang, Jack Grieve, Lei Jiao, Zhuo Cai

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From location to conjunction, disjunction, partition, exemplification and association: Hebrew bein constructions 从位置到连词、析词、分词、例证和联想：希伯来语 bein 结构

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Linguistics Pub Date : 2024-04-22 DOI: 10.1515/ling-2022-0115

Ruti Bardenstein, Mira Ariel

{"title":"From location to conjunction, disjunction, partition, exemplification and association: Hebrew bein constructions","authors":"Ruti Bardenstein, Mira Ariel","doi":"10.1515/ling-2022-0115","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/ling-2022-0115","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 Analyzing the diachrony of Hebrew bein, originally a spatial preposition ‘within/among’, this article traces several grammaticization clines associated with bein’s gradual evolution into a rich variety of functions within various constructions. While its early function is purely locative, bein later participates in an array of constructions and sub-constructions, where its syntactic status, its semantic meanings and functions, as well as its discourse role, have shifted considerably. Bein may thus be part of a conjunctive or a disjunctive construction, but it may also be part of an ‘in any case’ adverbial, and later an ‘anyway’ discourse marker. It conveys different locative construals (‘within’, ‘among’ and ‘between’), but also various abstract symmetric relations, such as ‘difference’, ‘dispute’ and ‘separation’. Some bein constructions partition a set, focusing on a subset of it, while in other cases bein serves as an ‘all-purpose’ preposition. Nevertheless, our goal is to show how each grammatical, semantic and discoursal phase is well motivated, given the previous phase. Based on written historical corpora, from Biblical to contemporary Hebrew, we provide a step-by-step diachronic development from earlier to later bein functions.","PeriodicalId":47548,"journal":{"name":"Linguistics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2024-04-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140676718","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"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’s hidden below definiteness and genitive: on indefinite partitive articles in Romance 定语和属格下面隐藏着什么：论罗曼语中的不定代词

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Linguistics Pub Date : 2024-04-18 DOI: 10.1515/ling-2022-0059

Francesco Pinzin

{"title":"What’s hidden below definiteness and genitive: on indefinite partitive articles in Romance","authors":"Francesco Pinzin","doi":"10.1515/ling-2022-0059","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/ling-2022-0059","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 In French, Italian, and other Romance languages indefinite nominal phrases can be introduced by what appears to be the conflation of a genitive preposition and a definite article, the so-called “indefinite partitive articles” (e.g., Fr. Je cuisine de la soupe depuis deux jours. ‘I’ve been cooking soup for two days’). This is rather unexpected, since these nominal phrases are neither definite nor in a syntactic position in which we expect to find a genitive preposition. This led part of the literature to consider them as built by lexical items synchronically distinct from the genitive preposition/definite article but homophonous with them. This contribution shows how a constituent-based approach to the lexicon-syntax interface as nanosyntax, paired with a specific take on the sequence of syntactic functions, can capture their apparently conflicting distribution without stipulating multiple homophonous lexical items. The key factor in this proposal is a revised analysis of the Romance lexical item (LI) for (i) definite articles – linked to a constituent containing not only features of definiteness but also lower indefinite features and higher nominative/accusative case features – and (ii) the genitive preposition DE – linked to a constituent containing not only genitive features but also lower nominative/accusative features. Holding these LIs crosslinguistically stable, the variation attested in this domain is modeled as depending on the amount of functional structure lexicalized by the nominal root in the different languages.","PeriodicalId":47548,"journal":{"name":"Linguistics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2024-04-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140688773","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"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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Diachronic evolution of the subordinator kak in Russian 俄语从句 "kak "的异时演变

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Linguistics Pub Date : 2024-04-15 DOI: 10.1515/ling-2021-0213

N. Serdobolskaya, I. Kobozeva

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Spanish lower and upper bounded change of state verbs: focusing on transitive experiencer object verbs 西班牙语下限和上限状态变化动词：侧重于及物经验宾语动词

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Linguistics Pub Date : 2024-04-05 DOI: 10.1515/ling-2021-0143

Paola Fritz-Huechante, Elisabeth Verhoeven

{"title":"Spanish lower and upper bounded change of state verbs: focusing on transitive experiencer object verbs","authors":"Paola Fritz-Huechante, Elisabeth Verhoeven","doi":"10.1515/ling-2021-0143","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/ling-2021-0143","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 Transitive causative change of state (TCoS) verbs elicit scalar readings, distinguishing them between: upper-bounded verbs (e.g., dry), denoting a culminating change of state, and lower-bounded verbs (e.g., wrinkle), denoting a change from a zero to a non-zero value (or from one value to another) regarding the property described by the semantic core of the verb. In their eventive reading, transitive experiencer object (TEO) verbs (e.g., calm down, delight) also denote causative eventualities able to yield scalar inferences. This study investigates whether TEO verbs are also associated with a minimum or maximum standard degree, proposing a similar subdivision of TEO verbs into lower-bounded items (delight) and upper-bounded items (calm down). In a forced-choice selection experiment we tested the impact of the standard degree (bound) of the semantic core of Spanish TEO verbs on the availability of lower-bounded or upper-bounded readings comparing them to TCoS verbs. Results revealed that the factor bound was significant to the extent that both lower-bounded TEO and TCoS predicates yielded the response compatible with a lower-bounded reading significantly more often than predicates that possess a maximum degree, supporting the distinction between lower and upper bounded items. Further, a significant effect of verb type was also observed, differentiating a change of state on the mental (TEO) versus the physical (TCoS) levels.","PeriodicalId":47548,"journal":{"name":"Linguistics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2024-04-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140740572","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"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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Introduction: the development of manner expressions into complementizers or quotatives 导言：将方式表达发展为补语或引语

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Linguistics Pub Date : 2024-03-25 DOI: 10.1515/ling-2024-0019

C. Gentens, Kasper Boye

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An alternative view of the English alternative embedded passive 英语嵌入式被动语法的另一种观点

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Linguistics Pub Date : 2024-03-25 DOI: 10.1515/ling-2023-0170

Daniel Duncan

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The diachrony of the Basque marker bait-: from a manner expression to subordinator 巴斯克语标记词 "bait-"的异时性：从方式表达到从句

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Linguistics Pub Date : 2024-03-20 DOI: 10.1515/ling-2021-0198

Dorota Krajewska

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Constructional sources of durational shortening in discourse markers 话语标记中时态缩短的结构来源

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Linguistics Pub Date : 2024-03-20 DOI: 10.1515/ling-2021-0096

Esther L. Brown, Javier Rivas

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