Rysbergen, Kyzdarkhan Uali, Nurgeldy Fazylzhanova, Anar Kuderinova, Kuralay
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Open Linguistics
The processes of objectification of rational and irrational types of knowledge in the cultural semantics of toponyms as a product of the mental activity of the subject (individual and ethnolinguistic collective) are considered. The analysis is carried out on the material of toponyms that involve colour values, numerals and phytonyms, mythonyms, etc...
Naranjo, Matías Guzmán Mertner, Miri Urban, Matthias
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Open Linguistics
In recent years, there has been an increased attention and interest in quantitative and statistical models of language contact and language diffusion in space. This article presents an improved model, multivAreate 2, to estimate spatial and contact relations between languages and dialects based on work by Guzmán Naranjo and Mertner ((2022). Estimat...
Oloff, Florence
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Open Linguistics
This article provides a first description of request for confirmation (RfC) sequences in spoken Czech. Based on 204 sequences from video-recorded ordinary conversations, it provides a quantitative overview of the main syntactic, lexical, prosodic and sequential features of both requests for confirmation and their responses. RfCs in Czech are typica...
Andrason, Alexander Harvey, Andrew
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Open Linguistics
This article studies the morpho-phonetic instability of interactives through the example of Gorwaa interjections. The analysis of 91 constructions demonstrates that, in Gorwaa, interjections are highly unstable: the number of idiolectal interjections is much larger than that of shared interjections, and the interjections of both sets form clusters ...
Le, Quang Anh
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Open Linguistics
This article investigates the historical development of the linguistic writings on Vietnamese tense marking. The scholarship on Vietnamese tense marking is unique as it is shaped by both linguistic and non-linguistic influences: foreshadowed in the seventeenth-century missionary grammars, turned prescriptive during the French colonisation of Vietna...
Metslang, Helle Habicht, Külli Hennoste, Tiit Pajusalu, Renate
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Open Linguistics
Ben-Moshe, Yotam M. Maschler, Yael
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Open Linguistics
This study reports quantitative findings from a study of 205 Hebrew request for confirmation (RfC) sequences, as part of a comparative Pragmatic Typological project across ten languages. Based on video recordings of casual conversation, this is the first systematic survey of such sequences in Hebrew. We examine linguistic and embodied resources for...
Rosemeyer, Malte
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Open Linguistics
Identifying the meanings of grammatical elements in context is a major challenge for corpus-linguistic studies of grammatical variation. This study proposes a novel solution to this problem. I describe the situated meanings of grammatical elements as latent constructs, i.e., social concepts that cannot be observed directly but need to be inferred f...
Taha, Mohammed Mohamed Sultan, Fazal Mohamed
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Open Linguistics
In generative syntax, two major types of proposals – syntax-oriented and semantics-oriented proposals – have been used to examine adverbs and adverbials. Despite these proposals explaining the remarkable properties of adverb positioning, this class of words is heterogeneous and problematic in terms of their displacement. This study adopts scopal th...
Gipper, Sonja
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Open Linguistics
This article describes the resources employed by speakers of Yurakaré (isolate, Bolivia) for formulating and responding to requests for confirmation (RfCs). In Yurakaré, RfC turns are predominantly formatted with positive polarity and falling final intonation. Confirming responses to positive polarity RfCs and disconfirming responses to negative po...
