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What contact did to Yoruba morphosyntax

April 8, 2025

Taofeeq Adebayo

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In this article, I show that, due to the influence of English, major changes have occurred in Yoruba morphosyntax. The changes I identify include (i) the emergence of a transitive-marking Mid Tone Syllable (MTS) on loan verbs; (ii) the emergence of a pattern in which native verbs select accusative weak pronouns while loan verbs select genitive weak pronouns; (iii) changes in word order; (iv) syntactic doubling; and (v) category changes that apply only to loanwords. These changes have led to different forms of synchronic variation in the language. I show that the resulting variations fall into three major descriptive categories: free variation, lexicon-driven variation, and stratification-driven variation. Contact-induced stratification-driven variation exhibits two of the three patterns of the core-periphery structure of the lexicon (Brian Hsu and Karen Jesney, “Weighted scalar constraints capture the typology of loanword adaptation” [2018]), namely the “subset at periphery” and “superset at periphery” patterns. The Yoruba data exhibit an additional pattern that I describe as “complementary subsets”. Although the core-periphery structure of the lexicon (Junko Itô and Armin Mester, “The core-periphery structure of the lexicon and constraints on reranking” [1995] and “The phonological lexicon” [1999]) has been largely shown to have consequences for the module of phonology, the Yoruba data show that the core-periphery structure of the lexicon can be consequential for the syntactic module as well.
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Referential means in German: an experimental study comparing feminine epicene nouns with masculine generic nouns

April 4, 2025

Olga Steriopolo, Christin Schütze

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We conducted a study on how people refer to gender-neutral, grammatically feminine role or job nouns in German, like “die Lehrkraft” (the teacher [fem.]), and compared it to masculine role or job nouns, like “der Lehrer” (the teacher [masc.]). We found that people use different pronouns depending two factors: the grammatical gender of the nouns and the social gender associated with these nouns, that means how gender-typical these nouns are perceived to be. Our results showed that grammatically masculine role or job nouns were almost always referred to with masculine pronouns. In contrast, grammatically feminine role or job nouns were more often referred to in ways that could apply to any gender. We take this as support that these terms have a gender-neutral interpretation. We conclude that grammatically feminine, gender-neutral role or job nouns are better for being inclusive in German than masculine role or job titles, which tend to have a male bias. This research is important to anyone in the German-speaking community striving for gender equality.
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Decoding case markers: L1 Chinese L2 Japanese learners’ comprehension of Japanese OSV sentences

April 4, 2025

Yunchuan Chen

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It is widely acknowledged that L2 learners whose native language lacks case markers often encounter difficulties when trying to acquire the usage of case markers in a second language. This article investigates whether L2 Japanese learners whose native language lacks case markers are able to use case marking information to comprehend Japanese OSV sentences in real time. A picture-sentence matching truth value judgment experiment was created in both listening and reading versions. A proficiency test was also developed to measure the Japanese proficiency of L2 learners. A group of L1 Chinese L2 Japanese learners and a control group of L1 Japanese speakers were recruited for this study. The findings suggest that L1 Chinese L2 Japanese learners can utilize case markers to interpret Japanese OSV sentences online, with their accuracy strongly predicted by their Japanese proficiency.
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On the non-homogeneity of expletive negation in Greek and beyond

April 4, 2025

Evripidis Tsiakmakis

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Expletive negative markers, i.e., negative markers that do not reverse the truth conditions of the sentence in which they occur, have been reported to appear in a wide array of languages and in a fairly large set of syntactic environments. Previous research has shown that expletive negation is a non-homogeneous phenomenon. Focusing on Greek, I motivate two general claims related to this non-homogeneity: (i) Greek expletive negation hosts can be classified into two linguistically relevant groups, depending on whether they feature the standard negative marker dhen or the modal negative marker min . (ii) The semantic contribution of the expletive occurrences of dhen and min retains at least parts of the meaning of their respective non-expletive counterparts. After presenting some first evidence that the dichotomy of expletive negation hosts motivated by the Greek data extends to other languages, I submit the following hypothesis as a novel promising perspective in the study of expletive negation cross-linguistically: The bi-partite distinction between dhen -expletive negation hosts and min -expletive negation hosts may be cross-linguistically valid, suggesting that expletive negation hosts across languages are divided into two classes: (a) a class of expletive negation licensors that obscure the truly negative semantics of the featured negative markers, and (b) a class of modal expletive negation licensors that feature expletive negative markers corresponding to the spell-out of modal or deontic ordering sources.
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The development of imperfective and subjunctive marking in Hewramî

April 4, 2025

Masoud Mohammadirad, Shuan Osman Karim

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Contemporary dialects of Goranî (a Northwestern Iranic language spoken in Kurdistan) exhibit considerable variation in the formation of tense-aspect-mood categories. It has long been recognized that compatibility of the indicative/imperfective prefix mi- or the subjunctive prefix bi- with present-tense verb stems is phonologically conditioned. However, all attempts to identify the specific conditioning environments have failed. In this article, we reexamine the diachronic development of these affixes, showing that subsequent sound changes have obscured the original conditioning environment for the retention of these affixes. Early work on Hewramî (the main variety of Goranî) shows how the pattern of verbs that have lost the prefixes has begun to be extended to the verbs that take these prefixes for synchronically opaque reasons. The least frequent of these verbs were the first to begin the process of extension, showing inconsistent marking in these early works. Moreover, younger generations continue this process of extension using many more unmarked verbs compared to older speakers. The findings of this paper have implications for cyclic developments in the domain of tense and aspect.
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The influence of prescriptivism on French verbal defectiveness

March 18, 2025

Maria Copot, Andrea D. Sims

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Words that speakers and dictionaries deem to be morphologically defective (and thus unacceptable) are often found in corpora, suggesting a disconnect between judgements about such words and usage of them. This paper explores the hypothesis that social and contextual factors may help explain why defective words are often attested despite speakers’ intuitions that they should not be. We carry out a study on French, proposing that some verbs conventionally analysed as defective in this language are not so much examples of ineffable ungrammaticality as they are examples of social stigmatisation. We perform an acceptability judgement task which finds that the acceptability of defective words is inversely correlated with the extent to which participants orient to prescriptivist discourses circulating in French society, and depends also on the emphasis that the task places on taking a prescriptive attitude to language. The hypothesis that speakers’ metalinguistic awareness is key to accounting for speakers’ felt sense of defectiveness is further substantiated by the fact that acceptability of defective items is inversely proportional to the frequency of their lexeme, suggesting that the amount of evidence speakers have about a lexeme plays an important role in how acceptable the item is perceived to be.
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February 28, 2025

Gabrielle Hodge, Elizabeth Manrique, Bodo Winter, Kearsy Cormier

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How do deaf BSL signers signal polar and content questions? This study quantitatively investigates the manual and non-manual forms used to signal polar and content questions during dyadic conversations documented in the BSL Corpus. We found that non-manual movements such as eye, eyebrow and/or head movements do not differentiate content and polar questions in BSL. Instead, it is the presence or absence of conventionalised wh -forms that most strongly differentiates content questions in BSL, and these wh -forms can be signed in BSL and/or mouthed in English. These findings challenge the traditional manual versus non-manual paradigm for analysing polar and content questions in signed languages, while demonstrating how corpus methods can further our understanding of signed language variation and use.
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The many guises of productivity: a case-study of Spanish inchoative constructions

November 26, 2024

Sven Van Hulle, Renata Enghels, Peter Lauwers

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This study investigates the productivity of a family of inchoative constructions in (Peninsular) Spanish ( empezar a + inf., echar a + inf.) and the way it correlates with semantic openness. Productivity is defined as lexical openness of a slot (here the infinitive) of a construction. A range of productivity measures (e.g., type/token ratio, hapax/token ratio, and other parameters related to the frequency of the most frequent types) are discussed and compared. Semantic openness is operationalized on the basis of distributional semantics, yielding two measures viz. semantic range and semantic sparsity . The correlations between productivity measures and semantics are studied by means of a Principal Components Analysis. It is shown that the so-called ‘anti-productivity’ measures (related to entrenchment due to high token frequency) on the one hand, and the productivity measures (including the hapax-based ones, traditionally associated with extensibility) on the other hand, strongly correlate and constitute opposites along the same dimension of lexical openness. In addition, the semantic measures strongly correlate with productivity, which suggests that often semantic and lexical openness go hand in hand in this dataset. As to the behavior of the individual auxiliaries (= micro-constructions), they appear to be rather extreme, showing very productive and less productive profiles.
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Semantic variation and semantic change in the color lexicon

November 11, 2024

Carlotta Viti

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Color terms show a remarkable variation in their possible lexicalization patterns across different languages. In the literature, the interest has been especially to describe the color lexicon of a certain language and to determine whether it may abide or not by Berlin and Kay’s universal evolutionary sequence, e.g., whether a certain color denomination may be considered as a basic color term, or whether a certain color category is lexicalized by more than one basic color term, by which criteria, etc. It has not been established, however, which are the most common lexical sources of basic color terms on a comparative basis, and which semantic changes are more common in this semantic field. On the basis of data drawn from 70 ancient and modern Indo-European languages, we aim at answering precisely these research questions concerning the origin and the development of basic color terms. We discuss the various lexical sources of the basic color terms for white, black, red, green, yellow, blue, brown, gray, orange, pink, and purple, and we show the most important semantic changes leading to these color meanings. We also discuss to which extent these terms are likely to be inherited or borrowed. All this aims at being a contribution to the study of diachronic semantics.
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Left Dislocation in Spoken Hebrew, it is neither topicalizing nor a construction

November 4, 2024

Pavel Ozerov

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Left Dislocation/Detachment (LD) and related constructions consist of a detached NP and a subsequent clause that conveys information about it. Information Structural approaches analyze these constructions (dubbed here “LD-type”) as cross-linguistically widespread topicalizing structures, which reveal a cognitive constraint on activating a referent and using it as a sentence topic simultaneously. This study of natural Israeli Hebrew conversation challenges this view, approaching the structure from an interactional, online-syntax perspective. Unlike the previous studies that pre-select the NP+clause configuration for the analysis, this study examines all NPs produced first as structurally and prosodically detached constituents irrespective of whether they were continued by a clause or not. This choice more genuinely reflects utterance structuring processes of spoken language, where upon the production of the initial NP speakers do not have yet the rest of the utterance planned. The findings show that less than a third of the detached NPs are followed by a continuation, producing an LD-type configuration. Yet, across all the cases, detached NPs perform the same range of local discourse moves accounted for by identical basic factors of cognition and interaction: attention alignment, recycling, and planning difficulties. Based on these findings, the reexamination of the LD-type structures demonstrates that they do not represent a conventionalized sentence type with a dedicated function, but are unplanned, compositional discourse collocations of two separate constructions each performing a local move: a NP and a clause. Topical interpretations and discourse functions associated with LD-type collocations are epiphenomenal of more basic factors of cognition and interaction, and irrelevant for the interpretation of the examined utterances in natural conversation. This study adds to the usage-based approaches to Information Structure that question the need for the domain-specific Information Structural categories of topic and focus, disentangling them into more primitive factors of discourse management, epistemic states, and attention.
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What a nominal predicate may mean: eel, merfolk, and other creatures

October 1, 2024

David Y. Oshima

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A nominal predicate construction (NPC; e.g. “Cicero is {Tully/an orator}”) typically indicates the relation of identity or inclusion. NPCs, however, may receive marked interpretations as well, as in “I’m the ham sandwich” and “Their car is a peculiar color”; the former does not entail that the speaker is identical to the sandwich, and the latter does not entail that the car belongs to a set of colors. This article identifies, classifies, and analyzes such marked NPCs in English and Japanese, thereby enriching the taxonomy of NPCs acknowledged in the existing literature. It will be argued that both Japanese and English NPCs may indicate either (i) one of a handful of relatively specific semantic relations including the one of identity/inclusion, or (ii) an unspecified relation that is to be contextually inferred. The English NPC is semantically less flexible than the Japanese one, being compatible with a narrower range of specific semantic relations and allowing the unspecified-relation interpretation less leniently. The English NPC, on the other hand, is more liberally used in comparison to its counterparts in some related languages (e.g. German). The analysis put forth makes a good vantage point for general-linguistic and typological inquiries as to how languages in general may contrast with each other in terms of what types of situations can be described with a NPC.
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Dialogical and monological functions of the discourse marker bueno in spoken and written Spanish

September 27, 2024

Pekka Posio, Malte Rosemeyer

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The Spanish discourse marker bueno has multiple functions ranging from the expression of (dis)agreement to topic management. The present paper sets out to explore what happens when bueno starts to be used in written monological contexts. We examine the use of bueno in spoken sociolinguistic interviews and written internet texts in Mexican and Peninsular Spanish. We propose a unified account of the different functions of bueno based on preference structure and mitigation, tracing a grammaticalization path from adjectival to dialogical and, subsequently, monological uses of bueno . We use regression analysis to examine the hypotheses that (a) written medium serves as a catalyst for monologization, and (b) the two dialects studied represent two different stages of grammaticalization of bueno . While the first hypothesis is confirmed, evidence supporting the second hypothesis is less conclusive, suggesting that written uses are more similar between the two dialects than the spoken ones.
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Between (anti-)grammar and identity: a quantitative and qualitative study of hyperdialectisms in Brabantish

September 25, 2024

Kristel Doreleijers, Stefan Grondelaers

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Incomplete mastery of dialect grammar engenders ‘hyperdialectisms’ which may be unconscious errors, but which may also be the result of indexical resourcefulness, viz. the profiling of a regional identity. Fifty younger and older speakers from the Brabantish city of Eindhoven (Netherlands) were first administered an acceptability judgment task containing correct forms and three types of hyperdialectisms featuring gender and number constraints. Following the survey, the same respondents participated in a focus group discussion. Regression analysis on the scaled ratings revealed that all three types of hyperdialectisms were rejected, although it was especially the older respondents (almost all L1 dialect speakers) who were weary of the incorrect forms. Analysis of the focus group data demonstrated that older respondents are consciously aware of the rules of their dialect grammar, and hate it when these rules are violated. Younger respondents showed almost no meta-grammatical awareness, and admitted to ‘allowing’ the incorrect forms in some contexts because they ‘sound Brabantish’. Identity construction, in other words, is at the heart of hyperdialectal usage. Methodologically, this paper makes a plea for the confrontation of quantitative data – which provide the backbone of analysis – with qualitative data that offer access to motives for, and constraints on grammatical variation.
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Peripheries and their internal structure: an empirical analysis of left- and right-peripheral sequences across written English discourse

September 25, 2024

Matthias Klumm

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This article investigates the distribution, linear ordering and functions of sequences of linguistic elements occurring at the left and right peripheries of discourse units across three genres of written English discourse. Based on a corpus of news reports, commentaries and personal narratives, the paper aims to account for discourse-genre-specific preferences in the use of peripheral two-part sequences such as and so , but I think or now though . The data show considerable variation across genres in terms of (i) which formal types of sequences occur at the peripheries, (ii) how peripheral elements are sequentially ordered, and (iii) which discourse-pragmatic functions left- and right-peripheral sequences fulfil in written English discourse. The observed variation in the use of peripheral sequences across news reports, commentaries and personal narratives can be explained by discourse-related factors as well as the specific communicative purposes of each genre. The present article argues for a prototype-anchored conceptualization of the internal structure of discourse units: On the one hand, the left and right peripheries are conceptualized as containing a wide range of – more and less prototypical – linguistic elements (i.e. extra-clausal constituents and adjuncts); on the other hand, the boundary between core and periphery is conceptualized as fuzzy and gradient.
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Creativity, paradigms and morphological constructions: evidence from Dutch pseudoparticiples

September 20, 2024

Muriel Norde, Graeme Trousdale

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Pseudoparticiples follow phonotactic, morphological, and syntactic rules for regular participles, but they are special in that they lack corresponding verbal forms. This article offers a constructionist account of two types of pseudoparticiples in Dutch, i.e., those with a nominal base and the prefix ont- or be- , e.g., ontkoeid ‘de-cowed’ or bedauwd ‘bedewed’. Their properties raise interesting questions regarding the nature of morphological creativity, back-formation, and the establishment of new schemas or paradigms. Using data from the nlTenTen14 corpus, we consider constraints on the formation of verbal paradigms from such pseudoparticiples, and what this tells us about the nature of morphological creativity. Our corpus data suggest substantial differences between be - and ont -pseudoparticiples in terms of frequency distributions, productivity, and syntactic behavior. Drawing on concepts from cognitive linguistics generally and Construction Morphology in particular, this article addresses the usefulness of the distinction between full and partial sanction as a means to explain the variation (i) within the pseudoparticiple sets and (ii) between regular and pseudoparticiples. We also suggest some revisions to the notions of E- and F-creativity to account for differences between the be - and ont - sets.
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Yury Lander, Michael Daniel

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Linguistics and Semiotics Theoretical Frameworks and Disciplines General Linguistics

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ISSN:

0024-3949

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English

Publisher:

De Gruyter Mouton

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First published:

January 1, 1963

Publication Frequency:

6 issues per year

ISSN: 0024-3949

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linguists, scholars and students in the field of linguistics

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Walter de Gruyter GmbH
Genthiner Straße 13
10785 Berlin
productsafety@degruyterbrill.com

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