Dorig, an Oceanic language spoken on Gaua island in northern Vanuatu, shows a wealth of constructions for encoding negative polarity. Verbs contrast 14 positive TAM categories with 9 negative; together, these form a “TAMP” [tense–aspect–mood–polarity] system made of 23 portmanteau categories. All ne...
The present study explored the role of constituent frequency and distractor type in complex word learning. Skilled readers were trained to associate novel letter strings with one out of two pictures, with one picture serving as the target, and the other as a distractor. A facilitatory effect of firs...
I demonstrate that in many languages of Northern Sub-Saharan Africa vowel qualities of functional morphemes tend to be neutralized through raising, fronting and unrounding towards /i/, similarly to what has been described by Idiatov (2020:65) for the TAM and polarity markers of Greater Manding langu...
We suggest a kinesthetic approach that involves touching objects (cards) to improve awareness of lexical stress in English, in combination with a classical morphological approach (word endings determining the lexical stress) of the "French school". As a starting point, we present an experimental stu...
I demonstrate that in many languages of Northern Sub-Saharan Africa vowel qualities of functional morphemes tend to be neutralized through raising, fronting and unrounding towards /i/, similarly to what has been described by Idiatov (2020:65) for the TAM and polarity markers of Greater Manding langu...
This volume is a series of text in the Dongxiang language transcribed from the Teaching material of the bilingual experimental class of Narisi Primary school in the Dongxiang Autonomous County (Dōngxiāngzú zìzhìxiàn nàlēisì xiǎoxué shuāngyǔ jiàoxué shíyànbān shìyòng jiàocái 东乡族自治县那勒寺小学双语教学实验班试用教材)....
The concept of structural borrowing stands in a binary contrast to that of matter borrowing, which entails the copying of any concrete linguistic element, which prototypically corresponds to the borrowing of lexical units, but also comprises that of function words, bound morphemes, and phonemes. In...
Sinitic languages, under the umbrella term of ‘Chinese’, are typically celebrated as isolating languages par excellence. They are generally described as lacking inflectional morphology while derivational morphology is minimal, the main processes used in word formation being affixation, compounding a...
This is the first grammatical sketch of Keeraak (also referenced as Keeraku or Her), an Atlantic language belonging to the Joola cluster and spoken in the Kabrousse village, Casamance, South-West Senegal,Keeraak shares with other Atlantic languages several morpho-syntactic features such as its rich...
Kambaata is a Highland East Cushitic language spoken in southwestern Ethiopia. It has a phonemic length contrast both in its vowel and consonant systems. Kambaata is agglutinating-fusional and suffixing, with many portmanteau morphemes. Five open word classes are defined morphosyntactically: verbs,...
This paper discusses a theory of conversion (zero derivation) in terms of phrasal spellout. In this approach, there are no zero morphemes. Instead, the 'silent' meaning components are pronounced cumulatively within overt morphemes. As an empirical case, we discuss adjective/verb ambiguity as in narr...
The chapter presents a study of the relation between the comprehension and production of articles and subject clitic pronouns in 2-year-old Frenchacquiring children. The production of grammatical morphemes occurring in the spontaneous speech of ten children was related to the performance these same...
This study evaluated the effectiveness of a morphological awareness intervention delivered by preschool teachers in the naturalistic setting of their classrooms. The participants were 162 Portuguese children, attending kindergarten who were allocated as groups to experimental and control conditions....
The Cours de grammaire bambara deals with the grammar of the Mande language Bambara (or Bamanankan), the most important national language spoken in Mali. The author characterizes the book as a compromise between a language textbook and a reference grammar. This review follows up on the question of w...
1. Introduction The Tamil Case system is analyzed in native and missionary grammars (henceforth NMG) as consisting of a finite number of cases (realized morphologically as nominal or pronominal suffixes), to some of which postpositional suffixes may be added. In these traditional analyses there is a...
Introduction To the island, that we know as śrī laṃkā today have been allocated many toponyms. One of them is siṃhala/sīhaḷa being Sanskrit/Pāli. One of the earliest references to these toponyms is in a Chinese record that goes back to the end of the 3rd century. Another toponym is īḻam, being Tamiḻ...
Le français et le chinois, deux langues considérées comme à la fois géographiquement et linguistiquement éloignées, présentent différentes tendances linguistiques. Selon G. Guillaume, le chinois est une langue à caractères et le français une langue à mots. Xu Tongqiang considère que le chinois est u...
So far, Sepedi negat ions have been considered more from the point of view of lexicographical treatment. Theoretical works on Sepedi have been used for this purpose, setting as an objective a neat description of these negations in a (paper) dictionary. This paper is from a different perspective: ins...
This article analyzes the behavior of tones in the drawers of the indicative in Mbomba, a Bantu language C40, identified in the north of Congo Brazzaville, more precisely in the Department of Likouala. It aims to study, in a specific way, the behavior of the tones of both verbal stems and vowel endi...
One of the most popular morphemes signifying adversative relation in Mandarin is 但是 dànshì, which can be considered as either a conjunction or an adverb. When 但是 dànshì is used as adversative conjunction and adversative adverb, it shows different syntactic distributions. Focus on the conjunction 但是...
Cette thèse vise à étudier le lexique causatif français et chinois dans une perspective contrastive et fonctionnelle. Plus précisément, elle a un double objectif. Primo, elle examine les caractéristiques et le fonctionnement des moyens morpho-syntaxiques d’expression de la causalité en français et e...
The distribution of the Hebrew plural morphemes on substantives is generally assumed to be conditioned by gender; nevertheless, many exceptions are attested in all periods. Scholars have suggested multiple explanations for this phenomenon, though none can adequately explain all exceptions. In this p...
The comparison of sound sequences (words, morphemes) constitutes the core of many techniques and methods in historical linguistics. With the help of these techniques, corresponding sounds can be determined, historically related words can be identified, and the history of languages can be uncovered....
Zipf’s Law of Abbreviation and Menzerath’s Law both make predictions about the length of linguistic units, based on corpus frequency and the length of the carrier unit. Each contributes to the efficiency of languages: for Zipf, units are more likely to be reduced when they are highly predictable, du...