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Islands as specific research sites in their own right have been given little direct attention by linguists. The physical segregation, distinctness, and isolation of islands from mainland and continental environments may provide scholars... more
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      SociolinguisticsJapanesePidgins & CreolesCognitive Linguistics
A brief survey of Tonkawa grammar, with discussion of its historical origins, its system of case assignment, subject and object agreement, reference tracking (including both definiteness and obviation), its exuberant nominal and verb... more
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      Native American StudiesLanguage DocumentationEndangered LanguagesMorphosyntax
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      Japanese StudiesJapaneseAinuNoun Incorporation
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      Languages and LinguisticsHistorical LinguisticsComparative LinguisticsAfrica Nilo-Saharan Linguistics
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      Historical LinguisticsSocial SciencesAmerindian languagesLanguage Isolates
Some languages around the Pacific have multiple possessive classes of alienable constructions using appositive nouns or classifiers. This pattern differs from the most common kind of alienable/inalienable distinction, which involves... more
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      HistoryLanguages and LinguisticsLanguage DocumentationSyntax
Some languages around the Pacific have multiple possessive classes of alienable constructions using appositive nouns or classifiers. This pattern differs from the most common kind of alienable/inalienable distinction, which involves... more
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      Languages and LinguisticsLanguage DocumentationSyntaxAsia Pacific Region
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      North American Indigenous LanguagesNative Peoples of Baja CaliforniaAmerindian languagesLanguage Isolates
"Although tribal traditions survive among the Tonkawa people, now located in northern Oklahoma, the Tonkawa language has been extinct for more than 75 years. Much of what is known about Tonkawa—an “isolate” language, related to no... more
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      Native American StudiesLanguage DocumentationCorpus LinguisticsNative American Literature (Literature)
This paper presents a newly funded international project for machine translation and automated analysis of ancient cuneiform languages where NLP specialists and Assyriologists collaborate to create an information retrieval system for... more
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      Information RetrievalLanguages and LinguisticsNatural Language ProcessingAssyriology
Tunica, a language isolate of Louisiana no longer spoken by native speakers, is unusual among the languages of the southeastern United States given its robust gender system. All nouns are assigned grammatical gender—masculine or... more
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      Grammatical GenderSoutheastern United States Native AmericansLanguage IsolatesTunica language
The paper deals with a relatively recent hypothesis, put forward by the scholar I. Čašule, according to which the Burushaski language, traditionally considered an isolate, actually belongs to the Indo-European linguistic stock. The... more
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      Macrocomparative AnalysisIndo-European LinguisticsBurushaskiDene-Caucasian languages
To appear as a chapter in The Amazonian languages: An international handbook (Eds. Lev Michael and Patience Epps), De Gruyter.
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      Endangered LanguagesSouth American indigenous languagesLanguage IsolatesGuató
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      Information RetrievalDigital HumanitiesLanguages and LinguisticsNatural Language Processing
Burushaski has been considered a language isolate. However, greater scrutiny of the language does not support this view. Rather, I would suggest that Burushaski is a language founded in early Proto Indo-European and left somewhat... more
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      Ancient Indo-European LanguagesBurushaskiProto-Indo-European languageIsolated Languages
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      Linguistic TypologyAreal linguisticsNative American LanguagesLanguage Isolates
Brown, Wichmann & Beck (2014) put forward 90 cognate sets and a number of structural comparisons which they propose are indicative of a genetic relationship between Chitimacha, a Gulf isolate of Louisiana, and Proto-Totozoquean, the... more
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      Diachronic Linguistics (Or Historical Linguistics)Languages and LinguisticsHistorical LinguisticsComparative Linguistics
We report the results of a qualitative and quantitative lexical comparison between Bangime and neighboring languages. Our results indicate that the status of the language as an isolate remains viable, and that Bangime speakers have had... more
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      Historical LinguisticsComputational LinguisticsComparative LinguisticsAfrican languages
This critical report-cum-position statement summarises several workshops and conference panels recently held in three Nordic countries-Denmark, Iceland, and the Faroe Islands-based in developing the concept of island languages. It puts... more
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      CognitionCognitive LinguisticsScandinavian languagesScandinavian Studies
A new etymological solution is proposed to explain two highly irregular formations in Ainu: *tutko ‘two days’ and *rerko ‘three days’, from *tu ‘2’ and *re ‘3’, respectively. These words contain two components which have not been... more
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      PhilologyHistorical LinguisticsEtymologyComparative Linguistics
historical district and town in Isfahan province, central Persia First published as “Ḵvānsār. Historical Geography”, at Encyclopedia Iranica Online 18 Feb. 2013. Published on paper as “Ḵonsār”, Enc. Iranica, vol. XVII, fasc. 4, 2023,... more
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      GeographyHistorical GeographyDialectologyIranian Studies
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      Language DocumentationEndangered LanguagesLinguistic TypologyPolysynthetic Languages
Quantification in Kusunda can be generally described as involving radical underspecification. Many syntactic traits of quantification are shared in outline with other kinds of modification in the phrase and in the clause, and the level of... more
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      SemanticsEndangered LanguagesSyntaxNepal
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      South American indigenous languagesLanguage IsolatesVenezuelan indigenous languagesColombian Languages
Islands as specific research sites in their own right have been given little direct attention by linguists. The physical segregation, distinctness, and isolation of islands from mainland and continental environments may provide scholars... more
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      SociolinguisticsJapanesePidgins & CreolesCognitive Linguistics
I, who am usually quite critical, must admit I found this book absolutely enjoyable from the beginning to somewhere near the end at the point when Tom Wolfe offers hints of his own theory of language. If like me you tire of reading... more
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      Philosophy Of LanguageLanguages and LinguisticsNatural Language ProcessingLanguage Evolution
Islands as specific research sites in their own right have been given little direct attention by linguists. The physical segregation, distinctness, and isolation of islands from mainland and continental environments may provide scholars... more
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      SociolinguisticsJapanesePidgins & CreolesCognitive Linguistics
Within historical linguistics, language isolates are often viewed as a problem. Their isolate status makes it difficult to peer into their history, and internal reconstruction is generally thought to be of limited utility. Campbell... more
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      Diachronic Linguistics (Or Historical Linguistics)Languages and LinguisticsHistorical LinguisticsIndigenous Languages
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      Amazonian LanguagesSouth American indigenous languagesAmerindian languagesAmerindian linguistics
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      Computer ScienceInformation RetrievalLanguages and LinguisticsNatural Language Processing
Negative structures are generally assumed to be maximally accessible for verbal predicates, as evidenced by the requirement in many languages that nonverbal predicates be supported by a verb when negated. Indeed, the term 'standard... more
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      Cognitive ScienceSyntaxLinguisticsNepal
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      Diachronic Linguistics (Or Historical Linguistics)Historical LinguisticsComparative LinguisticsLinguistic Typology
idenced by the requirement in many languages that nonverbal predicates be supported by a verb when negated. Indeed, the term ‘standard negation’ is used to refer to the negation of a declarative verbal clause, and yet this is at best... more
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      SyntaxNepalMorphology and SyntaxHimalayas
Tylex-2017 International Summer School on Typology and Lexicon (TyLex) September 1–8, 2017 National Research University Higher School of Economics, Voronovo campus, Moscow.
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      Japanese StudiesLanguages and LinguisticsHistorical LinguisticsLanguage Documentation
Negative structures are generally assumed to be maximally accessible for verbal predicates, as evidenced by the requirement in many languages that nonverbal predicates be supported by a verb when negated. Indeed, the term 'standard... more
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      SyntaxNepalLinguistic TypologyKusunda Language
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      Japanese StudiesLanguages and LinguisticsHistorical LinguisticsPhonology
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      SociolinguisticsJapanesePidgins & CreolesCognitive Linguistics
This paper aims to describe the semantic features conditioning an alternation between two related but behaviorally-distinct negation constructions in Chitimacha, an isolate language of the Southeast U.S. linguistic area. These... more
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      Digital HumanitiesLanguages and LinguisticsCorpus LinguisticsLinguistics
Chitimacha is a language isolate formerly spoken in southern Louisiana, and is a part of the Southeast linguistic area. Using documentary materials recorded by Morris Swadesh in the 1930s, this talk examines the language-internal evidence... more
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      Diachronic Linguistics (Or Historical Linguistics)Languages and LinguisticsContact LinguisticsHistorical Linguistics