Linguistics (journal)

New paper on non-restrictive ‘which’-clauses, with Rebecca Clift — just out in @LinguisticsJ!

Here's a third paper from the special issue edited by Marina Terkourafi on 'Ethics in Linguistics', by Sarah Atkins, Jai Mackenzie and Lucy Jones. It deals with participant-centred linguistic research (PCLR), degruyter.com/document/doi/1…

Here's a second paper from the special issue on 'Ethics in Linguistics'. E. Dalmaijer, @wyke_stommel , B. Pas and W. Spooren discuss "Ethical challenges in collecting pre-existing digital data for linguistics". degruyter.com/document/doi/1…

We are looking forward to a forthcoming special issue on 'Ethics in linguistics', ed. by M. Terkourafi. Here's a first paper by H. Sarvasy, published ahead of print and Open Access, on 'Ethical budgets in (psycho-)linguistic fieldwork' degruyter.com/document/doi/1…

Here's an interesting piece on the grammaticalization of 'like'/'love' as habitual markers in MESA languages (Chinese, Thai, Lao, Vietnamese, Khmer, Burmese), by Hongmei Fang (e.g. 'The internet likes to break down'): degruyter.com/document/doi/1…

Historical evidence on the syntactic status of “No”, by P. Wallage and W. van der Wurff: “Put not your trust in princes nor in any child of man, for there is no help in them. No is? Sure some help there is, some little help in them ...” degruyter.com/document/doi/1…

@haspelmath Thanks for noticing this, Martin! I can't edit the post, unfortunately.

@LinguisticsJ Kaye, not Kayne

Interesting study of the Nakh-Daghestanian language Andi, by S. Kayne: adverbs agree with a controller with absolutive case. degruyter.com/document/doi/1…

Issue 62.2 has appeared: degruyter.com/journal/key/li…

Happy to share a new study in @LinguisticsJ that explores how language changes over time through the process of reanalysis, where words or expressions shift in meaning or grammar.

Experimental evidence on NC versus NPI constructions in English. Stephanie Rotter and Mingya Liu show that there is a register effect in American English. degruyter.com/document/doi/1…

In her new Linguistics article Raina Heaton provides novel experimental evidence on the use of the Agent focus construction in the #Mayan language Kaqchikel, with interesting theoretical implications regarding processing economy and discourse pressures degruyter.com/document/doi/1…

Issue 62.5 has appeared. Check it out! degruyter.com/journal/key/li…

V2 word order is well-known from Germanic languages, but not everybody knows that it also existed in Medieval French. Its distribution is determined by register though, see the recent study by P. Larrivée degruyter.com/document/doi/1…

New paper on corpus building for sign languages (FinSL), using a novel interview method to add ethnographic data to the original corpus, by @Anmapuup , G. Hodge, @bananabull, @JuhanaSalonen, T. Wainio, @Jarkko_Keranen, D. Hernández and @tommijantunen. degruyter.com/document/doi/1…

Here's another publication on sign languages: @CindyvanBoven3 on predicate reduplication in Sign Language of the Netherlands (NGT) and its role in aspect marking. #OpenAccess #SignLanguages degruyter.com/document/doi/1…

From gesture to sign: A study of conventionalization in the gestural repertoire of non-signers, by V. Janke, L. Aumônier , J. Hofweber, M. Gullberg and @ChloeRuMarshall degruyter.com/document/doi/1… #OpenAccess

How are antonyms (true/false, tall/short) encoded crosslinguistically? And what is special about Lithuanian, Russian and Slovak? Read the new paper by M. Koptjevskaja-Tamm, M. Miestamo and C. Börstell to find out! degruyter.com/document/doi/1…

Exciting work by Tekabe Legesse Feleke on the representation of (Eastern and Western) dialects in speakers of Oromo, using evidence from gender inflection: degruyter.com/document/doi/1…

... dealing with the use of #reflexives by bilingual speakers of Kpelle and Mano.

An experimental study of multilingualism and language contact in two #Mande languages spoken in Guinea, by M. Khachaturyan, G. Moroz and P. Many: degruyter.com/document/doi/1…