Kleanthes K. Grohmann, Maria Kambanaros, Evelina Leivada, Bridget Samuels, Patrick C. Trettenbrein

Biolinguistics End-of-Year Notice 2025

Linguistics

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José-Luis Mendívil-Giró

On the Limits of Functionalism: A Reply to Bierl (2025)

Linguistics

Bernd Bierl eloquently proposes an ambitious synthesis towards biological linguistics. This synthesis aims to establish a new bio-ethological linguist...

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This paper, "On the Limits of Functionalism: A Reply to Bierl (2025)," signals a direct and critical engagement with a significant new proposal in the...

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Siaka Sangaré, Carlo Cecchetto

Are Languages Context-Sensitive in Their Syntax or in Their Morphology? Revisiting the Case of Bambara

Linguistics

A central research question in the history of generative grammar has been whether natural languages fall within the class of context-free languages or...

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Zbigniew Kopeć, Pilar Guerrero Medina

Metaphoric and metonymic motivation in the Light Verb Construction with GIVE

Linguistics

This article demonstrates that the English Light Verb Construction (henceforth LVC) with GIVE is motivated by generic-level metaphors and metonymies....

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Nyda Choerin Nisa, Ghulam Arif Rizal

ANALYSIS OF AMBIGUITY AND MULTIPLE INTERPRETATIONS IN LANGUAGE ON SOCIAL MEDIA: A SEMANTIC STUDY

Linguistics

This study aims to identify the forms of ambiguity and multiple interpretations that appear in language on Instagram. The method used is qualitative d...

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Samuel Alhassan Issah

The structure of the Dagbani conditional clause

Linguistics

The expression of conditional clauses remains unexplored in most African languages including Dagbani. In this paper, I provide an account of the struc...

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Rania Papadopoulou, George Xydopoulos

The Emergence of a New Case of Pre-Nominal NPs in Greek as a Result of Anglicisation

Linguistics

Nowadays the influence of English on Greek is rather strong. Influences are attested not only at the lexical level, but at the morphosyntactic level t...

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This study proposes to investigate a fascinating and increasingly relevant area within contact linguistics: the influence of English on Greek morphosy...

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Jovanka Lazarevska-Stanchevska

The Rise of Invisible Anglicisms: The Case of the Macedonian Language

Linguistics

The main focus of the research is to determine criteria that will help identify invisible or partly invisible Anglicisms in the Macedonian language. T...

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This paper addresses a highly pertinent and fascinating area within contact linguistics: the identification and analysis of 'invisible' Anglicisms. Th...

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Eva Sicherl

Invisible Anglicisms in Slovene

Linguistics

ABSTRACT · While Slovene uses numerous visible anglicisms, which are either established and lexicalized on the one hand, or fashionable luxury loans (...

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Sabine Fiedler

Hidden Anglicisms in German

Linguistics

In German, English influences are, of course, most evident in the lexicon, but also in syntax and in areas such as orthography and punctuation. From t...

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