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Cartography of Short yiqtol in Biblical Hebrew
(Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas, 2016)
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This paper provides a dynamic (i.e. cognitive, typological and grammaticalization driven) analysis of short yiqtol in
Biblical Hebrew. The author argues that short yiqtol can be understood as a ...
The mosaic evolution of left dislocation in Xhosa
(Stellenbosch University, Department of General Linguistics, 2016)
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This paper demonstrates that the status of Clitic LD in Xhosa is a result of the mosaic evolution of Xhosa grammar. It emerges as an accumulation and combination of two more individual, distinct and, at ...
Expressions of futurity in the Vilamovicean language
(Department of General Linguistics, Stellenbosch University, 2010)
The present paper aims at presenting all major morphosyntactic means of expressing future meaning in
Vilamovicean, the smallest Germanic language spoken in the town of Wilamowice in Southern
Poland. As will be demonstrated ...
Left Dislocation in Arabic : the complexity of form and meaning
(Stellenbosch University, Department of General Linguistics, 2016)
This paper studies the complexity of L(eft) D(islocation). It demonstrates that the function that is crosslinguistically associated with LD is conveyed in Arabic by a set of LD constructions. In the analyzed corpus, these ...
To resume or not to resume : some remarks on resumption in left dislocation constructions in Polish, and its relevance for Biblical Hebrew
(Stellenbosch University, Department of General Linguistics, 2016)
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The present paper analyzes the use of resumption in LD constructions in Polish. The evidence indicates that, in various cases, resumption is not obligatory in Polish. In fact, Polish LD constructions omit ...
From vectors to waves and streams : an alternative approach to semantic maps
(University of Stellenbosch, Department of General Linguistics, 2016)
This article designs a method of improving traditional, qualitative semantic maps based on grammaticalisation paths, by including both quantitative data (frequency) and information concerning a gram’s environment (the ...
Open data intermediaries in developing countries
(Centre for Community Informatics, Research, Development and Training, 2016)
This paper offers a more socially nuanced approach to open data intermediaries using the theoretical framework of Bourdieu’s social model, particularly his species of capital. Secondary data on intermediaries from Emerging ...
The case system of the Vilamovicean adjective : from description to explanation
(Stellenbosch University, Department of General Linguistics, 2013)
The present paper offers a detailed description and analysis of the adjectival declensional patterns in the Modern Vilamovicean language. The idiom possesses six declensional patterns – restricted to distinct environments ...
Left dislocation : an exploration in linguistic typology
(University of Stellenbosch, Department of General Linguistics, 2016)
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Cognate objects of weather verbs in African languages of South Africa – from synchronic variation to a grammaticalization path
(Stellenbosch University, Department of Linguistics, 2017)
The authors argue that the synchronic variation of cognate objects of weather verbs exhibited in six African languages of South Africa (Sepedi, Sesotho, Tshivenda, isiXhosa, Xitsonga, and isiZulu) has a diachronic explanation, ...