Language Science
63 peer-reviewed research articles on linguistics and communication theory.
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“Singlish Has Grammar Too!”: Colonial Recursivity in the Construction of Multilingualism in Singapore
The exploration of multilingualism in Singapore reveals a crucial gap in the understanding of how colonial histories shape contemporary language practices.
Speaker Perceptions of Americanisms in Nigerian English
This research investigates the perceptions of American English influences, or Americanisms, within Nigerian English, a variety that has evolved through...
When “passives” involve no A-movement: Rethinking Indonesian-type passives via East Javanese
The research conducted by a team studying the East Javanese dialect of Javanese, an Austronesian language, addresses a significant gap in the...
Get rich quick: Why kids don't need Occam's Razor
The research conducted by a team exploring the phonological structure of Georgian addresses the question of how to effectively represent the natural...
Backness Agreement in Consonant + Glide Onsets: Evidence from Mandarin
The research conducted by Xu (2025) investigates the phonological constraints governing consonant-glide (CG) onsets in Mandarin Chinese, addressing a...
Guttural syneresis in Tigrinya and Tigre
The research conducted by a team studying the Ethiosemitic languages of Eritrea, specifically Tigrinya and Tigre, addresses the phonological phenomenon of...
Genitive alternation in possessives and beyond: morphological or structural variation?
The research paper investigates the phenomenon of genitive alternation in Standard Modern Greek, focusing on the syntactic and morphological distinctions...
Compositional parsing in adjective-noun phrases: the role of adjective semantics
The research conducted by a team from the University of Maryland investigates how different types of adjectives—specifically intersective (e.
George Aaron Broadwell, The Timucua language: A text-based reference grammar. Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press, 2024. Pp. xvi, 476.
In "The Timucua Language: A Text-Based Reference Grammar," George Aaron Broadwell presents a comprehensive analysis of the Timucua language, which was historica...
A large-scale investigation of vowel co-occurrence patterns in the world’s lexicons
The research conducted by Doucette et al.
Competition and gradience: A representational account of suffix-induced accentuation in Tokyo Japanese
The research conducted by a team exploring the lexical accent system of Tokyo Japanese addresses the complex interplay of suffix-induced accentuation...
Finding anchors in code-switching: How nouns guide online processing of nominals across three bilingual groups
The research conducted by Sedarous (2023) investigates the cognitive mechanisms underlying intrasentential code-switching among bilingual speakers,...
Social Threat as Motivation for Phonetic Divergence: Evidence From Nonbinary Participants
This study, conducted by a team of sociolinguists, investigates the influence of perceived social threat on phonetic divergence among nonbinary...
Ryan Nefdt, The philosophy of theoretical linguistics: A contemporary outlook. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2024. Pp. xii + 231.
In "The Revenge of the Methodological Moaners," Geoffrey K. Pullum critiques the prevailing methodologies in linguistic research, particularly those that priori...
Revising and extending Gricean maxims: The TRICS-Principles
The research presented in this paper seeks to address the ongoing debates surrounding Grice’s maxims of conversation, particularly their interdependence...
Object control verbs and syntactic causatives: Inflected infinitives as a cue to syntactic structure
The research presented in this paper investigates the syntactic and semantic similarities among three classes of causative verbs in European Portuguese...
Syntactic predicates
The research article investigates the conceptualization of predicates in linguistics, focusing on the various interpretations and their implications for...
The syntactic constraint on English auxiliary contraction
The research presented in this paper addresses a critical question regarding English auxiliary contraction (AC): what formal constraints govern the...
On the rescuing of some-indefinites
The research conducted by a team including Dobrovie-Sorin and Ihsane investigates the distribution of Positive Polarity Items (PPIs) across languages,...
Phonologization of cumulative phonetic length in Kashubian
The research conducted by a team examining the phonetic and phonological dynamics in the Kashubian language addresses the mechanisms of phonetically based...
Active participles are (deverbal) adjectives
The research conducted by Bešlin (2023) investigates the syntactic and morphological properties of active participles in English, Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian...
The relation between head movement and periphrasis
The research presented by the authors investigates the relationship between synthetic and periphrastic verbal constructions across languages, specifically...
Three arguments for abstraction in phonology
The research article presents a critical examination of the prevailing view that phonology is fundamentally substance-based, meaning that phonological...
Two kinds of singular they: A usage-based model
The research presented in this article investigates the cognitive and pragmatic distinctions between two forms of the singular pronoun "they":...
Reconciling animacy and noun class in Bantu
The study conducted by a team of linguists investigates the encoding of animacy within the grammatical structures of Bantu languages, focusing on the...
Racially Hegemonic Articulations: Class as Race in Constructions of Dominance in an Undergraduate Architecture Studio
In the article “Racially Hegemonic Articulations: Class as Race in Constructions of Dominance in an Undergraduate Architecture Studio,” the authors...
Tim Wharton, & Louis De Saussure, Pragmatics and emotion. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023. Pp. ix + 169.
In "Pragmatics and Emotion," Tim Wharton and Louis De Saussure explore the intricate relationship between language use and emotional expression within the frame...
Svenja Krieger, Word order variation in Italian and Spanish why-interrogatives: An empirical perspective (Linguistische Arbeiten 591). Berlin/Boston: Walter de Gruyter, 2024. Pp. xi + 235.
In her recent work, "Word order variation in Italian and Spanish why-interrogatives," Svenja Krieger investigates the syntactic and pragmatic factors influencin...
Peter W. Culicover & Giuseppe Varaschin, Deconstructing syntactic theory: A critical review. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 381 + x.
In "Deconstructing Syntactic Theory," Peter W. Culicover and Giuseppe Varaschin critically examine the foundations and assumptions of contemporary syntactic the...
Simin Karimi, Narges Nematollahi, Roya Kabiri, Jian Gang Ngui (eds.), Advances in Iranian Linguistics II (Current Issues in Linguistic Theory). Amsterdam & Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2023. Pp. VI + 315.
The research conducted by Klaus von Heusinger and Roya Sadeghpoor focuses on the specificity marker -e in Modern Colloquial Persian, particularly its role...
Deconstructing notions of morphological ‘complexity’: Lessons from creoles and sign languages
The research paper investigates the complexities of morphological structures in sign languages and creole languages, challenging the prevailing notion...
The linguistic factors of semantic transparency: Evidence from verb-to-noun derivation in French
The research article investigates the concept of semantic transparency in morphologically complex words, specifically focusing on the distinction between...
Intransparent-Gap Relatives in Japanese
The research conducted by a team exploring the syntactic and semantic properties of Intransparent-Gap Relatives (IGRs) in Japanese addresses a significant...
Parsability revisited and reassessed
The research article "Lexical frequency in morphology: Is everything relative?
Affective coronal alternations in Mapudungun: Sound symbolism, change, and morpho-phonological structure
This research investigates the phenomenon of sound symbolism in Mapudungun, a language isolate spoken by the Mapuche people in Chile and Argentina.
Raised and in-situ preverbal foci: A unified prosodic account
The research investigates the syntactic mechanisms underlying the placement of narrow foci in preverbal positions across various languages, particularly...
A hybrid systematic literature review and automated content analysis for named entity recognition in disaster information management
The research conducted by a team focused on enhancing named entity recognition (NER) within disaster information management addresses a critical gap in...
Not all coexpressions are syncretisms: Limiting Nanosyntax
The research presented in this squib addresses the limitations of Nanosyntax and the concept of highly articulated feature decomposition, particularly in...
The law and order of selection-violating coordination: German DP-CP-coordination is not sensitive to linear or temporal order
The research presented in this study investigates the phenomenon of category mismatches in coordination, specifically focusing on the syntactic structures...
Countability and measured parts in mixed drink nouns
The research article investigates the countability of mixed drink nouns, such as "martini" and "cappuccino," which surprisingly function as count nouns...
Integrated Bayesian-Bidirectional Attention Network for Advanced Contextual Video Captioning
The research conducted by a team specializing in computational linguistics and multimedia processing addresses a critical question in the field: how can...
Employing Large Language Models in Swahili, a low-resource language
This research explores the potential of Large Language Models (LLMs) in enhancing natural language processing (NLP) tasks for Swahili, a low-resource...
Methodological Advancements in Dialect Identification Tasks: Perception, Representation and Social Meaning in South East England
This study, conducted by a team of sociolinguists, investigates the methodologies used in dialect identification tasks, specifically focusing on the...
Is Gender‐Inclusive Language Left‐Wing? The Social Meaning of Four Gender‐Inclusive Strategies in French and German
This study, conducted by a team of sociolinguists, investigates the social implications of gender-inclusive language strategies in French and German,...
The semantics of plural morphology in Akan
The research conducted by Ahenkorah (2022) investigates the interpretation of plural marking in the Akan language, focusing on whether plural nouns...
Bipartite question formation in Sm’algyax
The research presented in this paper investigates the formation of polar questions (PolQs) and wh-questions (WhQs) in Sm’algyax, a Maritime Tsimshianic...
Wh-interrogatives in Camuno
The research conducted by a team focusing on the Camuno dialect of Eastern Lombard addresses a significant gap in the literature concerning the syntactic...
Semantic coherence in noun class assignment: An experimental investigation of isiXhosa
The research conducted by Kanampiu, Martin, and Culbertson (2025) investigates the role of semantic features in the processing and representation of noun...
Transitivity in flux: the role of Voice and v in the syntax of Dutch (change-of-)location verbs
The research conducted by Burukina and Polinsky addresses the complex transitivity properties of Dutch change-of-location verbs, particularly focusing on...
Cross-clausal movement and its limits
This research investigates the syntactic phenomenon of displacement, specifically focusing on the relationship between the height of landing sites in...
VP ellipsis and argument structure alternations: evidence from Muira Dargwa complex predicates
The research presented in this paper investigates Verb Phrase Ellipsis (VPE) in the Nakh-Daghestanian language Muira Dargwa, focusing on a specific...
‘Gen Z Language? Y'all Mean AAVE’: The Appropriation of African American Vernacular English as ‘TikTok Language’
This study, conducted by a team of linguists examining the linguistic dynamics of social media, investigates the appropriation of African American...
Intrinsic interpretability at parity: Attention-Based RL–MIL for student outcome prediction
The study "Intrinsic Interpretability at Parity: Attention-Based RL–MIL for Student Outcome Prediction" addresses a critical question in the field of...
The Semantics of Degree Relatives
This article investigates the semantics of degree relatives within relative clauses, addressing a notable gap in the uniform study of their diverse...
The Meaning and Grammar of Pure Gestures: Theoretical Insights
This study investigates the role of "pure gestures," which are gestures produced independently of speech, and their implications for understanding...
Social Meaning
This review article investigates the intricate relationship between language, cognition, and social dynamics through two interrelated research programs in...
Linguistics in Germany: A Fresh Start After a Great Tradition—and New Enigmas
The autobiographical article reflecting on the life and contributions of linguist Manfred Bierwisch addresses the intersection of linguistic theory and...
From Contact to Conversation: Protactile Language, Modality, and Community
This article investigates protactile language, a tactile communication system developed by the DeafBlind community in the United States over the past two...
Equative Sentences: Linguistic and Philosophical Perspectives
This study, conducted by a team of linguists at [Institution Name], addresses the syntactic and semantic characteristics of equative sentences,...
Computational Methods for Language Documentation and Description
This article investigates the transformative influence of computational methods on the documentation and description of languages, particularly those with...
Causation and Causal Relations: Insights from Natural Language
This article investigates the intricate relationship between natural language and causal cognition, focusing on how linguistic expressions not only...
Allocutivity and the Syntax of Honorifics
This research article investigates the relationship between allocutive markers (AMs) and honorifics, focusing on their roles within morphosyntax and...
A Life of Science
In a reflective piece, the author explores the intersection of personal experience and professional development within the emerging field of sign language lingu...