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Four North Saami Ambipositions
We present a study of four North Sámi adpositions that can be used as both prepositions and postpositions and thus be termed “ambipositions”. We advance three hypotheses... -
Why Russian Prefixes Aren’t Empty
Publication abstract: We claim that Russian verbal prefixes always express meaning, even when they are used to form the perfective partners of aspectual pairs. The prefixes in... -
Replication data for: Who needs particles? A challenge to the classification ...
In 1985, Zwicky argued that “particle” is a pretheoretical notion that should be eliminated from linguistic analysis. We propose a reclassification of Russian particles that... -
Metonymy in Word-Formation: Russian, Czech, and Norwegian
Publication abstract: A foundational goal of cognitive linguistics is to explain linguistic phenomena in terms of general cognitive strategies rather than postulating an...
