Definiteness Marking from Evaluative Morphology in Balochi: Internal Variation and Diachronic Pathway

Restrictive Relative Clauses in Balochi and the Marking of the Antecedent – Linguistic Influence from Persian?

A restrictive relative clause is one that "determines and restricts the extension of the head", as opposed to a non-restrictive (or descriptive) relative clause, which "merely gives some additional explanation of it" (GREN-EKLUND 1978:53), e.g. "the families that have a car could offer other families a ride to the outing" as opposed to "my father, who has a car, offered another family a ride to...

Infinitive Marking with for: A Diachronic Account

Diachronic Variation in Grammatical Relations

We present a method of finding and analyzing shifts in grammatical relations found in diachronic corpora. Inspired by the econometric technique of measuring return and volatility instead of relative frequencies, we propose them as a way to better characterize changes in grammatical patterns like nominalization, modification and comparison. To exemplify the use of these techniques, we examine a ...

Definiteness Morphology in Swedish Determiner Phrases

In Swedish determiner phrases definiteness can be realised both pre-nominally with a definite article and postnominally with a definite suffix on the head noun. This paper discusses the distribution of definiteness morphology in a number of morphosyntactic contexts. Separate patterns of definiteness marking emerge when considering the following morphosyntactic contexts: DPs modified with a prep...

Reconstructing the Diachronic Morphology of Romanian from Dictionary Citations

This work represents a first step in the direction of reconstructing a diachronic morphology for Romanian. The main resource used in this task is the digital version of the Romanian Language Thesaurus Dictionary (eDTLR). This resource offers various usage examples for its entries, citations extracted from old and modern Romanian texts. The concept of “word deformation” is introduced and classif...