Do you say "This car needs washed" in your variety of English? Apparently this construction "is constrained by lexical semantics, verbal syntax, and verb productivity", as D. Duncan shows in his Linguistics paper degruyter.com/document/doi/1…

Why do some Romance languages use a partitive particle and a definite article with indefinite nouns (e.g. Fr. "Je cuisine de la soupe depuis deux jours." ‘I’ve been cooking soup for two days’)? A new answer to this old question is given by Francesco Pinzin degruyter.com/document/doi/1…

Fascinating case study in grammaticalization by R. Bardenstein and M. Ariel: Hebrew "bein", from 'within/among' (in Biblical Herbrew) to various semantic and pragmatic functions (e.g. disjunction, indifference, exemplification) in contemporary Hebrew. degruyter.com/document/doi/1…

Under what conditions do we use placeholders like Engl. "whatchamacallit", Chin. "na ge shenme", Span. "cosa/cacharro/chisme", Germ. "Dingens" etc.? T. Seraku proposes an implicational hierarchy based on data from 56 language. degruyter.com/document/doi/1…

An experimental study of multilingualism and language contact in two #Mande languages spoken in Guinea, by M. Khachaturyan, G. Moroz and P. Many: degruyter.com/document/doi/1…

Exciting work by Tekabe Legesse Feleke on the representation of (Eastern and Western) dialects in speakers of Oromo, using evidence from gender inflection: degruyter.com/document/doi/1…

How are antonyms (true/false, tall/short) encoded crosslinguistically? And what is special about Lithuanian, Russian and Slovak? Read the new paper by M. Koptjevskaja-Tamm, M. Miestamo and C. Börstell to find out! degruyter.com/document/doi/1…

From gesture to sign: A study of conventionalization in the gestural repertoire of non-signers, by V. Janke, L. Aumônier , J. Hofweber, M. Gullberg and @ChloeRuMarshall degruyter.com/document/doi/1… #OpenAccess

Here's another publication on sign languages: Cindy van Boven on predicate reduplication in Sign Language of the Netherlands (NGT) and its role in aspect marking. #OpenAccess #SignLanguages degruyter.com/document/doi/1…

New paper on corpus building for sign languages (FinSL), using a novel interview method to add ethnographic data to the original corpus, by Anna Puupponen , G. Hodge, bananabull scholar.social/@bananabull, juhana salonen, T. Wainio, Jarkko Keränen, D. Hernández and Tommi Jantunen. degruyter.com/document/doi/1…

Issue 62.5 has appeared. Check it out! degruyter.com/journal/key/li…

In her new Linguistics article Raina Heaton provides novel experimental evidence on the use of the Agent focus construction in the #Mayan language Kaqchikel, with interesting theoretical implications regarding processing economy and discourse pressures degruyter.com/document/doi/1…

Issue 62.2 has appeared: degruyter.com/journal/key/li…

Celebrated #GISDay2024 Universität Jena with amazing talks on #GIScience for #naturalhazards: Dr. Rainer Bell & F. Weidt/#Ahr disaster Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn; Dr. Annika Künne/#drought @UmweltTH; Dr. Nicuşor Necula/#landslides UAIC IASI EC2U Alliance of European Universities; our #MScGeoinformatik students. ELLIS Unit Jena

Historical evidence on the syntactic status of “No”, by P. Wallage and W. van der Wurff: “Put not your trust in princes nor in any child of man, for there is no help in them. No is? Sure some help there is, some little help in them ...” degruyter.com/document/doi/1…

Introducing the CrossGram collection of typological databases dlc.hypotheses.org/3690

Here's an interesting piece on the grammaticalization of 'like'/'love' as habitual markers in MESA languages (Chinese, Thai, Lao, Vietnamese, Khmer, Burmese), by Hongmei Fang (e.g. 'The internet likes to break down'): degruyter.com/document/doi/1…

We are looking forward to a forthcoming special issue on 'Ethics in linguistics', ed. by M. Terkourafi. Here's a first paper by H. Sarvasy, published ahead of print and Open Access, on 'Ethical budgets in (psycho-)linguistic fieldwork' degruyter.com/document/doi/1…

Here's a second paper from the special issue on 'Ethics in Linguistics'. E. Dalmaijer, Wyke Stommel , B. Pas and W. Spooren discuss "Ethical challenges in collecting pre-existing digital data for linguistics". degruyter.com/document/doi/1…

Here's a third paper from the special issue edited by Marina Terkourafi on 'Ethics in Linguistics', by Sarah Atkins, Jai Mackenzie and Lucy Jones. It deals with participant-centred linguistic research (PCLR), degruyter.com/document/doi/1…