Top Research Papers on Linguistics

Principles of Universal Grammar, including Economy Principles, help a child acquire his or her (internalized) grammar. These same Principles determine language change (and language evolution), in particular the change that's been called grammaticalization. Grammaticalization is a factor in the Linguistic Cycle, examples of which I will give below, but not the only one. Language-external factors also play a role.

The term “purism” (from the Latin purus “pure”) refers to an oversensitivity to purity. Such an oversensitivity might manifest itself in sports, in a certain doctrine, or in literature, art, or language. A sporting purist, for instance, might refuse to recognize any disciplines other than those once practiced by the ancient Greeks. A doctrinal purist will doggedly defend the first principles of his or her particular doctrine, no matter how they actually function in today’s world. A purist critic will rip to shreds any work whose creator dares to cross different styles or genres. And a linguist...

Language development is both remarkable and unremarkable. It is remarkable because children learn the language(s) around them, signed or spoken, without explicit instruction or correction. It is unremarkable because children have done this for thousands of years without worldwide incident or catastrophe. Yet, much research on this organic developmental phenomenon relies on an empirical falsehood: "quality" linguistic input is necessary to facilitate language development. "Quality" is a value judgment, not a structural feature of any human language. I argue selectively legitimizing some linguis...

The Linguistic Data Consortium (LDC) creates, stores, and distributes language resources, in particular language corpora, for educational, governmental, and commercial purposes. At this time, the number of corpora available on the LDC platform exceeds 900, and new ones are added on a monthly basis. Since its founding in 1992, LDC has had thousands of members such as universities, libraries, government research laboratories, and corporations. While there is a plethora of language resources available to researchers these days, LDC continues to stand out by offering an unparalleled selection of...

Corpus linguistics is a research method which draws on authentic language examples, collected and organized into 'corpora', or searchable 'bodies' of data. The method was established in the 1960s, and has rapidly developed since then. Now in its second edition, this book provides a step-by-step guide on how to create and analyze linguistic corpora. It has been extensively updated to reflect the most recent developments in this ever-evolving field, and now covers the empirical foundation of corpus-based research, new methodological considerations that guide the creation of a corpus, new kinds o...

This book centers on a key rupture in the field of linguistics as a hegemony by the theories of Noam Chomsky appeared to be taking hold, a rupture in the 1960s that began a flowering of alternate approaches to Chomsky's framework, but also reoriented his framework markedly. The rupture was between Generative Semantics, which pushed to include more and more meaning in linguistic theory, and Interpretive Semantics, which resisted that push, putting more and more weight on syntactic structure. But in many ways the dispute can be reduced to George Lakoff, the most prominent voice on the more-meani...

This work proposes LINGOLLM, a training-free approach to enable an LLM to process unseen languages that hardly occur in its pre-training, and elevates translation capability from GPT-4's 0 to 10.5 BLEU for 10 language directions.

The author examines language and prehistory through the lenses of phonological change, lexical and semantic change, relatedness between languages, and internal reconstruction.

This study aims to examine the morphological aspects and their application in micro linguistics and micro linguistics. Linguistics in terms of study can be divided into two types, namely micro linguistics and macro linguistics. Micro linguistics is understood as linguistics which has a narrower nature of the study. That is, it is internal, only sees language as language. Macro linguistics is broad, the nature of the study is external. Linguistics studies language activities in other fields, such as economics and history. Language is used as a tool to see language from the point of view from ou...

It is shown here that for the first time, the models can also generate coherent and valid formal analyses of linguistic data and illustrate the vast potential of large language models for analyses of their metalinguistic abilities.

Migration, among the most important sociocultural phenomena of contemporary global societies, is complex, dynamic, and multifaceted. At the heart of migration is language, the indispensable agent of migration. Hence, in this article, a new sub-discipline of linguistics is presented, and that is ‘migration linguistics’. It is the interdisciplinary and multidimensional study of the various aspects of language within the dynamic process of human mobility. And a linguistic theory of migration postulates that: (1) Language is an essential element in the migration process; (2) an individual...

Linguistic justice is about institutions distributing material and symbolic resources fairly when they are faced with linguistic diversity. However, no theory of linguistic justice has developed a systematic and comprehensive account of the moral dilemmas that take place in interpersonal linguistic relationships, in particular the power dynamics leading to (linguistic) domination. The aim of this article is to start building a general theory of linguistic domination, one that offers new conceptual tools for both empirical and normative analyses of linguistically diverse societies. Using the re...

This research describes the contribution of linguistics in forensic linguistics, especially in a legal context. This research is library research. The analysis shows that forensic linguistics applies language analysis and linguistic theories in linguistic events involved in the legal process, including products, interactions in the judicial process, and interactions between individuals that result in certain legal impacts. Forensic linguistic analysis involves linguistic fields, including phonetics, semantics, discourse and pragmatics, stylistics, morphological, syntactical, and sociological. ...

Introduction. R-linguistics uses the axiomatic method in its approach to modeling the world and language [1]. Axioms define the categories of language, their properties and ways of formation. On this basis, when processing the accumulated data in the form of relations, it is possible to form systems of categories and determine the verbs connecting these categories. A reasonable question arises: if categories (to be such) must satisfy certain axioms, does this requirement apply to verbs as well? The purpose of this article is to deal with this issue.Methodology and sources. The results of the p...

Abstract The objective of this research is to establish a connection between Arabic theoretical linguistics and modern linguistics, taking a different approach from the common assumption that later theories are solely attributed to Arab grammarians and rhetoricians. To achieve this, the study will examine Arab linguistic achievements from a modern perspective and highlight commonalities and differences between past and present linguistic theories. Additionally, the research will delve into the Arab understanding of functional grammar and the significant contributions made by ancient grammarian...

This article examines linguistic variation in relation to the critical social institution and social domain of education, with an emphasis on linguistic inclusion, focusing on the United States. Education is imbued with power dynamics, and language often serves as a gatekeeping mechanism for students from minoritized backgrounds, which helps create, sustain, and perpetuate educational inequalities. Grounded in this context, the article reviews intersecting factors related to linguistic variation that affect student academic performance. Empirical and applied models of effective partnerships am...

Abstract While the college population in the United States is becoming increasingly diverse, few studies focus on the goal of linguistic justice in higher education teaching and learning-a critical factor in achieving all forms of social equity. I offer liberatory linguistics as a productive, unifying framework for the scholarship that will advance strategies for attaining linguistic justice. Emerging from the synthesis of various lived experiences, academic traditions, and methodological approaches, I illustrate how a structural ignorance of language justice affects the lived experiences of p...

Taking as its point of departure Michael Carter’s discussion of the problematic relationship between the Arabic grammatical tradition and modern linguistics (1987), this paper seeks to outline a set of pathways for dealing with this relationship from the perspective of language ideology in so far as it relates to the notion of social identity. The paper investigates this ideologically mediated link of language to society in the Arab(ic) context by problematizing the notions of language myths, the native speaker, mother tongue and native language, speech-community and native-language community,...

Abstract. The paper is focused on relevant directions in modern Russian Linguistics. It is the continuation of the 2019 publication where the ideas of Pedagogical and Anthropo-Oriented Linguistics, Political Communication Studies and Theological Linguistics were introduced. The aim of this paper is to demonstrate the expanding horizons of the science about the language of the 21st century. The particular sections of the text characterize the goals of modern linguistics, its key concepts, objectives and methods currently employed in the sphere of studying language and real discursive practices....

For someone who has not yet had close contact with linguistics, this discipline may seem very distant from the exact sciences. However, it turns out that even very different languages often exhibit numerous common features—since each language is based on a set of relatively general rules and laws. This fact allows for the creation of self-contained linguistic problems, which are proposed to be solved by all interested school students in competitions known as linguistics Olympiads. The approaches to solving these problems are often similar to those applied in mathematical problems. To perform s...

Abstract As opposed to static approaches, the dynamic approach (DA) emphatically distances itself from the routinised use of the concept of language (as in the English, French or Quechua language), the sole reliance on the dichotomised model of language history explained by vertical change (the Stammbaum approach) and horizontal change (the contact approach), and the eccentrification of creole language emergence. The notion of a DA to language surfaced at several points in time, reaching two climaxes, namely the advent of Wave Theory (Schmidt 1872) and the incorporation of variation in ...

This research tries to find out the translation techniques applied to translate words and phrases in WhatsApp application and how the techniques affect the quality of the translation in terms of accuracy and acceptability. As a descriptive-qualitative research, this research applies purposive sampling. The data are all words and phrases found in the research location, which is WhatsApp application, both in its source language (English) and target language (Bahasa Indonesia). There are 164 data found translated using single variant (137), couplet (26), and triplet (1). They are translated using...

The main hypothesis put forward in the article is that in literary texts, the autonomic or psycho-narrative structure of the work plays a decisive role in the format of realization of reflection. Thus, while the autonomic format requires a different level of processing of lexical inventory, including mental verbs, psycho-narratives, along with mental verbs, have a high frequency of processing of evaluative words and phrases. Also, auto-dialogues are especially distinguished in the format of realization of reflections in auto-narratives, which shows that in these literary texts the auto-reflect...

Abstract Subregular linguistics is a fairly new approach that seeks a deeper understanding of language by combining the rigor of formal grammar with the empirical sophistication of theoretical linguistics. The approach started in phonology but has since branched out to morphology and even syntax, unearthing unexpected parallels between these three domains of language. In this paper, I argue based on these results that subregular linguistics has a lot to offer to both fields. Subregular linguistics may be the ideal conduit for knowledge transfer between these two communities.

Linguistic and non-linguistic demand have strikingly different neural correlates, which can be used to better interpret studies of patients recovering from aphasia and reflect task performance differences, while others can be more confidently attributed to neuroplasticity.

This chapter suggests that deep networks should be treated as theories making explicit predictions about the acceptability of linguistic utterances, and if the authors overcome some obstacles standing in the way of seriously pursuing this idea, they will gain a powerful new theoretical tool, complementary to mainstream algebraic approaches.

The Domain of Language and Linguistics, Analysis: The Domain of People, and Implications: The Linguistic Structure of Properties of People.

In linguistics, ethics has long encompassed matters typically covered under regulatory oversight, but it is increasingly understood as relational and reciprocal, conferring responsibilities and obligations that extend beyond the work produced for other researchers. Those who study language are also coming to interrogate their professional responsibilities not only in how research is done but also in how research is conceived, framed, reported, discussed, and taught, as part of larger discussions around decolonization, intersectionality, and social justice. In this article, we review existing l...

Objectives: The primary objective of this article is to explore the impact of the anthropocentric paradigm on Uzbek linguistics and its subsequent formation. The focus is on the shift towards an anthropocentric approach in world linguistics, especially since the late 20th century. The article aims to highlight the specific areas within Uzbek linguistics that have been influenced by this paradigm, emphasizing changes and developments in scientific views and ideas.   Methods: To achieve the stated objectives, the article employs a methodological approach that involves an examination of the ant...

This Element presents an account of forensic linguistics in Australia since the first expert linguistic evidence in 1959, through early work in the 1970s-1980s, the defining of the discipline in the 1990s, and into the current era. It starts with a consideration of some widespread misconceptions about language that affect the field and some problematic ideologies in the law, which underly much of the discussion throughout the Element. The authors' report of forensic linguists' work is structured in terms of the linguistic, interactional and sociocultural contexts of the language data being ana...

This book has been inspired by Walter Benjamin’s idea of an afterlife of an original in its translations and probes into a wide variety of extensions of Carroll’s story in six languages. For one thing, it deals with language that speaks and more or less automatically steers its users in a particular direction and, for another, it discusses the creativity of individual translators who not only share a definite picture of the world with their language community but, in great many instances, reveal a unique resourcefulness in resisting its power. Each chapter deals first with a separate theoretic...

Abstract:This article reports on the beginning of a new pan-European enterprise called pedagogical linguistics, which can be distinguished from related approaches on several grounds. Crucially, pedagogical linguistics centers on teaching structural properties of 'language', not just properties of specific languages. Although this crosslinguistic perspective on language is already part of language practitioners' training, student teachers are often not able to draw the connection between formal linguistic training and their teaching in a multilingual classroom. Pedagogical linguistics addresses...

Currently, two terms are used interchangeably in research on this topic: "world view" and "world model". However, in our opinion, there is a serious difference in their meaning. The word "model" sounds like a logically organized, planned thing, "and the concept of a landscape has a somewhat special character, it reflects elements of creativity. For this reason, we will use the term "worldview" more often hereafter.

This Element offers a critical review of forensic linguistic studies in the Philippines. The studies within, collected over a period of eight to nine years, reveal relevant themes from texts in courtroom proceedings, legal writings, and police investigations. The studies also delve into issues of language choice and language policy. The Element begins with a description of language policy in the Philippines, focusing specifically on language in the legal domain. The main body of the Element is the critical review of Philippine forensic linguistics studies. This critical review takes a sociolin...

: In this brief note, I offer some considerations to the effect of arguing (i) that Duffley's criticism to formal semantics is based on a dogma about the proper nature of the linguistic sing, and (ii) that, even when I agree with the general spirit of his realizational theory of meaning, an explicit theory of how syntax affects meanings realization is missing. I would editors of Manuscrito for to of course, for I book. anonymous this brief note is readable, is thanks to my and friend, Eleonora who provided myriad of style suggestions. As usual, Verónica Ferri did an excellent job proofreading ...

This Element illustrates this possibility by showing how a conversational AI based on a Large Language Model (AI LLM chatbot) can assist the Construction Grammarian, and especially the Frame Semanticist.

This work takes a closer look into the phenomena of catastrophic forgetting as it pertains to LLMs and offers a novel framework for non-linguistic skill injection for LLMs based on information-theoretic interventions and skill-specific losses that enable the learning of strict arithmetic reasoning.

Visible language is widespread and familiar in everyday life. We find it in shop signs, advertising billboards, street and place name signs, commercial logos and slogans, and visual arts. The field of linguistic landscapes draws on insights from sociolinguistics, language policy and semiotics to show how these public forms of language relate to multiple issues in language policy, language rights, language and education, language and culture, and globalization. Stretching from the earliest stone inscriptions, to posters and street signs, and to today's electronic media, linguistic landscapes si...

An introduction to linguistic ambiguity, its varieties and their relevance in modern NLP, and an extensive empiric analysis are provided, as well as strategies to get the most of this model.

Environmental linguistics is an emerging field at the intersection of linguistics and natural sciences. It recognizes the mutual relationship between cultural and ecological diversity, documenting linguistic structures and verbal practices by which speakers conceptualize, encode, and transmit knowledge about the natural world. It surpasses the largely metaphorical and narrative program of ecolinguistics to position language as the preeminent conceptual framework and channel for environmental knowledge. Natural phenomena—as Indigenous experts explain—cannot be understood apart from the language...

The field of philosophy of language is full of controversy. It is worth noting that the philosophy of language should not be confused with the philosophy of linguistics, as it is nothing more than its epistemology. The purpose of this paper is to provide a more general view of the language and culture of Azerbaijan with the use of the epistemological approach. As a tool for philosophical reflection methods including critical analysis of language and new trends in linguistics were used. In addition, such scientific methods as: deductive method, analysis, synthesis, modelling were involved. The ...

Chinese linguistics, broadly understood as the scientific study of Sinitic languages and other languages of China, may be regarded both as an established and as an emerging subfield of linguistics and Chinese studies. The Chinese tradition of reflection on language and writing began even before the Imperial Age in China, and foreign scholars, often missionaries from the West, started writing grammars and treaties on Sinitic languages at least since the sixteenth century. On the other hand, the field has experienced momentous development in the past thirty years, and perhaps even more strongly ...

Abstract Large language models are better than theoretical linguists at theoretical linguistics, at least in the domain of verb argument structure; explaining why (for example), we can say both The ball rolled and Someone rolled the ball, but not both The man laughed and *Someone laughed the man. Verbal accounts of this phenomenon either do not make precise quantitative predictions at all, or do so only with the help of ancillary assumptions and by-hand data processing. Large language models, on the other hand (taking text-davinci-002 as an example), predict human acceptability ratings for the...

It is preliminarily concluded that the adoption of linguistic pattern and linguistic style would help to produce better requirements specifications written more systematically and consistently.

The article examines a cognitive script of the transmission of reliable information on the example of German modal words (MW). To achieve the goal of the study, a cognitive method was used, the main postulate of which is considered to be the active interaction of the structure of consciousness (mental representations) and the structure of the language. It is primarily about the representation of mental processes and their results in the language. The emergence of the cognitive method is associated with the attention of linguists, first of all, to the person himself or herself and his or her co...

The universal quantifier each is more strongly distributive than its counterparts every and all. It forces predicates to apply to individuals, it more often supports pair-list readings, it’s unfriendly to genericity, and, in psycholinguistic tasks, it encourages encoding and remembering individual properties. But what information leads learners to acquire this aspect of em>each’s meaning? We explore the hypothesis that, because of its meaning, parents are more likely to use each in situations that independently promote representing the domain of quantification as a series of individuals (as op...

As a field of anthropology, linguistic anthropologists are concerned with how language influences culture. This can include how language impacts social interactions, beliefs, cultural identity, and other important aspects of culture. Currently, linguistic anthropologists are particularly concerned with the issue of endangered languages. The main goal of linguistic anthropology, like the whole discipline of anthropology, is to better understand culture. A linguistic anthropologist could ask many questions, including:

Abstract Quantitative studies in linguistics almost always involve data points that are related to each other, such as multiple data points from the same participant, multiple texts from the same book, author, genre, or register, or multiple languages from the same language family. Statistical procedures that fail to account for the relatedness of observations by assuming independence among units can lead to grossly misleading results if these sources of variation are ignored. As mixed effects models are increasingly used to analyze these non-independent data structures, it might appear that t...

This article opens a conversation between disability studies and linguistics from the author’s positionality from the Global South. It argues that capacity building for both the abled and disabled in the North is implicated in the disablement of people in the Global South. A decolonial orientation to disability studies values vulnerability, relationality, and ethics which are less privileged in the academy. The article demonstrates how such a crip linguistics might facilitate a different understanding of language competence and analysis. Bringing out the ableism in dominant models of languag...

Abstract Imaging studies of language processing in clinical populations can be complicated to interpret for several reasons, one being the difficulty of matching the effortfulness of processing across individuals or tasks. To better understand how effortful linguistic processing is reflected in functional activity, we investigated the neural correlates of task difficulty in linguistic and non-linguistic contexts in the auditory modality and then compared our findings to a recent analogous experiment in the visual modality in a different cohort. Nineteen neurologically normal individuals were s...