The choice of genitive construction in English is conditioned by numerous semantic,
syntactic and phonological factors. The present study explores the influence of these factors …

This book explores noun phrase (NP) complexity in English, showing that it is best
accounted for both by a linear and a hierarchical parameter: its length and its type of …

The paper surveys overlap between corpus linguistics and variationist sociolinguistics.
Corpus linguistics is customarily defined as a methodology that bases claims about …

Sound symbolism flouts the core assumption of the arbitrariness of the sign in human
language. The cross-linguistic prevalence of sound symbolism raises key questions about …

The s-genitive (1a) is a single noun phrase, where the possessor car occurs before the
possessum wheel accompanied by the possessive clitic-s. The of-genitive (1b) consists of …

Prosodic end-weight refers to the well-documented tendency of prosodically heavier
constituents to be preferred at the ends of domains when other factors (eg semantics …

A foundational observation in modern phonological study is that multiple heterogeneous
repairs conspire to satisfy conditions set forth by phonological constraints (Kisseberth 1970 …

The West-Germanic language family is characterized by a remarkable variation in word
order. The continental varieties, including Dutch and German, have largely Object-Verb (OV) …

The current study investigates the phonological factors that determine the location of word
stress in Papuan Malay, an under-researched language spoken in East-Indonesia. The …

The existence of word stress in Indonesian languages has been controversial. Recent
acoustic analyses of Papuan Malay suggest that this language has word stress, counter to …