The grammaticalization of the existential sign var in Turkish Sign Language: a Construction Grammar approach

B Makaroğlu - Folia Linguistica, 2024 - degruyter.com
This paper describes the development of the existential sign var 'there'in Turkish Sign
Language from a synchronic point of view. The sign has been previously described as being …

Pronominal clitics across Kurdish: areal distribution, structural variation, and diachrony

E Öpengin, M Mohammadirad - Structural and Typological Variation in the …, 2022 - Springer
A paradigm of pronominal clitics are known to exist in all of the Western Iranian languages
except in Sangesari (Central Plateau), Northern Kurdish (though see below on their …

What can the taxonomy of predicative possession in Malwai Punjabi tell us? A cognitive linguistics approach

X Lu - Cognitive Linguistic Studies, 2024 - jbe-platform.com
The study aims to examine the syntactic and semantic behaviors of predicative possession
(ie, have-possessive constructions) in Malwai Punjabi, an underdocumented dialect within …

Possessive construction in the Kurdish language: A cognitive perspective

M Dehghan, H Davari… - Review of Cognitive …, 2024 - jbe-platform.com
The present study investigates Possessive Constructions and domains of possession in
Kalhori Kurdish (KK) from a Cognitive Linguistics perspective to reveal the arrangement of …

Different functions of 'rā' in New Persian: A semantic map analysis

M Rasekh-Mahand, M Parizadeh - Journal of Historical Linguistics, 2024 - jbe-platform.com
Persian has a polyfunctional case marker,'rā', which diachronically varies greatly in the
range of functions it covers. In this paper, we give an account of different case functions of …