linguistics

Thia Paper establishes Adagana as a structured language system built on sound-based encoding rather than symbolic communication. It presents language as a functional tool for generating and directing processes through controlled phonemic construction. This work defines the core architecture of Adagana, including phonemic behavior, vowel-field mapping, structural formation (Root - Force - Modifier…

Old English had a few letters not used in modern English. The letter wynn ƿ, derived from the Futhark letter wunjo ᚹ via Anglo-Frisian Futhorc, represented the /w/ sound in Old English. The glyph ...

_Linguistics and Philosophy_ 45 (6):1395-1445. 2022Subjective predicates have two interpretive and distributional characteristics that have resisted a comprehensive analysis. First, the use of a subjective predicate to describe an object is in general felicitous only when the speaker has a particular kind of familiarity with relevant features of the object; characterizing an object as _tasty,_ fo…

This paper examines three English expressions associated with wish and non-current states—if only, I wish, and the noun wish—and suggests that their differences should not be understood merely in terms of semantic content or emotional intensity, but rather in terms of how wishes are formed in understanding through different structural modes. In existing analyses, these expressions are often group…

YouTube’s search and recommendation algorithms are driving children to Russian-language content even when they seek out videos in Kyrgyz, creating a cultural shift that concerns some parents.

This paper examines two highly frequent English words that do not operate identically in the formation of understanding: even and yet. Existing analyses typically classify even under scalarity, focus, emphasis, or unexpectedness, and yet under temporality, contrast, concession, or incompletion. While these classifications are descriptively useful, they tend to obscure how these words actually gui…

dc.title: Dis da di Pipl House: Understanding the Usage of Kriol in Belizean Politics dc.description.abstract: The exact relationship of Belizean English (BzE) and Belizean Creole (Kriol) in the Central American nation of Belize is understood to take place on a post-creole continuum (Decker, 2013; Salmon, 2017; inter alia) with the choice of lect often dependent on social factors and circumstance…

The Silent Corrosion of Meaning: When Language Turns Against Truth This book confronts a disturbing yet inescapable reality: language, the very foundation of human understanding, is not merely failing—it is actively eroding its own capacity to convey truth. What begins as a tool for clarity gradually transforms into a system of distortion, where meaning is no longer anchored but continuously resh…

This paper examines two highly frequent yet relatively undercompared expressions in everyday English: just and still. Existing research has often analyzed just as a focus marker, minimizer, hedge, or scalar restriction marker, while still has commonly been examined in relation to temporal persistence, continuation, or concessive marking. These approaches offer important insights into their semant…

This study presents a quantitative analysis of errors in the perception and interpretation of hydronyms by university students in Western Kazakhstan. The aim of the study is to identify the types of errors that occur when students interpret hydronymic units and to reveal the cognitive difficulties underlying these errors. The study involved 120 university students who had previously completed cou…

Blurb The Paradox of Preservation: A Critical Review of The Functions of Writing Language was never meant to last forever. In this volume, writing is stripped of its innocence and revealed as one of the most transformative—and deceptive—technologies ever created. What appears to be a tool for preserving meaning is, in fact, a system that reshapes thought, organizes power, and accelerates the very…

Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, Published online: 27 April 2026; doi:10.1057/s41599-026-06799-8 The Sound of Populism: Distinct Linguistic Features Across Populist Variants

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“The study of language is only fully realized when we step out of the academy and into the streets, transforming markers of otherness into bonds of friendship,” says Alison Rice, sitting in the living room of a Francophone refugee family in South Bend, Indiana.

This paper proposes a meta-rule governing the form of assertion: discourse can be divided, by its logical structure, into binary and non-binary. Binary discourse makes a formal commitment to an answer space of exactly two mutually exclusive and jointly exhaustive options; this commitment logically entails the existence of a decidable criterion. Binary discourse without a decidable criterion does …

The word "genie" has a unique etymology. It is ultimately derived from the Arabic word "jinni", meaning a spirit made of smokeless flame that performs a similar role to fey in ...

Hidden causality in Modern Greek Tsilia, Anastasia This paper explores the syntax and semantics of an attitudinal construction in Modern Greek (mg), where an attitude verb takes an accusative object followed by a complement clause. Building on existing syntactic literature (e.g., Hadjivassiliou et al. in 13th international symposium on theoretical and applied linguistics, Aristotle University of …

Kyengsang Dialect Korean (KDK) is a wh-in-situ language that morphologically distinguishes content (or wh-) and polar questions via sentence-final question particles (QPs). This study investigates how KDK comprehenders build dependencies between wh-indeterminates and QPs, and how they compute question–answer concord. Two experiments−such as acceptability judgments and event-related potentials (ER…

For people living in some parts of the United States, their accent might not just indicate where they live - but also who they think they are. In a small study in rural northwestern Ohio, researchers found that men who had a "country" identity - for example, a love of hunting and guns, pickup trucks and country music - showed different vowel patterns in their pronunciations than did their neighbo…