Great paper by Uta Reinöhl and Mark Ellison (ahead of print, OpenAccess): 'Metaphor forces argument overtness'. Private comment from a reviewer: 'I'm a bit annoyed that I didn't realize this myself'. Once you've seen it, you can't unsee it. degruyter.com/document/doi/1…

Chinese dialectometry: fundamental flaws: Really happy to announce our new (open access) paper was finally published today in Linguistics (journal)! 'Geographic structure of Chinese dialects: A computational dialectometric approach'doi.org/10.1515/ling-2… with… dlvr.it/T5zK9P

Great work by Jack Grieve et al. in Linguistics!

New paper (ahead of print) by E. Just from Department of Comparative Language Science on differential A and P indexing, showing 'how indexing in general is linked to referential prominence' degruyter.com/document/doi/1…

Stay tuned! 3 dialectology papers out soon!

Double Modals in American Eng w Cameron Morin in PLOS ONE

Chinese Regional Dialects w Huang He in Linguistics (journal)

Spread of Multicultural London English lexis w Christian Ilbury and David Hall in Journal of Sociolinguistics

Issue 62.1 is out, with articles on phonetics, morphology, verb semantics and discourse organisation, based on data from Austronesian, Penutian, Bantu, Romance, and other families #OpenAccess degruyter.com/journal/key/li…

Exciting work by P. Engelhardt, L. Filipović and J. Hawkins, on processing and prediction in SVO (English) and SOV (Japanese) languages (ahead of print) degruyter.com/document/doi/1…

According to Luisa Garcá García's recent paper, the increase of labile transitivity pairs in English is correlated diachronically with the rise of rigid object-verb order 1/2 degruyter.com/document/doi/1…

The distinction between inflection and derivation 'is not rooted in the reality of languages', claims Martin Martin Haspelmath, but we should keep it '[f]or practical purposes', based on 'clear and simple definitions'. degruyter.com/document/doi/1…

The Japanese pronoun 'zibun' has attracted a lot of attention because of its interesting binding properties (and logophoric uses). Here's new evidence on its distribution. D. Sperlich and K. Tetsuya show that it allows inanimate antecedents. degruyter.com/document/doi/1…

How do speakers of Spanish pronounce 'real' and other words with sequences of /e/, /a/, /o/? RAE recommends disyllabic pronunciation, but speakers don't seem to care much. degruyter.com/document/doi/1…

Change-of-state verbs ('destroy', 'wither') differ in their alternation behaviour ([anti]causative). S. Heidinger and R. Huyghe show that in French there is a correlation between the semantic role of the subject (cause) and the frequency of anticausatives degruyter.com/document/doi/1…

Psych verbs in Brazilian Portuguese show an alternation of the type 'A pandemia entristeceu o país' vs. 'Moisés se entristeceu'. Here's a new paper on the first type, ObjExp verbs, by M. Cançado, L. Amaral, L Meirelles and M.J. Foltran: degruyter.com/document/doi/1…

Exciting work by R. van de Vijver, E. Uwambayinema and Yu-Ying Chuang: the Discriminative Lexicon theory used to model comprehension and production of #Kinyarwanda verb forms. degruyter.com/document/doi/1…

Special issue is out (no 61.6): 'Re-assessing the explanatory potential of the alienability contrast', ed. by An Van linden and F. Rose. Critical perspectives on a prominent topic in linguistic typology degruyter.com/journal/key/li…

Why is 'this' not a complementizer (I know *this/that it is raining)? And why is direct speech marked by 'this' (Sue said this: '...') but indirect speech by 'that' (Sue said that ...)?

New paper in Linguistics (journal) (ahead of print): “Foreign” language aptitude predicts individual differences in native grammatical proficiency, by Miquel Llompart and Ewa Dąbrowska degruyter.com/document/doi/1…

New paper out in Linguistics (journal)! Check it out if you're interested in the role of language aptitude in L1 and L2 acquisition. Btw, publishing #openaccess without APCs feels sooo amazing 🥰 #AcademicTwitter #linguistics

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New week, new paper!

We applied our interdisciplinary Out Of Our Minds approach to the English article system and argue that the article category is a hierarchically structured referent tracking system @Linguistics (journal)

What do we mean by that?

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Special issue on 'Expressions of quotation: Explorations on the boundary between use and mention', edited by Holden Härtl and Marcel Schlechtweg degruyter.com/journal/key/li…