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Folia Linguistica

Acta Societatis Linguisticae Europaeae

ISSN: 1614-7308

Editors-in-chief: Viviana Masia, Maria Napoli

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Folia Linguistica and Folia Linguistica Historica are the peer-reviewed journals of the Societas Linguistica Europaea (SLE). Each volume consists of two issues of Folia Linguistica, one issue of Folia Linguistica Historica, and one Special Issue. Folia Linguistica is devoted to empirically based linguistic topics and covers all non-historical areas in the traditional disciplines of general linguistics. The journal welcomes work from various theoretical perspectives, but contributions should be directed towards a general linguistic audience, in other words the argument should be understandable to linguists with other theoretical backgrounds. The domain of interest of Folia Linguistica includes sociological, discoursal, computational and psychological aspects of language and linguistic theory. Other areas of central concern are grammaticalization, language typology, and variation within and across languages. Folia Linguistica Historica is exclusively devoted to empirically based diachronic linguistics of all language families (including both historical and comparative linguistics).

Topics
Folia Linguistica

non-historical areas in general linguistics
grammaticalization
language typology
language variation
language varieties
sociological, discoursal, computational and psychological aspects of language and linguistic theory

Folia Linguistica Historica

diachronic linguistics (including both historical and comparative linguistics)
linguistic reconstruction (both internal and external) and language phylogeny
computational approaches to linguistic variation and change

Article formats
Research articles, Review articles, Book reviews, Miscellanea (reports and discussion notes)

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History

Folia Linguistica was founded in 1967 as the journal of the Societas Linguistica Europaea, with Ronald Crossland as its first editor. Initially, its focus was on language structure as well as language history. From 1980 onwards, Folia Linguistica Historica was established as a separate journal devoted to diachronic linguistics.

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Volume 57 Issue 3

November 2023

Publicly Available August 2, 2023

Frontmatter

Page range: i-vi

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Articles

April 14, 2023

Periodic tense markers in the world’s languages and their sources

Guillaume Jacques

Page range: 539-562

Abstract

This paper is the first survey of verbal affixes encoding the day period (‘at night’,‘in the morning’ etc.) or the yearly seasons (‘in winter’ etc.) when the action takes place. It introduces the term ‘periodic tense’ to refer to this comparative concept, explores the attested paradigms, their interactions with other verbal categories (including the more usual deictic tense), and investigates their diachronic origins. It shows that periodic tense markers are not restricted to incorporated nouns of time period but constitute a highly grammaticalized verbal category in some languages, which can redundantly co-occur with free adverbs or nouns indicating time.

August 7, 2023

On the object-individuation function of the East Sakhalin Ainu impersonal passive

Elia Dal Corso

Page range: 563-592

Abstract

This paper presents an account of a Sakhalin Ainu (also Enciw‘itah, isolate, Russia and Japan) construction that semantically encodes an agent-patient interaction and that is characterized morphosyntactically by the expression of the agent with an oblique. In the analysis to follow, this construction is named ‘impersonal passive’ by analogy with a structurally and functionally similar construction attested in the Southern Hokkaidō dialects of Ainu. Keeping the main focus on eastern dialects, the paper takes a primarily semantic approach to the East Sakhalin Ainu impersonal passive and underlines a number of striking structural differences with the Hokkaidō counterpart. In addition, it will be argued that in the north-eastern dialects of Sakhalin Ainu, the impersonal passive can be described as an object-individuation construction ( oic ), which marks a patient object as referential and definite and has the pragmatic extension of overtly flagging the topicality of this object at the discourse level. As such, the oic compensates for the lack or non-obligatoriness of overt marking for definiteness and topicality in Sakhalin Ainu. The present paper adds to our knowledge on the still under-described Sakhalin variety of Ainu and to our understanding of the verbal and nominal semantics of Ainu more generally, which to date remains a largely unexplored topic.

Open Access April 24, 2023

Causatives in Classical Armenian

Petr Kocharov

Page range: 593-627

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This paper presents the results of a study of the five causative formations of Classical Armenian. It focuses on the correspondence between the morphosyntactic complexity of causatives and the autonomy of the causee , which is specified based on the semantic type of the noncausal base verb. The correspondence proves to be incomplete as witnessed by areas of overlap in the lexical distribution of base verbs. While the competing lexical and synthetic causatives reflect the patientive and non-patientive readings of the first argument of the noncausal verb, respectively, the competing synthetic and analytic causatives rather express the contrast in the degree of affectedness of the causee , which does not fully depend on the semantic properties of the noncausal predicate. The semantic types of causation better correlate with morphosyntactic complexity than with segmental length in Classical Armenian.

August 8, 2023

Coordination and referential dependencies: a dependency grammar account in terms of predicate-valent structures

Timothy Osborne, Jiaxin Li

Page range: 629-659

Abstract

The present paper explores the nexus of coordination and referential dependencies, focusing on sentences such as ‘Max and Lucie talked about him’, in which it is hardly possible for Max and him to be co-valued. Previous accounts claim that such referential dependencies are in fact possible on a collective reading. It will be demonstrated here, however, that informants consistently judge the co-valued reading in such cases to be either strongly marginal or unavailable, regardless of whether a collective or distributive reading obtains. It is claimed that the manner in which referential dependencies interact with coordinate structures can be addressed insightfully in terms of ‘predicate-valent’ structures (as opposed to ‘predicate-argument structures’). A constraint in this regard will be proposed: the ‘Conjunct Referential Dependency Constraint’ (CRDC). The CRDC is couched in a Dependency Grammar (DG) approach to syntax.

Open Access March 20, 2023

From narrative past to mirativity and direct evidentiality: the case of Moldavian (Csángó) Hungarian

Katalin É. Kiss

Page range: 661-687

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This paper describes the evolution of grammaticalized evidentiality in the Moldavian dialect of Hungarian. It documents how the suffix -a/e , originally the marker of narrative past, became a rare, elevated marker of past tense highlighting significant past events; how it assumed a mirative overtone; and how the features ʻwitnessedʼ and ʻimmediate pastʼ, often present in mirative utterances, became inherent parts of its meaning. This grammaticalization path has resulted in an evidential system with typologically unique features. It is a two-term system based on the opposition of direct evidentiality and no evidentiality – violating the alleged universal that if a language has grammaticalized direct evidentiality, it has also grammaticalized indirect evidentiality. Mirative meaning is expressed by the same - a/e suffix that also encodes direct evidentiality – whereas it is claimed to be the extension of inferred evidentiality elsewhere. The unique properties of Moldavian Hungarian evidentiality are derived from the historical evolution of the - a/e suffix.

Open Access August 18, 2023

Negation in Modern Greek revisited: selecting between two speaker-based accounts

Ioannis Veloudis

Page range: 689-721

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This study holds that negation phenomena in a natural language involve much more than mere logical entailments in some individual’s epistemic model. The unique characteristics of negation, i.e., the persistent diachronic renewal of negative particles cross-linguistically, as well as the prevalent synchronic reinforcement of these particles through emphatic mechanisms, demand an analysis that casts the expressive speaker, not her epistemic model, in the leading role. Opting for a comprehensive account of negation in Modern Greek, the present analysis highlights this subjective involvement of the individual and suggests that it is the thinking and – more important – the feeling speaker that directs the distribution of Modern Greek negators.

September 7, 2023

Syntactic productivity under the microscope: the lexical and semantic openness of Dutch minimizing constructions

Margot Van den Heede, Peter Lauwers

Page range: 723-761

Abstract

This paper investigates different aspects of syntactic productivity and its relation to semantics. Based on a case study of 43 Dutch minimizing constructions, the correlations between nine different variables are examined: metrics of lexical openness ( TypeTokenRatio , HapaxTokenRatio , HapaxTypeRatio ), measures of conventionalization ( FrTop1 , MeanFrTop3 , SDTop3 ), characteristics of the frequency distribution ( Alpha parameter of the Zipf curve) and two semantic variables based on distributional semantics ( SemanticRange , SemanticSparsity ). The analysis shows very strong correlations between most variables, but it also detects second-order extensibility based on HapaxTypeRatio and the way it interacts with semantic openness as measured by SemanticSparsity .

Book Reviews

Open Access September 18, 2023

David Correia Saavedra: Measurements of grammaticalization: Developing a quantitative index for the study of grammatical change

David Lorenz

Page range: 763-769

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September 18, 2023

Carlota de Benito Moreno: The middle voice and connected constructions in Ibero-Romance: A variationist and dialectal account

Guglielmo Inglese

Page range: 771-776

September 15, 2023

Alba Cerrudo, Ángel J. Gallego and Francesc Roca Urgell: Syntactic geolectal variation: Traditional approaches, current challenges and new tools

Gonzalo Escribano, Isabel Pérez-Jiménez

Page range: 777-785

September 18, 2023

Guglielmo Cinque: On linearization: Toward a restrictive theory

Shengbin Du, Tiaoyuan Mao, Xiangyu Chang

Page range: 787-793

September 18, 2023

Bingjun Yang: Non-finiteness: A process-relation perspective

Wen Li

Page range: 795-802

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Journal Impact Factor	0.6	2022, Journal Citation Reports (Clarivate, 2023)
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The submissions for Folia Linguistica should be sent to the Editor and Editorial Assistants:

Dr Viviana Masia
Department of Foreign Languages, Literatures and Cultures
Roma Tre University
Via del Valco di San Paolo, 19
00146, Rome (Italy)
E-mail: viviana.masia@uniroma3.it and viviana.masia@gmail.com

Editorial Assistants
Dr. Virna Fagiolo
University of Rome "La Sapienza"
E-mail: virna.fagiolo@uniroma3.it

Dr. Giorgia Mannaioli
Roma Tre University/University of Rome "La Sapienza"
E-mail: giorgia.mannaioli@uniroma3.it

The submissions for Folia Linguistica Historica should be sent to the Editor:

Professor Dr. Maria Napoli
Università del Piemonte Orientale
E-mail: maria.napoli_folh@uniupo.it

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Folia Linguistica
Editor-in-Chief
Dr Viviana Masia
Department of Foreign Languages, Literatures and Cultures
Roma Tre University
Via del Valco di San Paolo, 19
00146, Rome (Italy)
E-mail: viviana.masia@uniroma3.it and viviana.masia@gmail.com

Editorial Assistants
Dr. Virna Fagiolo
University of Rome "La Sapienza"
E-mail: virna.fagiolo@uniroma3.it

Dr. Giorgia Mannaioli
Roma Tre University/University of Rome "La Sapienza"
E-mail: giorgia.mannaioli@uniroma3.it

Review Editor
Prof. Dr. Javier Pérez-Guerra
Department of English, French and German
Universidad de Vigo
Campus Universitario
36310 Vigo
Spain
E-mail: jperez@uvigo.es

Editorial Board
Enoch Aboh (University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands)
John Ole Askedal (University of Oslo, Norway)
Kasper Boye (University of Copenhagen, Denmark)
Marco Casentini (University of Ca' Foscari, Italy)
Sonia Cristofaro (University of Pavia, Italy)
María Josep Cuenca (University of Valencia, Spain)
Katarzyna Dziubalska-Kołaczyk (University of Poznań, Poland)
Teresa Fanego (University of Santiago de Compostela)
Mara Frascarelli (Roma Tre University, Italy)
Jeffrey Heath (University of Michigan, USA)
Gunther Kaltenböck (University of Graz, Austria)
Belén Méndez-Naya (University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain)
Amina Mettouchi (Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, France)
Heiko Narrog (Tohoku University, Japan)
Martine Robbeets (Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, Jena)
Jean-Christophe Verstraete (University of Leuven, Belgium)
Letizia Vezzosi (University of Perugia, Italy)

Folia Linguistica Historica

Editor-in-Chief
Professor Dr. Maria Napoli
Università del Piemonte Orientale
Department of Humanities
Via Galileo Ferraris 116
13100 Vercelli
Italy
E-mail: maria.napoli_folh@uniupo.it

Editorial Assistant
Irene De Felice (Università di Genova, Italy)
E-mail: irene.defelice@edu.unige.it

Associate Editors
Delia Bentley (University of Manchester, UK)
Eitan Grossman (Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel)

Review Editor
Lars Erik Zeige (Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany)
Email: lars.zeige@rz.hu-berlin.de

Editorial Team
Paola Balzaretti (Università del Piemonte Orientale, Italy)
Christian Geddo (Università della Svizzera Italiana, Switzerland)
Giulia Fontana (Università del Piemonte Orientale, Italy)

Editorial Board
Bert Cornillie (University of Leuven, Belgium)
Bridget Drinka (University of Texas at San Antonio, USA)
Patience Epps (University of Texas at Austin, USA)
Piotr Gąsiorowski (Adam Mickiewicz University Poznan, Poland)
Hans Henrich Hock (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA)
Dmitry Idiatov (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, France)
Guillaume Jacques (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, France)
Johanna Laakso (University of Vienna, Austria)
Roger Lass (University of Edinburgh, UK)
Piera Molinelli (Università di Bergamo, Italy)
Muriel Norde (Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany)
Nikolaus Ritt (University of Vienna, Austria)
John Charles Smith (University of Oxford, UK)
Freek Van de Velde (KU Leuven, Belgium)
Annemarie Verkerk (Saarland University, Germany)
Ferdinand von Mengden (Freie Universität Berlin, Germany)

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Online ISSN: 1614-7308
Print ISSN: 0165-4004
Type: Journal
Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter Mouton
First published: January 1, 1967
Publication Frequency: 4 Issues per Year
Audience: researchers in the fields of linguistics and social sciences