In every-day language use, two or more structurally unrelated constructions may
occasionally give rise to strings that look very similar on the surface. As a result of this …

As the Dutch language lost its case system during the deflection process that has
characterized many of the major European languages in the last millennium, its verbs …

The likelihood with which language users insert optional words or morphemes that explicitly
mark syntactic structure tends to increase in complex grammatical environments. This …

Language development is not completed when children enter primary school. As the
comprehension of connectives (such as although, despite) is important for understanding …

This article is a case study in how quantitative-statistical and formal-theoretical (generative)
approaches to language variation can be combined. We provide a quantitative analysis of …

Linguists have typically studied language change at the aggregate level of speech
communities, yet key mechanisms of change such as analogy and automation operate …

All humans have language. It is a part of our biology (Lenneberg 1964). Compared to the
language of other animals, human language is much more complex in how meanings are …

Redundant marking of grammatical relations seems to be commonplace across languages,
and has been shown to benefit learning as well as robust information transmission. At the …

Cité Duits (lit.'mining district German') emerged as a Belgian Dutch-Maaslands-German
contact variety among the children of immigrant miners in the coalmining district of Belgian …

This article investigates grammatical features of Cité Duits, a moribund in-group coalminers'
language spoken in the town of Eisden in Belgian Limburg. Based on audio data from eight …