This article explores the role of unpronounced semantic classifiers, also known as
graphemic classifiers or determinatives, in three ancient complex scripts: Egyptian, Chinese …

Abstract Wurm & Hattori's Language Atlas of the Pacific Area describes the geographic
speaker areas of the languages and language varieties spoken in the Pacific. Thanks to the …

While recent years have seen a substantial increase of studies investigating vocal iconicity
in the lexicon of spoken languages, its presence in grammatical structures is poorly …

Humans categorize the experience they encounter in various ways, which is mirrored, for
instance, in grammatical gender systems of languages. In such systems, nouns are grouped …

Like all modern Romance languages, French has a sex-based grammatical gender with two
genders, feminine and masculine, and a lexicon that is highly sex-differentiated. These …

This paper explores whether language shapes political culture by examining the case of
French and a possible transnational francophone political culture. Using original survey data …

In the present paper, we discuss the bibliographical limits for commonplace typological
studies and address how to estimate the resources available for an in-depth study using a …

Nepali is typologically rare in terms of nominal classification systems, as it is one of the few
languages of the world having simultaneously two gender systems (human/non-human …

Linguistic Archaeology provides students with an accessible introduction to the field of
linguistic archaeology, both as theoretical framework and methodological toolkit, for …

Despite their striking diversity, human languages exhibit many statistical universals.
Explanations for the origin of statistical universals include language relatedness, innate …