Adverbes, adverbiaux et coverbes : pour compléter une réflexion commencée avec Estelle Moline by Cyril Aslanov

“…This leads us to the issue of the adverb considered from a typological perspective and of the status of the adverb in some languages where the adverbial system is quite different from that of the Indo-European languages. I will examine among others the question of the coverb that is functionally equivalent to an adverb from a semantic point of view although it belongs without doubt to another part of speech, that of the verb. …”
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De l’ojibwa au dakota : pour une analyse transformationnelle des langues amérindiennes by Emmanuel Désveaux, Michel de Fornel

“…Since linguists tried to classify the languages of the New World they were using the same genetical model which lays at the base of the classification of Indo-European languages. Recent works have pointed out the limitations of this perspective by seriously challenging previous assumptions about the so-called « consensus » classification of North American languages. …”
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Auxiliary clitics in Polish by Dorota Jagódzka

“…A general principle for clitic placement in Indo-European languages is the one described by Jacob Wackernagel in his 1892 work. …”
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Archibald Henry Sayce (1845–1933) and the Transition from 19th-Century Comparative Philology to 20th-Century General Linguistics by Subbiondo Joseph L., Kilarski Marcin

“…Sayce’s treatment of examples from non-Indo-European languages reflects a tension between comparative philology as it was practiced in the late nineteenth century and twentieth-century comparative and typological linguistics. …”
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Lexical-Semantic Variables Affecting Picture and Word Naming in Chinese: A Mixed Logit Model Study in Aphasia by Davide Crepaldi, Wei-Chun Che, I.-Fan Su, Claudio Luzzatti

“…Moreover, it is not clear whether the results obtained in Indo-European languages also hold in languages with a completely different structure and script, such as Chinese. …”
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Langues et discours en situation de guerre : une approche sociolinguistique et pragmatique by Salih Akin

“…Kurdish is an Indo-European language spoken by a population distributed in Iraq, Iran, Syria and Turkey and affected by a conflictual situation from the First World War to the present day. …”
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The Orthographic Ambiguity of the Arabic Graphic System: Evidence from a Case of Central Agraphia Affecting the Two Routes of Spelling by Assia Boumaraf, Sonia Bekal, Joël Macoir

“…These findings from a case involving a non-Western, non-Indo-European language contribute to discussions of theoretical models of spelling. …”
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