Research on lesser studied languages is vital for the advancement of theories language acquisition. We discuss two areas where data from Eegimaa have potential to produce innovative research: (1) typology, with an overview complex demonstratives found in this language, and (2) learning environment input speech. Here, we show that children learn speak a polyadic environment, they receive multipl...

Bantu languages generally have a noun-initial DP word order but they typically allow for demonstratives, and in some also the quantifier meaning ‘each, every’, to precede noun. Beyond this, changing relative of post-nominal modifiers which leads subtle (focus-related) changes not adjectives, numerals possessives appear before In this paper, we discuss alternations that are allowable Xitsonga th...

Indexicalism is a strategy for defending truth-conditional semantics from under-determination arguments. According to indexicalism the class of indexical expressions includes not only the obvious indexicals, e.g. demonstratives and personal pronouns, but also unobvious indexical expressions, expressions which allegedly have been discovered to be indexicals. This paper argues that indexicalism f...

Abstract There has been a substantial amount of research on heritage language acquisition and diachronic change. Although recent work increasingly pointed to parallels between those two areas, it remains unclear how systematic these are. In this paper, we provide bird's eye view, illustrating patterns change are mirrored in grammars. doing so, focus one the best-described grammaticalization pro...