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Towards an Integrated Model of Change: Language Contact, Dialect Contact, Internal Variation
Transactions of the Philological Society, Volume 123, Issue 3, Page 537-555, November 2025.Abstract This article outlines an integrated model of language change, where change is viewed as the acquisition of innovative grammars by individual native speakers. It is integrated in that it shows how change that is induced by contact between languages, dialects and sociolects can be understood, alongside purely internal change, as part of a single
Christopher Lucas
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Predicative Possession in Ukrainian and Intra‐Slavonic Language Contact1
Transactions of the Philological Society, Volume 123, Issue 3, Page 428-459, November 2025.Abstract Ukrainian has two inherited syntactic forms for possessive have: a transitive one with a lexical have‐verb, and an intransitive, originally locative be‐construction. On the basis of four corpus studies, the article establishes their relative frequency in Middle Ukrainian writing (17th and 18th c.), Modern Ukrainian dialects (20th c.), and ...
Jan Fellerer
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Contact français-langues gabonaises et expression de la connivence
LengasThe article raises the question of decoloniality through the phenomena of borrowing, calquing, and linguistic interference between French, the dominant lingua franca, and other local languages in Gabon.
Jean-Aimé Pambou, Prisca Soumaho
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Russian borrowings in the Karakalpak language
Неофилология, 2020 The study is devoted to the issues of interinfluence of Russian and Karakalpak languages on a basis of borrowings by calquing. Borrowings of Russian words and word combinations by calquing specified as one of sources of enrichment of the lexicon of ...
N. S. Karimkhodjaev
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Hybrid Clause Combining Strategies in Turkish Language Contacts
Studia Linguistica, Volume 79, Issue 2, Page 391-434, August 2025.Abstract The Turkic contact varieties of the Balkans use two main diametrically opposed subordination strategies: (i) the Turkic template, where typical subordinate clauses are prepositive, nonfinite, contain clause‐final subordinators, etc. and (ii) the Indo‐European (IE) template, where typical subordinate clauses are postpositive, finite, contain ...
Cem Keskin +3 more
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The Modern Language Journal, Volume 109, Issue 2, Page 407-427, Summer 2025.Abstract Study abroad (SA) is touted for providing language learners with regular exposure to a second language (L2) in naturalistic settings. However, few studies have examined how interaction occurs in situ. This study analyzed 13 hours of naturalistic dyadic conversations self‐recorded by 15 US‐based undergraduate sojourners studying abroad for one ...
Tripp Strawbridge
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LANGUAGES AND CULTURES IN CONTACT: THE FRENCH LANGUAGE A ND THE MARITIME TERMINOLOGY [PDF]
Diversitate si Identitate Culturala in Europa, 2014 The lexical borrowing is a fertile area of research, because it involves the contact between linguistic systems, cultures and spiritual identities. Through this work we try to demonstrate, using linguistic and statistical arguments , that the French ...
Corina SANDIUC
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Pidgin English proverbs as a source of structural nativization in Nigerian English
World Englishes, Volume 44, Issue 1-2, Page 166-183, March-June 2025.Abstract In this paper, we explore the role of Nigerian Pidgin English (NPE) proverbs in language contact settings and their impact on the development of idiomatic phraseology in Nigerian English (NgE). In a set of 100 NPE proverbs, we identified lexical keywords that served as anchors for searches in the large‐scale Nairaland corpus to detect ...
Marcus Callies, Folajimi Oyebola
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LA MODERNISATION LATINO-ROMANE DU LEXIQUE ROUMAIN. LE MODÈLE INTERNE [PDF]
Diversitate si Identitate Culturala in Europa, 2016 Latin Romance modernization of the Romanian literary vocabulary was attained, at the end of the 18th century, primarily by lexical borrowing and by calque.
Gheorghe CHIVU
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Lexical variation of woods and bush in Ontario English
World Englishes, Volume 44, Issue 1-2, Page 285-299, March-June 2025.Abstract This paper examines ongoing lexical variability among words that describe areas with trees, such as woods, bush and forest, among others. The historical perspective shows ongoing semantic evolution of these terms, from wood(s) (c.825) to the emergence of bush in the late 16th century or early 17th century.
Sali A. Tagliamonte +1 more
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