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The ‘Bilingualism Factor’ in Language Change: The Consequences of Language Contact Within and Across Bilingual Minds1

open access: yesTransactions of the Philological Society, EarlyView.
Abstract Building on Uriel Weinreich's pioneering (1953) Languages in Contact and on Peter Matthews' insightful commentary on it (2006, this volume) this paper discusses the crucial role of bilingualism, and specifically different types of bilingualism, in understanding whether and how the initial changes at the level of Saussure's parole can ...
Luna Filipović, John A. Hawkins
wiley   +1 more source

What About Eco‐Populism? A Neglected Historical Tradition

open access: yes
Constellations, EarlyView.
Federico Tarragoni
wiley   +1 more source

The Role of Contact in Explaining Linguistic Convergence1

open access: yesTransactions of the Philological Society, EarlyView.
Abstract In this paper, I explore the question of how linguistic convergence emerges and what the role of contact might be. My case study is the spread of headed relative clauses built around wh‐relative markers in the Standard Average European languages.
Nikolas Gisborne
wiley   +1 more source

The Deconversion of Harriet Martineau: An Emotional History of Unbelief

open access: yesJournal of Religious History, EarlyView.
Conceptualising the ‘Victorian crisis of faith’ as a phenomenon fuelled by wider intellectual forces can only take us so far in our understanding of it. The loss of faith of many contemporaries did not merely entail an intellectual volte‐face, but also an affective impact. Scholarly accounts have been primarily written by privileging the role of ideas,
PETROS SPANOU
wiley   +1 more source

ggalign: Bridging the Grammar of Graphics and Biological Multilayered Complexity. [PDF]

open access: yesAdv Sci (Weinh)
Peng Y   +9 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Gendered processes of recruitment to elite higher educational institutions in mid‐twentieth century Britain

open access: yesGender &History, EarlyView.
Abstract This article uses rare and detailed data on matriculants to the University of Oxford during the middle decades of the twentieth century as a prism through which to consider gendered processes of recruitment to elite institutions. The article makes four key claims. First, the broader shifts in middle‐class women's labour market participation in
Eve Worth, Naomi Muggleton, Aaron Reeves
wiley   +1 more source

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