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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
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The Integration of Norse‐Derived Terms in English: Effects of Formal Similarity1

open access: yesTransactions of the Philological Society, EarlyView.
Abstract Language change arising from language contact is a complex phenomenon. Peter Matthews encouraged researchers to consider it as firmly grounded in the behaviour of individual speakers. We apply this perspective to investigate the integration of Norse‐derived terms into medieval English, testing for the effect of their phonetic similarity to ...
Sara M. Pons‐Sanz, Seán Roberts
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Predicative Possession in Ukrainian and Intra‐Slavonic Language Contact1

open access: yesTransactions of the Philological Society, EarlyView.
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
wiley   +1 more source

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