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Stellenbosch Papers in Linguistics Plus, 2018 The phonotactic system of Afrikaans underwent multiple changes in its diachronic development. While some consonant clusters got lost, others still surface in contemporary Afrikaans.
Baumann, Andreas, Wissing, Daan
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Slavey Expressive Terms: Synchronic Evidence for Diachronic Change
Kansas Working Papers in Linguistics, 1985 Slavey, an Athapaskan language, has a rich expressive vocabulary which exhibits many of the traits discussed in Mithun (1982), but which violates the syllable structure constraints of the language.
Pepper, Mary
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ENGLISH RAISING PREDICATES AND (NON-)FINITE CLAUSES: DIACHRONIC AND SYNCHRONIC PERSPECTIVES
Fluminensia: Journal for Philological Research, 2019 In this paper, we present a diachronic and synchronic analysis of raising and extraposition constructions in the historical Brown Corpus and the more contemporary English Web Corpus 2015.
Jakob Lenardič, Gašper Ilc
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Lexical typology through similarity semantics: Toward a semantic map of motion verbs [PDF]
, 2012 This paper discusses a multidimensional probabilistic semantic map of lexical motion verb stems based on data collected from parallel texts (viz. translations of the Gospel according to Mark) for 100 languages from all continents.
Cysouw, Michael, Wälchli, Bernhard
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Aspects of linguistic ageing in literary authors across time
Journal of Language Modelling, 2021 This work offers an investigation into linguistic changes in a corpus of literary authors hypothesised to be possibly attributable to the effects of ageing.
Carmen Klaussner +2 more
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Focalization and Word Order in Old Italo-Romance
Catalan Journal of Linguistics, 2011 This paper sets out a comparison between modern and old Italo-Romance varieties with the aim of understanding the mechanisms that characterize the syntactic operations associated with the information structure of the sentence, as well as identifying ...
Silvio Cruschina
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Rosa Mystica: the Morphogenesis of the Rose
Ocula, 2020 The paper focuses on the presence of botanical figures, such as flowers and gardens, in the sources of the Litany of Loreto, aiming to reconstruct how the function of these figures changed from the Old and New Testament through the acclamations of the ...
Francesco Galofaro
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Typology and language change: The case of truncation
Isogloss, 2022 Diachronic change of prosodic structures, as it is encountered for instance in the history of stress systems, has been described as a slow process involving a series of minimal changes in a language’s grammar (Lahiri, 2015).
Birgit Alber, Joachim Kokkelmans
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Usage-Based Motivations for Diachronic Language Change
EncyclopediaWith the understanding that language variation, whether synchronic or diachronic, is, for the most part, not random but systematic and predictable, linguists and philologists have long engaged with the task of providing accounts and explanations for how ...
Sandra Paoli
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ELOPE, 2015 Variation in the genre of research articles has been extensively studied across different disciplines and languages; however, diachronic change and intradisciplinary variation in this academic genre have received less attention. Therefore this paper aims
Šarolta Godnič Vičič
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