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Registerial Adaptation vs. Innovation Across Situational Contexts: 18th Century Women in Transition
Endeavors to computationally model language variation and change are ever increasing. While analyses of recent diachronic trends are frequently conducted, long-term trends accounting for sociolinguistic variation are less well-studied.
Stefania Degaetano-Ortlieb +2 more
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Towards a constructional approach to discourse-level phenomena : the case of the Spanish interpersonal epistemic stance construction [PDF]
This study contributes to a better understanding of how constructional models can be applied to discourse-level phenomena, and constitute a valuable complementation to previous grammaticalization accounts of pragmatic markers.
Enghels, Renata
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Change in Format, Register and Narration Style in the Biomedical Literature: A 1948 Example
Scientific communication has evolved over time and the formats of scientific writing, including its stylistic modules, have changed accordingly. Research articles from the past fit a research world that had not been taken over by the internet, electronic
Carlo Galli, Stefano Guizzardi
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The comparative cycle in crosslinguistic perspective
This paper traces the diachronic development of comparison constructions crosslinguistically, highlighting a recurrent pattern of change with respect to standard markers: the comparative cycle.
Agnes Jäger
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The influence of loanwords on Norwegian and English stress
Rice (2006) presents a unified analysis of Norwegian word stress that applies equally to native words and to loanwords. In this analysis, stress is oriented to the right edge of the word, which suggests that the loanwords were responsible for changing ...
B. Elan Dresher
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Abstract The preauricular sulcus has long been debated as a pelvic feature variably attributed to obstetric stress, ligamentous traction, and broader biomechanical processes. To clarify its determinants, we analyzed 409 adult individuals from three archeological and one early modern skeletal collection from the Iberian Peninsula, integrating graded ...
Rebeca García‐González +5 more
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Historical Changes in Basque Dative Alternations: Evidence for a P-based (neo)derivational analysis
The properties and internal chronology of various dative changes in the history of the Lapurdian dialect of Basque are shown to be fully incompatible with the basic tenets of standard non-derivational approaches to dative alternations (both Phave and ...
Javier Ormazabal, Juan Romero
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ABSTRACT Neolithic long barrows are among the earliest monumental structures in Europe, yet in many parts of Central Europe their surface expression has been largely erased by long‐term agricultural activity. This study evaluates the potential of integrated remote sensing approaches for identifying and contextualizing long barrows and associated ...
Petr Krištuf +5 more
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Micro-change and Macro-change in Diachronic Syntax [PDF]
AbstractThis volume contains sixteen chapters addressing the process of syntactic change at different granularities. The language-particular component of a grammar is now usually assumed to be nothing more than the specification of the grammatical properties of a set of lexical items. Accordingly, grammar change must reduce to lexical change.
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ABSTRACT Throughout its area of distribution, in particular in the Iberian Peninsula, the European pilchard (Sardina pilchardus Walbaum 1792) has been an extensively exploited species since Prehistoric times. Our knowledge of the past fisheries of this clupeid nevertheless remains limited due to a scarcity of ichthyoarchaeological data, which reflects,
Arnau Brosa‐Planella +6 more
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