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Altitude and the distributional typology of language structure: Ejectives and beyond. [PDF]

PLoS One, 2021
Urban M, Moran S.
europepmc   +1 more source

Introduction: Address Terms in World Englishes

World Englishes, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This special issue explores variations in English address terms across world Englishes, highlighting how globalization and digital communication continue to shape their use. While Western Englishes like British and American English show a decline in hierarchy‐stressing terms (e.g.
Anke Lensch, Hanna Bruns, Martin Schweinberger   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Pulsed volcanic sulfur emissions linked to the end-Triassic terrestrial crisis. [PDF]

Sci Adv
Fang L, Newton RJ, Zhang X, Li H, Wang G, Deng S, Wignall PB, Lu Y, Zhang C, Li M, Wu H, He T, Xian B, Shi S, Zhu L, Bottrell SH, Hesselbo SP.   +16 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Address between power and solidarity in audiovisual material in the case of Grey's Anatomy

World Englishes, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study investigates cross‐linguistic variation in forms of address by examining the American prime‐time television series Grey's Anatomy, comparing the original English version and the German dubbing in season 1 (2005) and season 20 (2024).
Lisa‐Christine Altendorf
wiley   +1 more source

Making up numbers in Pano languages: idiosyncratic and unconventional base-free quantification inventories in Amazonia. [PDF]

Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci
Zariquiey R, Núñez R, Poblete M, Vásquez A.   +3 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Lagged atmospheric circulation response in the Black Sea region to Greenland Interstadial 10. [PDF]

Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 2020
Czymzik M, Nowaczyk NR, Dellwig O, Wegwerth A, Muscheler R, Christl M, Arz HW.   +6 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Recent Diachronic Change in Affiliative Vocatives in British English

World Englishes, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study investigates recent diachronic change in affiliative address in spoken British English by comparing data from the demographic components of the BNC1994 and BNC2014. Using a systematically coded dataset of over 6000 vocative tokens, we analyze forms that signal solidarity and social closeness (including dude, bro, girl, dear, love ...
Mariam Gagua, Lisa‐Christine Altendorf, Christina Nelson, Philipp Meer, Robert Fuchs   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

The geography and development of language isolates. [PDF]

R Soc Open Sci, 2021
Urban M.
europepmc   +1 more source

Sir and Guys in 20th‐ and 21st‐Century American English

World Englishes, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper examines the diachronic development of formal and informal address and reference terms in American English as an effect of democratization using the COHA corpus (1900–2020). In focus are two address/reference terms with especially drastic frequency trends in the timespan investigated: the honorific sir, which declines sharply from ...
Hanna Bruns, Svenja Kranich
wiley   +1 more source

The natural stability of autonomous morphology: how an attraction-repulsion dynamic emerges from paradigm cell filling. [PDF]

Morphology (Dordr)
Round E, Esher L, Beniamine S.
europepmc   +1 more source