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A sketch of dialectal variation in Mano [PDF]
Mandenkan, 2018 This paper gives a preliminary account of the dialectal situation of Mano, a South Mande language. Mano has at least three varieties in Guinea and three varieties in Liberia. The focus of the paper is a comparison between the central Guinean dialect, Maa,
Maria Khachaturyan
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Dialectal Dynamics—An Introduction
LanguagesThe study of dialects leads very naturally to the study of their geographic distribution and the nature of the distribution, e.g., by examining whether the distribution is based simply on geographic distance or on relatively distinct dialect regions ...
Alfred Lameli +2 more
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Folk Linguistics in Istanbul: The Perception of Dialectal Variation
Türkiye’nin kültürel çeşitliliğine rağmen, halk dilbilimi ve algısal diyalektoloji araştırma haritasında dikkate değer bir boşluk olarak kalmaktadır. Bu makale, İstanbul’da gerçekleştirilen ve çizim harita yöntemi kullanılan diyalektal varyasyon algısı üzerine bir pilot çalışmanın sonuçlarını sunmaktadır.
Karaköse, Gizem, Stachowski, Kamil
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Dialectal variation in german 3-verb clusters : a surface-oriented optimality theoretic account [PDF]
, 2004 We present data from an empirical investigation on the dialectal variation in the syntax of German 3-verb clusters, consisting of a temporal auxiliary, a modal verb, and a predicative verb. The ordering possibilities vary greatly among the dialects. Some
Schmid, Tanja +2 more
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Dialectal variation in lexical borrowings in Dangme
Legon Journal of the Humanities, 2022 This paper investigated dialectal variation in lexical borrowings in Dangme, a language spoken in Southern Ghana. Dangme has seven dialects (Ada, Gbugblaa, Yilɔ Krobo, Manya Krobo, Nugo, Sɛ and Osudoku), but this study concerns lexical borrowings into ...
Raymond Teye Akrobettoe +2 more
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Dialectal variation in Votic: Jõgõperä vs. Luuditsa
Eesti ja Soome-ugri Keeleteaduse Ajakiri, 2015 This paper provides a comparison of two varieties of the Votic language. Based on field materials collected between 2001 and 2012 from the last speakers of Votic, we compiled a list of the most important phonetic and grammatical features that distinguish
Fedor Rozhanskiy, Elena Markus
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Interplay of Phonological, Morphological, and Lexical Variation: Adjectives in Japanese Dialects
Languages, 2019 This paper examines the interplay of phonological, morphological, and lexical variation focusing on adjectives in Japanese dialects. Previous studies of adjectives in the Niigata dialects of the Japanese language analyzed the ongoing changes in dialectal
Chitsuko Fukushima
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T-to-C movement: syntactic licensing and dialectal variation
DELTA: Documentação de Estudos em Lingüística Teórica e Aplicada, 2013 This paper intends to extend and elaborate the line of research initiated by Pesetsky and Torrego (2001, 2004) on the role of Tense as a licensing condition over phrasal extraction.
Georgios Ioannou
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Measuring Syntactic Variation in Dutch Dialects [PDF]
Literary and Linguistic Computing, 2006 This research applies dialectometric methods to purely syntactic dialect data. It will be shown that there is geographic cohesion in syntactic variation when viewed in the aggregate. The amount of syntactic variation which can be accounted for by geography will be determined.
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Alternation vs. variation in Old English
Revista de Lingüística y Lenguas Aplicadas, 2014 This paper addresses the phenomena of variation and alternation as reflected by the Old English version of De Temporibus Anni (Blake 2009).The analysis, which focuses on the stem vowels of verbs and is based on the diatopic and diachronic contrasts found
Ana Elvira Ojanguren López
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