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The Venetian Vernacular Lexicon in Eleventh‐ and Twelfth‐Century Latin Documents: Insights from the Codice Diplomatico Veneziano

open access: yesTransactions of the Philological Society, Volume 124, Issue 1, Page 168-199, March 2026.
Abstract This study investigates the lexicographical potential of Medieval Latin documentation from the Venetian area of the Italo‐Romance domain, highlighting the need for a systematic approach to bridge Latin and vernacular linguistic developments. The project MEDITA – Medieval Latin Documentation and Digital Italo‐Romance Lexicography.
Jacopo Gesiot
wiley   +1 more source

“The breakfast for real toilers”: Commodification practices and the enregisterment of local language in the post‐industrial Ruhr Area

open access: yesJournal of Linguistic Anthropology, Volume 35, Issue 3, December 2025.
Abstract This article examines how commodification practices of Ruhrdeutsch, a formerly stigmatized variety, contribute to local language awareness and enregisterment. Following the decline of the Ruhr Area's heavy industry and the shift from the secondary to the tertiary economic sector, companies have discovered the value of local marketing ...
Nantke Pecht
wiley   +1 more source

Aspects of Linguistic Variation [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
This volume brings together papers on linguistic variation. It takes a broad perspective, covering not only crosslinguistic and diachronic but also intralinguistic and interspeaker variation, and examines phenomena ranging from negation and TAM over ...

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DiaWUG: Diatopic Word Usage Graphs for Spanish

open access: yes, 2021
This data collection contains discovered diachronic Word Usage Graphs (WUGs) for Spanish. Find a description of the data format, code to process the data and further datasets on the WUGsite.
Baldissin, Gioia   +2 more
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Vers un atlas de la langue de la mer en Dalmatie et Kvarner : le projet JAPRK

open access: yesGéolinguistique, 2016
This paper brings some reflections on the methodological choices guiding the elaboration and the implementation of the project Linguistic Atlas of the Maritime Culture in Dalmatia and Kvarner.
Nikola Vuletić, Vladimir Skračić
doaj   +1 more source

The Role of Contact in Explaining Linguistic Convergence1

open access: yesTransactions of the Philological Society, Volume 123, Issue 3, Page 479-513, November 2025.
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
wiley   +1 more source

Reflexivity in Meadow Mari: Binding and Agree [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
According to the Canonical Binding Theory (Chomsky 1981), anaphors must be bound in their local domain and pronominals must be free. The discovery of “long-distance anaphors” (e.g.
Volkova, Anna, ILS Variation
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Sites of Contact and Models of Change: Introduction

open access: yesTransactions of the Philological Society, Volume 123, Issue 3, Page 391-398, November 2025.
This Special Issue of Transactions of the Philological Society grew out of a Symposium held in November 2023 at St John's College, Cambridge, in honour of our friend and colleague, Peter Matthews, who died on 7 April 2023. Both the Symposium and the Special Issue were commissioned by the Council of the Philological Society in his memory.
Sylvia Adamson, Nigel Vincent
wiley   +1 more source

"Variación sintáctica en las construcciones pasivas: las preposiciones introductoras del agente" [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
El presente trabajo constituye un estudio diacrónico acerca de la pérdida de la preposición de como introductora del complemento agente y la subsiguiente propagación de la preposición por en construcciones pasivas perifrásticas con ser.
Nieuwenhuijsen, Dorien, ILS Variation
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THE SOCIODIALECTAL DIMENSION IN THE LEXICON OF THE BRAZILIAN LINGUISTIC ATLAS [PDF]

open access: yesSignum: Estudos da Linguagem, 2014
It’s possible to speak of lexical mobility today, lexical flow, lexical continuum due to speakers’ communicative mobility. In fact, the lexicon is an important dimension in which it is possible to map the variability and measure its productivity.
Abdelhak Razky
doaj   +1 more source

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