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THE SOCIODIALECTAL DIMENSION IN THE LEXICON OF THE BRAZILIAN LINGUISTIC ATLAS [PDF]

Signum: 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
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The Role of Contact in Explaining Linguistic Convergence1

Transactions 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
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Advances in the Automatic Lemmatization of Old English: Class IV Strong Verbs (L-Y)

Atlantis, 2023
The morphological features of an inflectional language like Old English (OE), which also presents generalized spelling inconsistencies, limit the use of lemmatizing and tagging tools that can be applied to natural languages. Consequently, the development
Roberto Torre
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Sites of Contact and Models of Change: Introduction

Transactions 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
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LA VARIATION LIBRE PHONOLOGIQUE ET MORPHOLOGIQUE DU DIALECTE NIÇOIS : ESSAI D’ILLUSTRATION

Studia Universitatis Babeş-Bolyai. Philologia, 2022
Phonological and Morphological Free Variation in the Dialect of Nice – an Illustration. A project has been launched to make a dialectal dictionary of Nice and its surroundings.
Philippe Del GIUDICE
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Predicative Possession in Ukrainian and Intra‐Slavonic Language Contact1

Transactions of the Philological Society, Volume 123, Issue 3, Page 428-459, November 2025.
Abstract Ukrainian has two inherited syntactic forms for possessive have: a transitive one with a lexical have‐verb, and an intransitive, originally locative be‐construction. On the basis of four corpus studies, the article establishes their relative frequency in Middle Ukrainian writing (17th and 18th c.), Modern Ukrainian dialects (20th c.), and ...
Jan Fellerer
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Word embeddings for the analysis of diatopic & diachronic semantic variation from historical newspapers

, 2023
This poster was presented at the AIUCD 2023 conference in Siena (Italy) on 5 June 2023. Project website (Living with Machines): https://livingwithmachines.ac.uk/ Poster related to: Nilo Pedrazzini & Barbara McGillivray, Diachronic and diatopic word embeddings from British historical newspapers, presented at AIUCD (Convegno dell’Associazione per l ...
Pedrazzini, Nilo, McGillivray, Barbara
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Revisiting Syntactic Microvariation and Diachrony in the Dual Complementizer Systems of Upper Southern Italy1

Transactions of the Philological Society, Volume 122, Issue 2, Page 281-307, July 2024.
Abstract The primary aim of this work is to propose a diachrony of complementizer systems in the upper southern Italian dialects (USIDs). While previous diachronic studies have focused mainly on the transition from Latin to Romance, we aim to address several unanswered questions about the transition from medieval southern Italo‐Romance—in particular ...
Sara N. Cardullo, Kim A. Groothuis
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Exploiter la grammaire du portugais à travers la bande dessinée

Comicalités
This article examines how formal aspects at the level of grammar, phonetics and vocabulary of Brazilian Portuguese (BP) can be exploited from the reading of a comic, in a private lesson in France for a learner with a Lusophone family. The corpus consists
Brízzida Caldeira
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Soziogeographische Variation im Deutschen und ihre Übersetzung ins Italienische

Linguistik Online, 2021
The translation of multilingual texts, in which diatopic, diastratic and diaphasic varieties contribute to the characterization of the figures and their milieus, poses the problem of the sociolinguistic adequacy of the translation.
Lucia Cinato
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