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Syntactic Variation [PDF]

open access: yes, 2007
Lisa J. Green. "Syntactic Variation", Sociolinguistic Variation: Theories, Methods, and Applications. Ed. Robert Bayley and Ceil Lucas. Cambridge University Press, 2007.This chapter considers the syntax of dialects of English from a view that ...
Green, Lisa J
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The Development of Relative Clauses in Modern Ukrainian: Lexical Variation over Syntactic Change

open access: yesRevue des études slaves
The paper argues that developments and changes in relative-clause formation in Ukrainian since the end of the 18th c. are due to lexical variation between a relative particle, typically ščo ‘that’, with or without a resumptive pronoun, and the relative ...
Jan Fellerer
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Language and Imagination: Evolutionary explorations [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
This article provides a functional analysis of the conditions for language to emerge, and analyzes its rolein imagination. It starts with some initial reflections on imagination and its evolutionary beginnings in relation to the role of working memory ...
Emeriti TLC   +2 more
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Situating language register across the ages, languages, modalities, and cultural aspects: Evidence from complementary methods. [PDF]

open access: yesFront Psychol, 2022
Pescuma VN   +42 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Regional differences in the perception of a consonantal change in progress [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
This study aims at testing whether there are regional differences in the perception of the labiodental fricative contrast in Dutch. Previous production studies have shown that the devoicing of initial labiodental fricatives is a change in progress in the
van de Velde, H.   +4 more
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When synchrony meets diachrony : The negation system of Fɛʔfɛʔ in the light of the Jespersen Cycle [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
This dissertation is concerned with synchronic variation as the reflection and residue of language change. The empirical focus is the negation system of Fɛʔfɛʔ.
Sub Overig UiLOTS   +2 more
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Représentations du français du Québec et du français de France au Brésil

open access: yesLidil
Recently, the ties between Quebec and South America have strengthened. There is an increasing demand for French as a Foreign Language (FFL) courses focused on Quebec-spoken French, particularly in Brazil. However, there is little research on this variety
Nina Rioult
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Variation and optionality in clitic climbing in Argentinean Spanish

open access: yesIsogloss, 2015
Since Cinque’s (2006:31-32) four-way typology of languages in terms of clitic climbing (CC, herein), those in which CC displays optionality, such as Argentinean Spanish (ArgSp, herein), remain poorly understood. This paper aims to address this need. Here,
Ioanna Sitaridou   +2 more
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Pronominal anaphoric strategies in the West Saxon dialect of Old English [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
Building on previous studies that have discussed pronominal referencing in Old English (Traugott 1992; van Gelderen 2013; van Kemenade & Los 2017), the present study analyses the pronominal anaphoric strategies of the West Saxon dialect of Old English ...
Engelse taalkunde   +2 more
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