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The decrease in diatopic variation in metropolitan French, which manifests as a standardisation of pronunciation, has been documented for several decades. Drawing on various dialectological experiments, this article discusses the impact of this levelling
Zoë Boughton
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Progressivity in German can be expressed not only by lexical means but also by various periphrastic structures, e. g. the am-periphrasis, the prepositions bei and in combined with nominalized infinitives or the periphrastic infinitival construction with
Birgit Füreder +2 more
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Translating English verbal collocations into Spanish: On distribution and other relevant differences related to diatopic variation [PDF]
Language varieties should be taken into account in order to enhance fluency and naturalness of translated texts. In this paper we will examine the collocational verbal range for prima-facie translation equivalents of words like decision and dilemma ...
Corpas Pastor, Gloria
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Codification of Terminology: a Case Study of English Legal Terms
The present paper is devoted to the phenomenon of codification and the main inconsistencies between the theoretical requirements for a term and actual terminological units found in terminological dictionaries of law.
A. G. Anisimova, N. Yu. Tikhonova
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L’Atlas des parlers de Bahia (APFB) et la géographie linguistique au Brésil
This paper brings some reflections on the role of the publication of the first regional Brazilian linguistic Atlas (APFB) to the development of dialectal studies in our country. It discusses (i) the reasons why dialectal researches become reality only at
Carlota Ferreira, Dinah Callou
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Norma policéntrica del español frente a la traducción jurídica polaco‑española
Polycentric Spanish Norm Towards the Polish‑Spanish Legal Translation The Spanish, being the official language of Spain and many other countries, is characterized by an important dialectal diversity that is reflected in the differences at all ...
Piotr Sorbet
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The variability of synonymic oppositions chior–orb, vechi–bătrîn, copac–pom, mal–țărm and their lexicographic treatment [PDF]
The analysis of a series of synonymic oppositions in Romanian aims at pointing to their variation on a diachronic and diatopic level, the relationship between these two levels, as well as how these linguistic realities are treated at a lexicographic ...
Dinu Moscal
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An automatic part-of-speech tagger for Middle Low German [PDF]
Syntactically annotated corpora are highly important for enabling large-scale diachronic and diatopic language research. Such corpora have recently been developed for a variety of historical languages, or are still under development.
Breitbarth, Anne +4 more
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Alternation vs. variation in Old English
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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Feminine morphology in possessive complements of adverbial constructions in Andalusian varieties
The present study scrutinizes the Spanish morphological variation between masculine and feminine possessive complements used with locative adverbials (e.g. cerca mío / mía ‘close to me’). The feminine -a suffix (e.g.
Matti Marttinen Larsson +1 more
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