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Demographic insights into paternal genetic diversity and regional substructure in the Spanish Roma. [PDF]

open access: yesBMC Genomics
Ena GF   +4 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Maltese and North African linguistics: Common roots and areal divergence

open access: closed, 2020
The closest relatives of Maltese today are North African Arabic varieties. The tendency to focus on synchronic structure in both contexts has allowed deeper insights into their respective grammars, but makes it easy to neglect the usefulness of North African data for the analysis of Maltese.
Lameen Souag
openalex   +3 more sources

The problems of convergence and divergence in present day linguistics

open access: closedACADEMICIA: An International Multidisciplinary Research Journal, 2021
Kuldashev Akram Makhmudovich   +1 more
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Linguistic Divergence in Romance

Language, 1959
1. This paper suggests a method of quantifying judgments of relative 'closeness' or 'distance' between related languages, and gives some results of its application. There is no speech community in which all speakers' speech behavior is identical. The linguist defines a homogeneous speech community as one in which the members' linguistic patterns are ...
Joseph E. Grimes, Frederick B. Agard
openaire   +1 more source

Linguistic stability and divergence

2014
In contrast to the amount of research that has been performed on linguistic convergence in language contact, this paper focuses on the possibility of linguistic systems remaining stable, or even diverging, in language contact settings. It carves out multiple relevant mechanisms and factors that influence linguistic stability and divergence (e.g ...
Karoline Kühl, Kurt Braunmüller
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