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GEOLINGUISTICS: THE LINGUISTIC ATLAS OF PARANÁ [PDF]
Signum: Estudos da Linguagem, 2015 The objective of this work is to analyze the methodology adopted by the Linguistic Atlas of Paraná – APLR (AGUILERA, 1990) and to describe its results in relation to other Brazilian atlas.
Rosa Evangelina de Santana BELLI RODRIGUES
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Founder effects identify languages of the earliest Americans. [PDF]
Am J Biol AnthropolAbstract The known languages of the Americas comprise nearly half of the world's language families and a wide range of structural types, a level of diversity that required considerable time to develop. This paper proposes a model of settlement and expansion designed to integrate current linguistic analysis with other prehistoric research on the ...
Nichols J.
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Многоязычие в образовательном пространстве, 2023 Multilingualism researchers were saddened to learn that on March 16, 2023, Dr. Wayne Finke, an American Spanish philologist, long-time secretary of the American Society of Geolinguistics, editor of the journal Geolinguistics, Deputy head of the ...
G.A. Kazakov
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Journal of Sociolinguistics, Volume 27, Issue 4, Page 327-344, September 2023., 2023 Abstract This paper introduces and discusses Occitan sociolinguistics as it evolved from the 1970s onward as a theory of language contact as conflict. It was developed in conjunction with its Catalan counterpart and as a reaction to Joshua Fishman's allocational model of diglossia, and came as a response to conditions of swift social and linguistic ...
James Costa
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Wordplay, world‐play, and interdisciplinary imaginations
Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, Volume 46, Issue 2, Page 510-524, June 2021., 2021 By mapping examples of geographical portmanteau words, this paper aims to elucidate several interdisciplinary imaginative practices. It presents examples of verbal invention in the publications and rhetorical practices of three geographers, Francis Galton, John Frederick Heyes, and Halford Mackinder, which demonstrate individual words, especially ...
Emily Hayes
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Géolinguistique, 2021 Recent developments in motivational semantics based on dialectal material collected in Lesbos, Arbëria and Scandinavia suggest that motivational patterns can be considered as a new criterion for the study of variation. We choose to apply this method to a
Mael Jézéquel
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Cyrillic in the Geolinguistic Space
Herald of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 2022 The position of the Cyrillic alphabet in the modern world and in historical retrospective is analyzed in this article. The causes and consequences of the rejection of the Cyrillic script by a number of countries are considered. Calculations of the number of users of the Cyrillic alphabet from the beginning of the 20th century and a forecast of changes ...
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On the Syntax of Number in Romance
Studia Linguistica, Volume 74, Issue 1, Page 165-203, April 2020., 2020 Abstract Inflectional languages, and Romance languages in particular, display morphological variation in plural marking within the nominal domain. While standard varieties show plural inflection on all the constituents within the DP, other varieties show this plural marking only on some of its constituents.
Sonia Cyrino, M.Teresa Espinal
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Complexity, Volume 2020, Issue 1, 2020., 2020 Are nearby places (e.g., cities) described by related words? In this article, we transfer this research question in the field of lexical encoding of geographic information onto the level of intertextuality. To this end, we explore Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI) to model texts addressing places at the level of cities or regions with the help ...
Alexander Mehler +5 more
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Spoon, Knife and Fork across Slovenian Dialects
Slavistica Vilnensis, 2022 The article presents Slovenian dialect names for cutlery used in eating or preparing food – spoon, knife and fork, from a geolinguistic, word-formational as well as etymological and semantic-motivational perspective. The ethnological framework serves in
Januška Gostenčnik, Mojca Kumin Horvat
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