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Founder effects identify languages of the earliest Americans. [PDF]
Abstract 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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Dialectología tradicional, sociolingüística laboviana y geolingüística trudgilliana: tres aproximaciones al estudio de la variación [PDF]
Traditional Dialectology, Labovian Sociolinguistics and Trudgillian Geolinguistics represent in themselves three different approaches to the same concern: variation phenomena and linguistic change.
Juan Manuel Hernández Campoy
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GEOLINGUISTICS: THE LINGUISTIC ATLAS OF PARANÁ
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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A Gis-Based Approach for Information Management in Geolinguistics [PDF]
The geographic position is an important property of linguistic information in geolinguistics. This paper proposes a Geographic Information System (GIS) based framework for linguistic information management, consulting and analysis.
Silviu-Ioan Bejinariu +2 more
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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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Proceedings of the fifth International Conference on Asian Geolinguistics [PDF]
This volume contains papers presented at the fifth International Conference on Asian Geolinguistics (ICAG) held at the University of Social Sciences and Humanities, VNU, Ha Noi, Vietnam, from 4 to 5 May ...
ENDO, Mitsuaki +3 more
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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
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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Geolinguistics and sociodialectology: knowledge integration
This paper presents some results from the phonological and lexical levels, drawn from the ADDU (Atlas Dialectal del Uruguay). Based on these results (illustrated with their corresponding maps), it is proposed that Dialectology, with its main research ...
Elizaincín, Adolfo, Adolfo Elizaincín
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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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