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Founder effects identify languages of the earliest Americans. [PDF]

Am J Biol Anthropol
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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GEOLINGUISTICS: THE LINGUISTIC ATLAS OF PARANÁ

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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IN MEMORIAM WAYNE FINKE

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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A materialist take on minoritization, emancipation, and language revitalization: Occitan sociolinguistics since the 1970s

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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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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The Linguistic Variability of Kaunas District: The Basis for the Development of the Tarmynas Model

Respectus Philologicus, 2021
The article analyses the linguistic basis of the Tarmynas, the database Lithuanian local language variants. The development of the database model was based on the linguistic variability of Kaunas district as an important zone for the development of ...
Rima Bakšienė
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Des pages d’un atlas linguistique à une fenêtre sur l’histoire, le cas du breton. Résultats d’une analyse dialectométrique appliquée au Nouvel Atlas linguistique de la Basse‑Bretagne

Géolinguistique, 2021
This article analyses the Breton phonetic data provided by Jean Le Dû’s Nouvel Atlas linguistique de la Basse‑Bretagne. It is studied from the standpoint of a concept called “linguistic distance”.
Tanguy Solliec
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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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