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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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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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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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La Bretagne Linguistique, 1992 This modest survey is the first to be carried out using the methodology of Jules Gilliéron, the Swiss linguist, founder of the Atlas Linguistique de la France and precursor of linguistic geography, in the Gaelic languages, i.e.
Arthur John Hughes
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Atlas of the Baltic languages: from idea to pilot project
Acta Baltico-Slavica, 2015 Atlas of the Baltic languages: from idea to pilot project Dialectologists from Latvian Language Institute of the University of Latvia and the Department of Language History and Dialectology of the Institute of the Lithuanian Language, have developed a ...
Anna Stafecka
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Preparation of the interactive Slovenian Linguistic Atlas
Jezikoslovni zapiski, 2015 For decades, the project of compiling the Slovenski lingvistični atlas (Slovenian Linguistic Atlas, SLA) involved various methods of mapping and commenting on the collected dialect material at all linguistic levels.
Jožica Škofic
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L’Atlas linguistique comme outil de recherche ? À propos de quelques expériences italiennes
La Bretagne Linguistique, 2004 Linguistic atlases have been the subject of criticism and reservations, which the first part of this article recalls. Then the author presents four new Italian research projects, very different from each other, but which all raise essential questions ...
Sabina Canobbio
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Une étude de la motivation sémantique en domaine albanais : la phytonymie arbëreshe
Géolinguistique, 2018 This paper provides an overview of the motivational study carried out on the Arbëresh phytonymy in eight villages in the south of Italy where Arbëreshë dialects are still spoken.
Maria Luisa Pignoli
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