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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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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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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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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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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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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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Mapping Wikipedia’s Geolinguistic Contours
Digital Culture & Society, 2019 Abstract Wikipedia is one of the predominant ways in which internet users obtain knowledge about the world. It is also one of the most important mirrors, or augmentations, of the world: it contains representations of all manner of places. However, Wikipedia’s knowledge of the world is characterised by a linguistic inequality.
Dittus, Martin, Graham, Mark
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Pour une approche géo-sociolinguistique de la réalité linguistique brésilienne
Géolinguistique, 2015 This article discusses the importance of allying the principles and methods of geolinguistics and sociolinguistics in order better to characterise the realities of language in Brazil, where it is heterogeneous and polarised as a result of not only the ...
Silvia Figueiredo Brandão
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Estudios de Lingüística, 1993 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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Holistic corpus-based dialectology [PDF]
, 2011 This paper is concerned with sketching future directions for corpus-based dialectology. We advocate a holistic approach to the study of geographically conditioned linguistic variability, and we present a suitable methodology, 'corpusbased dialectometry',
Szmrecsanyi, Benedikt, Wolk, Christoph
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