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The Old and the New: Considerations in Arabic Historical Dialectology
Arabic historical dialectology has long been based on a historical methodology, one which seeks to link historical population movements with modern linguistic behavior.
Alexander Magidow
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Comparative and Historical Aspects of Nakoda Dialectology
This article is an analysis of the genetic relationship between Stoney and Assiniboine and documents Assiniboine’s major dialectal division in the light of comparative and historical data. The first objective consists in a critical analysis of the widespread assumption—which is based on lexicostatistics, sound changes, and lexical differentiation—that ...
Vincent Collette
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WHY SPANISH HISTORICAL MORPHOSYNTAX (BADLY) NEEDS DIALECTOLOGY
It has long been a prevalent idea in the history of Spanish that the surge of literary monuments in the 13 th led to the implantation of a solid standard superimposed on neighboring varieties as Castile expanded southwards.
Álvaro S. O Ctavio+8 more
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Historical Dialectology: West Frisian in Seven Centuries [PDF]
Descriptions of late nineteenth-century Germanic dialects suggest or even explicitly claim that they were shaped in the Late Middle Ages or the Early Modern period. This implies that nineteenth-century dialects represented a language that had been nearly frozen for at least 300 years.
A. Versloot
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Global Syntactic Variation in Seven Languages: Toward a Computational Dialectology. [PDF]
The goal of this paper is to provide a complete representation of regional linguistic variation on a global scale. To this end, the paper focuses on removing three constraints that have previously limited work within dialectology/dialectometry. First, rather than assuming a fixed and incomplete set of variants, we use Computational Construction Grammar
Dunn J.
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A Judaeo-Arabic Biblical Glossary as a Source for Arabic Historical Dialectology
MS T-S Ar.5.58 is a translation glossary from the Cairo Geniza that contains a list of Judaeo-Arabic glosses for Hebrew words from the biblical book of Samuel. These Arabic words are fully vocalised with the Tiberian Hebrew pointing system, providing more precise phonetic information about the scribe’s native Arabic dialect than could be expressed with
Nick Posegay
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Twentieth-century varieties reflecting mediaeval settlement in Normandy: Combining modern and historical dialectology [PDF]
The article demonstrates how the methods of modern dialectology can be used together with established dialectological and toponymic findings to inform our understanding of present-day variation. The linguistic data used are from the ‘Atlas \ud Linguistique et Ethnographique Normand’, whose data were collected in the 1970s, and in which many of the ...
Damien Hall
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Historical Arabic Dialectology:
The description of historical Arabic dialects brings with it a whole plethora of challenges. The most important one is that there are no native speakers left of these dialects, with the consequence that researchers have to rely on written sources in order to discover more about the historical stages of Arabic dialects.
L. Zack
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LANGUAGE INTERFERENCES AND HISTORICAL DIALECTOLOGY
For a historical approach to the problem of linguistic interference the dialectological data can be considered a more appropriate field of investigation than any reconstructions of hypothetical substrata.
A. V. Desnickaja
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Periods of Hungarian historical dialectology [PDF]
D. Juhász
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