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The Old and the New: Considerations in Arabic Historical Dialectology

Languages, 2021
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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Tracing the linguistic crossroads between Malay and Tamil [PDF]

Wacana: Journal of the Humanities of Indonesia, 2015
Speakers of Malay and Tamil have been in intermittent contact for roughly two millennia, yet extant academic work on the resultant processes of contact, lexical borrowing, and language mixing at the interface of these two speech communities has only ...
Tom G. Hoogervorst
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Between Fact and Fantasy: Early Sources on Oirat Historical Dialectology

Oriental Studies, 2021
The article presents the results of a linguistic analysis of three early sources on Oirat historical dialectology, Rashīd al-Dīn’s Jāmiʿ al-Tawārīkh (Compendium of Chronicles, completed between 1306 and 1311) and the Mongol chronicles Sir-a tuγuǰi ...
Pavel O. Rykin
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“I was born here”: Positioning by Origin and Citizenship in a Conversation between a Collector and a Roma Family in the early 1950s, Sweden

Ethnologia Europaea, 2021
This article examines an audio recording with a Roma family made by the collector Arvid Andersson in Sweden, in the early 1950s. The aim of this article is to unfold this jointly constructed conversation between the collector and the Roma family members.
Charlotte Hyltén-Cavallius, Lotta Fernstål   +1 more
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Jaki jest właściwie zakres dialektologii historycznej? (Uwagi z perspektywy dialektologa)

LingVaria, 2021
What Does Historical Dialectology Actually Include? (Remarks from the Perspective of a Dialectologist) The article refers to the contemporary status of Polish dialects and, at the same time, it is a voice in the debate on the scope of historical ...
Maciej Rak
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Special Issue on Visualisations in Historical Linguistics: Introduction [PDF]

Journal of Data Mining and Digital Humanities, 2020
The advent of ever-larger and more diverse historical corpora for different historical periods and linguistic varieties has led to the impossibility of obtaining simple, direct-and yet balancedrepresentations of the core patterns in the data. In order to
Benjamin Molineaux, Bettelou Los, Martti Mäkinen   +2 more
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On the Concepts of narečje and diasystem in Serbian and Croatian Dialectology and Standard Language Scholarship

Slavistica Vilnensis, 2022
The aim of this paper is to present a historical analysis of the concept of narečje (narječje) and diasystem in dialectology since their beginnings on the territory of contemporary Croatia and Serbia until today.
Vuk Vukotić
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Isoglosen balioaz eta Mendebaleko Euskara Zaharraren sorreraz [PDF]

Fontes Linguae Vasconum, 2020
Lan honetan Mendebaleko Euskara Zaharra dut aztergai; zehazki, noiztik bereiz daitekeen berau eta zein ezaugarriren bidez egin daitekeen bereizketa hori.
Eneko Zuloaga San Román
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Stylo visualisations of Middle English documents [PDF]

Journal of Data Mining and Digital Humanities, 2020
Automated approaches to identifying authorship of a text have become commonplace in the stylometric studies. The current article applies an unsupervised stylometric approach on Middle English documents using the script Stylo in R, in an attempt to ...
Martti Mäkinen
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Sprachgeschichte und dimensionale Sprachbetrachtung. Überlegungen zu den ungarischen sprachgeschichtlichen Forschungen im 21. Jahrhundert; pp. 284-290 [PDF]

Linguistica Uralica, 2012
Historical Linguistics and the Dimensional Language Approach. Notes on 21st-Century Research on the History of the Hungarian Language. In this short essay — based partially on the present state of Hungarian historical ­linguistic research — I ...
Juhász Dezső
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