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Su Luigi Heilmann e la linguistica strutturale
Atti del Sodalizio Glottologico Milanese, 2023 This paper aims to describe Luigi Heilmann’s structural point of view. A philologist and linguist, a specialist in Indology, Semitistics, and Romance dialectology, he subscribed to the Prague School functional perspective and put his structural method ...
Giovanni Gobber
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Transposition, not translation: Recuperating attentionality on Pantelleria, Sicily
Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, Volume 33, Issue 3, Page 311-329, December 2023., 2023 Abstract This article examines how elderly rural Sicilians recall the meanings of words rendered obsolete by infrastructural, technological, and economic changes that occurred in their lifetime. I examine conversations from my 2016 and 2019 fieldwork on Pantelleria, Sicily, characterized by what I term recuperated attentionality, speaking from ...
Nicco A. La Mattina
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The origin of semilingualism: Nils‐Erik Hansegård and the cult of the mother tongue
Journal of Sociolinguistics, Volume 27, Issue 5, Page 506-525, November 2023., 2023 Abstract ‘Semilingualism’ is one of the most questionable theories produced in the language sciences. Yet, little is known about its origins. We present a critical account of the history of semilingualism, tracing its roots in the work of Nils Erik Hansegård, (1918–2002), inaugural chair of Sámi at Umeå University (1975–1979), who developed a theory of
David Karlander, Linus Salö
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Varieties of ‘standard accents’ among teachers in contemporary Britain
World Englishes, Volume 42, Issue 3, Page 507-522, September 2023., 2023 Abstract This article investigates accent variation within the UK, applied to the professional context of teaching. The purpose is two‐fold: first, to discuss a variety of accents in contemporary Britain, demonstrating how accents can be categorised based on the degree to which they mark the speaker's local origins.
Alex Baratta
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Transactions of the Philological Society, Volume 121, Issue 1, Page 117-151, March 2023., 2023 Abstract The—for European languages—large amount of bound elements in the older Insular Celtic languages and the array of phonological interactions within morphological and phrasal structures have lead several researchers to conclude that individual words play a lesser role in the grammars of those languages.
Stefan Dedio
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Lucjan Malinowski jako historyk języka
LingVaria, 2022 LUCJAN MALINOWSKI AS A HISTORIAN OF LANGUAGE The main merit of Lucjan Malinowski is the initiation of scientific linguistics in Kraków. His research was related to dialectology and history of Polish language.
Bogusław Dunaj, Mirosława Mycawka
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Employing geographical principles for sampling in state of the art dialectological projects [PDF]
, 2013 The aims of this paper are twofold: First, we locate the most effective human geographical methods for sampling across space in large-scale dialectological projects.
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Cases Denoting Path in Komi: Semantic, Dialectological and Historical Perspectives
Linguistica Uralica, 2022 This article examines the functions and use of Komi-Zyrian prolative cases. The theoretical background is rooted in cognitive linguistics, and the use of these cases in written Komi is studied with the methods of corpus linguistics. Our analysis shows that the two prolative cases have different distributions and functions, but there are also ...
Niko Partanen, Riku Erkkilä
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T‐tapping in Standard Southern British English: An ‘elite’ sociolinguistic variant?
Journal of Sociolinguistics, Volume 26, Issue 2, Page 287-298, April 2022., 2022 Abstract Social class is one of the key axes of sociolinguistic variation, but the speech of those at the top of the class spectrum—the elite—is rarely studied. While T‐glottalling has spread widely across British English accents, a competing variant—T‐tapping—has attracted little scholarly attention in the United Kingdom. This article presents a study
Roy Alderton
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Connecting the Lines between Old (Epigraphic) Arabic and the Modern Vernaculars
Languages, 2021 This paper investigates three linguistic features—wawation, the 1CS genitive clitic pronoun, and the relative pronoun—that are shared between the ancient epigraphic forms of Arabic and modern dialects, to the exclusion of Classical Arabic. I suggest that
Ahmad Al-Jallad
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