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Introduction: the (im)material spectrum of manuscript and print interaction☆
Abstract This introductory essay to the special issue on Early Modern English Textual Cultures Between Manuscript and Print first outlines previous research into different kinds of interaction between manuscript and print. Examples of this interplay include, for instance, the transmission of text and images from one medium into another, the use of ...
Sara Norja, Mari‐Liisa Varila
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Towards a model of world Englishes and multilingual variation
Abstract Drawing on research on multilingualism in South Africa and India, this paper attempts to integrate world Englishes studies and variationist sociolinguistics; in other words, to fill in a missing dialogue between Braj Kachru and William Labov.
Rajend Mesthrie
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Estimation of Historical volatility and Allocation strategies using Variance Swaps [PDF]
In this memorie de fin d'etudes, we review some techniques to estimate historical volatility and to price Variance ...
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Place‐Based Accentedness Ratings Do Not Predict Sensitivity to Regional Features
ABSTRACT Discussions of sociolinguistic awareness are often about how patterns observed in one practice (often linguistic production) appear in others (often person perception or metalinguistic commentary). Models like Labov's indicator/marker/stereotype trichotomy force this complexity into a single dimension, due to presupposing a conscious ...
Kathryn Campbell‐Kibler
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Variation in the expression of stance across varieties of English
Abstract Variational pragmatics, one of the youngest branches of pragmatics, studies the different pragmatic values of items across varieties, and the different realisations of the same pragmatic function across varieties through different forms. Studies on (inter)subjectivity, and on pragmatically sensitive items in general, have started to include ...
Gabriella Mazzon
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Mahmud Kashgari - the founder of areal linguistics
Mahmud Kashgaria’s work - “The dictionary of Turkic languages” (“Divan lugat at-tyurk”) is the complex work of comparative-historical linguistics, a lexicography, anthropological linguistics, areal linguistics, a linguistic culture, dialectology.
Uldar Keldibekovna Isabekova
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‘for ye vrangus haldyn of thre bollis of beire fra hyre’: Nominal plurals in south-western Middle Scots [PDF]
This paper presents an analysis of plurality markers in the first extant text from the South-West of Scotland, the Wigtown Burgh Court Book (1512-1534). The inflectional endings for the plural are often included among the Middle Scots diagnostic features
Bugaj, Joanna
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Tonal Phonotactics in Southern Min
Abstract This paper is the first to explore tonal phonotactics in the world's natural languages. Zhangzhou Southern Min is theoretically assumed to have 7320 possible syllables but more than 71% of them are not empirically attested. Each lexical tone is logically possible to generate 915 syllables; however, the attested number only ranges from 98 ...
Yishan Huang
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The relationship between Hashimoto’s thyroiditis (HT) and thyroid cancer (TC) is a controversial topic; it remains unclear if HT acts as a risk factor of TC. The aim of our study was to compare the presence of HT and thyroid function in patients with TC and benign nodules. We analyzed 2571 patients after fine needle aspiration biopsy of thyroid nodule.
Jan Krátký+9 more
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Tracing the linguistic crossroads between Malay and Tamil
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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