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A Historical Reconstruction of Some Pronominal Suffixes in Modern Dialectal Arabic
The morphology of the pronominal suffixes in dialectal Arabic are of particular interest for scholars of the history of Arabic for two main reasons. First, multiple dialects attest suffixes that, from a comparative perspective, apparently retain final ...
Phillip W. Stokes
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Since the nineteen-eighties onwards, Historical Linguistics has been given fresh attention by Brazilian linguists. This text aims to point out new trends in current diachronic research.
Ataliba Teixeira de Castilho
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Styling Authenticity in Country Music
Country music has become commercially successful both in the US and worldwide. It is perceived as a genre that values authenticity, which may be reflected in the choice of linguistic features, with (White) Southern American English (SAE) serving as the ...
Valentin Werner, Anna Ledermann
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Lingüística e Filologia. O eterno debate
The relationship between 'philology' and 'linguistcs' has been a contentious issue in the study of language for over 150 years. This paper sketches part of the origins of the philology/linguistics debate and, at the same time, hints at some of the ...
E.F. Konrad Koerner +2 more
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The emergence of labial harmony in Old Hungarian
Hungarian displays both backness harmony (inherited from Proto-Uralic) and labial harmony, the latter developing in Old Hungarian. This paper sets out to explain the fact that the emergence of labial harmony, i.e., the progressive spreading of the ...
András Cser +2 more
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The article introduces translative linguistics as a special branch in the study of natural languages and describes the history of its development.
N. D. Golev
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The emergence of the concept of 'morphologically conditioned sound changes'
One of the more controversial ideas in historical linguistics in the 1960s and 1970s was that of 'morphologically conditioned sound changes.' While Neogrammarians like Paul (1920) and Structuralists like Bloomfield (1933) had argued that sound change was
Marc Pierce
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The present volume is a selection of papers inspired by the panel "Spanish Socio-historical linguistics: Isolation and Contact," organized by the co-editors for the 23rd International Conference on Historical Linguistics in San Antonio, Texas, in 2017 ...
Drinka Bridget, Chappell Whitney
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Theory and description in African Linguistics [PDF]
The papers in this volume were presented at the 47th Annual Conference on African Linguistics at UC Berkeley in 2016. The papers offer new descriptions of African languages and propose novel theoretical analyses of them.
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La trascrizione dell’armeno. Appunti storici e riflessioni
The transcription of Armenian language. Historical notes and reflections. The paper examines in a historical overview the different methods of transliteration of the Armenian alphabet onto Latin characters from Ambrogio degli Albonesi (XVIth century) to ...
Moreno Morani
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