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Bantu lexical reconstruction [PDF]
Lexical reconstruction has been an important enterprise in Bantu historical linguistics since the earliest days of the discipline. In this chapter a historical overview is provided of the principal scholarly contributions to that field of study.
Bastin, Yvonne, Bostoen, Koen
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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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Special Issue on Visualisations in Historical Linguistics: Introduction [PDF]
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+2 more
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An Inventory of Tibetan Sound Laws. [PDF]
Scholars of Indo-European historical linguistics have long found it convenient to refer to well known sound changes by the name of the researcher who first noticed the correspondences the sound change accounts for.
Hill, Nathan W.
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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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Acoustic cues of palatalisation in plosive + lateral onset clusters [PDF]
Palatalisation of /l/ in obstruent + lateral onset clusters in the absence of a following palatal sound has received a considerable amount of attention from historical linguistics.
Martín Mota, Sidney, Müller, Daniela
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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 law of double negation in the history of the research on natural languages [PDF]
The paper deals with the philosophical assumptions of linguistic theories. It is concerned with three paradigms of linguistic thought (generativist, structuralist, and historical-comparative).
Zabrocki, Władysław
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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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Vector spaces for historical linguistics : using distributional semantics to study syntactic productivity in diachrony [PDF]
This paper describes an application of dis- tributional semantics to the study of syn- tactic productivity in diachrony, i.e., the property of grammatical constructions to attract new lexical items over time.
Perek, Florent
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