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Usage on the move: Evolution and re-volution [PDF]
Training, Language and Culture, 2017 One of the problems involved in using corpora to investigate language change is that many corpora are synchronic, particularly spoken ones. To observe change, a combination of methods is the most fruitful approach.
Michael McCarthy
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Language change and grammar teaching books in EFL [PDF]
Journal of Contemporary Education Theory & Research, 2019 The present study investigates the changes that English Grammar has undergone throughout the last four decades and how these alterations are depicted in Grammar Teaching Books.
Anastasia Balla
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Refunctionalization and Usage Frequency: An Exploratory Questionnaire Study
Languages, 2018 This paper explores the relationship between refunctionalization and usage frequency. In particular, it argues that (a) refunctionalization is more likely for low-frequency construction than high-frequency constructions, and that (b) high-frequency ...
Malte Rosemeyer
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LingBaW, 2023 In this paper, some core premises that are held about Turkish Phonology are put into question, both theoretically and empirically. Some modifications to the Turkish phonological inventory and to the language's phonotactic constraints are then proposed ...
Nicolas Royer-Artuso
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, 2014 Languages are slippery, and they don't like being con-tained.We have already broken the rules. That was not one hun-dred words. That was far, far less than one hundred words. Each section, we agreed, should consist of one hundred words. That section could have easily been rewritten to con-sist of one hundred words.
Jonathan Hsy, Chris Piuma
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From northern Italian to Asian wh-in situ: A theory of low focus movement
Isogloss, 2021 The mainstream literature on the Romance dialects of northern Italy has explained the morphosyntax of clause-internal wh-elements in answer-seeking interrogatives as either the result of interrogative movement into the lower portion of the high left ...
Caterina Bonan
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Slovensko-romanski jezički kontakt na primeru dve pojave iz rezijskog
Slavia Meridionalis, 2018 Slavic-Romance language contact: the case of two phenomena in Resian This paper investigates the mechanisms of language contact in shaping two aspects of Resian nominal and clausal syntax, the quantifier karjë ‘many, much’ and the rise of subject ...
Marija Runić
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Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Introduction Adolescent siblings of children with cancer are at elevated risk for psychosocial problems. Unfortunately, various barriers such as limited family time and resources, conflicting schedules, and psychosocial staffing constraints at cancer centers hinder sibling access to support.
Christina M. Amaro +10 more
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Health ExpectationsIntroduction The mental health of young people (aged 16–25 years) is a growing public health concern in the United Kingdom due to the increasing numbers of young people experiencing mental health difficulties, with many not in contact with mental health ...
Rachel Perowne +2 more
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Frontiers in Complex SystemsComplex systems research has chiefly investigated language change from a social dynamics perspective, with undeniable success. However, there is more to language change than social diffusion, i.e., a one-off adoption of an innovative variant by language ...
Quentin Feltgen
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