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Social and structural aspects of language contact and change [PDF]
, 2022 This book brings together papers that discuss social and structural aspects of language contact and language change. Several papers look at the relevance of historical documents to determine the linguistic nature of early contact varieties, while others ...
Schumacher, Jennifer +15 more
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Language change for the worse [PDF]
Many theories hold that language change, at least on a local level, is driven by a need for improvement. The present volume explores to what extent this assumption holds true, and whether there is a particular type of language change that we dub language
Schaden, Gerhard +16 more
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La langue bretonne à Arradon au XXe siècle
La Bretagne Linguistique, 2010 Language change, from Breton to French, occuring in Western Brittany during XXth century, is studied on a village scale of the Vannes area: Arradon. Ethno-socio-linguistic approach enlighten oral accounts from a few native Breton speakers.
Armelle Audic
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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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The Changing Language of Disablement [PDF]
Physical Therapy, 2005 As physical therapists, our ability to communicate is fundamental to both the practice and the science of our profession. Conceptual frameworks, such as the disablement model, can provide a rudimentary language, guiding not only the way we generate our terminology but the way we generate our measurements and our hypotheses.
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From gaspaža to kundze: female honorifics in Latvian in the 16th–19th centuries
Vilnius University Open Series, 2022 This article focuses on those modern and historical Latvian words that, in addition to the main component of the meaning ‘adult woman’, also include the components of respect and/or social status, namely, gaspaža, madama, dāma, and kundze.
Pēteris Vanags
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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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Linguistic Typology at the Crossroads
Linguistic Typology at the Crossroads, 2021 Welcome to Linguistic Typology at the Crossroads (LTC), a new journal dedicated to the crossroads where linguistic typology meets its neighboring fields.
Caterina Mauri +3 more
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