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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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The Logical Problem of Language Change [PDF]
, 1995 This paper considers the problem of language change. Linguists must explain not only how languages are learned but also how and why they have evolved along certain trajectories and not others.
Berwick, Robert +3 more
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Intensive language contact in the Caucasus: The case of Tsova-Tush
Tsova-Tush is an East Caucasian language spoken in one single village in Eastern Georgia by approximately 300 speakers. Since its early description, scholars have been intrigued by the high degree of linguistic influence from the Georgian language.
Wichers Schreur, Jesse; Leiden University
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Studying Language Change Using Price Equation and Pólya-urn Dynamics [PDF]
, 2012 Language change takes place primarily via diffusion of linguistic variants in a population of individuals. Identifying selective pressures on this process is important not only to construe and predict changes, but also to inform theories of evolutionary ...
Shuai Lan +21 more
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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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Formulaic language and linguistic change: A data-led approach
, 2020 A substantial proportion of our everyday language is 'formulaic', that is, it consists of oft-repeated chunks. From pause fillers such as you know, to phrases such as Many thanks!, Is this seat taken?
Buerki, Andreas
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Morphosyntactic change in Late Modern Swedish
, 2021 This volume explores morphosyntactic change in the Late Modern Swedish period from the 18th century and onwards. This period is interesting, for a number of reasons. This is when Swedish is established as a national standard language.
Valdeson, Fredrik +7 more
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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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German(ic) in language contact: Grammatical and sociolinguistic dynamics
, 2021 It is well-known that contact between speakers of different languages or varieties leads to dynamics in many respects. From a grammatical perspective, especially contact between closely related languages/varieties fosters contact-induced innovations. The
Nove, Chaya R. +9 more
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