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Syntactic complexity and language contact: A corpus-based study of relative clauses in British English and Indian English [PDF]
Revista Alicantina de Estudios Ingleses, 2017 The aim of the present paper is to test the claim that contact simplifies language (cf. Kusters, 2008) by comparing the domain of relative clause formation in British English, a L1 variety, and Indian English, a L2 variety.
Tamaredo, Iván
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Journal of Modern Languages, 2017 It is generally assumed that when there is contact between two societies whose members speak different languages certain linguistic and other cultural changes result, which must be attributed directly to the fact of contact.
Fook Khoon Wong
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Feature Borrowing in Language Contact
Languages, 2022 In this paper, we consider mood selection in embedded clauses by focusing on a German-based minority language, Cimbrian, which is spoken in a northern Italian enclave. Mood selection in Cimbrian relies on the presence of two different complementizers, az
Alessandra Tomaselli +2 more
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Stellenbosch Papers in Linguistics Plus, 2016 Bennett (2014) presents an analysis of phonotactic restrictions on nasal consonants in Obolo [ann] within the confines of Optimality Theory (OT) and Surface Correspondence (SC).
Bruce Connell
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Pilihan dan Sikap Bahasa Masyarakat di Perbatasan Indonesia dan Timor Leste
Ranah: Jurnal Kajian Bahasa, 2020 The border community in Malacca Regency, East Nusa Tenggara consists of two groups of people, namely indigenous groups who have lived for a long time and groups of people who choose to join the Unitary State of the Republic of Indonesia. The existence of
NFN Mukhamdanah, Retno Handayani
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Slovene-English Language Contact and Language Change
ELOPE, 2011 The paper focuses on Slovene - English language contact and the potential language change resulting from it. Both the immigrant context (the U.S. and Canada) and Slovenia, where direct and indirect language contact can be observed respectively, are ...
Nada Šabec
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Phrasal Alternation in the Pondok Tinggi Dialect of Kerinci; an Intergenerational Analysis [PDF]
, 2015 This paper examines the implications of language contact in a Malay sub-variety known as Pondok Tinggi, spoken in Sumatra. My focus is on the grammatical phenomenon of phrasal alternation.
Ernanda, E. (E)
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Prlekija-Međimurje dialect language contact
Hrvatski Dijalektološki Zbornik, 2017 This paper presents linguistic data from the eastern part of the Slovenian-Croatian border. The paper will examine the phonology, morphology and lexica of dialects in this bordering linguistic territory, and draw a comparison of linguistic features of ...
Tjaša Jakop
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Prehistoric Bantu-Khoisan language contact [PDF]
, 2017 International ...
Bostoen, Koen +3 more
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Southern Samo Language Contact
Nordic Journal of African Studies, 2003 Samo, an Eastern Mande language, is insularly enclosed predominantly by Gur languages. Considering the fact that Samo has close contact with several dominant languages intense language borrowing should be likely.
Sabine Hoeth
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