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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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Language, creoles, varieties: From emergence to transmission
, 2023 This book offers a selection of papers dealing with second language acquisition, foreign language teaching and creole linguistics inspired by the scientific legacy of Mauritian-born scholar Georges Daniel Véronique (Port-Louis, 1948).
Kihm, Alain +18 more
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Cognitive Studies | Études cognitives, 2021 Plurilingualism as a Sociolinguistic Phenomenon in the Modern Globalized World: A Review of Pavlo Levchuk’s Monograph “Trójjęzyczność ukraińsko-rosyjsko-polska Ukraińców niepolskiego pochodzenia” (Kraków: Księgarnia Akademicka, 2020, ss.
Oksana Kushlyk
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Situation aspect as a universal aspect : implications for artificial languages [PDF]
, 2002 Aspect, as one of the elements of verb mechanics, has been overlooked by many language designers. This paper argues that an artificial language, designed as a universal language for international communication, should incorporate the "universal ...
Anthony McEnery +3 more
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English as the Lingua Franca in Europe
Дискурс, 2022 Introduction. Throughout several decades, English has been strengthening its position as lingua franca in international communication. The relevance of the given study is justified by the examination of the English language from the perspective of ...
G. A. Demin, L. A. Ulianitckaia
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Turkisms in the Kadar Dialect of the Dargin Language
Oriental Studies, 2018 The article describes loanwords in one of the understudied dialects of the Dargin language - the Kadar one. Kadar population had close contacts with the Kumyks, an indigenous Turkic-speaking people of Dagestan.
N. A. Vagizieva, S. M. Temirbulatova
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The role of Livonian in Latvia from a sociolinguistic perspective
Eesti ja Soome-ugri Keeleteaduse Ajakiri, 2018 This article examines the role of Livonian in present-day Latvia and describes the Livonian language situation in the context of Latvia’s language situation and current sociolinguistic issues.
Ina Druviete, Gunta Kļava
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Studia z Filologii Polskiej i Słowiańskiej, 2022 The Phenomenon of Language Policy in the Ukrainian Sociolinguistic Tradition: Approaches to Its Analysis in the Regional Dimension This article is devoted to the analysis of approaches to understanding the phenomenon of language policy in the ...
Галина [Halyna] Шумицька [Shumyts′ka]
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Visually Situated Language Comprehension
Language and Linguistics Compass, 2016 Abstract Over the past two decades, ‘visually situated’ language comprehension (the interplay between language comprehension, attention, and non‐linguistic visual context) has emerged as an increasingly active area of research. One important result in this area is that both linguistic and world knowledge, as well as visual cues, can ...
Pia Knoeferle, Ernesto Guerra
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Grammatical systems without language borders: Lessons from free-range language
, 2023 Current research in grammatical analysis and sociolinguistics points to two core characteristics of language that seem incommensurable at first sight: (1) research on linguistic structure indicates internal organisation and coherence, and the workings ...
Wiese, Heike
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