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Language variation, change and translation
2023Η παρούσα διατριβή εξερευνά ζητήματα σχετικά με τη μετάφραση παλαιότερων κειμένων - των περιόδων της Αγγλικής και Ελληνικής (Κρητικής) Αναγέννησης - υπό το πρίσμα μιας ιστορικής γλωσσολογικής μελέτης. Σκοπός της έρευνας είναι ο εντοπισμός γλωσσικών χαρακτηριστικών που συνδέονται με τη γλωσσική ποικιλία (στην προκειμένη περίπτωση, των πρώιμων γλωσσικών ...
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Language Change, Variation, and Universals
2021AbstractThis volume is about how human languages get to be the way they are, why they are different from one another in some ways and not others, and why they change in the ways that they do. Given that language is a universal creation of the human mind, the puzzle is why there are different languages at all, why we don’t all speak the same language ...
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Language Change and Variation in Gibraltar
2008While much has been written about Gibraltar from historical and political perspectives, sociolinguistic aspects have been largely overlooked. This book describes the influences which have shaped the colony’s linguistic development since the British occupation in 1704, and the relationship between the three principal means of communication: English ...
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Interpreting language variation and change
2006Historical linguistics is a historical discipline, and the writing up of hypotheses about past states of languages in the form of etymologies and diachronic grammars is a type of historiography (Lass 1997: 17). The assertions contained in the preceding sentence seem tautological, yet surprisingly few practitioners of historical linguistics take an ...
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Shared Context Facilitates Lexical Variation in Sign Language Emergence
Languages, 2022Katie Mudd +2 more
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