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Contact and complexity in English varieties: The influence of speaker numbers on syntheticity and grammaticity. [PDF]
Empirical research on language complexity has shown that languages and varieties can and do differ in their complexity. One of the key triggers responsible for this observed variation is language contact as non-native acquisition.
Katharina Ehret
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Jak polscy kaktusiarze "mówią" o swoich roślinach
How Polish Cactus Growers “Talk” About Their Plants The hobby cultivation of cacti in Poland dates back to the 19th century, but it flourished most in the 1930s and 1960s.
Tomasz Kurdyła
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Pronoun Variants in Standard Lithuanian: Diamesic Dimension
The paper deals with variants of personal pronouns, specifically the third person singular nominative case jis/jisai ‘he’ and ji/jinai ‘she’ in Lithuanian. The existence of such variation has been so far ignored by most linguists.
Jogilė Teresa Ramonaitė
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Varieties of Languages in a Category [PDF]
Eilenberg's variety theorem, a centerpiece of algebraic automata theory, establishes a bijective correspondence between varieties of languages and pseudovarieties of monoids. In the present paper this result is generalized to an abstract pair of algebraic categories: we introduce varieties of languages in a category C, and prove that they correspond to
Jirí Adámek +3 more
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Many organizations seek or need to produce documents that are written plainly. In the United States, the “Plain Writing Act of 2010” requires that many federal agencies’ documents for the public are written in plain English. In particular, the government’s Plain Language Action and Information Network (“PLAIN”) recommends that writers use short ...
Allen Riddell, Yohei Igarashi
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The use of code-mixing in oral and written forms is one of the factors that produced a language variety neither in direct communication or undirected communication through social media. One of the cases is the WhatsApp application.
Mujahidah Fharieza Rufaidah +2 more
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SPRACHEINSTELLUNGEN IM MIGRATIONSKONTEXT – AM BEISPIEL DES ALBANISCHEN UND DEUTSCHEN/ LANGUAGE ATTITUDES IN THE MIGRATION CONTEXT – THE EXAMPLE OF ALBANIAN AND GERMAN [PDF]
The article provides insights into the language situation of the three-generation (G1-G3) Albanian language group (n=120) in Germany and Switzerland and presents their attitudes towards varieties of both languages (Albanian-German).
Naxhi Selimi
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Schleswig – a region of longitudinal language contact
The topic of this article is the structural similarity of neighbouring language varieties belonging to two different branches of the Germanic languages.
Elin Fredsted
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Linguistic pluricentrism and the Russian language
Can the Russian language be regarded as pluricentric since it is used in various countries and regions of the world where different varieties of the language have evolved?
Damina Shaibakova +2 more
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Pozice nespisovných variet ve stylu nové české literatury
The tendency to operate freely with devices of all language varieties and with characteristic practices of various functional styles is one of the significant features of the literary style.
Peter Mareš
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