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Contact and complexity in English varieties: The influence of speaker numbers on syntheticity and grammaticity. [PDF]
PLoS OneEmpirical 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.
Ehret K.
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Jak polscy kaktusiarze "mówią" o swoich roślinach
Slavia Meridionalis, 2021 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
Lietuvių Kalba, 2021 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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Prasasti: Journal of Linguistics, 2021 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]
Journal of Languages for Specific Purposes, 2022 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
Globe, 2023 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
Russian Journal of Linguistics, 2023 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
Stylistyka, 2020 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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Semi-automating the Reading Programme for a Historical Dictionary Project
Lexikos, 2018 This paper describes the resources and software procedures used or developed in a major enabling step towards the revision of the scholarly reference work A Dictionary of South African English on Historical Principles (DSAE, Silva et al.
Tim van Niekerk +2 more
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User Responses to Linguistic Diversity in Instagram based on the Language Subordination Model Process [PDF]
Issues in Language TeachingThe present study aims to investigate users’ responses to linguistic diversity on Persian-language social media, particularly Instagram, based on Lippi-Green’s theoretical framework of language subordination. The study employs a mixed-methods design.
Adel Mohammadi, Hiwa Weisi
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