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Linguistic Geography in the United States

Linguistic Geography in the United States
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Ergativity and linguistic geography

Australian Journal of Linguistics, 1993
Abstract Nothing in our present understanding of accusative and ergative structures and their functions would predict major discrepancies in the frequencies of alignments in the various continents, but such asymmetries exist: Australia and Eurasia have far more ergative languages than expected, the New World has far more stative‐active languages, and ...
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Saussure and linguistic geography

Language Sciences, 1993
Abstract Saussure's views on linguistic geography are not-as the position of the chapter entitled ‘Linguistique geographique’ in the Cours de linguistique generale might appear to suggest—a mere appendage to his proposals for the science of linguistics.
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Linguistic Geography: Achievements, Methods and Orientations

<i>WORD</i>, 1954
(1954). Linguistic Geography: Achievements, Methods and Orientations. WORD: Vol. 10, No. 2-3, pp. 375-387.
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STUDY OF LINGUISTIC GEOGRAPHY

RESEARCH ON UZBEK FOLKLORE AND DIALECTS: PRACTICE, METHODOLOGY, AND NEW APPROACHES
n. This article provides a number of information on the integration, study of linguistic geography and dialectology. The main directions of linguistic geography, the responsibility of Uzbek linguists and dialectologists to one of the tasks, the issue of creating a national language Atlas, are especially touched upon.
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Linguistic Geography

2012
A collection of papers about the different facors that may explain the surprises of linguistic geography.
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The Colonial Geography of Linguistics

Abstract The colonial structure of the field of linguistics is rooted in its history and is also deeply entrenched in its geography. Wealth, power, and prestige are hoarded in elite institutions of the Global North, in ways that shape who can be a professional linguist, and whose concerns are considered important to the field. Drawing on
Ben Braithwaite, Kristian Ali
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Romance linguistic geography and dialectometry

2016
Abstract This chapter focuses on the diachronic and synchronic relation between language and space, critically considering some of the most important advances made within Romance linguistic geography and dialectometry. It reviews the early work of the dialect geographers in recording regional variation by means of detailed linguistic ...
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A Linguistic Geography of Africa

2007
More than forty years ago it was demonstrated that the African continent can be divided into four distinct language families. Research on African languages has accordingly been preoccupied with reconstructing and understanding similarities across these families.
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Linguistic Geography in Canada: An Introduction

Canadian Journal of Linguistics/Revue canadienne de linguistique, 1954
In linguistics as in any other field of learning, a scholar may concentrate on the particular aspect of study that most appeals to his temperament. One may choose to analyse and classify the structural phenomena which are found in all varieties of human speech; another may seek to determine the relationships which exist between languages known to be or
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