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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 ...
Johanna Nichols
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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

Word, 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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