Morphosyntactic Changes and Sociolinguistic Variation in the Language of Kyōgen
Annali di Ca’ Foscari: Serie Orientale, 2023 The aim of this paper is to analyse morphosyntactic structures in the language of kyōgen – a traditional form of Japanese comic theatre developed in the fourteenth century – from a sociolinguistic perspective, i.e. by highlighting differences in usage
Pappalardo, Giuseppe
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(Morpho)syntactic Variation in Agreement: Specificational Copular Clauses Across Germanic
Frontiers in Psychology, 2020 In this paper we bring together the results of our research into agreement in copular clauses in four different Germanic languages—Dutch, German, Faroese, and Icelandic—in order to provide an overview of the results.
Jutta M. Hartmann, Caroline Heycock
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The Dimensions of Morphosyntactic Variation: Whorf, Greenberg and Nichols were right
Linguistic Typology at the Crossroads, 2023 We examine a database of 3089 languages coded for 351 morphosyntactic features, including almost all of the morphosyntactic features found in The World Atlas of Language Structures (Dryer & Haspelmath 2013).
Siva Kalyan, Mark Donohue
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Holistic corpus-based dialectology [PDF]
, 2011 This paper is concerned with sketching future directions for corpus-based dialectology. We advocate a holistic approach to the study of geographically conditioned linguistic variability, and we present a suitable methodology, 'corpusbased dialectometry',
Szmrecsanyi, Benedikt, Wolk, Christoph
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Morphosyntactic Variation in Medieval Celtic Languages
, 2020 This book showcases the state of the art in the corpus-based linguistics of medieval Celtic languages. Its chapters detail theoretical advances in analysing variation/change in the Celtic languages and computational tools necessary to process/analyse the data.
Lash, Elliott +2 more
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In search of grammaticalization in synchronic dialect data: General extenders in north-east England [PDF]
, 2011 In this paper, we draw on a socially stratified corpus of dialect data collected in north-east England to test recent proposals that grammaticalization processes are implicated in the synchronic variability of general extenders (GEs), i.e., phrase- or ...
Levey, S, Pichler, H
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Variability in speaker expectations of morphosyntactic mutation in Welsh
Glossa, 2022 Like all modern Celtic languages Welsh exhibits initial consonant mutation with both lexical and morphosyntactic triggers. Owing to the complexity of the system and the sociolinguistic situation of Welsh, change and variation in the system seems ...
Gareth Roberts, Yosiane White
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Negative inversion, negative concord and sentential negation in the history of English [PDF]
, 2012 It is claimed in van Kemenade (2000: 62) that clauses with initial negative constituents are a context in which subject–verb inversion occurs throughout the history of English.
Chomsky +16 more
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Variation isn't that hard: Morphosyntactic choice does not predict production difficulty.
PLoS ONE, 2021 The following paper explores the link between production difficulty and grammatical variability. Using a sub-sample of the Switchboard Corpus of American English (285 transcripts, 34 speakers), this paper shows that the presence of variable contexts does
Matt Hunt Gardner +3 more
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Direct speech, subjectivity and speaker positioning in London English and Paris French [PDF]
, 2018 This paper examines functional similarities and differences in the use of pragmatic features – in particular quotatives and general extenders – on the right and left periphery of direct quotations.
Andersen +11 more
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