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Morphosyntactic Variation in Medieval Celtic Languages [PDF]

open access: yes, 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
core   +6 more sources

Morphosyntactic variation in East African Bantu languages [PDF]

open access: yes
The approximately 500 Bantu languages spoken across vast areas of Central, Eastern and Southern Africa are united by the presence of a number of broad typological similarities, including, for example, complex noun class system and agglutinative verbal morphology. However, the languages also exhibit a high degree of micro-variation.
Gibson, Hannah   +3 more
core   +12 more sources

Parameters of Bantu Morphosyntactic Variation

open access: yes, 2017
This document details the Parameters of Bantu Morphosyntactic Variation developed as part of the Leverhulme Trust project 'Morphosyntactic Variation in Bantu: Typology, contact and change'. PI Professor Lutz Marten, SOAS University of London. Financial support from the Leverhulme Trust for research grant RPG-2014-208 is hereby gratefully acknowledged.
Guérois, Rozenn   +2 more
openaire   +3 more sources

Morphosyntactic variation in Bantu: Focus on East Africa

open access: yesJournal of the Language Association of Eastern Africa, 2022
Recent studies have developed a systematic approach to morphosyntactic variation among Bantu languages, taking well-known and widely attested construction types as a starting point and sketching their distribution across the family. One such approach, Guérois et al. (2017), utilises 142 morphosyntactic parameters or features, across a sample of some 50
Edelsten, Peter   +5 more
openaire   +5 more sources

Morphosyntactic variation in Modern Greek dialects [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of Greek Linguistics, 2017
This introduction lays out the issues in the study of morphosyntactic variation in Modern Greek dialects and summarizes the contents of the papers included herein.
Marika Lekakou
openaire   +2 more sources

Morphosyntactic variation in Old Swahili [PDF]

open access: yes
The comparative and historical study of Bantu and other African languages is often based on contemporary, synchronic data since many African languages do nothave a long-written record. In contrast, for Swahili such a record exists in the formof an extensive tradition of written poetic texts.
Marten, Lutz   +3 more
openaire   +4 more sources

Methodological triangulation in the study of acquisition of morphosyntactic variation

open access: yesLanguage Learning and Development, 2023
The well-known sampling limitation of most longitudinal corpus data can be even more consequential in the study of morphosyntactic variation in child language. An analysis of caregiver input suggests that variable use in overlapping contexts may be hard to find by solely relying on corpus data collected under the sampling procedures that are typical in
Pablo E. Requena
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Review of Semantics and Morphosyntactic Variation: Qualities and the Grammar of Property Concepts by Itamar Francez and Andrew Koontz-Garboden

open access: yesIsogloss, 2019
Review of Semantics and Morphosyntactic Variation: Qualities and the Grammar of Property Concepts by Itamar Francez and Andrew Koontz ...
Josep Ausensi
doaj   +3 more sources

First-person singular and third-person subject pronoun variation: The case of Mexican Spanish in the U.S. state of Georgia

open access: yesLenguaje, 2021
The current study analyzes variable subject pronoun expression (SPE) for first-person singular (1sg) and third-person subjects in a variety of Mexican Spanish spoken by first-generation Mexican immigrants in the state of Georgia, Southeastern U.S ...
Philip P. Limerick
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The Dimensions of Morphosyntactic Variation: Whorf, Greenberg and Nichols were right

open access: yesLinguistic 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
doaj   +1 more source

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