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Semantics and Morphosyntactic Variation [PDF]
, 2017 Abstract Systematic variation in form between semantic equivalents across languages is a key explanandum of linguistic theory. Two contrasting views of the role of lexical semantics in the analysis of such variation can be found in the literature: (1) uniformity, whereby lexical meaning is universal, and morphosyntactic variation arises ...
Francez, Itamar, Koontz-Garboden, Andrew
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Morphosyntactic variation in spoken English in Dominica
LinguaSpecial Issue on "Non-standard morphosyntactic variation in L2 Englishes world-wide: Corpus-based studies", edited by Peter Collins and Bernd ...
Deuber, Dagmar, Lacoste, Véronique
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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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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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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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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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Modelling morphosyntactic variation in World Englishes from a register perspective
Miscelánea: A Journal of English and American Studies, 2017 This paper addresses Miller’s (2000) and Brown and Miller’s (2017) hypothesis that the adverbs just, (n)ever and yet are becoming markers of perfect meaning in spoken English, and this at the expense of weakening semantically and reducing the use of the
Elena Seoane
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Morphosyntactic variation in Modern Greek dialects [PDF]
Journal 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.
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Introduction to the Special Issue: Investigating Language Variation and Change in Portuguese
LanguagesThis Issue focuses on morphosyntactic variation and change in Portuguese [...]
Patrícia Amaral
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