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Investigating Morphosyntactic Variation in African American English on Twitter
2023Early work on African American English (AAE) perpetuated myths that the language variety was uniform across regions and that it was spoken primarily by working class men, due to being conducted in inner city areas and examining a specific set of linguistic features.
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Morphosyntactic Variation and Change in Italian
Italian is an Italo-Romance language based upon a form of Tuscan, old Florentine. For centuries, Italian was a literary language mastered only by well-educated elites. In contrast, almost the entire population spoke a local variety of Italo-Romance. The Italo-Romance varieties are not dialects—that is, variations—of Italian, but they are languages in ...Michela Cennamo, Francesco Maria Ciconte
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Cognitive and geographic constraints on morphosyntactic variation
Belgian Journal of Linguistics, 2017AbstractIn this paper, I examine whether the variation patterns ofhaberpluralization (e.g.,hubo/hubieron fiestas‘there was/were parties’) in Peninsular Spanish corroborate the hypothesis elaborated in earlier work that the phenomenon constitutes a competition between two variants of the presentational construction withhaberthat is constrained by domain-
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Apparently competing motivations in morphosyntactic variation
2014AbstractWith the revived interest in variation there has been growing readiness to incorporate competing motivations into linguistic theory‐building. Previous work (Mondorf 2009a) has shown that English comparatives are a showcase of grammatical variation, in which what looks like competing motivations at first glance turns out to be an emergent ...
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Morphosyntactic variation in the temporal construals of non-root modals
2010We provide a principled account of the morphosyntax-semantics interface of non-root modals in two Romance languages (Spanish/French) vs. English. While English modals are morphologically impoverished, Romance modals are fully inflected for tense and aspect and the possible combinations of tense and aspect constrain the range of construals available ...
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Acquiring constraints on morphosyntactic variation: children's Spanish subject pronoun expression
Journal of Child Language, 2015ABSTRACTConstraints on linguistic variation are consistent across adult speakers, yielding probabilistic and systematic patterns. Yet, little is known about the development of such patterns during childhood. This study investigates Spanish subject pronoun expression in naturalistic data from 154 monolingual children in Mexico, divided into four age ...
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Morphosyntactic and semantic variation in applicative constructions
2006Abstract In this chapter, I consider ways in which the morphosyntactic characteristics of applicative constructions vary. Along the way I will point out tendencies in applicative system variation where possible on the basis of available descriptions (the tendency for beneficiary/recipient applicative constructions to be obligatory for ...
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Nonstandard Morphosyntactic Variation in English Worldwide
This study seeks to address what Bernd Kortmann has recently identified as a deficit in the corpus-based study of non-standard syntactic variation in English from a global perspective. Its findings are drawn from the 1.9-billion-word Corpus of Global Web-based English, with predictions relevant to patterns identified in the twenty English varieties ...openaire +1 more source
Ethnic Identity and Morphosyntactic Variation in San Francisco Chinatown
2019Staicov begins this chapter with methodological considerations regarding the collection and analysis of spoken data. As Staicov employs an exploratory method in her description of ethnic identity, she outlines some of the steps that are necessary for quantifying qualitative data.
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