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The alternation between exterior locative cases and postpositions in Estonian web texts
Eesti ja Soome-ugri Keeleteaduse Ajakiri, 2021 . A probabilistic grammar approach to language assumes that grammatical knowledge has a probabilistic component and that this probabilistic knowledge of language is derived from language experience. It is assumed that the extent and nature of grammatical
Jane Klavan
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A Web Corpus Analysis of the Italian Grazie Di/Per Alternation
LanguagesThe prepositional variation of grazie di/per + complement ‘thanks for X’ is often acknowledged in Italian grammars but has not yet been adequately examined.
Mark Hoff
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Morphosyntactic variation in Bantu: Focus on East Africa
Journal 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
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LanguagesWhat happens when recognized and diverse conditioning factors of linguistic variation are omitted from analysis and/or are not analyzed under a single analytical procedure? This paper explores the consequences of such a choice on data interpretation and,
Wilkinson Daniel Wong Gonzales
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Frontiers in Psychology, 2019 Over the turn of the 21st century, the use of data from large electronic corpora has changed research on Spanish historical syntax, spurring interest in long-range evolutions, and the shape of the correspondent diachronic curves.
Álvaro S. Octavio de Toledo y Huerta
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An interview with Naomi L. Shin
Isogloss, 2020 Naomi L. Shin is an Associate Professor of Linguistics and Hispanic Linguistics at the University of New Mexico. Her primary interests include child language acquisition, bilingualism, language contact, and sociolinguistics.
Naomi Shin
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Parameters of Bantu Morphosyntactic Variation
, 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
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On the Morphology of Toponyms: What Greek Inflectional Paradigms Can Teach us
Transactions of the Philological Society, Volume 123, Issue 1, Page 77-96, March 2025.Abstract The research is a contribution to the investigation of the grammatical status of toponyms from the point of view of inflectional paradigmatic morphology. By examining data from Standard Modern Greek, as well as select data from its historical development, the analysis reveals that the inflectional morphology of toponyms shows significant ...
Michail I. Marinis
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Vulgar Minimisers in English and Spanish1
Transactions of the Philological Society, EarlyView.Abstract In this paper, we investigated whether vulgar minimisers form a natural class in English and Spanish by evaluating (i) their similarities and differences with respect to non‐vulgar minimisers and (ii) whether vulgar minimisers are inherently negative in these languages.
Ángel L. Jiménez‐Fernández +1 more
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Wandel und Variation in der Morphosyntax der schweizerdeutschen Dialekte
Taal en Tongval: Language Variation in the Low Countries, 2014 Syntactic Variation and change in Swiss German dialects The article deals with the areal distribution of morphosyntactic variants in Swiss German dialects.
Elvira Glaser
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