Subject clitic variation in a northern Italian dialect [PDF]
, 2010 PhDThis study investigates the phenomenon of subject clitic (henceforth, SCl) variation in Ligurian, a variety spoken in the north-west of Italy. Through the examination of empirical data, this work shows that variation can be incorporated in the theory ...
Ciarlo, Chiara
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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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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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Morphosyntactic co-variation in Bantu: Two case studies [PDF]
, 2007 The morphosyntactic properties of Bantu languages, in particular of South-East Bantu languages, are often described as being fairly uniform across different languages.
Kula, NC, Marten, L
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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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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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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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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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Microcomparative Morphosyntactic Research (MIMORE): Mapping partial grammars of Flemish, Brabantish and Dutch [PDF]
, 2016 In this paper we discuss and analyze a set of correlations that we discovered using two of the large-scale Dutch dialect syntax databases available in the online tool MIMORE (the abbreviation of the MIcrocomparative MOrphosyntactic REsearch tool) (www ...
Bennis, Hans +6 more
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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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