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Variation in differential object marking: On some differences between Spanish and Romanian

Open Linguistics, 2020
Although differential object marking (DOM) has been studied from a multitude of perspectives, research into the types of variation it allows in closely related languages is still needed.
Irimia Monica Alexandrina
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Bactrian in Issyk‐Kushan Script: Additional Readings and Decipherments1

Transactions of the Philological Society, EarlyView.
Abstract This article presents additional readings of several inscriptions written in the Issyk‐Kushan script, building on the improved system of sound values recently proposed by Sims‐Williams (2025b). We propose that some further lines of Dašt‐i Nāwur inscription DN III and parts of several other inscriptions can now be read as Bactrian, add new ...
Jakob Halfmann, Simon Fries, Bobomullo Bobomulloev, Muhsin Bobomulloev   +3 more
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Microcomparative Morphosyntactic Research (MIMORE): Mapping partial grammars of Flemish, Brabantish and Dutch

, 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, van Koppen, J.M., Barbiers, L.C.J., LS Nederlandse taalkunde, Corver, N.F.M., LS BZ Variatielinguistiek vh Nederlands, ILS Variation   +6 more
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Parameters of morphosyntactic variation in Bantu¹ [PDF]

, 2007
Bantu languages are fairly uniform in terms of broad typological parameters. However, they have been noted to display a high degree of more fine‐grained morphosyntactic micro‐variation.
Kula, Nancy C, Kula, Nancy C., Thwala, Nhlanhla, Marten, Lutz   +3 more
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Subject expression in a Southeastern U.S. Mexican community

Borealis: An International Journal of Hispanic Linguistics, 2019
Through an analysis of immigrant Spanish in Georgia, potential contact-induced language change is investigated through the lens of subject pronoun expression.
Philip Limerick
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Oral language profiles and associated factors in children after neonatal arterial ischaemic stroke

Developmental Medicine &Child Neurology, EarlyView.
Abstract Aim To characterize language outcomes at age 7 years after neonatal arterial ischaemic stroke (NAIS) and identify language profiles and determinants. Method This prospective longitudinal cohort study included 70 children (44 males) from a French cohort with NAIS.
Laure Drutel, Virginie Dardier, Lena Avoyan, Lucie Hertz‐Pannier, Mickaël Dinomais   +4 more
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When a New Pronoun Crosses the Border: The Spread of A Gente on the Brazilian-Uruguayan Frontier

Languages
This study shows that the incorporation of the first-person plural pronoun a gente has not only reached the southernmost tip of the Brazilian territory, but has crossed the border and entered Uruguayan Portuguese, or varieties of Portuguese spoken in ...
Cíntia Pacheco, Ana Carvalho, Marta Pereira Scherre   +2 more
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Empty morphemes in Dutch dialect atlases: Reducing morphosyntactic variation by refining emptiness typology

Glossa, 2019
In the literature on Dutch morphosyntactic microvariation, it is sometimes assumed that a subpart of Dutch dialects lack certain morphemes, because they have no direct phonetic exponent. More careful analyses, however, suggest that these dialects display
Edoardo Cavirani, Marc van Oostendorp
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Speaker Perceptions of Americanisms in Nigerian English

Journal of Sociolinguistics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study investigates the perceptions of Americanisms among three generations of Nigerians. While prior research has provided quantitative evidence for American influence in contemporary Nigerian English, the role of language beliefs and ideologies in mediating such changes remains underexplored.
Temitayo Olatoye
wiley   +1 more source

A concreteness effect in morphosyntactic variation: Evidence from the variation in the choice of clausal complements in Serbian [PDF]

Psihologija
This paper presents findings on the concreteness effect observed in the selection of clausal complements in Serbian. While concreteness effects have predominantly been explored in the realm of word processing, this study contributes to a limited body of ...
Arsenijević Boban, Kovačević Predrag S., Milićev Tanja   +2 more
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