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Remnant Case Forms and Patterns of Syncretism in Early West Germanic
Abstract Early stages of the Old West Germanic languages differ from the other two branches, Gothic and Norse, by showing remnants of a fifth case in a‐ and ō‐stem nouns. The forms in question, which have the ending ‐i or ‐u, are conventionally labelled ‘instrumental’ and cover a range of functions, such as instrument, means, comitative and locative ...
Will Thurlwell
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Subject expression in a Southeastern U.S. Mexican community
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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Variation in differential object marking: On some differences between Spanish and Romanian
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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Oral language profiles and associated factors in children after neonatal arterial ischaemic stroke
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 +4 more
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When a New Pronoun Crosses the Border: The Spread of A Gente on the Brazilian-Uruguayan Frontier
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 +2 more
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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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DIALECT VARIATION AS A WINDOW INTO LANGUAGE CHANGE – A SYNTACTIC EXAMPLE FROM SASAK (LOMBOK) [PDF]
Structural contrasts in language are often accompanied by corresponding morphological contrasts. When morphological contrasts are simplified or morphology is reanalyzed, what is the effect on syntactic structure?
Ahmadi, Nur, Garmager, Eli Asikin
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Text Classification Using Association Rules, Dependency Pruning and Hyperonymization
We present new methods for pruning and enhancing item- sets for text classification via association rule mining. Pruning methods are based on dependency syntax and enhancing methods are based on replacing words by their hyperonyms of various orders.
Haralambous, Yannis, Lenca, Philippe
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ABSTRACT It is well‐known that adults vary to an important extent with regard to L2 learning outcomes. One apparent reason is the degree of exposure to the target language. Furthermore, it has been suggested that adult learning is more affected by social and psychological variables than in younger learners.
Marco Bril +2 more
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A concreteness effect in morphosyntactic variation: Evidence from the variation in the choice of clausal complements in Serbian [PDF]
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 +2 more
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