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Transposition of Substantive Word Forms into Adverbs of Interval: Stages, Signs, Limit
This study presents the experience of calculating the differential features of substantive word forms that explicate in speech different degrees of functional and functional-semantic convergence with the class of adverbs of interval. Using the example of
Victor V. Shigurov
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NOMINAL PARADIGMS IN ENGLISH [PDF]
The distinction between lexicon and grammar is made at the morphological subsystem, between the regular and irregular forms. For nominal and verbal regular forms, the redundancies can be generalized if the linguistic data are represented by grammatical ...
Nadia Luiza Dincă
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We present memory-based learning approaches to shallow parsing and apply these to five tasks: base noun phrase identification, arbitrary base phrase recognition, clause detection, noun phrase parsing and full parsing.
Sang, Erik F. Tjong Kim
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Abstract Building on Uriel Weinreich's pioneering (1953) Languages in Contact and on Peter Matthews' insightful commentary on it (2006, this volume) this paper discusses the crucial role of bilingualism, and specifically different types of bilingualism, in understanding whether and how the initial changes at the level of Saussure's parole can ...
Luna Filipović, John A. Hawkins
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Contact and Language Change: Using the Present to Explain the Past1
Abstract Although we may know the outcome of language changes that could have resulted from language contact in the past, we are unlikely to know how and why these changes occurred unless we also know about the individual speakers who came into contact and the nature of their interactions—information that all too often is impossible to uncover.
Jenny Cheshire
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The Role of Contact in Explaining Linguistic Convergence1
Abstract In this paper, I explore the question of how linguistic convergence emerges and what the role of contact might be. My case study is the spread of headed relative clauses built around wh‐relative markers in the Standard Average European languages.
Nikolas Gisborne
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Towards an Integrated Model of Change: Language Contact, Dialect Contact, Internal Variation
Abstract This article outlines an integrated model of language change, where change is viewed as the acquisition of innovative grammars by individual native speakers. It is integrated in that it shows how change that is induced by contact between languages, dialects and sociolects can be understood, alongside purely internal change, as part of a single
Christopher Lucas
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The Integration of Norse‐Derived Terms in English: Effects of Formal Similarity1
Abstract Language change arising from language contact is a complex phenomenon. Peter Matthews encouraged researchers to consider it as firmly grounded in the behaviour of individual speakers. We apply this perspective to investigate the integration of Norse‐derived terms into medieval English, testing for the effect of their phonetic similarity to ...
Sara M. Pons‐Sanz, Seán Roberts
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