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Transactions of the Philological Society, Volume 123, Issue 3, Page 460-478, November 2025.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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Recording and explaining : exploring the German ditransitive alternation [PDF]
, 2019 In this discussion note, we offer some thoughts on the relation between explanation and the extensive recording of data from a ‘moderate’ functional point of view.
De Cuypere, Ludovic +2 more
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The Role of Contact in Explaining Linguistic Convergence1
Transactions of the Philological Society, Volume 123, Issue 3, Page 479-513, November 2025.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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Slovenian Language in the Translation of the General School Ordinance, with an Emphasis on the Development of Slovenian Pedagogical Terminology [PDF]
Šolska KronikaThe first school law in the Habsburg hereditary lands, the Allgemeine Schulordnung für die deutschen Normal-, Haupt- und Trivialschulen in sammtlichen Kaiserl-Königl. Erbländern, translated into modern Slovenian as Splošni šolski red, was adopted in 1774.
Andreja Legan Ravnikar
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Qualities, objects, sorts, and other treasures : gold digging in English and Arabic [PDF]
, 1999 In the present monograph, we will deal with questions of lexical typology in the nominal domain. By the term "lexical typology in the nominal domain", we refer to crosslinguistic regularities in the interaction between (a) those areas of the lexicon ...
Behrens, Leila, Sasse, Hans-Jürgen
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Particle verbs versus simplex verbs in Maldivian English
World Englishes, Volume 44, Issue 3, Page 339-359, September 2025.Abstract Notwithstanding current indications that English might soon become the country's dominant L1, the structures of English in the Maldives have—despite laudable exceptions—not yet received sufficient academic attention. The present paper studies the contrast between simplex verbs (e.g.
Tobias Bernaisch +2 more
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Treebank-based acquisition of wide-coverage, probabilistic LFG resources: project overview, results and evaluation [PDF]
, 2004 This paper presents an overview of a project to acquire wide-coverage, probabilistic Lexical-Functional Grammar (LFG) resources from treebanks. Our approach is based on an automatic annotation algorithm that annotates “raw” treebank trees with LFG f ...
Burke, Michael +4 more
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An automatic part-of-speech tagger for Middle Low German [PDF]
, 2017 Syntactically annotated corpora are highly important for enabling large-scale diachronic and diatopic language research. Such corpora have recently been developed for a variety of historical languages, or are still under development.
Breitbarth, Anne +4 more
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Counting markedness : a corpus investigation on German free relative constructions [PDF]
, 2004 This paper reports the results of a corpus investigation on case conflicts in German argument free relative constructions. We investigate how corpus frequencies reflect the relative markedness of free relative and correlative constructions, the relative ...
Vogel, Ralf, Zugck, Marco
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MOTYWACJA I MEDIA ELEKTRONICZNE W NAUCZANIU TŁUMACZEŃ SPECJALISTYCZNYCH [PDF]
, 2019 Expansion of IT-media in every field of human activity is one of the essential characteristics of modern time. This paper aims at presenting the role of electronic media in teaching translation in the field of law at the University of Osijek, Croatia ...
KORDIC, Ljubica
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