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Cross‐Linguistic Suffix Preference: Typological or Cognitive Bias?

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, Volume 1560, Issue 1, June 2026.
Languages can be shaped by pre‐existing cognitive machinery that makes certain properties more processable. Such properties are more frequent across world languages. Most languages prefer suffixes to prefixes for grammatical meanings. Whether such typological bias is shaped by cognitive bias is debated.
Mikhail Ordin, Dina Abdel Salam El‐Dakhs, Leona Polyanskaya   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

ACROSS LANGUAGE BORDERS: WRITING INTEGRATION AND BELONGING IN KINDERTRANSPORT DIARIES

German Life and Letters, Volume 79, Issue 2, Page 129-147, April 2026.
ABSTRACT The diaries of six Kindertransport refugees who fled Nazi persecution in Germany and Austria to Britain in 1938 and 1939 offer unique insights into how language use reflects negotiations of identity and belonging. Moving beyond traditional concepts of bilingualism, a translingual framework reveals how these young refugees navigated between ...
Monja Stahlberger
wiley   +1 more source

Nigerian English research: Developments and directions

World Englishes, Volume 45, Issue 1, Page 182-198, March 2026.
Abstract This article describes the progress made by scholars over a period of more than five decades in the field of Nigerian English studies. It will thus serve as a useful tool for those researching in this field; and apparently there has been no such attempt to date to review the research landscape of Nigerian English in order to show its key ...
David Jowitt, Kingsley O. Ugwuanyi
wiley   +1 more source

Verb patterning and acculturation in Nigerian English

World Englishes, Volume 45, Issue 1, Page 54-75, March 2026.
Abstract Speech communities have the tendency to develop habits as to which words tend to co‐occur, in the form of coinages and collocational patterns, thus constituting an aspect conducive to the subtle emergence of language variation. As these co‐occurrence tendencies become lexicalised and confined to specific, rigid word combinations, new ...
Mary Ifeoluwa Abidoye, Hans‐Georg Wolf
wiley   +1 more source

Slovenian Language in the Translation of the General School Ordinance, with an Emphasis on the Development of Slovenian Pedagogical Terminology [PDF]

Šolska Kronika
The 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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Features of the functioning of the English-language loan word “to go” in modern German

Philology. Issues of Theory and Practice
The purpose of the study is to identify the features of the functioning of the English-language loan word “to go” in the German language. The article examines the processes of adaptation of the Anglicism “to go” to the lexical and semantic system of the ...
I. B. Akkuratova
semanticscholar   +1 more source

The Fixed Phrase Scheme "Warum + Verb + Pron1!(?)" in the System of German: Language and Speech

, 2020
The description of the modern German fixed phrase scheme «Warum + Verb + Pron1!(?)» is given in this article. The relevance of the study is explained by the absence of the research of the object space as well as its high importance for the practice of ...
A. Melnik
semanticscholar   +1 more source

The ‘Bilingualism Factor’ in Language Change: The Consequences of Language Contact Within and Across Bilingual Minds1

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
wiley   +1 more source

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
wiley   +1 more source

On the issue of formal assimilation of anglicism nouns in the genus category of the german language system and its national variants

Vestnik of Kostroma State University
In the conditions of general globalisation, there is a massive consolidation of Anglicisms in all languages, including the German language with its national variants.
Nelly A. Cherkasova
semanticscholar   +1 more source