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Sites of Contact and Models of Change: Introduction
This Special Issue of Transactions of the Philological Society grew out of a Symposium held in November 2023 at St John's College, Cambridge, in honour of our friend and colleague, Peter Matthews, who died on 7 April 2023. Both the Symposium and the Special Issue were commissioned by the Council of the Philological Society in his memory.
Sylvia Adamson, Nigel Vincent
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Predicative Possession in Ukrainian and Intra‐Slavonic Language Contact1
Abstract Ukrainian has two inherited syntactic forms for possessive have: a transitive one with a lexical have‐verb, and an intransitive, originally locative be‐construction. On the basis of four corpus studies, the article establishes their relative frequency in Middle Ukrainian writing (17th and 18th c.), Modern Ukrainian dialects (20th c.), and ...
Jan Fellerer
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Abstract This study examines the impact of grammatical gender on memory recall among simultaneous bilinguals with two three‐gendered languages (Ukrainian and Russian). Ukrainian−Russian bilinguals and English monolingual controls were tested on their ability to remember names assigned to objects with either matching or mismatching grammatical genders ...
Oleksandra Osypenko +2 more
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Abstract Globalization and increases in the numbers of English language learners have led to a growing demand for English proficiency assessments of spoken language. In this paper, we describe the development of an automatic pronunciation scorer built on state‐of‐the‐art deep neural network models.
Danwei Cai +5 more
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Hybrid Clause Combining Strategies in Turkish Language Contacts
Abstract The Turkic contact varieties of the Balkans use two main diametrically opposed subordination strategies: (i) the Turkic template, where typical subordinate clauses are prepositive, nonfinite, contain clause‐final subordinators, etc. and (ii) the Indo‐European (IE) template, where typical subordinate clauses are postpositive, finite, contain ...
Cem Keskin +3 more
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Borders in a Borderland: The Buryat‐Cossacks and the Buryat National Movement, 1917–21
Abstract Between the February revolution and the 1921 end of the Russian Civil War, Buryat nationalists built a nation around Lake Baikal. Leaders sought Buryat autonomy within a postrevolutionary Russian polity. A lengthy border with Mongolia framed the region’s political geography and state‐builders competed for Buryat allegiances, compelling Buryat ...
Griffin B. Creech
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Blueprint for a Universal Theory of Learning to Read: The Combinatorial Model
The Reading Tree. Abstract In this essay, I outline some of the essential ingredients of a universal theory of reading acquisition, one that seeks to highlight commonalities while embracing the global diversity of languages, writing systems, and cultures.
David L. Share
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TRAPPED BETWEEN CASE AND NUMBER. A TYPOLOGY OF ADNUMERATIVE FORMS†
In this paper, I study the nature of adnumerative or numerative forms; i.e. morphologically dedicated inflectional forms that can only be used with numerals or quantifiers (e.g. Russian dva časá ‘two o'clock’ vs. [gen sg] čása). Adnumeratives are cross‐linguistically very rare; yet they raise some interesting theoretical discussions. This work is based
Kristian Roncero
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Russians’ Attitudes Towards the War in Ukraine
ABSTRACT The Russian invasion of Ukraine has caused considerable military casualties on both sides and widespread harm to Ukrainian civilians. While polls suggest that a slim majority of Russians endorse the invasion, the factors underpinning this support remain uncertain. We investigated factors associated with support for the war among Russians.
Robin Wollast +5 more
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Some of the next articles are maybe not open access.
Polish dialectal wild herbaceous plant names against a Slavic and European background
Dialectologia Et Geolinguistica, 2018Jadwiga Waniakowa
exaly

