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Parametric variation in Romance synchronic V2 through a French lens
Isogloss, 2022 In this article I provide an analysis of XVS order in (Modern) standard French, and reconcile it with comparative analyses of XVS in (Modern) Romance by taking into account recent conceptual accounts for topic and focus.
Karen Lahousse
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New Empirical Approaches to Grammatical Variation and Change
Languages, 2021 Research on grammatical variation and change has traditionally been based on diachronic and synchronic corpus analysis, but the growing importance of experimental approaches to the study of language has led many researchers to combine corpus study with ...
Sina Bosch +3 more
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Synchronic variation in Sri Lanka Portuguese personal pronouns [PDF]
Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages, 2021 Abstract This paper presents and discusses the instances of synchronic variation attested in the personal pronoun paradigm of modern Sri Lanka Portuguese, an endangered Portuguese-based creole spoken by relatively small communities scattered across Eastern and Northern Sri Lanka.
Cardoso, Hugo C., Costa, Patrícia
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Language typology and reconstruction the prenasalized stops of Kisi
Studies in African Linguistics, 1992 The findings of language typologists can contribute to understanding synchronic variation where no diachronic facts are available. By establishing what happens universally, one can extrapolate as to the past and perhaps as to the future of a language on ...
G. Tucker Childs
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Synchronous Lagrangian variational principles in General Relativity [PDF]
The European Physical Journal Plus, 2015 The problem of formulating synchronous variational principles in the context of General Relativity is discussed. Based on the analogy with classical relativistic particle dynamics, the existence of variational principles is pointed out in relativistic classical field theory which are either asynchronous or synchronous.
Cremaschini, Claudio +1 more
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Stage-Level and Individual-Level distinction in morphological variation
Borealis: An International Journal of Hispanic Linguistics, 2012 This work examines the role of the stage-level (SL)/individual-level (IL) distinction applied to nouns in a case of morphosyntactic regularization in Spanish: variable reanalysis of the NP argument as subject in the presentational haber construction ...
Javier Rivas, Esther L. Brown
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Focalization and Word Order in Old Italo-Romance
Catalan Journal of Linguistics, 2011 This paper sets out a comparison between modern and old Italo-Romance varieties with the aim of understanding the mechanisms that characterize the syntactic operations associated with the information structure of the sentence, as well as identifying ...
Silvio Cruschina
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Fautes de grammaire ou grammaire des fautes ? Or: Should Hebrew Speakers Be Afraid of Linguists?
Yod, 2021 This paper tries to reevaluate the notion of linguistic error in the light of modern research on standard language, linguistic variation and the history of contemporary Hebrew since its emergence as a vernacular at the end of the 19th century and the ...
Shlomo Izre’el
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Languages, 2018 The study of language contact can be approached from different perspectives, such as in terms of diachronic development, synchronic variation, structural change, or social meanings. [...]
Giulia Cabras
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On some morphological properties of the adjective in Gothic
Kalbotyra, 2009 The morphology of Gothic, as well as that of other older Germanic languages, has traditionally been analysed in phonological terms, with classifications that reflect earlier stages in the development of Germanic.
Artūras Ratkus
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