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, 2016 Language contact and linguistic change are thought to go hand in hand (e.g. Silva-Corvalán 1994), however there are methodological obstacles, such as collecting data at different points in time or the availability of monolingual data for comparison, that
Dumont, Jenny, Vegara Wilson, Damián
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Emergent sociolinguistic variation in severe language endangerment [PDF]
, 2019 Contrary to Labov’s Principle of style shifting, studies in language obsolescence portray speakers of dying languages as ‘monostylistic’, a characterization questioned here. Variationist methodology is adopted in a context of gradual language death.
Kasstan, J., Kasstan, J.
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Japanese Lexical Variation Explained by Spatial Contact Patterns
ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information, 2019 In this paper, we analyse spatial variation in the Japanese dialectal lexicon by assembling a set of methodologies using theories in variationist linguistics and GIScience, and tools used in historical GIS.
Péter Jeszenszky +3 more
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Syntactic variation and diglossia in French [PDF]
, 2011 The present article addresses syntactic variation within French, and is an example of a relatively recent shift in attitude towards variation in this language.
Rowlett, PA
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The transportation of embedded inversion in world Englishes
World Englishes, EarlyView.Abstract The present study uses private correspondence to investigate the use of embedded inversion on both sides of the Atlantic as an illustration of the spread of spoken/conversational features through writing. The paper discusses the use of embedded inversion in Irish English (IrE) and briefly compares its occurrence in other varieties of English ...
Carolina P. Amador‐Moreno
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A diachronic corpus-based study into the effects of age and gender on the usage patterns of verb-forming suffixation in spoken British English [PDF]
, 2017 The aim of this paper is to ascertain the degree to which lexical diversity, density and creativity in everyday spoken British English have changed over a 20-year period, as a function of age and gender. Usage patterns of the four verb-forming suffixes, -
Jaworska, Sylvia +2 more
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Modal verbs in South Asian online Englishes: must, (have) got to, have to and need to
World Englishes, EarlyView.Abstract This research article presents an analysis of four (semi‐)modals of necessity/obligation (must, (have) got to, have to and need to) in four CMC registers (comments, tweets, web forums and websites) originating from four South Asian countries (Bangladesh, India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka) along with the United Kingdom and United States.
Muhammad Shakir
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Entre la inmediatez y la distancia comunicativas: acercamiento lingüístico a la poesía popular [PDF]
Sintagma, 2013 This paper presents a linguistic analysis of unpublished folk poetry. The study deals with a collection of quatrains as recited by the military draftees from the Spanish village of San Cebrian de Campos (Palencia).
María Victoria Weber-Antón
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Towards a phonetic conspectus of preaspiration [PDF]
, 2007 Preaspiration, i.e. [hC], is a rare feature of stop production in the world’s languages that has been recently found to occur in Sienese Italian.
Hajek, John +2 more
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Alternation of must, have to, and need to in English as a lingua franca
World Englishes, EarlyView.Abstract This study explores the grammatical variability of modal auxiliary verbs in English as a lingua franca. Focusing on the ongoing change must, have to, and need to, this research utilizes two spoken corpora: the Vienna–Oxford International Corpus of English (VOICE) and the Asian Corpus of English (ACE).
Chunyuan Nie +2 more
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