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Discourse variation of vague language: vague quantifiers in spoken and written Lithuanian

Taikomoji kalbotyra, 2018
Vagueness is a controversial issue, which was long stigmatised by both researchers and laypeople and largely neglected in linguistics until the publication of Channell’s (1994) study, which demonstrated that vague language (VL) is a multi-faceted ...
Jūratė Ruzaitė
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WE, ELF and ELT: Perspectives on English and applied linguistics

World Englishes, Volume 45, Issue 2, Page 209-218, June 2026.
Abstract In a paper which originally set the scene for WE study, Braj Kachu argued that the ‘global diffusion of English’ called for a new paradigm of enquiry which recognized the independent status of varieties of English used by communities other than those of Inner Circle native speakers.
Henry Widdowson
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Variant Choices of Future Time Reference in Galician: The Grammaticalization of [haber (de) + infinitive] as a Window to Diachronic Change

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Compared to neighboring Romance languages, Galician currently maintains a more ubiquitous usage of the construction [haber (present) + (de) + infinitive] as a future marker in variation with the periphrastic construction with ir ‘go’ and the ...
Esther L. Brown, Javier Rivas
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Applied Linguistics, sociolinguistics and world Englishes

World Englishes, Volume 45, Issue 2, Page 232-246, June 2026.
Abstract The world Englishes perspective, especially as expressed within Kachru's formulation of the Inner, Outer and Expanding Circles of Englishes, provides a flexible and coherent model of the historical spread of English. While the model has had a profound influence on various subfields of applied linguistics, variationist sociolinguistics ...
Andrew Moody
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Language vs. grammatical tradition in Ancient India: how real was Pāṇinian Sanskrit? Evidence from the history of late Sanskrit passives and pseudo-passives [PDF]

, 2013
by Pāṇinian grammarians and the forms and constructions that are actually attested in the Vedic corpus (a part of which is traditionally believed to underlie Pāṇinian grammar).
Kulikov, Leonid
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World Englishes and applied linguistics: Theoretical and applied perspectives

World Englishes, Volume 45, Issue 2, Page 356-365, June 2026.
Abstract This article examines the evolving relationship between world Englishes (WE) and applied linguistics (AL), tracing AL's historical development from its Anglo‐American origins in the mid‐20th century, grounded in “linguistics applied” to its contemporary status as a multidisciplinary field concerned with social justice and equity. It highlights
Kingsley Bolton
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Francoprovençal: Documenting contact varieties in Europe and North America [PDF]

, 2018
This special issue of the International Journal of the Sociology of Language brings together articles from an international set of authors that situate the family of Francoprovençal (FP) dialects in terms of formal structures, contexts of contact ...
Kasstan, J., Kasstan, J., Nagy, N., Nagy, N.   +3 more
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Accent Change in the Wake of the Industrial Revolution: Tracing Derhoticisation Across Historic North Lancashire

Journal of Sociolinguistics, Volume 30, Issue 2, Page 177-192, April 2026.
ABSTRACT This article applies a social model of historical dialect evolution in 19th‐century Britain to the analysis of sociophonetic data. Our aim is to assess where new dialect formation is likely to occur, and where it is not. Using recordings from 27 speakers, we first analyse coda rhoticity in north Lancashire, UK. The speakers were born 1890–1917
Claire Nance, Malika Mahamdi
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A ‘practice of the variant’ and the origins of the standard. Presentation of a variationist linguistics method for a corpus of Old French charters [PDF]

Journal of French Language Studies, 2007
Concerning the history of the linguistic standardisation of French, the period which begins with Louis XIV and the 17th century is well known and has been well documented. However, to the present day, discussions about the origins and the early periods of standardisation often suffer from a lack of intralinguistic evidence.
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Diachronic and/or synchronic variation? The acquisition of sociolinguistic competence in L2 French. [PDF]

, 2007
A majority of the early research in Second Language Acquisition focused on diachronic variation in the learners’ interlanguage (IL), that is, differences in the IL linked to a supposed increase in knowledge between two points in time (cf.
Dewaele, Jean-Marc
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