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What variational linguistics can learn from Galician [PDF]
, 2008 This short overview reviews, in the first part, some of the most important fields of investigation where studies on Galician have contributed to variational linguistics, including macro- and micro-sociolinguistic studies (sections 1-3).
Kabatek, Johannes
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The concept of identity in the East Midlands of England [PDF]
, 2014 Investigating feelings of identity in East Midlands ...
Braber, N
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The Americanization of Nigerian English spelling and punctuation
World Englishes, Volume 45, Issue 1, Page 76-95, March 2026.Abstract Spelling is the most standardized level of language, and prescriptive spelling norms in former British colonies often advocate adherence to British spelling norms which differs from the local linguistic reality. Hence, recent research on the evolution of postcolonial Englishes and the Americanization of Englishes worldwide has questioned the ...
Temitayo Olatoye
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LanguagesThis study reexamines Learner Englishes (LEs)–New Englishes (NEs) continuum by considering intervarietal variation, mode differences, and multiple linguistic levels.
Yating Tao, Gaëtanelle Gilquin
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Between the historical languages and the reconstructed language : an alternative approach to the Gerundive + “Dative of Agent” construction in Indo-European [PDF]
, 2017 It is argued by Hettrich (1990) that the “dative of agent” construction in the Indo-European languages most likely continues a construction inherited from Proto-Indo-European.
Barddal, Johanna +2 more
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Journal of Sociolinguistics, Volume 30, Issue 1, Page 56-69, February 2026.ABSTRACT This study examines how Taiwanese members of parliament (MPs) deploy self‐referring expressions—specifically, the formal first‐person singular běnxí—to negotiate their institutional standing and project political power. By operationalizing access to objective power using the margin of victory (MoV) as one possible proxy, the research shows ...
Tsung‐Lun Alan Wan
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Vouvoiement and tutoiement: sociolinguistic reflections [PDF]
, 2013 Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2009. Published version reproduced with the permission of the publisher.This article offers a critical review of research on the T/V (tu/vous) choice in French, and an analysis of this alternation in terms of ...
Coveney, Aidan
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Listening at different scales: Sociolinguistic perception and the listening subject
Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, Volume 35, Issue 3, December 2025.Abstract This commentary argues that sociophonetic perception studies and linguistic anthropological analyses of the listening subject examine the same underlying process—ideologically structured listening—though at different observational scales.
Anna‐Marie Sprenger
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Competing modal periphrases in Spanish between the 16th and the 18th centuries: A diachronic variationist approach [PDF]
, 2017 The history of Spanish modal constructions has been widely discussed in the literature, focusing primarily on the semantic differences between the available alternatives.
Albelda +43 more
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Predicative Possession in Ukrainian and Intra‐Slavonic Language Contact1
Transactions of the Philological Society, Volume 123, Issue 3, Page 428-459, November 2025.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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