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(Heritage) Russian Case Marking: Variation and Paths of Change

open access: yesLanguages
Russian’s six cases and multiple noun classes make case marking potentially challenging ground for heritage speakers. Indeed, morphological levelling, “probably the best-described feature of language loss”, has been substantiated.
Naomi Nagy, Julia Petrosov
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Diachronic socioterminology: variation and change in infantry military terms

open access: yesRaído, 2017
This paper presents a diachronic socioterminological study of the military terms step and march, contained in two handwritt en manuals of tactics for Portuguese infantry of the XVIII and XIX centuries.
Sandro Marcío Drumond Alves Marengo
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A PHONOLOGICAL ANALYSIS OF FLIGHT ANNOUNCERS’ PRONUNCIATION PATTERN AT THE MURTALA MUHAMMED AIRPORT, LAGOS [PDF]

open access: yes, 2006
Hearing an announcement made over the loud speaker in any Nigerian airport leaves most hearers with the impression that the announcer has an excellent command of English.
Ogbulogo, Charles   +1 more
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What is language for sociolinguists? The variationist, ethnographic, and conversation-analytic ontologies of language

open access: yesLinguistik Online, 2017
The present investigation explores the language definitions (i. e. the language ontologies) that have emerged in the field of sociolinguistics. In general, it examines three types of sociolin-guistic studies: Labovian sociolinguistics (Labov 1972), the Ethnography of Communication (Gumperz/Hymes 1964) and Conversation Analysis (Sacks 1992). Firstly, it
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Governor-driven subjunctive selection: a variationist study from Latin to Romance

open access: yesLinguistic Typology at the Crossroads
A key parameter to measure (dis)continuity between Romance languages and the ancestor language, Latin, is mood selection, especially the use of the subjunctive as opposed to the indicative according to syntactic environments and semantic meanings ...
Salvio Digesto
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Geography and language divergence: The case of Andic languages. [PDF]

open access: yesPLoS One, 2022
Koile E, Chechuro I, Moroz G, Daniel M.
europepmc   +1 more source

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