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Hacia un nuevo paradigma etimológico vasco: forma canónica, filología y reconstrucción

Anuario del Seminario de Filología Vasca "Julio de Urquijo", 2003
In this paper, we show the direct relation between reconstruction and etymology and between linguistic theory and philology, as well as the need to overcome atomistic approaches which are based on anecdote or which are not backed up by any theoretical ...
Joseba Andoni Lakarra
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Aspects of the Linguistic Culture of the Ural Mari People in XIXth-XXIst Centuries [PDF]

, 2018
This article adopts a linguoculturological approach to analyze the transformation of the Ural Mari culture between the XVIIIth and the XXIst centuries as an interconnection between language, mentality, and cultural identity.Ural Fed Univ, Ural Inst ...
Berezina, A. V., Kerezsi, A.
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The [ADJ + as] intensifier construction in Māori English/Aotearoa English

World Englishes, EarlyView.
Abstract We introduce the Waikato Māori English Conversation (MEC) corpus, which consists of 43 dyadic conversations between 49 young adults who self‐recorded informal conversations with close friends, in their own homes, with no topic of conversation specified (83 hours of dialogue; nearly 800,000 words).
Andreea S. Calude, Hēmi Whaanga
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Ideophonic verb compounds in Archi

Linguistic Typology at the Crossroads
Archi is a one-village language (1,000 speakers) belonging to the Lezgic branch of East Caucasian. It has a large and productive class of compound verbs combining a light verb and ‘coverbs’ of nominal, adjectival, verbal or unknown origin.
Gilles Authier
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Three Disputed Vermigli Tracts [PDF]

, 1978
This article attempts two tasks: it will show that Peter Martyr Vermigli wrote three tracts whose authorship has been disputed for over a century, and it will suggest how these tracts fit into his life and the life of the Swiss Reformed ...
Donnelly, John
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The McKinleys of Punch: Politics and the Press in Melbourne, 1870s to 1920s

Australian Journal of Politics &History, Volume 72, Issue 1, Page 35-68, March 2026.
This article re‐examines the Melbourne Punch (1855–1925; known simply as Punch from 1900) as a political weapon in the cut‐and‐thrust of Victorian, local, and national politics, in the hands of its longest‐serving, but least‐known proprietor, Alexander McKinley (1848–1927).
Richard Scully
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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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Making fun of the standard tongue: Enregisterment, social difference, and Kurdish language humor

Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, Volume 35, Issue 3, December 2025.
Abstract This article analyzes how humor around contrasts between standard and non‐standard Northern, i.e., Kurmanji, Kurdish spoken in Turkey contributes to the enregisterment of standard Kurdish, arguing that Kurdish language jokes promote the recognition and, to different degrees, uptake of standardized linguistic repertoires among differently ...
Patrick C. Lewis
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The origin of the Japanese and Korean accent systems [PDF]

, 2010
S.R. Ramsey writes (1979: 162): "The patterning of tone marks in Old Kyoto texts divides the vocabulary into virtually the same classes as those arrived at by comparing the accent distinctions found in the modern dialects.
Kortlandt, Frederik H. H.
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The ideological positioning of heritage language learners: A critical discourse analysis of world language teacher preparation textbooks

The Modern Language Journal, Volume 109, Issue 4, Page 800-820, Winter 2025.
Abstract In recent years, critical applied linguists have increasingly prioritized uncovering and reckoning with language ideologies in language teaching and learning. Additionally, US‐based studies have documented various language ideologies in heritage and nonheritage language textbooks and departments.
Katharine E. Burns, Tracy Quan
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