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Morphological autonomy and the long-term vitality of morphomes: stem-final consonant loss in Romance verbs and paradigmatic analogy
Morphologists of different backgrounds disagree with respect to the degree of autonomy of the morphological component of language from syntax and...
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Research Context: Southern Gallo-Romance
This chapter comprises an external history of the dialectalisation of Gallo-Romance, focusing on Gascon and, in particular, on the Béarnais...
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The Interaction of Morphosyntax and Semantics in Romance Object Mass Nouns
Object mass nouns (OMNs) such as furniture or clothing are syntactically mass nouns, however, on a semantic level, they refer to individual entities....
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Long-Distance Metathesis of Liquids in Romance: A Property Theory Analysis of Diachronic Change
Several Romance languages exhibit historical long-distance metathesis of liquids (LDM) from a non-initial consonant-liquid configuration (CR) toward...
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“A Fairy Realm of Romance”: Revising the Pastoral in Lucy Maud Montgomery’s Rainbow Valley and Rilla of Ingleside
Although widely recognized for the idyllic depictions of nature in her fiction, L.M. Montgomery’s portrayal of the non-human world is more ambivalent...
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Documenting Corfioto: Evidence for Contact-Induced Grammaticalization in the Romance Variety of the Jewish Community of Corfu
Corfioto (also referred to as ‘Corfiot Italian’, ‘Corfiot Italkian’, ‘Judeo-Italian of Corfu’, ‘Italián Corfióto’) is a critically endangered Romance...
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‘Doing expertise’: linguistic standardization in early modern Romance expert cultures
For more than thirty years, there has been an increasing interest in “alternative language histories” (Elspaß 2021: 94). Rather than concentrating on...
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Humour and the “Mooreeffoc Effect”: Inversion and Subversion in Charles Dickens’ Holiday Romance
In an essay on fairy stories, J.R.R. Tolkien refers to Mooreefoc, as used by G.K. Chesterton to denote the queerness of things suddenly seen from a...
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Visible verbal morphology: Morpheme constancy in Germanic and Romance verbal inflection
In different spelling systems, different grades of morpheme constancy can be found: German has a high degree of morpheme constancy (especially stem...
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Ghanaian Immigrants and the Twofold Potential of Italo-Romance Dialects
In present-day Italy, there are huge differences in the way immigrants adapt to the Italo-Romance varieties spoken in the receiving communities....
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Language Contact
English has been in contact with many different languages, which have left various traces. In this chapter, we look at four of these language contact...
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La separación de los esposos vista por la mujer en la literatura caballeresca germánica y romance de la Edad Media: un análisis comparado
Marriage and the relationship between husband and wife in medieval literature have often been analyzed from many different points of view. However,...
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Explaining Language Change
In this chapter, we address two big questions in historical linguistics: How does language change start, and how does it spread through the...
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Theorising Language and Dialect Death
This chapter provides a detailed account of the various factors (internal, external, extralinguistic) that condition language variation and change,...
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Results: Intercultural Competence and Gender-Neutral Language
In this chapter, I address research questions 8a, 8b and 8c from the survey given to language teachers; these questions focus on gender-neutral...
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Language as a Bridge to Other Disciplines
The Cultures and Language Across the Curriculum (CLAC) program at Duke University positions language use throughout the university by offering...
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Daco-Romanian Language: An Indo-European Branch
Following the Greek influence in the region, the Roman conquest of the Balkan Peninsula resulted in a gradual Romanization of the local population....
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Using Literature in the Language Classroom
Whereas Chapter 3 aimed to extend the literary repertoire, this section focuses on using literature in the language classroom. Here we deal first...
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VeLeRo: an inflected verbal lexicon of standard Romanian and a quantitative analysis of morphological predictability
This paper presents VeLeRo, an inflected lexicon of Standard Romanian which contains the full paradigm of 7297 verbs in phonological form. We explain...
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Misunderstanding, Misperception and Mistakes: The Logic of the Grail in Old French Arthurian Romance and Thomas Malory’s Tale of the Sankgreal
This article seeks to resituate critical discussions about logic in the Old French Grail romances and Thomas Malory’s Tale of the Sankgreal . Where...