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Rhotacism and Lambdacism in Portuguese: The Process of Orthographic Standardization and Liquid Consonants
The purpose of this study is to promote a reflection on two phenomena that, in the contemporary Portuguese language, are the target of linguistic...
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Adpositions in Kurdish
Kurdish has pre-, circum- and, in some dialects, postpositions. Common traits and variation of adpositions in Kurdish are discussed using MDKD...
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Dialect Death: Gascon and Occitan
This chapter examines the processes of linguistic change active in Gascon as it is subjected to varying levels of standardisation as part of the...
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Methodological Considerations
This chapter focuses on methodology, presenting two studies which explicitly address the research questions presented in Chapter 1...
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Neapolitan, Regional and Standard Italian in the Linguistic Repertoire of Ukrainian Private Carers in Naples: Sociolinguistic Competence and Attitudes Towards a Complex Linguistic Context
This study investigates the linguistic repertoire of Ukrainian citizens settled in Naples, a city in which standard Italian, regional Italian and...
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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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Linguistic Feeling in Real Life and in Linguistics
Linguistic feeling or Sprachgefühl is a notion present both in everyday discourse and in linguistic-academic studies. After a survey of the use of...
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Creating Belonging in San Francisco Chinatown’s Diasporic Community Morphosyntactic Aspects of Indexing Ethnic Identity
This book presents a much-needed discussion on ethnic identification and morphosyntactic variation in San Francisco Chinatown—a community that has...
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Last but not least: a comparative perspective on right dislocation in Alasha Mongolian
The primary goal of this paper is to understand the information structure of right dislocation (RD). I report a variation in RD in Asian languages...
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Approaching Gender and Sexuality Issues from a Sociolinguist Corpus-Based Analysis: A Methodologic Challenge
Different researches in the field of sociolinguistics consider the gender/sex variant as a relevant aspect of social stratification. In this chapter,...
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Investigating Limits to Processing Variability in SOV Languages
Robust clause final verbal prediction and its maintenance have been argued as a processing variation in SOV languages vis-à-vis SVO languages. Such...
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A new corpus of geolocated ASR transcripts from Germany
This report describes the Corpus of German Speech (CoGS), a 56-million-word corpus of automatic speech recognition transcripts from YouTube channels...
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Signalling games, sociolinguistic variation and the construction of style
This paper develops a formal model of the subtle meaning differences that exist between grammatical alternatives in socially conditioned variation...
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Abusive Name-Calling: Representations Around the Term Genocida During the COVID Pandemic
This research aims to analyze how the term genocida, genocidist in Brazilian Portuguese, is used on Twitter by right-wing and left-wing users in the...
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In the thick of it: scope rivalry in past counterfactuals of Pomerano
This paper analyzes the morphosyntactic variation in past counterfactuals with modal verbs in Pomerano, a Low German variety spoken in Brazil. The...
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On Chierchia’s “Reference to Kinds Across Languages”
This chapter introduces the core aspects of the theory of variation proposed in Chierchia (Nat Lang Semant 6(4):339–405, 1998). Focusing primarily on...
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Semantic transparency and doublet formation: the case of Hebrew location nouns
This study examines the correlation between derivational paradigms and morphological variation and change. I will examine a case study of Hebrew...
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The Handbook of Berber Linguistics
This handbook is the largest and most comprehensive publication on Berber linguistics to date, covering the variety of Berber dialects and related...
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Comparing Honorificity Agreement in Maithili and Bangla
This paper aims (i) to explain honorificity as a syntactic feature and its licensing in the computational workspace; (ii) to account for...
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Textformen als Konkretion, Erweiterung und Variation
In der Lese- und Textverstehensforschung wird davon ausgegangen, dass Menschen, die Geschichten lesen, mentale Modelle vom fiktionalen Raum, von den...