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Variation in South Asian Languages From Macro to Micro-Differences
The book addresses some raging questions in linguistics today: What kind of variation do typologically related languages display? Do we expect to...
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Diatopic Variation in Kabyle Berber
The range of studies on diatopic variation in Berber that are not simply descriptive – of the comparative type, with the aim of carrying out a...
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Introducing Language Variation
The current volume brings together various aspects of language variation in South Asia, viewed from different theoretical lenses.
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On Gender Micro-Variation
This paper looks at dialect variation in Hindi ‘dialects’ Awadhi and Bhojpuri. Depending on the theory one adopts, small, micro-level differences...
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Analyzing Stylistic Variation Across Different Political Regimes
In this article we propose a stylistic analysis of texts written across two different periods, which differ not only temporally, but politically and...
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Sprachliche Variation und Variabilität
Im Mittelpunkt dieses Kapitel steht das für die Soziolinguistik zentrale Konzept der sprachlichen Variation. Es wird diskutiert, inwiefern Sprachen...
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Structural and Typological Variation in the Dialects of Kurdish
This book offers the first comparative discussion of variation in selected areas of structure in the dialects of Kurdish. The contributions draw on...
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Cross-linguistic Variation
In this chapter, we implement our analysis of subjunctive as the reflex of an emotive feature in the different languages of our study. We first focus...
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Phonological Variation in Kurdish
Kurdish is often portrayed as a linguistic unity, but an examination of phonological structures in the language reveals substantial internal...
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Variation and Change in Dialects of Marathi: A Social-Dialectological Approach
This paper provides a social-dialectological slant on variation and change in language. The particular analytical framework used here brings together...
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Lexical Variation and Semantic Change in Kurdish
The chapter examines variation in Kurdish among lexical forms for specific concepts in different regions. The findings can be summarized as follows:...
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Interaktionale Soziolinguistik: Sprachliche Variation als soziale Praxis
In diesem Kapitel wird eine maßgeblich von John Joseph Gumperz (1922–2013) entwickelte Variante der Soziolinguistik vorgestellt, die sprachliche...
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Pronominal Variation in Spoken Portuguese in “Rurban” Communities: Reflections on Evaluation, Prestige, and Stigma
Social evaluation of linguistic forms is determinant of the fate of these forms in the linguistic scenario of a community. In this chapter we aim to...
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Word-order variation and coherence in German infinitival complementation
This study provides a synthesis of corpus-based and experimental investigations of word-order preferences in German infinitival complementation. We...
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Towards an Understanding of Micro-variations: Decoding the Hierarchical Module of Variation and the Correlates of Mappila Malayalam
Language variation always indicates a social meaning attached to it, and this indexical process eventually contributes to the progression of...
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Ukrainian and Russian in the lexicon of Ukrainian Suržyk: reduced variation and stabilisation in central Ukraine and on the Black Sea coast
The subject of this study is the so-called “Surzhyk”, a mixed Ukrainian-Russian variety used by millions of people in Ukraine, sometimes alongside...
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Allophonic Variation in English
This chapter builds awareness of coordinated articulatory habits and their acoustic realizations when vowels and consonants are combined into simple...
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Predicting variation in word decoding development in deaf and hard-of-hearing children
Background: Deaf and hard-of-hearing (DHH) children may experience difficulties in word decoding development. Aims: We aimed to compare and predict...
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Investigating (Rhythm) Variation in Indian English: An Integrated Approach
We consider heterogeneity versus homogeneity in a range of temporal and f0-related measures associated with prominence marking and the percept of...
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What is the Magnitude of Variation?
This chapter continues to pursue the objective of exposing the insights that emerge from specific theoretical perspectives. The route that the...