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Showing 1 to 20 of 289 for “"Diachronic"”.
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Diachronic Choice in Ethics
… of choices over time. We will see that such diachronic choices give us a good testing ground for moral theories. In some cases, I will argue that the implications of a given theory in the diachronic setting give us good reasons to reject that theory. In other cases, reflection on the …
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Kiowa-Tanoan: A Synchronic and Diachronic Study
This dissertation provides a comparative-historical analysis and reconstruction of the phonological system and of the pronominal system of Proto-Kiowa-Tanoan, the theoretized ancestor of a family of seven languages located in the Pueblo Southwest and Great Plains. The modern constituent members of …
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TimeLink: Visualizing Diachronic Word Embeddings and Topics
… addresses these problems while also visualizing diachronic word embeddings in an interesting way with added semantic meaning is hard to find. These problems are managed through TimeLink. TimeLink is proposed as a dashboard system to help users gain insights from the movement of diachronic word …
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Lowland Maya lime plaster technology: a diachronic approach
Lime plasters are mixtures of burnt lime, aggregates and other materials that are employed in masonry architecture. Lime plasters were widely used by the ancient Maya in public monumental buildings and constitute important elements of ancient Maya material culture. This research analyses …
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A Diachronic Analysis of Western Armenian Verbal Morphology
… Western Armenian (WA) verbal morphology from a diachronic perspective and perform an internal reconstruction to trace the modern Western dialects back to Classical Armenian (CA) or an older, unattested variant of Armenian. The dissertation’s methodology (Chapter 1) is based on comparative …
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MODELING THE LEADERSHIP OF LANGUAGE CHANGE FROM DIACHRONIC TEXT
Natural languages constantly change over time. These changes are modulated by social factors such as influence which are not always directly observable. However, large-scale computational modeling of language change using timestamped text can uncover the latent organization and social structure. In …
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Consonant Insertions: A synchronic and diachronic account of Amfo'an
… processes can be accounted for synchronically, a diachronic account is also necessary in order to fully account for why /ʤ/, /l/ and /ɡw/ are regularly inserted in Amfo'an. This account demonstrates that although consonant insertion in Amfo'an is an unusual synchronic process, it is a result of …
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Consonant Insertions: A synchronic and diachronic account of Amfo'an
… processes can be accounted for synchronically, a diachronic account is also necessary in order to fully account for why /ʤ/, /l/ and /ɡw/ are regularly inserted in Amfo'an. This account demonstrates that although consonant insertion in Amfo'an is an unusual synchronic process, it is a result of …
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The Synchronic and Diachronic Syntax of the English Verb-Particle Combination
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Tense and Aspect in Old Japanese: Synchronic, Diachronic and Typological Perspectives
… the results with the Old Japanese data. The diachronic change from Old Japanese to Early Modern Japanese provides further support for my synchronic analysis of Old Japanese.
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A diachronic analysis of porotic hyperostosis in prehistoric populations of northern Chile
A macroscopic analysis of 604 skeletal remains was undertaken at the Museo Arqueologico de San Miguel de Azapa (MASMA) in order to ascertain the rates of porotic hyperostosis in the prehistoric populations of northern Chile. Porotic hyperostosis has been recognized as being a useful indicator of …
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Cultural conceptualisations relating to DEATH in Irish English from a diachronic perspective
… perspective and puts a special focus on the diachronic development of these conceptualisations. For the study, a corpus consisting of 1,400 death notices from the Dublin-based national newspaper The Irish Times from 14 historical periods between 1859 and 2023 was compiled, resulting in a …
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A study of Cappadocian Greek nominal morphology from a diachronic and dialectological perspective
… of noun inflection. My aim is to provide a diachronic account of the innovations that Cappadocian has undergone in the three domains mentioned above. Αll the innovations examined in this study have the effect of rendering the morphology and syntax of nouns in Cappadocian more like that of …
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"Hey, y'guys!": A diachronic usage-based approach to changes in American English address
<p>This dissertation adopts a functional, usage-based perspective on language to highlight key changes in American English address over the past century, especially the development of 'you guys' and its expansion across second-person plural contexts. Based on data from the Corpus of Historical …
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A comparative, diachronic study of television dubbing in Galicia and Catalonia (1983-2007)
This thesis is a comparative, diachronic analysis of dubbing for television in Galicia and Catalonia from the mid-1980s to 2007. Drawing on approaches in comparative translation studies, this thesis aims to analyse, compare and triangulate different forms of historical macro-, meso- and micro-level …
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A study of Cappadocian Greek nominal morphology from a diachronic and dialectological perspective
… of noun inflection. My aim is to provide a diachronic account of the innovations that Cappadocian has undergone in the three domains mentioned above. !ll the innovations examined in this study have the effect of rendering the morphology and syntax of nouns in Cappadocian more like that of …
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Exploring diachronic changes in activity, diet and health on the prehistoric Baltic coast
Beginning around 10,000 years ago, humans gradually shifted away from hunting-and-gathering lifestyles to more sedentary and agricultural lifestyles, which determined a change in their food-sourcing methods. Although the biological effects to changing subsistence patterns are generally …
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Immediate and extended intersubjectivity : synchronic and diachronic interplay among evidentiality, factuality and other domains
… 4-5). In order to empirically justify the diachronic continuum between the two, I provide synchronic and diachronic data from a number of qualitative and quantitative corpus surveys on the immediate and extended intersubjectification of some constructions and in particular the …
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