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Showing 1 to 20 of 41 for “"Linguistic Variation"”.
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Temporal interpretation and cross-linguistic variation
… shifter (which is covert in Medumba). Cross-linguistic variation in whether or not a future marker is compatible with non-future interpretation is proposed to be predictable from the aspectual architecture of the given language.
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Computational measures of linguistic variation: a study of Arabic varieties
… discusses a new methodology for measuring the variation between linguistic varieties. I compare five Arabic varieties – Modern Standard Arabic MSA, Gulf Arabic GA, Levantine Arabic LA, Egyptian Arabic EA, and Moroccan Arabic MA – considering both lexical and pronunciation variation. I introduce …
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Studies in the Linguistic Variation of Classical Attic and the Attic Orators
… previously unexplored cases of morphosyntactic variation (the distribution of the two perfect stems of γίγνομαι; the dual; expressions of possession; the aorists ἤνεγκα/ἤνεγκον; complementiser selection in purpose clauses; complementiser usage with λέγω) in Attic from fifth to the fourth …
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Linguistic Variation and Change in the Dialect of Ha’il, Saudi Arabia: Feminine Suffixes.
This study investigates sociolinguistic variation and change in the dialect of Ha’il city, a dialect that belongs to the Najdi type of dialects, especially Northern Najdi. Two traditional linguistic features of Ha’ili Arabic (HA) are examined: the realisation of the feminine ending (ah) and …
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Linguistic Variation in MS 1751 Judaeo-Arabic Medical Manuscript of the Matenadaran Collection
The thesis provides a comprehensive study of the linguistic features within the MS 1751 Judaeo-Arabic medical manuscript from the Matenadaran Collection, contextualized by comparing it to its Judaeo-Arabic, Arabic, and Garshuni variants. Detailed analyses underscore the linguistic complexity and …
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Linguistic variation in Egyptian Judaeo-Arabic folk tales and letters from the Ottoman period
… with the aim of establishing the degree to which variation exists between two genres of written Judaeo-Arabic, and how it manifests itself. Within Judaeo-Arabic textual studies, the dominant trend is to examine a single genre of this written form of Arabic from one or more chronological period in …
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Speech Rate, Pause, and Linguistic Variation: an Examination through the Sociolinguistic Archive and Analysis Project
… a central role in the diverse subdisciplines of linguistics. The reliance on speech recordings is especially profound in sociolinguistics, where scholars have developed a range of techniques for eliciting and analyzing natural talk. Despite the focus on naturalistic speech data, sociolinguists …
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Cross-generational linguistic variation in the Canberra Vietnamese heritage language community: A corpus-centred investigation
This dissertation investigates cross-generational linguistic differences in the Canberra Vietnamese bilingual community, with a particular focus on Vietnamese as the heritage language. Specifically, it documents the vernacular and considers key aspects of this data from different theoretical …
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Edges and linearization
… constructions in Vietnamese and (iii) cross-linguistic variation in head ordering patterns.
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The morphosemantics and morphosyntax of the Malayalam verb
… are broadly questions regarding the nature cross-linguistic variation and why languages differ from one another in these particular ways. This thesis focuses on four known points of cross-linguistic variation in the verbal domain: tense, aspect, finiteness and the perfect. It uses data primarily …
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La variación lingüística: Propuesta de delimitación de variantes en el nivel léxico
The concept of linguistic variation, clearly related to the traditional concepts of synonymy and polysemy, has been one of the most interesting ones for linguistics recently. We believe, according to the revision we have carried out through lexicography and linguistics history, which had not been …
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A variação entre formas de futuro do pretérito e de pretérito imperfeito no português informal no Rio de Janeiro
This dissertation deals with the variation among tenses of the conditional and the past-imperfect indicative - considering both their inflected and periphrastic forms with the auxiliary verb 'ir' ['to go'] - in the expression of the irrealis mode, in the informal Portuguese which is spoken …
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The difference between rural and urban Xhosa varieties: A sociolinguistic study
… the concept of language variety, also called linguistic diversity or linguistic variation and the difference between rural and urban Xhosa varieties in terms of standard and non-standard forms, respectively. The thesis is conceived partly against the background of the pioneer work of Labov …
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A variação de tempo-modo e conexão nas orações condicionais em português
Investigates the variation in tense-mood forms of hypothetical conditional clauses of Portuguese spoken in Rio de Janeiro and in the way these clauses are connected in actual discourse. Four variables are examined: future subjunctive, present indicative, gerund and juxtaposition. It starts with the …
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Regional Dialect Levelling and Language Standards: Changes in the Hønefoss Dialect
This is a sociolinguistic investigation of regional dialect levelling and the role that standardised language plays for this particular type of dialect change. This study combines a quantitative variationist investigation of linguistic variation and change in East Norwegian cities Hønefoss and Oslo …
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In search for totemic foods: Exploring discursive foodscapes online in Finnish, English and French
… contextual changes are highly significant. This variation generates discursively interesting constellations where stylistic categories reflect areas of culinary and discursive competence. Cross-linguistic variation is detected with all research questions, introducing a pioneer-type endeavor in …
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Phonetic variation, sound change, and identity in Scottish Gaelic
This thesis examines language variation and change in a context of minority language revitali- sation. In particular, I concentrate on young fluent speakers of Scottish Gaelic, a minority language of Scotland that is currently undergoing revitalisation. Data from three groups of speakers are …
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Standard Language Ideology and World Englishes: A Multiple Narrative Case Study of Immigrant Educators’ Experiences in Canada
… varieties. Further, Bourdieu’s notions of linguistic capital - wherein language is understood as capital mediated by social and power relations - facilitate this inquiry into language as a site-of-struggle, its effects, as well as resilience and agency. This study culls from data collected …
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The Person Case Constraint: Unconditional Interfaces and Faultless Derivations
… module. However, some recent research in linguistics has attempted to move away from such an approach to ungrammaticality and proposed to reinterpret ungrammaticality as non-generability. In this approach, ill-formed structures are construed not as defective but as impossible to generate …
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L'insécurité linguistique chez les élèves d'immersion française en Saskatchewan
… attempts to provide a better understanding of linguistic insecurity among French immersion students in Saskatchewan while drawing on the perspectives of students and teachers; perspectives such as these are not clearly reflected in most studies on linguistic insecurity among French immersion …
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