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Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"diachrony"”.
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Cycles of agreement: Romance clitics in diachrony
In this dissertation I investigate two linguistic cycles in Romance per van Gelderen’s (2011) framework: the Subject Agreement Cycle (SAC) and the Object Agreement Cycle (OAC). These grammaticalization cycles turn pronouns into agreement morphology on the verb. Both cycles are comprised of three …
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Indo-European reduplication : synchrony, diachrony, and theory
The reduplicative systems of the ancient Indo-European languages are characterized by an unusual alternation in the shape of the reduplicant. The related languages Ancient Greek, Gothic, and Sanskrit share the property that root-initial consonant clusters exhibit different reduplicant shapes, …
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When Synchrony Meets Diachrony: (Alveolo)Palatal Sound Patterns in Spanish and other Romance Languages
… assumed boundaries between synchrony and diachrony become hazy, once a comprehensive and evolutionary account takes into consideration both historical and current dialectal data. By looking at sound change from the perspective of speaker-listener interaction, different evolutionary …
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Developing a framework for researching ethnicity and multiculturalism in New Zealand
… in modernity. Through an orientation to time and diachrony, the research considers if a liberal policy of multiculturalism is conducive for contemporary New Zealand society. In view of academic debates suggesting that a ‘practical’ version of multiculturalism exists alongside the country’s …
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Eolian morphosyntax: A comparative Romance perspective
… range of Romance varieties, and an attention to diachrony, are fundamental for an understanding of the greater empirical and theoretical significance of Eolian, which in several cases yields data otherwise undocumented in the literature, along with novel insights applicable to other varieties. …
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Conceptualizing Variation in Greek Exodus and Postclassical Greek
… frames Jewish translation practice within Greek diachrony and the broader realities of bilingual cognitive processing. Often, linguistic research on the Greek of the Pentateuch has focused on isolated lexemes, resulting in an overemphasis on a ‘literal’ translation process representative of …
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Tongue Root Harmony And Vowel Contrast In Northeast Asian Languages
This dissertation investigates the synchrony and diachrony of the vocalism of a variety of Northeast Asian languages, especially Korean, Mongolic, and Tungusic languages, which have traditionally been described as having developed from a palatal system. The dissertation rewrites the vocalic history …
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The Dialect of Hellenistic Inscribed Epigrams from Doric-Speaking Areas
… I further offer a new understanding of the diachrony of the epigrammatic genre by comparing the results with the literary epigrams composed by Damagetus and Posidippus, and therefore by considering the interaction between the inscribed and literary production. I conclude with a brief …
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Critical Programming: Toward a Philosophy of Computing
… of these approaches the procedural rhetoric of diachrony in synchrony, recognizing that multiple explanatory layers operating in their individual temporal and physical orders of magnitude simultaneously undergird post-postmodern network phenomena. Its touchstone is that the human-machine …
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Reflexes of Finiteness in Romance
… between finiteness and clause size. Second, the diachrony of these irrealis complementisers is analysed as well; they all result from a process of downwards (re)grammaticalisation, whereby grammatical elements originating in the C-domain come to occupy the lowest position of the CP, and, in the …
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The Collective Moment: Reading Time in the Greek Anthology
… anthology’s endeavour to replicate the natural diachrony of earlier anthologies using only newly-composed poetry. His work, set at once in an ancient pre-Christian past and in a late-antique Christian present, sees epigrammatists wrestle with alienation from a past which they seek to repeat, …
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Parataxe et subordination en ancien français
Parataxe et subordination, ces deux termes, parfois antithétiques, sont problématiques du fait même de leur extrême polysémie. C’est de cette ambiguïté que naît l’objet d’étude, les constructions asyndétiques, au statut incertain entre intégration et indépendance. Dans cette thèse, nous proposons …
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Cenozoic deep-water agglutinated foraminifera in the North Atlantic
… in the North Atlantic exhibits a pattern of diachrony with latitude and depth. Extinctions occurred first at abyssal depths and at low latitudes. Agglutinated assemblages disappeared from the northern Atlantic region in the early Oligocene. However, the deep Norwegian-Greenland Sea served as …
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On the Development of Differential Object Marking in Romance
… of N- movement in Romance in synchrony and diachrony within the DP is responsible for significant diatopic and diachronic variation in the availability of DOM in relation to salient Ds vs. salient DPs (cf. Longobardi 1994; Ledgeway 2015). In other words, I propose that the D vs. DP split …