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Showing 1 to 20 of 36 for “"historical linguistics"”.
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The Phonological Unity of Intervocalic Stop Weakening in Romance (Italian, Spanish, Historical Linguistics)
… been lost or have merged with the results of historical voicing. In the East, geminates remain, voiced stops are mostly maintained, but in Tuscan dialects, and in Tuscan-derived Standard Italian, the outcome of single surds is bifurcated (e.g. Lat. FOCU >/fwoko/ but LOCU >/lwogo/); this last …
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Baltic-Finns and Scandinavians : Comparative-Historical Linguistics and the Early History of the Nordic Region
… nineteenth century invention of comparative-historical linguistics affected European ethnohistoric thought, and how this process altered ethnohistorical research on the early, pre-Christian history of the Nordic region. The case study of the Nordic region (Denmark, Iceland, Norway, Sweden, …
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Automatic Methods for Sound Change Discovery
… history of languages has been a central topic in historical linguistics. In this thesis, we develop automatic methods to discover patterns of sound change in different settings of input and output conditions. More specifically, we focus on three challenging tasks: (1) automatic decipherment, (2) …
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Historical Linguistic Analysis of Traditional English Christmas Carols.
<p>Through the process of historical linguistics it is possible to determine approximate dates of authorship and meaning that establish the conventions of a particular genre. To accomplish such a study, elements of phonology, morphology, and syntax are compared and the results create a field of …
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The Kongolese Atlantic: Central African Slavery & Culture from Mayombe to Haiti
… place as a result of Atlantic trade. Next, I use historical linguistics to investigate the origins of captives sold on the Loango Coast. I find that the majority of captives came broadly from the Kongo zone, specifically from the Mayombe rainforest and Loango Coast kingdoms north of the River …
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Universal dependencies of old English. Automatic parsing with a computational model of language
This thesis falls within the fields of Historical Linguistics, Corpus Linguistics and Natural Language Processing. To be more precise, it deals with Old English morphology and syntax and aims at assessing the accuracy of an automated model of annotation of Old English that applies the framework of …
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The Lemmatisation of The York-Toronto-Helsinki Parsed Corpus of Old English Poetry with a Relational Database of Old English Dictionaries
… gap in the fields of Lexicography, corpus linguistics and Historical linguistics. To be more precise, this study aims to systematically group the attested spellings of the York-Helsinki Parsed Corpus of Old English Poetry (Pintzuk and Plug 2001) under a unified headword using the Interface …
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Post-Lapita developments in the Reef-Santa Cruz Islands, southeast Solomon Islands
… interpretation of history reconstructed from historical linguistics and human genetics.
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Dante’s Hapax Legomena in the Commedia: A Study of Poetic Singularity
… My thesis shifts the focus from the field of historical linguistics to that of lexical poetics, instead considering hapax as words Dante uses only once within the confines of his poem. Dantean hapax are often specifically tailored to their precise position in the poem. They are, as such, …
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A lexical and morphological analysis of the vernacularization of medical vocabulary in Augsburg from 1470–1500: the creation and application of the German Medical Incunabula Corpus
… introduces key prior research and the socio-historical background information necessary in preparation for various linguistic studies. It then explains the process of GeMedIC’s digital creation and the requirements for its compilation. Thereafter, the raw text corpus is applied to multiple …
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Pragmatic readings of the letters of Joan and Maria Thynne, 1575-1611 with diplomatic transcriptions of their correspondence
… archival research, close reading and socio-historical context with the methods and concepts from historical pragmatics. This cross-disciplinary and multi-dimensional approach is demonstrated to be a valuable way of providing more nuanced readings of the letters and of extracting their …
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A study of the historical and linguistic factors that shaped Modern Spanish
… systems are understood as the political, historical, societal, and individual elements at play, whereas the internal system refers to systematic linguistic changes. This perspective of the analysis is concerned with how exposure to other language communities, including those speaking …
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História de Portugal de Fernão de Oliveira: edição semidiplomática e análise da retórica nos topônimos de Portugal
… by philology, through textual criticism and historical linguistics, in order to preserve a material that will serve as documentary and literary testimony, in addition to enabling the observation of the states of certain languages in different past times (or different synchronies) and the …
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A Diachronic and Areal Perspective on Subordination in Syriac and North-Eastern Neo-Aramaic
This thesis provides a diachronic and areal perspective on subordination in Syriac and North-Eastern Neo-Aramaic (NENA), tracing its development from Late Antiquity to the present. The first two chapters outline the aim and scope of the thesis and also provide an introduction to the development of …
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The case for fewer cases in pre-chukotko-kamchatkan: Grammaticalization and semantics in internal reconstruction
<p>This work internally reconstructs the case system of Pre-Chukotko-Kamchatkan from the comparative reconstruction of Proto-Chukotko-Kamchatkan. Using the comparative and etymological dictionaries by Fortescue (2005), Mudrak (2000), and Zhukova & Kurebito (2004), I demonstrate that in many …
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Communicating Vision : a Linguistic Analysis of Leadership Speeches
… of an application of Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL), including Genre Theory, and an extension of SFL, Appraisal Theory, on four visionary speeches in the field of political discourse—Lincoln‘s Gettysburg Address, Churchill‘s ―We Shall Fight on the Beaches,‖ Kennedy‘s inaugural, and …
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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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Tense and Aspect in Old Japanese: Synchronic, Diachronic and Typological Perspectives
The objective of this thesis is to describe the synchronic system of tense and aspect in Old Japanese. Japanese grammarians studying the tense/aspect morphology of Old Japanese usually identify four suffixes (?(ye)ri, ?tari, ?tu, and ?nu) as kanry? ?perfect? markers and two suffixes (?ki and …
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Experiencing Color in the Indo-European World: A Literary and Linguistic Approach
This study investigates the language of color in the ancient Indo-European world. The first of three parts is a linguistic endeavor that traces the history of color terms in the Indo-European language family and reconstructs the color roots that existed at various stages throughout the …
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