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Showing 1 to 20 of 75 for “"language change"”.
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Language change and evolution in Online Social Networks
Language is in constant flux, whether through the creation of new terms or the changing meanings of existing words. The process by which language change happens is through complex reinforcing interactions between individuals and the social structures in which they exist. There has been much …
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Septuagint Lexicography and Language Change in Greek Judges
… over the nature of post-classical Greek and the language of the Septuagint, which has predisposed scholars against viewing the Septuagint corpus as part of post-classical Greek in general. By pointing out methodological flaws that have plagued Septuagint lexicography—as well as theoretical …
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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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Language Change and Infinitival Complements in Old French (Syntax, Historical, Romance)
This study presents an analysis of infinitival complement constructions in Old French which differ syntactically from their Modern French parallels. The analysis is formulated in the terms of the Government and Binding framework and it has the aim both of accounting for the constructions in …
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Language Change in Spanish Heritage Speakers: the Interaction Between Lexical and Grammatical Aspect
… 2007). When societal factors limit heritage language exposure, tense and aspect morphology is susceptible to change (Guijarro-Fuentes & Clibbens 2004). Findings of a study on 11 Chilean-American heritage speakers show that production of the preterit is overextending, resulting in less …
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Language Change in Spanish Heritage Speakers: the Interaction Between Lexical and Grammatical Aspect
… 2007). When societal factors limit heritage language exposure, tense and aspect morphology is susceptible to change (Guijarro-Fuentes & Clibbens 2004). Findings of a study on 11 Chilean-American heritage speakers show that production of the preterit is overextending, resulting in less …
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Kombuistaal innie Kaap1: Investigating Gender and Language Change in the development of Kaaps
… point of departure the term kombuistaal (kitchen language), the forerunner of Kaaps, a stigmatised variety of Afrikaans. It aims to answer the following supplementary questions: 1) What possible role did women who occupied spaces historically associated with the Cape slave kitchen of the …
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The recategorization of "chaos": a case study of language change and theory change
… investigates the relationship between semantic change and theory change in science. The study focuses on thirty years of developments in chaos theory. Because of measurement problems associated with certain nonlinear phenomena, the observability of chaotic systems is severely limited. In such …
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Towards an empirical approach to the study of dubbing-induced language change in Italian
… to researching translation interference and language change through dubbing and it takes the Italian language as a case study. By employing an empirical methodology, this research overcomes some of the limitations of previous approaches to the subject and identifies the object of study with …
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A psycholinguistic approach toward an instance of a language change: The case of -esh in Persian
In the spoken dialect of Tehrani in Persian, a new marker -esh optionally attaches to 3SG past verbs indexing the subject. While there is a claim that this marker has been borrowed from the Persian object clitic paradigm and grammaticalized as a new subject agreement marker to fill the gap in the …
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From Translation to Transformation: Contact-Induced Language change in Greek via Neural Machine Translation from English
Η παρούσα διπλωματική εργασία εξετάζει τη γλωσσική σύγκλιση στον ελληνικό θεσμικό λόγο που παράγεται μέσω ανθρώπινης αλλά και νευρωνικής μηχανικής μετάφρασης από αγγλικά κείμενα-πηγές. Με βάση τη θεωρία της γλωσσικής επαφής, η μελέτη προσεγγίζει τη νευρωνική μηχανική μετάφραση ως πεδίο σύγχρονης …
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Language Planning in Bosnia and Herzegovina: Analysis of the Role of Translators as Agents in Language Change
Language planning and policy (LPP) in Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) has been constructed on the basis of a standard language ideology that has often excluded the speakers from the language legitimisation process. The LPP efforts for the Bosnian language have led to conflicting covert and overt …
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A historical and sociolinguistic approach to language change in Mandarin Chinese: Corpus evidence for the development of YOU-MEI-YOU
This dissertation introduces corpus-based analyses of a syntactic construction in Standard Mandarin, YOU-MEI-YOU (or ‘have-not-have’)+VP, which is used to form perfective questions. The purpose of the study is to (i) find evidence for the claim that preverbal YOU-MEI-YOU, i.e. YOU-MEI-YOU found in …
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Die taalgebruik van die Buyse van Mara
… the question of how the contact with different language groups, as set out in the first chapter, could have led to language change. Inthe third chapter, the language change that has taken place as a result of contact with other language groups, is discussed. In the fourth chapter, linguistic …
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The difference between rural and urban Xhosa varieties: A sociolinguistic study
… two interrelated issues, namely, 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 …
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Fighting the tightrope: language ideologies, balancing acts, and figures of elusive modernity in South Korea
… in Korea, and how invoking the framework of language ideologies allows for a more complete analysis of language change. To this end, I explore the interconnectivity of neoliberalism, displays of consumption, and language change with a focus on gender. By tracing the uptake of a particular …
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The emergence of the Romance languages from Latin: A case for creolization effects.
… played a role in the emergence of the Romance language from Latin. Creolization and normal language change differ in terms of their respective effects upon inflectional morphology: normal language change yields morphological loss and morphological creation through grammaticization. Creolization …
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Operations improvements through non=value-added step reduction
… the challenges of cross-cultural and second-language change management.
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Solidarity and power in German : language as political action : a contribution to the socio-cultural history of the German language
… the links between the development of the German language and the political history of Germany, principally in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. By examining the role of language in the establishment and exercise of political power and in the creation of national and group solidarity in …
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