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Huebner, Thom – LEARN Journal: Language Education and Acquisition Research Network, 2019
Despite a century-old narrative as a monolingual country with quaint regional dialects, Thailand is in fact a country of vast linguistic diversity, where a population of approximately 60 million speak more than 70 languages representing five distinct language families (Luangthongkum, 2007; Premsrirat, 2011; Smalley, 1994), the result of a history…
Descriptors: Language Planning, Bilingual Education, Case Studies, Comparative Analysis
Haynie, Hannah Jane – ProQuest LLC, 2012
This dissertation uses quantitative and geographic analysis techniques to examine the historical and geographical processes that have shaped California's linguistic diversity. Many questions in California historical linguistics have received diminishing attention in recent years, remaining unanswered despite their continued relevance. The studies…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Language Research, Diachronic Linguistics, Dialects
Henry, Jeannette – Weewish Tree: A Magazine of Indian America for Young People, 1972
Descriptors: American Indian Languages, Diachronic Linguistics, Dialects, Language Classification
Pohl, J. – Revue des Langues Vivantes, 1971
Descriptors: Contrastive Linguistics, Diachronic Linguistics, Dialects, Etymology
NAYLOR, KENNETH E. – 1966
THE CAKAVIAN GROUP OF SERBO-CROATIAN DIALECTS CAN BE RECLASSIFIED USING SYNCHRONIC CRITERIA RATHER THAN TRADITIONALLY USED DIACHRONIC CRITERIA. THE APPROACH IS TYPOLOGICAL RATHER THAN GENETIC AND COMPARES THE NOMINAL MORPHOLOGICAL AND MORPHOPHONEMIC SYSTEMS OF SEVEN DIALECTS SELECTED TO PROVIDE A GEOGRAPHICAL SAMPLING OF THE CAKAVIAN GROUP.…
Descriptors: Descriptive Linguistics, Diachronic Linguistics, Dialects, Language Classification
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Hsieh, Hsin-I – Journal of Chinese Linguistics, 1973
Revised version of a paper presented at the 1970 summer meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, Columbus, Ohio. Research leading to the paper supported in part by a National Science Foundation grant to the Phonology Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley. (VM)
Descriptors: Chinese, Contrastive Linguistics, Diachronic Linguistics, Dialects
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Li, Fang-Kuei – Journal of Chinese Linguistics, 1973
Condensed, slightly revised version of an article which appeared in the Chinese Year Book, Shanghai, in 1937. (VM)
Descriptors: Chinese, Diachronic Linguistics, Dialects, Language Classification
RAUN, ALO; SAARESTE, ANDRUS – 1965
THIS TEXT COMPRISES A SURVEY OF THE ESTONIAN LANGUAGE, WHICH IS GROUPED HERE WITH LIVONIAN, VOTIC, AND A PART OF WESTERN FINNISH, TO FORM THE SOUTHWESTERN BRANCH OF THE FINNIC (OR BALTO-FINNIC) LANGUAGES. THE AUTHORS' CLASSIFICATIONS AND A HISTORY OF THE STUDIES WHICH HAVE BEEN CARRIED OUT IN ESTONIAN ARE PRESENTED, FOLLOWED BY A PRESENTATION OF…
Descriptors: Bibliographies, Descriptive Linguistics, Diachronic Linguistics, Dialect Studies
STIMSON, HUGH – 1966
MUTUAL INTELLIGIBILITY, WHICH SEEMS TO HAVE BEEN THE INITIAL BASIS FOR CHINESE DIALECT CLASSIFICATION, ALONG WITH GEOGRAPHIC PROXIMITY HAS PROVIDED A FAIRLY REALISTIC GROUPING OF THE MANDARIN DIALECTS. IT NOW SEEMS DESIRABLE TO WORK OUT A FORMAL DEFINITION IN PRECISE LINGUISTIC TERMS OF WHAT CONSTITUTES A MANDARIN DIALECT AND TO DISCOVER WHETHER…
Descriptors: Chinese, Contrastive Linguistics, Descriptive Linguistics, Diachronic Linguistics
Hulbert, James Root – 1968
An account of the dictionaries, great and small, of the English-speaking world is given in this book. Subjects covered include the origin of English dictionaries, early dictionaries, Noah Webster and his successors to the present, abridged dictionaries, "The Oxford English Dictionary" and later dictionaries patterned after it, the…
Descriptors: Definitions, Diachronic Linguistics, Dialects, Dictionaries
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Rivero, Maria-Luisa – Journal of Linguistics, 1986
Discusses and compares the syntactic features of free relative clauses found in Castilian and Aragonese dialects of Old Spanish. The role of clitics (nontonic pronominals) and the lexical innovations of the wh-question compound-type clauses are highlighted. (TR)
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Diachronic Linguistics, Dialects, Grammar
SAPIR, EDWARD – 1921
THIS BOOK, FIRST PUBLISHED IN 1921, IS INTENDED AS A BASIC INTRODUCTION TO LINGUISTIC SCIENCE, ESPECIALLY FOR THE LAYMAN. THE INTRODUCTORY CHAPTER DEFINES LANGUAGE AS A CULTURAL FUNCTION AND AS THE POSSIBLE BASIS OF ALL THOUGHT. THE ELEMENTS OF LANGUAGE ARE TREATED IN SECTIONS ON PHONETICS, WORDS, GRAMMATICAL CONCEPTS, AND GRAMMATICAL PROCESSES.…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Cultural Influences, Culture Contact, Descriptive Linguistics
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Jha, Shailhanand – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 1994
Offers a sociolinguistic appraisal of the representation of languages (as "languages" or "dialects") in the Indian census, with special reference to the status of Maithili. Classifying Maithili as an independent language threatens the homogeneity of the "Hindi belt"; conversely, treating it as a Hindi dialect might…
Descriptors: Cultural Differences, Diachronic Linguistics, Dialect Studies, Dialects
POPPE, NICHOLAS – 1965
THIS TEXT IS DESIGNED AS A MANUAL FOR UNIVERSITY STUDENTS TO PROVIDE GENERAL INFORMATION ON ALTAIC LINGUISTICS, AS WELL AS BIBLIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION OTHERWISE DIFFICULT TO OBTAIN IN AMERICAN UNIVERSITIES. IN PART 1, THE AUTHOR CLASSIFIES THE ALTAIC LANGUAGES--MONGOLIAN, MANCHU-TUNGUS, CHUVASH-TURKIC, (WITH THE POSSIBLE INCLUSION OF KOREAN)--AND…
Descriptors: Alphabets, Bibliographies, Chuvash, Comparative Analysis
Ho, Dah-an, Ed.; Tseng, Chiu-yu, Ed. – 1994
This publication of proceedings, most in English and some in Chinese, of a conference on Chinese languages and linguistics include the following papers: "On Rule Effect and Dialect Classification" (Chin-Chuan Cheng); "Cross-Linguistic Typological Variation, Grammatical Relations, and the Chinese Language" (Bernard Comrie);…
Descriptors: Affixes, Chinese, Contrastive Linguistics, Diachronic Linguistics