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Scott A. Evans – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Although a growing body of research has sought to understand the relationship between word order and information structure, previous information structure (IS) analyses of verb-subject order have produced conflicting results for Medieval French, which have subsequently led to conflicting claims about the importance of IS to its word order as well…
Descriptors: French, Word Order, Medieval Literature, Literary Genres
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Ivanovna, Bykova Galina; Emilyevna, Petrova Elena; Fyodorovna, Nikulina Elena – NORDSCI, 2019
The article attempts to explain the features of the phenomenon of euroscepticism typical for the countries of Central and Eastern Europe (Visegrad group--Poland, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary) based on linguistic methods of research. This approach is due to the close relationship of ethno-cultural and value elements that manifest themselves…
Descriptors: Linguistics, Grammar, Foreign Countries, Slavic Languages
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Allili, Elsad; Çataloluk, Osman – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2014
Akkadian, although a dead language, has left deep imprints on Semitic and some Indo-European languages, and has played an important role in the history of mankind. It is accepted as the ancestor of all the Semitic languages. Beginning from the era of Sargon I, it became the official language in a vast area from Anatolia to Egypt and to India.…
Descriptors: Semitic Languages, Diachronic Linguistics, Contrastive Linguistics, Language Role
Nguyen, Tam Thi Minh – ProQuest LLC, 2013
Bih is a Chamic (Austronesian) language spoken by approximately 500 people in the Southern highlands of Vietnam. This dissertation is the first descriptive grammar of the language, based on extensive fieldwork and community-based language documentation in Vietnam and written from a functional/typological perspective. The analysis in this work is…
Descriptors: Grammar, Syllables, Malayo Polynesian Languages, Foreign Countries
Hyslop, Gwendolyn – ProQuest LLC, 2011
Kurtop is a Tibeto-Burman language spoken by approximately 15,000 people in Northeastern Bhutan. This dissertation is the first descriptive grammar of the language, based on extensive fieldwork and community-driven language documentation in Bhutan. When possible, analyses are presented in typological and historical/comparative perspectives and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Grammar, Sino Tibetan Languages, Phonology
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Moradi, Hamzeh – Indian Journal of Applied Linguistics, 2014
Depending on the demands of a particular communicative situation, bilingual or multilingual speakers ("bilingualism-multilingualism") will switch between language varieties. Code-switching is the practice of moving between variations of languages in different contexts. In an educational context, code-switching is defined as the practice…
Descriptors: Code Switching (Language), Indo European Languages, Verbs, English (Second Language)
Khvtisiashvili, Tamrika – ProQuest LLC, 2013
This dissertation is a description of Xinaliq, a Northeast (Nakh-Daghestanian) Caucasian language spoken primarily in the village also called Xinaliq, which lies at an elevation of 7,000 feet in the Kuba district of Azerbaijan, near the border with Daghestan. Currently there are approximately 1,500 residents in the village. Most of them are…
Descriptors: Phonology, Morphology (Languages), Uncommonly Taught Languages, Grammar
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Welmers, William E. – Language Sciences, 1970
Basically a defense of Joseph Greenberg's classification of African Languages (1963), this article also discusses in non-technical terms and in reference to the African situation how linguists deal with language change and how language relationships are determined. (FB)
Descriptors: African History, African Languages, Creoles, Diachronic Linguistics
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Birnbaum, Henrik – Linguistics, 1975
Addresses some of the problems concerning the hierarchical relationship between language typology and genetic linguistics and between typology and universal grammar. (RM)
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Descriptive Linguistics, Diachronic Linguistics, Grammar
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Leeming, H. – Slavonic and East European Review, 1971
Descriptors: Cyrillic Alphabet, Diachronic Linguistics, Etymology, Grammar
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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
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Kuteva, Tania – Language Sciences, 1998
Argues that with regard to an important part of verbal morphosyntax (Tense-Aspect-Mood or TAM), it is possible to speak of a Standard Average European. Focus is on origins and evolution of TAM-markers, or TAM-auxiliation, suggesting that particular verb structures provide conceptual sources for auxiliation, and that it has an areal configuration…
Descriptors: Contrastive Linguistics, Diachronic Linguistics, Foreign Countries, 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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Senn, Alfred – Language, 1949
This study examines the theory of Prokosch concerning the Germanic-Slavic-Baltic tense and aspect systems. The interrelatedness and influence of languages and dialects in Slavic (Russian and Old Church Slavic), Baltic (Lithuanian), and Germanic (Old High German and Gothic) are demonstrated. Examples illustrating the use of the perfective present…
Descriptors: Diachronic Linguistics, Form Classes (Languages), German, Grammar
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Seely, Johnathan F. – 1976
This paper discusses the term "ergative" and traces the history of this and related terms and concepts in descriptive linguistics. Early attempts at defining the ergative illustrate the preoccupation with its supposedly passive nature. Other questions include the simple identification of the ergative, co-occurring cases, supposed…
Descriptors: Case (Grammar), Definitions, Descriptive Linguistics, Diachronic Linguistics
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