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Mukhamdanah; Firdaus, Winci; Inayatusshalihah; Hasina, Fajrin R.; Yulianti, Santy; Syamsurizal – Eurasian Journal of Applied Linguistics, 2023
Manuscripts are known to transmit cultural heritage across generations along with thoughts, knowledge, customs, and people's behaviors. The current study aimed to examine the influence of Arabic manuscripts on the Malay and the Acehnese tradition with the spread of Islam. For this purpose, an Acehnese manuscript, "Kitab Tauhid" (KT), was…
Descriptors: Arabic, Indonesian Languages, Classification, Cultural Maintenance
Burka, Nataliia – Journal of Language and Linguistic Studies, 2021
The paper presents the results of a complex study of ?onsonantal phonemes' syntagmatics, registered at the beginning, in the middle and at the end of the word throughout the historical development of the English language. The analysis of frequencies of consonantal clusters' actualization allowed the author to characterize the regularities of their…
Descriptors: Phonemes, Phonology, Syntax, Diachronic Linguistics
Mushait, Saud; Al-Athwary, Anwar A. H. – Arab World English Journal, 2020
This study aims at investigating how borrowed nouns from English are inflected for plural and gender in Colloquial Saudi Arabic (CSA). The attempt is also made to account for the possible linguistic factors which may affect this inflection in light of some theories in morphology. The analysis is based on more than 250 loanwords collected from…
Descriptors: Linguistic Borrowing, Semitic Languages, Morphology (Languages), Nouns
Ross Perlin; Daniel Kaufman; Mark Turin; Maya Daurio; Sienna Craig; Jason Lampel – Language Documentation & Conservation, 2021
Communities around the world have distinctive ways of representing language use across space and territory. The approach to and method of mapping languages that began with nineteenth-century European dialectology and colonial boundary making is one such way. Though practiced by relatively few linguists today, language mapping has developed…
Descriptors: Metropolitan Areas, Documentation, Language Maintenance, Language Research
Khan, Tania Ali – English Language Teaching, 2020
Pakistani English is a variety of English language concerning Sentence structure, Morphology, Phonology, Spelling, and Vocabulary. The one semantic element, which makes the investigation of Pakistani English additionally fascinating is the Vocabulary. Pakistani English uses many loan words from Urdu language and other local dialects, which have…
Descriptors: Morphology (Languages), Language Variation, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Haspelmath, Martin – Language Documentation & Conservation, 2017
Linguists are sometimes confronted with choices concerning language names. For example, one and the same language may be referred to as Persian or Farsi. This short paper discusses some principles that one might use for making decisions when there are variant forms in use, or when one feels that none of the existing names is appropriate. The…
Descriptors: Language Research, Language Planning, Databases, Second Languages
Lewis, Thomas D. – ProQuest LLC, 2019
This dissertation presents the results of a tripartite exploration of English use by Latinxs in post-Katrina New Orleans, defined here as an ethnolinguistic repertoire that I call New Orleans Latinx English (NOLAE). The project considers how contemporary English use differs from that found in a pre-Katrina sample, how social network geometry…
Descriptors: Natural Disasters, Spanish, Language Variation, Vowels
Mufwene, Salikoko S. – Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 2011
Jurgen Meisel's (JM) article is literally thought-provoking, especially for the issues that one can raise out of the central position that he develops, viz., "although bilingual acquisition in situations of language contact can be argued to be of significant importance for explanations of grammatical change, reanalysis affecting parameter settings…
Descriptors: Language Research, Linguistic Borrowing, Diachronic Linguistics, Ethnography
Otheguy, Ricardo – Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 2012
Prepositions can be found with and without adjacent complements in many forms of popular spoken French. The alternation appears in main clauses ("il veut pas payer pour ca [approximately] il veut pas payer pour" "he doesn't want to pay for [it]") and, though with a more restricted social and geographic distribution, in relative…
Descriptors: Form Classes (Languages), Foreign Countries, French, Bilingualism
Kaiser, Georg A. – Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 2012
In their keynote contribution, Poplack, Zentz & Dion (henceforth PZD; Poplack, Zentz & Dion, 2011, this issue) propose an interesting "scientific test of convergence" (under section heading: "Introduction") which contains criteria to check whether a particular feature in a given language in contact with another one is…
Descriptors: Linguistic Borrowing, Form Classes (Languages), French, Foreign Countries
Elsig, Martin – Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 2012
The authors of "Phrase-final prepositions in Quebec French: An empirical study of contact, code-switching and resistance to convergence", Poplack, Zentz & Dion (2011, this issue), henceforth cited as PZD, make a strong case for showing that, in spite of surface similarities, preposition stranding in Canadian French relative clauses…
Descriptors: Linguistic Borrowing, Sociolinguistics, Form Classes (Languages), Foreign Countries
Consonantal and Syllabic Repairs of Arabic and Dutch Loanwords in Indonesian: A Phonological Account
Batais, Saleh Saeed – ProQuest LLC, 2013
The dissertation study aims to contribute mainly to the field of loanword phonology in general and particularly to Indonesian and its phonology that are rarely studied to date. The study investigates what consonantal and syllabic repair strategies are employed by Indonesian in adapting Arabic and Dutch loanwords, whether these adaptation…
Descriptors: Syllables, Indo European Languages, Semitic Languages, Phonology
Varra, Rachel Marie – ProQuest LLC, 2013
This dissertation investigates lexical borrowing in Spanish in New York. English-origin lexical material was extracted from a stratified sample of 146 Spanish-speaking informants of different ages, national origins, classes, etc., living in New York City. ANOVAs and Pearson correlations determined whether lexical borrowing frequency and the type…
Descriptors: Linguistic Borrowing, Language Research, Language Proficiency, Spanish
Degani, Marta; Onysko, Alexander – World Englishes, 2010
This study investigates hybrid compound formation of Maori and English terms in present day New Zealand English (NZE). On the background of Maori and English language contact, the phenomenon of hybrid compounding emerges as a process that, on the one hand, symbolizes the vitality of the Maori element in NZE and, on the other hand, marks the…
Descriptors: Language Variation, Language Research, Linguistic Borrowing, Semantics
Gullberg, Marianne – Second Language Research, 2010
Gestures, i.e. the symbolic movements that speakers perform while they speak, form a closely interconnected system with speech, where gestures serve both addressee-directed ("communicative") and speaker-directed ("internal") functions. This article aims (1) to show that a combined analysis of gesture and speech offers new ways to address…
Descriptors: Language Variation, Second Language Learning, Language Acquisition, Bilingualism