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Language Variation and Change is the study of how languages differ across regions, social groups, and contexts, as well as how they evolve over time. This field examines phonetic, grammatical, and lexical differences, exploring the influences of social, historical, and cultural factors on language development and transformation.
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Language Variation and Change is the study of how languages differ across regions, social groups, and contexts, as well as how they evolve over time. This field examines phonetic, grammatical, and lexical differences, exploring the influences of social, historical, and cultural factors on language development and transformation.
Partiendo de la premisa de que los cambios lingüísticos no solo responden a estructuras internas de las lenguas, sino también a factores extralingüísticos, como el contexto sociohistórico, migratorio, cultural, tecnológico y las... more
La migrazione delle persone implica, tra le altre cose, la migrazione delle loro lingue e il conseguente contatto fra codici diversi. A sua volta il contatto, in misura variabile, porta alla mescolanza e infine all'ibridismo tra lingue.... more
The Dative shift is observed in Brazilian Portuguese (BP), Mozambique Portuguese (MP), and San Tome Portuguese (STP). It comprises the alternation between a prepositional dative construction (PDC) and a double object construction (DOC) as... more
: Nesse artigo, abordamos a questão da organização cognitiva da variação linguística com base nos pressupostos dos Modelos Baseados no Uso a partir de dados de produção controlada das variantes da coda (r) por falantes do português... more
The paper considers a relatively rare verbal syntactic construction found in East Sakhalin Ainu and in Lingala: an active form of a transitive verb governs simultaneously a direct object and an agentive complement, has no overt syntactic... more
The debate on Artificial Intelligence is deepening and becoming global. Can the whole of humanity, every single nation, every single culture, every single language benefit from AI? The answer is somewhere in the confrontation of three... more
Meeting URL: Convenor: Michela Russo (U. Paris 8/SFL & U. Lyon 3) All oral presentations are scheduled in 30-minute slots. Poster session: 60 minutes. Thursday 18 June Time Session Speaker and Title 14.00-14.30 Keynote David Embick... more
Er trabajo ehte ê una breve gia pa uno jacè-se una idea e cómo se cojugan lô verbô en andalù populà. Ehtá basao en la tesi dohtorà der profesò José Mondéjar, El verbo andaluz. Formas y estructuras, qe se publicó en 1970. A lô datô aportaô... more
The research is centered around the concept of language polymorphism markers, defined as significant corpus-level skewings in the distribution of language units at all levels of morphosyntax that hint at ongoing variation and change.... more
This paper introduces our special issue on the one-new-idea constraint - a classic of functionalist literature, which has so far however lacked full explication or testing against cross-linguistic diversity. The papers in this special... more
Este trabalho tem como objetivo apresentar as análises sócio-histórica, codicológica, diplomática e paleográfica de O Borrador em que lanço todas as cartas que escrevo, a partir de 1749, estando na Bahia, de Antônio Gomes Ferrão Castelo... more
Reunimos, neste Dossiê da Revista LaborHistórico, 13 artigos, os quais apresentam resultados de pesquisas desenvolvidas com inegável qualidade científica, dando contribuições importantes às discussões sobre aspectos metodológicos no... more
RIASSUNTO Il presente articolo presenta, sistematizza e approfondisce la proposta denominata Invarianza Strutturale della Matrice Simbolica Pentadimensionale dello Sviluppo Umano, intesa come costruzione teorico-riflessiva, qualitativa,... more
Phrasal verbs (e.g. fade away, give up) tend to be associated with spoken, colloquial registers, not only in Present-day English, but also in previous stages of the language. This view has recently been challenged by Thim's (2006a,... more
The development of a considerable body of literature on British Sign Language (BSL) now permits analyzing and describing the so- ciolinguistic history of the language. An impressive amount of so- ciolinguistic information on BSL... more
Istanbul Armenians form an ethnic minority in the city of Istanbul. The majority of Istanbul Armenians speak Turkish monolingually or predominantly, with a subset still speaking Western Armenian, an Indo-European language. The Istanbul... more
This study aims to investigate the impact of educational level on the Langauge difference within the Saudi community. In this study, all Saudi citizens who live in Jeddah city represented the population of the study. The study based on a... more
This paper documents the decision-making and evidence-based practices behind the Dictionary of Jamaican Slang (DJS). It presents research and preparation of the dictionary as a practice: iterative, conversational, and grounded in usage... more
საქართველოს საზღვაო ისტორია უძველესი არგონავტებიდან თანამედროვე ნავსადგურებამდე. ავტორი: გიორგი ებრალიძე, 2026.
Bangla has a rich landscape of regional dialects that differ from the standard variety in vocabulary, phonology, and syntax. These dialects are widely used in daily communication yet remain underrepresented in natural language processing.... more
The borrowing of English words in contemporary Romanian is a phenomenon which has fuelled a considerable amount of public debate, sometimes being described as an invasion and a threat to the language. In this context, the analysis of... more
The speech of the camel-breeders of the Arabian Peninsula is said to be very archaic and conservative in relation to other Arabic dialects. However, this state of affairs has not yet been confirmed for modern dialects due to the lack of... more
O presente artigo objetivou produzir considerações acerca da obra "A Língua de Eulália: novela sociolinguística", de autoria de Marcos Bagno (2006), no tocante às categorias analíticas Língua e Raça. Dito isso, após quase três décadas da... more
Las formas pronominales de trato (tú y usted en español) desarrollan un papel fundamental en las interacciones cotidianas, en tanto en cuanto expresan significados no sólo lingüísticos, sino también socioculturales y emocionales, lo mismo... more
Following the Treaty of Trianon, the Hungarian language developed a number of regional varieties, which differ primarily in their lexicon. To help harmonise these varieties, an educational terminology database is currently being developed... more
This study presents a longitudinal corpus of 21 months of verbal production from a monolingual Brazilian child, compiled from naturalistic speech data. This empirical dataset, collected in a city in northeastern Minas Gerais, Brazil,... more
El presente trabajo surge para suplir la falta de información relevante con respecto a la distribución social, vitalidad y frecuencia de uso del anglicismo en el español mexicano. La investigación se centra en el habla de dos ciudades... more
This paper compares two products of the language contact in the history of Spanish: Mozarabic, the hybrid language emerged at the dawn of ibero-romanic languages from the contact between Romanic-Andalusian and Arabic-Andalusian, and... more
Defende-se que mudanças nas propriedades de língua de sujeito nulo no português oitocentista em Goiás podem ser interpretadas como resultado do contato da língua portuguesa com línguas nigero-congolesas e línguas indígenas brasileiras.... more
This article discusses two processes common to natural languages, namely, variation and change, from generative linguistic framework, which conceives the capacity of the human species to acquire languages ​​as a genetic endowment. More... more
This article examines the syntactic and semantic properties of locative adverbs in Brazilian Portuguese to verify whether they occupy the subject position. We observe that adverbs can occupy the subject position as well as locative NPs.... more
This article examines the linguistic and orthographic peculiarities of the Neapolitan dialect as employed by the artist Geolier in the published lyrics for his Sanremo performance. The study opens with an outline of the historical and... more
Studies have found that Mormons and non-Mormons in Utah exhibit significant linguistic differences. We break this down further by investigating whether there are also differences between Mormons who actively participate in the religion... more
The current study examined whether religious affiliation in Utah County, Utah affected the production of several vowel mergers typical of the area (ie, fell-fail, pool-pole-pull, card-cord). To do so, we asked self-identified members of... more
Functional Grammar of the Balkan Sprachbund: Current State of the Project. A paper to be presented at the 24th Biennial Conference on Balkan and South Slavic Linguistics, Literature & Folklore. University of Newcastle, Australia, on... more
In the framework of contemporary discussions that have been developing regarding the process of translation, we always encounter the accepted impossibility of neutrality it involves, as well as the acknowledgement that its nature entails... more
Brazilian Portuguese (henceforth, BP) is currently analyzed as a partial null subject language (NSL). This work shows the earliest attested changes in the properties of null subjects in the Goiás dialect of Brazilian Portuguese. We... more
The Latin psalm paraphrases of Johannes Sascerides (1557) are one of the earliest complete renderings of the Psalter into classical Latin verse. The paper analyses the lexical and semantic transformation of the psalms, considering the... more
This study investigates morphological variation in Brazilian Portuguese (BP) imperatives, focusing on the alternation between forms derived from the tu paradigm (T-IMPER, e.g., faz) and the você paradigm (V-IMPER, e.g., faça). While... more
The co-occurrence of mental illness and substance use disorders (termed "dual diagnosis") represents a significant public health issue and is associated with significant impairment and negative health consequences, particularly among... more
The evolution of language represents one of humanity's most fascinating yet intricate processes, influenced by an array of interconnected forces including social structures, cultural practices, mental processes, and the inherent... more
RESUMO: Apesar de ser definido pelas Gramáticas Tradicionais (GTs) como o tempo que designa a fala momentânea, o Presente do Indicativo pode referir-se ao passado e até mesmo ao futuro. Segundo Fatori (2010), trata-se de um dos tempos... more
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Este artigo tem como objetivo analisar as principais variações linguísticas do espanhol falado no Peru e no México, observando como fatores históricos, culturais, geográficos e étnicos influenciam o modo de falar nesses países. A... more
Este artigo busca analisar as variações linguísticas do espanhol falado em três países da América do Sul: Uruguai, Argentina e Chile. A partir de uma perspectiva sociolinguística, discutem-se as diferenças fonológicas, morfossintáticas e... more
1. A. Le contact. Une donnée élémentaire ? B. Faut-il (re)penser le contact ? C. Le contact ? Une ressource pour mieux comprendre la dynamique du ‘linguistique’. 2. Un préalable : l’état de l’art: Winford, Thomason & Kaufman, Holm,... more
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