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• Michif
  |Language =Michif The reasons for classifying Michif as a mixed language are given by P. Bakker (1997).
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• Klein's (1994) theory of tense
  * [[1-state predicate]]s include states that can change, e.g. "The light was on." * Klein, Wolfgang (1994). ''Time in Language.'' London: Routledge.
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• Onomastics (survey)
  ...s may have proper names, as may any spiritual beings we believe in. We may change our names at important points in our lives. We may spend ages deciding what This makes names different from expressions in ordinary language. In normal usage, you can't use the phrase 'the old oak-tree' without relyi
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• Error analysis
  ...[[second language learners]] and aims at investigating aspects of [[second language acquisition]]. ..., whereas [[error analysis]] compares the learner’s data with the [[target language]] [[norm]] and identifies and explains errors accordingly (cf. James 1998).
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• Language
  ...to French ''langue'' 'a particular language' and French ''langage'' 'human language, the ability to speak and understand speech'. ...ies was acquired more like Sanskrit, but is now widely used as an everyday language and acquired in early childhood.
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• Stratificational Grammar
  ...ey Lamb]] in the 1960s that aims to provide an account of the structure of language, the relationship between meaning and speech. *Christie Jr, William M. 1977. ''A Stratificational View of Linguistic Change''. Lake Bluff, IL: Jupiter Press.
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• Grammatikalisierungskanal
  ...s with a given function may take when they are grammaticalized in language change."'' Lehmann (1982: 22)
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• Quotativ
  G. Deutscher, Syntactic Change in Akkadian. The Evolution of Sentential Complementation. [Kap. 5: The Gram ...A Meeting Ground for Different Linguistic Domains. [Typological Studies in Language 52]. Amsterdam 2002.
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• Ursprache
  ...us ihr hervorgegangenen Sprachen als ''Tochtersprachen'' (engl. ''daughter language''). engl. [[Proto-language]]
  4 KB (495 words) - 12:27, 28 March 2023
• Code-switching
  ...called the [[matrix language]], while the minor language is the [[embedded language]]. ...s when a bilingual introduces a completely unassimilated word from another language into his speech."'' (Haugen 1956:40)
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• The middle voice
  Often in a language, the use of middle marker is extended to mark [[anticausative]] situations, ...actions in four subgroups: ''self-induced motion'' (go, walk, fly, ...), ''change in body posture'' (lay down, sit down, stand up, ...), ''non-translational
  10 KB (1,414 words) - 09:32, 30 March 2008
• Aims and methods of quantitative linguistics
  ...difference lies rather in the ontological points of view (do we consider a language as a set of sentences with their structures assigned to them, or do we see ...es. There is, however, an immense number of of properties and processes in language which can be detected and analysed only with quantitative methods on the ba
  9 KB (1,442 words) - 10:11, 14 June 2014
• Multilingualism
  ...to the fact that there are only few countries where more than one official language is spoken. Not even a quarter of the world’s nations recognize two offici ...differences in understanding certain concepts, e.g. ‘mother-tongue’), the change of the questions over time which makes censuses incomparable, the subjectiv
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• Affixes
  ...s usually have a more restricted phonology, segments used for affixes in a language are only a subpart of the phoneme system. Affixes are usually shorter than Various dependencies can be found between affixes. One affix may change the meaning of another affix:
  8 KB (1,138 words) - 12:47, 25 June 2007
• Huddleston and Pullum's (2002) analysis of tense
  * The resultative perfect (=change of state) ...ney D., Pullum, Geoffrey K. (2002). ''The Cambridge Grammar of the English Language.'' Cambridge: CUP.
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• Tomislav Maretić
  ...avic philology with particular emphasis on Croatian and Serbian history of language and literature”, in 1886, and ordinary professor three years later. Also ..., the occurrence and repetition of specific proper nouns may significantly change the frequency structure; for the same reason, he tried to avoid passages w
  17 KB (2,311 words) - 13:14, 16 August 2007
• Ambiguity, Polysemy and Vagueness
  ...s why a single expression may lead to multiple interpretations. In natural language many words, strings of words and sentences are ambiguous, simply because of ...reek ‘ballizar’ (meaning ‘to dance’) and was first attested in the English language in the 1630s being introduced through Old French. (Online Etymological Dict
  12 KB (1,883 words) - 16:39, 15 June 2014
• Gustav Herdan
  ...f his work is the development and the testing of mathematically formulated language laws (“statistical laws”). His conception of such laws is reflected in ...uage of the Nazis (Herdan 1960a: 263ff). He presents in his works numerous language laws, among others the Zipf and Zipf-Mandelbrot, the Poisson, and the logno
  15 KB (2,047 words) - 23:54, 1 February 2010
• Phonologische und phonetische Universalien
  [[Joseph Greenberg]] begründete mit dem ''Stanford Project on Language Universals'' die moderne Universalienforschung. Dabei sah er die Phonologie == Phonologische Universalien bei Greenberg und im Stanford Project on Language Universals ==
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• Swedish Phonology
  ...ing. The difference of length, however, is not marked by an orthographical change.<ref name="lindholm"/> There are nine long vowel phonemes in the Swedish language.
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• James D. McCawley/publications
  *1966a. Review of J. Yamagiwa (ed.), Papers of the CIC Far Eastern Language Institute. Lg. 42.170-75. ...Review of W. Cooper, Set theory and syntactic description. Foundations of Language 2.408-10.
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• Tenses of English
  ...icant innovation of Modern English in comparison to earlier stages of that language. ...from resultative meaning to perfect meaning comes about due to a semantic change “as a result of which the responsibility for the action leading to the st
  26 KB (4,208 words) - 16:34, 27 July 2014
• Kaj Brynolf Lindgren (de)
  ...n, G.., von Buttlar, H., Rott, W., & Strauß, U. (1983). A law of change in language. In: Brainerd, B. (ed.), Historical linguistics: 104-115. Bochum: Brockmeye
  11 KB (1,564 words) - 20:47, 8 February 2009
• Jerzy Woronczak
  .... The professional who has devoted many years to mastering the traditional language of his discipline can only with difficulty and great humility accept a situ ...ther verification on an extensive corpus (Pawłowski 1994). The dynamics of change in the values of several indices of lexical richness were compared in a cor
  26 KB (3,899 words) - 14:02, 28 November 2007
• Klassische Sprachtypologie
  Coseriu, E.: Adam Smith and the Beginnings of Language Typology. In: Historiographia Linguistica 10 [1983]. S. 1-12. Haggblade, E.: Contributors to the Beginnings of Language Typology. In: Historiographia Linguistica 10 [1983]. S. 13-24.
  22 KB (2,957 words) - 20:16, 31 March 2008
• Tsez
  |Language =Tsez ...age|Georgian]]) is a [[Northeast_Caucasian_languages|Northeast Caucasian]] language with about 7000 speakers spoken by the Tsez, a muslimic people in the moun
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• Piotrowski-Gesetz
  ...Labov, and Marvin Herzog. ''Empirical foundations for a theory of language change. Directions for historical linguistics'', ed. by W. Lehmann and Y. Malkiel,
  17 KB (2,495 words) - 13:33, 17 May 2011
• Intransitivita' scissa
  * L’argomento che subisce un DIRECTED CHANGE → ''argomento interno''. Cinque G 1990: “Ergative Adjectives and the Lexicalist Hypothesis”, ''Natural Language and Linguistic Theory'', '''8'''.
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