Marttinen Larsson, Matti Álvarez López, Laura
Published in
Studies in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics
El presente artículo se centra en el uso variable de las construcciones adverbiales locativas del tipo (a)delante de mí – (a)delante mío en el español del Uruguay. Estudiamos los usos de tales variantes, destacando el proceso diacrónico de cambio lingüístico y los mecanismos subyacentes a este. A través del análisis cuantitativo de un conjunto de m...
Power, Justin M.
Published in
Frontiers in Psychology
In contrast to scholars and signers in the nineteenth century, William Stokoe conceived of American Sign Language (ASL) as a unique linguistic tradition with roots in nineteenth-century langue des signes française, a conception that is apparent in his earliest scholarship on ASL. Stokoe thus contributed to the theoretical foundations upon which the...
Löfström, Malin
I avhandlingen undersöker jag språklig stil och stajling bland västnyländska finlandssvenskar i Stockholm i ett material som består av intervjuer och smågruppssamtal med elva deltagare. Avhandlingens syfte är att undersöka den språkliga stilen när deltagarna samtalar med en sverigesvensk person. Syftet är också att söka rimliga förklaringar till va...
François, Alexandre
Whether it is based on philological data or on comparative research, historical linguistics accounts for modern words by formulating etymological hypotheses that entail changes both in form and in meaning. One way to represent semantic change is to describe modifications in “patterns of lexification”: a polysemous word, which once lexified senses s...
Johansson, Andreas
With data from the Corpus of Historical American English, this study charts the semantic development of lame, crippled, handicapped, and disabled from the 1900s to the 2010s. Using both qualitative concordance line examination and frequency data, it attempts to determine what types of change have occurred in American English (as represented by COHA...
La Roi, Ezra
This paper investigates category changes among imperative particles in Ancient Greek. Using diachronic evidence from the category change of the imperative alpha mu epsilon lambda epsilon iota (amelei 'don't worry' > 'of course') and similar imperative particles, alpha gamma epsilon (age), iota theta iota (ithi), phi epsilon rho epsilon (fere), epsi...
Simonenko, Alexandra Carlier, Anne
This paper deals with the evolution of nominal expressions with prenominal possessives in Romance languages. Until now, the prevalent view has been that their historical development follows one of the two diachronic paths: either they stop co-occurring with determiners (French, Spanish) or they start requiring their presence (European Portuguese). ...
Skrzypek, Dominika
Published in
Folia Scandinavica Posnaniensia
The paper considers gender assignment of deverbal nouns, originally present participles, in Swedish. The perspective is diachronic. The corpus consists of a choice of Swedish texts from 1225-1732. The results show that nouns denoting entities ranking higher in the Animacy hierarchy show tendencies to be placed in the utrum gender (originally mascul...
Hübener, Carlotta J.
Published in
Yearbook of the German Cognitive Linguistics Association
This paper investigates the diachronic evolution of lexically complex graphemic units in Middle Low German – sequences that once occurred written as one word, but from today’s perspective are considered separate linguistic units. Examples are enwolde ‘did not want’ or isset ‘is it’. This phenomenon has received little attention, although it gives d...
Schiegg, Markus
Published in
Yearbook of the German Cognitive Linguistics Association
This paper presents a case study on the lexical substitution of Wärter (‘guard’) by Pfleger (‘nurse’) in records from a southern German psychiatric hospital around 1900. Its goal is to shed light on language variation and change from the perspective of idiolects. Therefore, I analyse how this change, implemented by official documents in 1876, sprea...
