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"In the book, an etymological analysis of early romanisms in Slavonic languages is presented. In the fi rst chapter, some general issues related to the topic are discussed: a delimitation of the linguistic material; existing literature in... more
All languages change, and creoles are no exception. Research on language change in creoles, however, hinges on decreolization: a process by which the creole undergoes advergence towards its lexifier, the dominant colonial language... more
Previous studies have noted lexical and grammatical features shared between Unangam Tunuu and neighboring Eskimo (esp. Alutiiq) and Athabaskan-Eyak-Tlingit (AET) languages, suggesting prehistoric language contact, without, however,... more
Existing studies on the translation of Nadsat – the invented language in A Clockwork Orange – neglect the fact that Nadsat is a result of language contact between English and Russian, and ignore the role that translators play in... more
Данная статья посвящена изучению влияния русского языка на произношение белорусов (в Беларуси), преимущественно в белорусско-русской смешанной речи (БРСР). Основой представленного исследования являются два корпуса затранскрибированной... more
This article deals with the loss of the affected possessor construction (external possessor construction, sympathetic dative) in the history of English. First it is shown that Old English made a formal and semantic distinction between... more
O presente artigo pretende promover reflexão acerca de características do Português Brasileiro em uso pela população indígena Karipuna que vive em terras indígenas às proximidades do município de Oiapoque-AP, Brasil. Os Karipuna formam um... more
Work in historical sociolinguistics can broadly be divided into quantitative work which examines population-level trends in past language use, and qualitative work which documents and explains the usage of individuals or within particular... more
The article is devoted to the theoretical problem of language contacts in modern linguistics. The problem of the relationship between language and consciousness has been comprehensively discussed: various studies of the language picture... more
This chapter describes the first application of the Dynamic Model of contact of Edgard W. Schneider to the medieval contact situation between Anglo-Norman (AN) and Middle English (ME), which lasted from the Norman Invasion (1066) until... more
1 APRESENTAÇÃO A cidade de Oiapoque, localizada no estado do Amapá, é conhecida nacionalmente pela expressão "do Oiapoque ao Chuí". Trata-se dos dois pontos considerados popularmente como os extremos do Brasil, embora dados mais precisos... more
This paper investigates various aspects of grammaticalization of Polish and Kashubian periphrastic verb forms with mieć\miec and bëc and participles. The involvement of factors, which are due to language contact or to autonomous... more
This paper addresses the issue of the role of language similarity in language contact. The difficulties in measuring this variable are presented and commented. Contrary to the traditional claim that similarity facilitates transfer between... more
This article describes my Ph.D. project. In particular, it is aimed at giving an overview of the phenomenon under discussion, namely the coexistence and competition between loanwords and endogenous words in Old Icelandic. Examples are... more
One of the dangers that we should be aware of when we study issues of language policy and planning is the fragmentary perspective by which they can be approached. Reality, by contrast, is interrelated and overlapping. This is why a... more
Loanwords are very influential in language learning because learners have a tendency to pronounce or write target language’s words based on the corresponding loanwords in their first languages. For that reason, research on English... more
This study investigates variation in the grammatical system of Spanish in the speech of three generations of Mexican Americans living in a community in South Texas, United States, characterized by high levels of bilingualism and... more
This paper is an acoustic investigation of laterals in contemporary Scottish Gaelic. Scottish Gaelic is described as having three phonemic laterals /l̪ˠ l̪ʲ l/, which have previously been the subject of small-scale acoustic and static... more
In the multilingual centres of Northern Europe's major cities, new varieties of the host languages are emerging. While some analyse these ‘multiethnolects’ as youth styles, we take a variationist approach to an emerging... more
This article presents Slavic languages in diaspora (SLD) from a broad geographic and diachronic perspective, i.e., worldwide and including old and new Slavic migrant communities with diverse historical and political backgrounds.... more
This paper deals with an under-studied grammatical feature of Medieval and Early Modern Greek, viz. the concessive markers containing the adverb καλά/kala ('well'). The basic aim is to shed light on their historical evolution with a view... more
This article deals with the history and word formation of the Icelandic word for ‘police’, i.e. lögregla. The word constitutes an interesting case of word formation in that said lexeme is a dvandva compound whose creation is related to... more
(= Slavonic names for mosque with special regard to Polish, Silesian, Czech and Slovak data). -- Abstract: Even though mosques are a typical element of the Islamic culture the channels through which their designations came into Slavonic... more
A study of the limits of multilingual literary expression in print culture. Beginning with the insight that multilingual literature defies simple translation, Brian Lennon examines the resistance multilingual literature offers to book... more
Extraordinary change is under way in the Alto Urubamba Valley, a vital and turbulent corner of the Andean-Amazonian borderland of southern Peru. Here, tens of thousands of Quechua-speaking farmers from the rural Andes have migrated to the... more
This paper presents an analysis of the case of gender-copy in Tagalog. Tagalog (now Filipino as the National Language ) is known to have undergone an intense influence from Spanish during the Spanish colonial rule in the Philippines... more
Using a collection of 30,000 text messages in French, the author examines how languages are mixed, borrowed from, code-switched with and influence each other in an SMS context. After presenting the multilingual aspects of the corpus, the... more
Im vorliegenden Band wird zunächst die Sprachsituation in Burkina Faso aus soziolinguistischer Perspektive beschrieben. Nach einer kurzen geschichtlichen Herleitung des französischen Einflusses und einer Beschreibung der aktuellen... more
„Эмигрантология славян” – электронный ежегодник – является научно-информационным органом Комиссии эмигрантологии славян Международного комитета славистов. Журнал учрежден в 2015 г. при Институте славистики Опольского университета. Общей... more
Pichi, an Afro-Caribbean English-lexifier Creole spoken on the island of Bioko, Equatorial Guinea, features four types of reiteration. Amongst them, reduplication and repetition can be distinguished on formal and semantic grounds.... more