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"Code Copying" is a concise exposition of Lars Johanson's code-copying model, a theoretical framework for the study of contact-induced processes which has informed much of the author's research and writing. The book is broken into eleven chapters and is one hundred and twenty-five pages long, not including the front matter, references and indexes.
Ch. 1 "The Code-Copying Model" (1-17) introduces the foundational concepts and defines the operative terms. The term code refers to any lang
Review of Ledgeway, Adam, John Charles Smith, and Nigel Vincent (eds.), Periphrasis and Inflexion in Diachrony: A View from Romance. Oxford Studies in Diachronic and Historical Linguistics 48. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022. ISBN 9780198870807. 拢90.00.
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Two Doctoral Research Fellowships (SKO 1017) in language and linguistics are available at the Department of Literature, European Languages and Area Studies, University of Oslo.
We seek innovative, curiosity-driven and scientifically strong candidates who want to pursue a doctoral degree in one of our areas of research. Projects that use digital methods are highly welcomed. The successful candidate should join one of our existing research groups.
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The next online Acquisition Sketch Project Meeting will focus on Lexicon and Semantics in Child-Directed Language.
It will be held on Tuesday 10th December (Americas) and Wednesday 11th December (elsewhere) at two times:
Time 1:
Los Angeles = 2 pm Tuesday Dec. 10
New York = 5 pm Tuesday Dec. 10
Melbourne = 9 am Wednesday Dec. 11
https://anu.zoom.us/j/82254804416?pwd=SX0KjIMGRCxaYiHgUjn7FgU5KtYVKz.1
Meeting ID: 822 5480 4416
Password: 771302
Time 2:
Berlin time = 9 am Wednesday Dec. 11
Delhi
We are looking for participants for a short survey to investigate how speaking multiple languages affects your behaviour, specifically behaviour typically associated with autism spectrum disorder.
Anyone over 18 years old from the UK can take part and you will receive a 拢5 Amazon giftcard for your participation.
You can access the survey here: https://nclpsych.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_cXZhZNyBEBUcF7w
I鈥檓 excited to announce Data Stand, a free NLP annotation tool crafted specifically for linguists.
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The Department of Linguistics at the University of Alberta, established in 1969, offers MSc and PhD positions for prospective graduate students interested in learning and conducting research with our vibrant team of faculty members, graduate students, and other academics in state-of-the-art research facilities.
*The application deadline is January 15, 2025*.
The Department has shown long-standing leadership among Canadian Linguistics Departments in experimental language sciences. The Departmen
The advertised postdoc is part of the Learning domain in C-LaBL. This domain studies the interplay of multilingualism and learning within individuals, exploring how linguistic distance between languages interacts with language exposure and experience, with a clear focus on educational aspects such as literacy and academic achievement. To this end, we will undertake a series of controlled interventions and carefully planned experiments tapping into various aspects of linguistic competence. We wil
The advertised postdoctoral fellow position will conduct work within the Brain domain of C-LaBL.
The Brain domain examines the degree to which relative language distance (RLD) between the languages in a multilingual mind impacts on neurocognitive outcomes in a multitude of aspects including (i) how bi-/multilinguals learn new languages, (ii) how these languages interact, (iii) how bi-/multilinguals control their language system, and ultimately, (iv) how the mind (cognition) and brain (structure
The advertised postdoc is part of the Language domain in C-LaBL. This domain studies numerous language/dialect combinations in a concerted effort to probe the mental mechanisms of interacting languages/varieties. A core goal is to establish what measures of linguistic similarities, differences, and distance between varieties are cognitively relevant for crosslinguistic influence (CLI). Our approach is empirically driven: We systematically investigate the presence and extent of CLI in multilingua
The final MCQLL meeting of the semester will take place on聽Monday, December 9, from聽noon to 2pm聽in the聽CRBLM meeting space聽(6th聽floor of 2001 捆绑SM社区 College). This special edition of MCQLL will feature 3 speakers:聽Xiaoyi Li,聽Jeanne Brown, and聽Massimo Lipari. It will run for two hours, and lunch will be served for those who have already RSVP-ed. We will […]
Katya Morgunova (捆绑SM社区) will be presenting a talk 鈥淭opics in Kanien鈥檏茅ha sentential complementation.鈥� The meeting will take place on Monday, December 9 at 3pm in Room 002 of the 捆绑SM社区 linguistics department. Katya’s abstract is below: Kanien鈥檏茅ha has two types of complement clauses: clauses headed by a verb with the Optative modal prefix, and clauses introduced by the complementizer tsi. Previously, […]
Call for Abstracts:
Mixed Methods Research in TESOL
Deadline for abstract submissions: Friday, 31 January 2025
Deadline for full paper submissions: Friday, 1 August 2025
Mixed methods research (MMR) is now prevalent in the social and human sciences. This methodological approach has opened up ample opportunity for researchers to explore more complex research issues using versatile and innovative research designs. Despite the growing interest in using MMR in TESOL, there is still room for discus
The tools MSN and HespresScrape are designed to facilitate linguistic analysis by gathering headlines from two prominent Moroccan news websites. MSN scrapes headlines from Morocco World News (MWN), while HespresScrape focuses on Hespress EN. Both tools allow users to efficiently collect and download the extracted headlines as CSV files, simplifying data organization and enabling detailed analysis.
The tools are accessible for free on Google Colab using this link: https://lchgary.com/colab
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Name this usage: negative adjective becomes a positive adverb (the exact same word, without adding 鈥渓y鈥� at the end.)
E.g.: filthy rich, mad talented.
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This volume provides the first comprehensive reference work in English on the French language in all its facets. It offers a wide-ranging approach to the rich, varied, and exciting research across multiple subfields, with seven broad thematic sections covering the structures of French; the history of French; axes of variation; French around the world; French in contact with other languages; second language acquisition; and French in literature, culture, arts, and the media. Each chapter presents
This handbook provides a detailed account of the phenomenon of vowel harmony, a pattern according to which all vowels within a word must agree for some phonological property or properties. Vowel harmony has been central in the development of phonological theories thanks to its cluster of remarkable properties, notably its typically 'unbounded' character and its non-locality, and because it forms part of the phonology of most world languages. The five parts of this volume cover all aspects of vow
Morality is pervasive, touching all aspects of social life. The contributors to this volume provide an introduction to research on how morality is socially constructed in and through discourse, and the implications of this for the empirical analysis and theorization of morality. The volume addresses both how morality gets done through everyday practices, as well as the practical concerns that discussions of morality inevitably entail. It does so by delving into how morality is socially construct
This volume brings together corpora that span more than 3,000 years of the history of the Greek language, from Ittz茅s' chapter on the proto-language to Giouli's chapter on the modern language. The authors take wider or narrower approaches with regard to the form and function
of the type of construction that they include in the group of support-verb constructions: while all would agree that English to take initiative is a support-verb construction, opinions differ on English to take wing. The cha
This volume contains some of the papers there were presented at ACAL 51-52, which was organized virtually at the University of Florida. A couple were accepted for presentation at ACAL 51, which was canceled because of COVID-19. The theme of ACAL 51-52 was African linguistics: pushing the boundaries. There are 18 papers and an introduction: two phonetics papers, five phonology papers, nine syntax papers, one sociolinguistics paper and one typology paper.