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Felício, Carla Patrícia [UNESP]. "A gramaticalização da conjunção concessiva embora." Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP), 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/11449/86569.

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Made available in DSpace on 2014-06-11T19:22:19Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2008-08-12Bitstream added on 2014-06-13T19:07:41Z : No. of bitstreams: 1 felicio_cp_me_sjrp.pdf: 1650362 bytes, checksum: 586c6cd19a45ef5c84ad2dbf2f73e9a3 (MD5)<br>A Gramaticalização (GR) é um processo histórico e unidirecional de mudança lingüística, em que itens com conteúdo lexical ou menos gramatical passam ao longo do tempo a se comportar como itens gramaticais, tendo seu significado abstratizado e fortalecido quanto à expressividade do falante. Mecanismos cognitivos, como a metáfora e a me

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Felício, Carla Patrícia. "A gramaticalização da conjunção concessiva embora /." São José do Rio Preto : [s.n.], 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/11449/86569.

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Orientador: Sanderléia Roberta Longhin-Thomazi<br>Banca: Maria Célia Lima-Hernades<br>Banca: Sebastião Carlos Gonçalves<br>Resumo: A Gramaticalização (GR) é um processo histórico e unidirecional de mudança lingüística, em que itens com conteúdo lexical ou menos gramatical passam ao longo do tempo a se comportar como itens gramaticais, tendo seu significado abstratizado e fortalecido quanto à expressividade do falante. Mecanismos cognitivos, como a metáfora e a metonímia, atuam nesse processo de mudança, visto que por esses mecanismos há abstratização do significado e recategorização sintática

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O'Connell, Giuliana Cattelan. "Italy's historical linguistic minorities /." Abstract Full Text (HTML) Full Text (PDF), 2008. http://eprints.ccsu.edu/archive/00000549/02/1993FT.htm.

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Thesis (M.A.) -- Central Connecticut State University, 2008.<br>Thesis advisor: Carmela Pesca. "... in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts in Modern Languages." Includes bibliographical references (leaves 131-144). Also available via the World Wide Web.

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Wahle, Johannes [Verfasser]. "Algorithmic advancements in Computational Historical Linguistics / Johannes Wahle." Tübingen : Universitätsbibliothek Tübingen, 2021. http://d-nb.info/1241537038/34.

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Phua, Chiew Pheng. "Dating the chapters in Guanzi : evidence from historical linguistics perspective /." View Abstract or Full-Text, 2002. http://library.ust.hk/cgi/db/thesis.pl?HUMA%202002%20PHUA.

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Thesis (M. Phil.)--Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, 2002.<br>Includes bibliographical references (leaves 230-235). Also available in electronic version. Access restricted to campus users.

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Suphi, Menekșe Sezin. "Non-linear analyses in English historical phonology." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 1985. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/18646.

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Fallon, Paul Ryan. "Synchronic variation and historical change in language." Thesis, Bangor University, 1992. https://research.bangor.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/synchronic-variation-and-historical-change-in-language(003fb6ff-0d9b-45c6-9258-08b0c6ec5b0b).html.

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Variation In the sequence /Cju/ (as In nubile, issue) Is manifested In the phonemic variants, gilded [Cj], ungLided ECI, coalesced ENJ)1. Of the 17 possible C, variation mainly occurs In the set of E+cor]E+antl consonants. The origins of the sequence are traced to OE and Angto French sources. The former created /Cju/,, the tatter began the modification to variants. The primary Linguistic causes of change were stress In borrowed suffixes shifting to native patterns, leading to some categorical variants with ECI In /t ds z/; and phonotactic constraints on word Initial clusters In /r I/ producing

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Hammer, Sjobor Athon. "Face, Space, And Anxiety: An Ethnographic Study of the Kansas Historical Society's Social Media Usage." Case Western Reserve University School of Graduate Studies / OhioLINK, 2015. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=case1428009790.

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Silva-Surer, Tatiana Mazza da. "Gramaticalização de juntivos adversativos na história do português /." São José do Rio Preto : [s.n.], 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/11449/86584.

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Orientador: Sebastião Carlos Leite Gonçalves<br>Banca: Mariangêla Rios de Oliveira<br>Banca: Gisele Cássia de Sousa<br>Resumo: O objetivo geral desse trabalho é investigar a mudança sintático-semântico-pragmática dos juntivos porém, contudo, todavia, entretanto e no entanto, conjuntamente, sob a perspectiva da gramaticalização, a fim de buscar a comprovação da hipótese de uma trajetória do tipo advérbio > conjunção, por meio de análises contextuais que expliquem o surgimento do uso conjuncional adversativo na história do português. Adotamos, nesse trabalho, a concepção mais clássica de gramati

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Silva, Tatiana Mazza da [UNESP]. "Gramaticalização de juntivos adversativos na história do português." Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP), 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/11449/86584.

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Made available in DSpace on 2014-06-11T19:22:20Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2010-05-18Bitstream added on 2014-06-13T18:08:02Z : No. of bitstreams: 1 silva_tm_me_sjrp.pdf: 614455 bytes, checksum: f87af5bb9f5125cb6a22b375b2431c58 (MD5)<br>O objetivo geral desse trabalho é investigar a mudança sintático-semântico-pragmática dos juntivos porém, contudo, todavia, entretanto e no entanto, conjuntamente, sob a perspectiva da gramaticalização, a fim de buscar a comprovação da hipótese de uma trajetória do tipo advérbio > conjunção, por meio de análises contextuais que expliquem

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Lu, Jung-yao, and Jung-yao Lu. "An Investigation of Various Linguistic Changes in Chinese and Naxi." Thesis, University of Oregon, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/1794/12524.

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This dissertation investigates the diachronic development of Chinese and Naxi, focusing particularly upon six linguistic puzzles that are likely to be associated with the various linguistic changes in most areas of the grammar, including sound/phonological changes, semantic/meaning changes, syntactic/sentence-structure changes, and contact-induced changes. This dissertation's primarily purpose is to provide new perspectives in order to solve these puzzles on the basis of typological and diachronic evidence. The dissertation will analyze cross-linguistic data from Chinese and Tibeto-Burman l

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List, Johann-Mattis [Verfasser]. "Sequence Comparison in Historical Linguistics / Johann-Mattis List ; DFG-Sonderforschungsbereich 991." Düsseldorf : düsseldorf university press GmbH, 2014. http://dup.oa.hhu.de/244/.

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Jurish, Bryan. "Finite-state canonicalization techniques for historical German." Phd thesis, Universität Potsdam, 2011. http://opus.kobv.de/ubp/volltexte/2012/5578/.

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This work addresses issues in the automatic preprocessing of historical German input text for use by conventional natural language processing techniques. Conventional techniques cannot adequately account for historical input text due to conventional tools' reliance on a fixed application-specific lexicon keyed by contemporary orthographic surface form on the one hand, and the lack of consistent orthographic conventions in historical input text on the other. Historical spelling variation is treated here as an error-correction problem or "canonicalization" task: an attempt to automatically assig

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Hughes, Adam Lefever. "Assai| Historical Contexts of a Contested Musical Term." Thesis, The University of North Carolina at Greensboro, 2017. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10264065.

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<p> This study seeks to establish the feasibility of <i>assai</i> as a moderating term in more cases than is typically assumed. Since evidence of concurrent competing definitions for the term <i>assai</i> exists from the mid- to late-18<sup>th</sup> century, understanding and putting into practice a composer’s indications according to his own understanding of the term becomes murky where the word <i>assai</i> is concerned during and beyond the time when the two definitions exist concurrently. Through investigation of musical scores, examining such features as ornamentation, the relative

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Peña, Jaime. "A historical reconstruction of the Peba-Yaguan linguistic family /." Connect to title online (Scholars' Bank), 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/1794/10023.

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Baker, Tami Lynn. "Historical linguistic analysis of traditional English Christmas carols." [Johnson City, Tenn. : East Tennessee State University], 2001. http://etd-submit.etsu.edu/etd/theses/available/etd-0325101-141215/unrestricted/BakerT0416.pdf.

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Seybold, Brett Arthur. "Semantic change from pre-resurrection to post-resurrection contexts." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 2001. http://www.tren.com.

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Bu, Tianrang. ""Regularities" and "irregularities" in Chinese historical phonology." Oberlin College Honors Theses / OhioLINK, 2018. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=oberlin1525534507019502.

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Gess, Randall Scott. "Optimality theory in the historical phonology of French /." Thesis, Connect to this title online; UW restricted, 1996. http://hdl.handle.net/1773/8377.

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Roberts, Philip J. "Towards a computer model of the historical phonology and morphology of Latin." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2012. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:d3ef315c-3d5c-486b-8fbe-0fa6fdbb8219.

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Research projects in Optimality Theory tend to take a synchronic view of a particular generalisation, and set their standards for rigour in typological terms (see for example Suzuki 1998 on dissimilation, Crosswhite 2001 on vowel reduction). The goal of this thesis is to use Stratal OT to take a diachronic view of multiple generalisations within the morpho-phonology of one language, namely Latin, with the principal empirical aim of producing an analysis that is demonstrably true to all the attested facts of the generalisations in question. To that end, I have written PyOT, a computer program i

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Reindl, Donald F. "The effects of historical German-Slovene language contact on the Slovene language." [Bloomington, Ind.] : Indiana University, 2005. http://wwwlib.umi.com/dissertations/fullcit/3162281.

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Thesis (Ph.D.)--Indiana University, Dept. of Slavic Languages and Literatures, 2005.<br>Title from PDF t.p. (viewed Nov. 11, 2008). Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 66-01, Section: A, page: 0165. Chair: Ronald Feldstein.

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Satz, Debra M. "Freedom rising : a reconstruction of historical materialism by Debra M. Satz." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1987. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/14949.

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Lakey, Holly. "The Grammar of Fear: Morphosyntactic Metaphor in Fear Constructions." Thesis, University of Oregon, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/1794/20415.

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This analysis explores the reflection of semantic features of emotion verbs that are metaphorized on the morphosyntactic level in constructions that express these emotions. This dissertation shows how the avoidance or distancing response to fear is mirrored in the morphosyntax of fear constructions (FCs) in certain Indo-European languages through the use of non-canonical grammatical markers. This analysis looks at both simple FCs consisting of a single clause and complex FCs, which feature a subordinate clause that acts as a complement to the fear verb in the main clause. In simp

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Struve, Timothy James. "Readdressing the Quechua-Aru Contact Proposal: Historical and Lexical Perspectives." The Ohio State University, 2014. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1399026678.

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Alexander, David B. "The Spanish postnominal demonstrative in synchrony and diachrony." Columbus, Ohio : Ohio State University, 2007. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=osu1189813638.

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Klein-Arendt, Reinhard. "The iron crafts of the Swahili from the perspective of historical semantics." Universitätsbibliothek Leipzig, 2012. http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:15-qucosa-91796.

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To this day research in pre-colonial Swahili history has only taken casual notice of the role of Swahili crafts. This applies in particular to blacksmithing and iron smelting. Probably iron smelting were among the driving factors of cultural contact and of the development of economical structures on the Swahili Coast. Kusimba postulates that metallurgy played an important role for cultural change within Swahili polities. Foreign trade in iron products to other parts of the Indian Ocean fostered local exchange systems that linked the East African settlements on the Coast to each other and the i

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Rees, Daniel A. "Towards Proto-Persian an Optimality Theoretic historical reconstruction /." Connect to Electronic Thesis (ProQuest) Connect to Electronic Thesis (CONTENTdm), 2008. http://worldcat.org/oclc/436441601/viewonline.

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Leung, Wai-mun. "On the synchrony and diachrony of sentence-final particles : the case of wo in Cantonese." Click to view the E-thesis via HKUTO, 2006. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record/B3622358X.

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Adelaar, Willem. "Historical Trajectory of the Quechuan Linguistic Family and its Relations to the Aimaran Linguistic Family." Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, 2012. http://repositorio.pucp.edu.pe/index/handle/123456789/113387.

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This article seeks to present the principal stages of the prehistory and history of the Quechuan language family in its interaction with the Aimaran family. It reconstructs a plausible scenario for a unique, intensive process of linguistic convergence that underlies the protolanguages of both families. From there on, it traces the principal developments that characterize the history of the Quechuan linguistic family, such as the initial split in two main branches, Quechua I and Quechua II (following Torero 1964), as well as further divisions that subsequently affected the Quechua II branch (Ca

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Fagborun, Joel Gbenga. "The analysis of linguistic innovation : historical and grammatical perspectives on English loan-translations and the Yoruba Koine." Thesis, University of York, 1991. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.292520.

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Hope, J. R. "Socio-historical linguistic evidence for the authorship of renaissance plays : test cases in the Shakespeare, Fletcher, and Massinger canons." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 1990. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.276191.

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Bergman, Nicklas. "Unsupervised Normalisation of Historical Spelling : A Multilingual Evaluation." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Institutionen för lingvistik och filologi, 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-362869.

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Historical texts are an important resource for researchers in the humanities. However, standard NLP tools typically perform poorly on them, mainly due to the spelling variations present in such texts. One possible solution is to normalise the spelling variations to equivalent contemporary word forms before using standard tools. Weighted edit distance has previously been used for such normalisation, improving over the results of algorithms based on standard edit distance. Aligned training data is needed to extract weights, but there is a lack of such data. An unsupervised method for extracting

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Lindström, Therese. "The history of the concept of grammaticalisation." Doctoral thesis, University of Sheffield, 2004. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-55932.

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The present thesis discusses the history and meaning of the term and concept called grammaticalisation. Linguists usually ascribe the coinage of the term grammaticalisation to Antoine Meillet (1866-1936), who allegedly played a vital role in the history of grammaticalisation. It is also widely acknowledged that grammaticalisation was in some way 'revived' during the 1970s, and that Talmy Givón had an important role in this, as demonstrated by the popularity of the saying 'Today’s morphology is yesterday’s syntax' (taken from one of his articles). I show that Meillet wrote little about grammati

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Spaargaren, Magdalena Jeannette. "Change in obstruent laryngeal specifications in English : historical and theoretical phonology." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/4079.

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Two traditions have arisen from an ongoing debate concerning cross-linguistic laryngeal representations in series of obstruents. The first, ‘traditional’ approach assumes universally identical laryngeal representations: /p, t, k/ are unspecified and /b, d, g/ carry |voice|. The second, Laryngeal Realism (LR), assumes underlyingly different representations between languages: ‘aspiration languages’ have unspecified /b, d, g/, and /p, t, k/ specified for |spread|. ‘Voice languages’ have unspecified /p, t, k/, and /b, d, g/ specified for |voice|. In this thesis, I use historical data in order to d

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Leung, Wai-mun, and 梁慧敏. "On the synchrony and diachrony of sentence-final particles: the caseof wo in Cantonese." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2006. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B3622358X.

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Scrivner, Olga B. "A Probabilistic Approach in Historical Linguistics Word Order Change in Infinitival Clauses| from Latin to Old French." Thesis, Indiana University, 2015. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3714098.

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<p> This thesis investigates word order change in infinitival clauses from Object-Verb (OV) to Verb-Object (VO) in the history of Latin and Old French. By applying a variationist approach, I examine a synchronic word order variation in each stage of language change, from which I infer the character, periodization and constraints of diachronic variation. I also show that in discourse-configurational languages, such as Latin and Early Old French, it is possible to identify pragmatically neutral contexts by using information structure annotation. I further argue that by mapping pragmatic cate

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Orbeidat, M. S. "Expressionalization in standard Arabic : A study in the light of historical development of Arabic grammar, rhetoric, jurisprudence and modern approaches." Thesis, University of Exeter, 1989. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.234557.

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Johansson, Kajsa. "Transcription of Historical Encrypted Manuscripts : Evaluation of an automatic interactive transcription tool." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Institutionen för lingvistik och filologi, 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-385254.

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Countless of historical sources are saved in national libraries and archives all over the world and contain important information about our history. Some of these sources are encrypted to prevent people from reading it. This thesis examines a semi-automated Interactive transcription Tool based on unsupervised learning without any labelled training data that has been developed for transcription of encrypted sources and compares it to manual transcription. The interactive transcription tool is based on handwritten text recognition techniques and the system identifies cluster of symbols based on

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Pettersson, Eva. "Spelling Normalisation and Linguistic Analysis of Historical Text for Information Extraction." Doctoral thesis, Uppsala universitet, Institutionen för lingvistik och filologi, 2016. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-269753.

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Historical text constitutes a rich source of information for historians and other researchers in humanities. Many texts are however not available in an electronic format, and even if they are, there is a lack of NLP tools designed to handle historical text. In my thesis, I aim to provide a generic workflow for automatic linguistic analysis and information extraction from historical text, with spelling normalisation as a core component in the pipeline. In the spelling normalisation step, the historical input text is automatically normalised to a more modern spelling, enabling the use of existin

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Slobodchikoff, Tatyana G. "The Slavic Dual: Morphosyntactic Feature Economy as a Factor in Language Change." Diss., The University of Arizona, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/297021.

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Dual number marked on personal pronouns and verbal agreement suffixes disappeared in the majority of Slavic languages except for three - Slovenian, Upper Sorbian, and Lower Sorbian. Previous studies do not provide a principled account why (i) the monomorphemic dual was reanalyzed as bimorphemic in Slovenian, Upper, and Lower Sorbian, and why (ii) it was replaced by the plural in the majority of Slavic languages including Russian and Kashubian. In this dissertation, I investigate diachronic changes in the morphosyntactic category of the Slavic dual which occurred in the 11th-15th centuries. In

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Hung, Yueh-Nu. "What is writing and what is Chinese writing: A historical, linguistic, and social literacies perspective." Diss., The University of Arizona, 2000. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/280352.

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Many misconceptions and misunderstandings about what writing is pervade in the field of literacy research and practice, and often school children from almost every household bear the brunt of misguided literacy research and inappropriate literacy practice. This dissertation examined the nature of written language generally and the nature of Chinese writing specifically from historical, linguistic, and social literacies perspectives. The problems with the evolutionary concept of writing development are discussed in depth. Several possible explanations for this evolutionary account of writing ar

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Renfei, Han. "Using Attention-based Sequence-to-Sequence Neural Networks for Transcription of Historical Cipher Documents." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Institutionen för lingvistik och filologi, 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-420322.

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Encrypted historical manuscripts (also called ciphers), containing encoded information, provides a useful resource for giving new insight into our history. Transcribing these manuscripts from image format to computer readable format is a necessary step for decrypting them. In this thesis project, we explore automatic approaches of Hand Written Text Recognition (HTR) for cipher image transcription line by line.In this thesis project, We applied an attention-based Sequence-to-Sequence (Seq2Seq) model for the automatic transcription of ciphers with three different writing systems. We tested/devel

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Omar, Shalina. "Being Japanese in English: The Social and Functional Role of English Loanwords in Japanese." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2015. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/scripps_theses/620.

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This thesis investigates native speaker attitudes towards English loanwords in Japanese and the ways in which these loanwords are used. The imperialism and hegemony of English can often cause anger or worry for the preservation of the cultural identity of the borrowing language. However, the results from a 9-page sociolinguistic questionnaire suggest that English loanwords are overwhelmingly seen as useful and necessary and are generally associated with positive attitudes. Additionally, many native Japanese speakers feel that loanwords provide more options for expression, both functionally and

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Doty, Christopher, and Christopher Doty. "A Reassessment of the Genetic Classification of Miluk Coos." Thesis, University of Oregon, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/1794/12404.

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This work presents the first in-depth analysis of Miluk Coos, a language previously spoken on the southern Oregon Coast. Miluk is normally classified as a member of the Oregon Coast Penutian group, a sub-branch of the Penutian phylum. However, Miluk demonstrates a number of affinities with the Salish language family. These similarities can be seen in a variety of domains. There are morphosyntactic features in Miluk which appear to resemble phenomena seen in Salishan languages. Additionally, some apparent cognates with Proto-Salish are discussed, including some which seem to exhibit regular cor

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Jarad, Najib Isma'il. "The origin and development of 'for'-infinitives." Thesis, Bangor University, 1997. https://research.bangor.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/the-origin-and-development-of-forinfinitives(677bb38a-4c89-46f8-920b-84c86f14095a).html.

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This thesis is primarily concerned with the developments that have taken place in infinitival constructions in the late Old English, Middle English, and Modern English periods. It is an investigation into the status of Old English to-infinitive, the origin, nature, and distribution offor in Middle English (for)to-infinitival constructions, and the origin and reanalysis offor as a complementiser in the Modern English [for DP to VP] construction. In chapter one, we introduce some of the basic notions of the Minimalist Program outlined in Chornsky (1993,1995)). The airn of chapter two is to accou

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Carneiro, Zenaide de Oliveira Novais. "Cartas brasileiras (1809-1904) : um estudo linguistico-filologico." [s.n.], 2005. http://repositorio.unicamp.br/jspui/handle/REPOSIP/270516.

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Orientador: Charlotte Marie Chamberlland Galves<br>Tese (doutorado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Estudos da Linguagem<br>Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-06T22:19:42Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Carneiro_ZenaidedeOliveiraNovais_D.pdf: 73952119 bytes, checksum: 5a0cdb555095fd47ea76df4c661fbfae (MD5) Previous issue date: 2005<br>Resumo: Tento mostrar a essencialidade da integração entre filologia e história para a seleção de amostras de língua externa, o material empírico para estudos lingüísticos diacrôrucos. As fases da elaboração da pesquisa foram as seguintes: (i) s

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Bikelis, Edgard Santana. "O \'sistema de vogais\' no Mémoire de Ferdinand de Saussure (1879): uma proposta de tradução." Universidade de São Paulo, 2017. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/8/8139/tde-14082017-125032/.

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Ferdinand de Saussure (1857-1913) é conhecido especialmente por ser o autor do Curso de Linguística Geral de 1916, obra vista, pelas gerações que o sucederam, como a fundadora tanto do chamado estruturalismo linguístico, como também da Linguística contemporânea. O Curso, como se sabe, foi editado a partir das notas feitas por seus alunos dos três cursos de linguística geral, proferidos por ele, entre 1907 e 1911, na Universidade de Genebra, e é como autor dessa obra que Saussure é reconhecido no movimento estruturalista do século XX. Em vida, no entanto, seu reconhecimento se deu em grande par

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Hoogervorst, Tom Gunnar. "Southeast Asia in the ancient Indian Ocean world : combining historical linguistic and archaeological approaches." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2012. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:b8b47816-7184-42ab-958e-026bc3431ea3.

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This thesis casts a new light on the role of Southeast Asia in the ancient Indian Ocean World. It brings together data and approaches from archaeology and historical linguistics to examine cultural and language contact between Southeast Asia and South Asia, East Africa and the Middle East. The interdisciplinary approach employed in this study reveals that insular Southeast Asian seafarers, traders and settlers had impacted on these parts of the world in pre-modern times through the transmission of numerous biological and cultural items. It is further demonstrated that the words used for these

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Edelen, Andrew. "Reindeer Etymologies in the Circumpolar North." OpenSIUC, 2011. https://opensiuc.lib.siu.edu/theses/548.

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Despite more than a century of anthropological research, the origins of reindeer domestication remain elusive. A range of theories has been proposed as to the identity/identities of the first people(s) to tame reindeer for human use, and of the conceptual origins of reindeer husbandry (e.g. as an alternative to cattle, horses, dogs, etc.). While only a few of these theories still have adherents, none can be said to be demonstrated. This thesis seeks to contribute to the solving of this question by examining the origins of reindeer terminology--those words in the the many circumpolar language

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Fondow, Steven Richard. "Spanish Velar-insertion and Analogy: A Usage-based Diachronic Analysis." The Ohio State University, 2010. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1290438177.

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