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Journal articles on the topic "Linguistic variation theory"

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Sgall, Petr, and Hans-Heinrich Lieb. "Linguistic Variables: Towards a Unified Theory of Linguistic Variation." Language 71, no. 1 (March 1995): 169. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/415975.

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Bokamba, Eyamba G. "Code-mixing, language variation, and linguistic theory:." Lingua 76, no. 1 (September 1988): 21–62. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0024-3841(88)90017-4.

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Manolessou, Io. "On historical linguistics, linguistic variation and Medieval Greek." Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies 32, no. 1 (March 2008): 63–79. http://dx.doi.org/10.1179/030701308x259679.

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ADGER, DAVID, and GRAEME TROUSDALE. "Variation in English syntax: theoretical implications." English Language and Linguistics 11, no. 2 (July 2007): 261–78. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1360674307002250.

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This article provides an overview of the relationship between studies of syntactic variation in dialects of English and theoretical accounts of language structure. In the first section of the article, we provide a discussion of the place of syntactic variation within various subdisciplines of linguistic enquiry: we address issues such as I- and E-language, the place of Standard English in linguistic theory, and interfaces between traditional dialectology, variationist sociolinguistics, and theoretical linguistics. These interfaces suggest the need for a clarification of the nature and status of the (morpho)syntactic variable, which we provide in section 3; and in section 4, we examine the way in which (morpho)syntactic variation is treated within a number of theoretical models – for instance, Principles and Parameters theory, HPSG, OT, and cognitive linguistics (including Word Grammar and Construction Grammar) – all of which feature in the other articles in this special issue.

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Robert, Stéphane. "The challenge of polygrammaticalization for linguistic theory." Cognitive Linguistic Studies 5, no. 1 (August 30, 2018): 106–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/cogls.00015.rob.

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Abstract Transcategorial morphemes share the common ability to be used synchronically across different syntactic categories (synchronic grammaticalization). This paper first shows that transcategoriality is a general property of linguistic systems, variously exploited by languages, then addresses the theoretical questions raised by these morphemes. A new model accounting for this transcategorial functioning, named “fractal grammar”, is proposed and illustrated by various examples. The analysis for this particular functioning relates the polysemy of these morphemes to their syntactic flexibility in a dynamic way: the variation of the syntactic scope of the morpheme (“fractal functioning”) is triggered by its environment and produces its polysemy (variation of the semantic scope). Fractal grammar is thus defined by two basic mechanisms: the construal of a common image-schema (“scale invariance”), accounting for the unity of the morpheme, and the activation of “scale (or level) properties”, accounting for the semantic and syntactic variations. A typological sketch of transcategoriality is then sketched, in relation to the strategies used by linguistic systems for the distribution of grammatical information. Three types of transcategorial strategies are distinguished: “oriented”, “generic”, and “functional” transcategoriality. The status of linguistic categories is then discussed in the light of the analysis of these particular morphemes.

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Guy, Gregory R. "Violable is variable: Optimality theory and linguistic variation." Language Variation and Change 9, no. 3 (October 1997): 333–47. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0954394500001952.

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ABSTRACTOptimality theory (OT) (McCarthy & Prince, 1993; Prince & Smolensky, 1993) has been proposed as a constraint-based theory of phonology in which the phonological facts of each language are accounted for by a language-specific ordering of a universal inventory of constraints. The constraints, expressing desirable (i.e., optimal) phonological states, evaluate possible candidate forms, selecting the optimal output. Any constraint may be violated by a surface form if it is overridden by a higherranked constraint; the ordinal sequence of constraints provides a weak quantification of constraint effects. Variability has been treated within OT by varying constraint orders. This model is analogous in several important respects to the variable rule model (VR) of Labov (1969) and Cedergren and Sankoff (1974). In VR, variable constraints express desirable phonological states which are variably realized on the surface, when not overridden by other constraints; constraints are probabilistically quantified. This article compares the OT and VR models, arguing that the VR model is superior on theoretical and empirical grounds: constraint effects in VR are stable, transparent, and learnable. Moreover, the probabilistic treatment of constraint effects allows VR to model successfully cases in which multiple violations of a single constraint lead to a cumulative reduction in likelihood of a form; such cases cannot be efficiently treated in OT.

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van Bibber, Stephen, Glenn Gilbert, and J. K. Chambers. "Sociolinguistic Theory: Linguistic Variation and Its Social Significance." Language 72, no. 3 (September 1996): 617. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/416280.

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Schneider, Edgar W. "Sociolinguistic Theory: Linguistic Variation and Its Social Significance." Journal of English Linguistics 27, no. 1 (March 1999): 49–56. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/00754249922004426.

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Jaafar, Mohammad Fadzeli, and Norsimah Mat Awal. "Variasi Linguistik di Greater KL (Linguistic Variation in Greater KL)." GEMA Online® Journal of Language Studies 20, no. 2 (May 22, 2020): 83–95. http://dx.doi.org/10.17576/gema-2020-2002-05.

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Meechan, Marjory, and Michele Foley. "On resolving disagreement: Linguistic theory and variation – There's bridges." Language Variation and Change 6, no. 1 (March 1994): 63–85. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0954394500001587.

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ABSTRACTStudies of concord variation in English have found subject-verb concord to be particularly low in existential sentences such as There's bridges. Noting that these sentences are unusual because the subject NP is postverbal and is generally indefinite, we hypothesized that the unusual concord variation pattern was a result of structural differences associated with the restriction on the type of determiners preceding the postverbal NP. Using variationist methodology, we analyzed natural speech data from 31 speakers of standard Canadian English and found an overwhelming preference for singular agreement in existentials. Contrary to our predictions, this was not linked to a determiner-based structural distinction, but rather to the form of the copula (i.e., full or clitic) and the speaker's level of education. Our findings have implications for those theoretical studies of existentials that assume concord, because the effect of education suggests that this assumption reflects the bias of the higher educational level of the researchers.

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Caravedo, Rocío. "Ch. J. Bailey. Variation and linguistic theory, Virginia (Center for Applied Linguistics) 1973, 162 pp." Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, 2013. http://repositorio.pucp.edu.pe/index/handle/123456789/101837.

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Johnstone, M. J. "The central role of variation and change in linguistic theory." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2006. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.605675.

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In this thesis I aim to clarify the implications of variation and change for linguistic theory: to examine how linguists deal with variability and to show the implications of their theoretical choices. Firstly, I discuss in detail what linguistic theories are trying to achieve in terms of description and explanation, and how they should deal with variability. Much modern linguistic theory idealizes languages as invariant states, and goes beyond this to look for language universals. It is also commonly assumed that linguistics should be a study of psychological reality. I show that linguists often adopt these idealizations without explicitly discussing the relation between invariant states and variation, universals and tendencies, the psychological and the non-psychological, even when such theories are used to account for variation and change. I show how these unexamined assumptions have led to over-complex, uninsightful models and inappropriate explanations, both for states and for changes. Following this theoretical discussion, my first case study examines Optimality Theory phonology. I argue that incorrect assumptions about synchronic universals have led to unnecessary and uninsightful elaborations of the theory. Many patterns are better characterised and explained in terms of diachronic changes, and we need to consider carefully the interaction between synchrony and diachrony. As well as qualitative variation, I also examine analyses of quantitative variation, showing that they are too powerful and have difficulties with explanation. Work on quantitative variation in syntax has similar problems with statistical significance and external explanation. My second case study considers definiteness marking in Scandinavian noun phrases. I examine how three different synchronic theories (HPSG, OT and minimalist) analyse the variation between languages, and conclude that they are either too loose or too restrictive to be particularly insightful. I then trace the diachronic development of the languages and suggest that it is more revealing to take a historical view with less abstract representations, and that frequency of usage is also significant for explaining later categorical synchronic patterns. I conclude that progress in linguistics requires a broad perspective which compares alternative models and considers how they can be motivated in the light of variation, change, and external explanation.

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Trousdale, Graeme Murray. "Variation and (socio)linguistic theory : a case study of Tyneside English." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2000. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/22698.

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This thesis is concerned with the relationship between (a) patterns of sociolinguistic variation and (b) issues in theoretical linguistics. The patterns of sociolinguistic variation are derived from data collected from twenty speakers of Tyneside English. The recordings of the speakers were made broadly following a social network model, divided to sample the speech community along parameters of age and gender. The issues in theoretical linguistics concern the semantics and (morpho)syntax of modal verbs in English, and the phonological behaviour of the oral stops in specific linguistic environments. The thesis aims to show how a holistic approach to variation in the speech community, informed by knowledge of both sociolinguistic and formal linguistic theory, can best account for the data. The introduction expands on the aims of this thesis, and provides a more detailed synopsis of the materials in each chapter than is given in this abstract. Chapter 1 briefly summarises certain aspects of the historical evolution of the Tyneside English (TE) accent, along with some analysis of TE syntactic and morphological patterns, to set the main discussion of the variables in the following chapters within a wider context. Chapter 2 provides a discussion of the semantics and (morpho) syntax of the modal verbs in standard English, with some commentary on relevant aspects of the historical evolution of the modals, which draws on theoretical aspects of both the Principles-and-Parameters and Minimalist frameworks. Chapter 3 examines patterns of glottalisation and glottaling in English, with specific reference to previous studies of TE, as well as to relevant work in current phonological theory, particularly Lexical and Metrical Phonology, along with a selective investigation into the historical evolution of these phenomena in TE (using material from the Survey of English Dialects) and other varieties of British English. Chapter 4 considers the issue of gender-based variation and its implications for linguistic maintenance and change. Chapter 5 presents a detailed discussion of the methodology used for the collection of data for this thesis, as well as an analysis of the data itself, and how these data correlate with the various social groups.

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Moraes, Jorge Viana de. "Unidade na diversidade: as ideias de Serafim da Silva Neto como subsídios para a constituição de uma teoria da variação linguística." Universidade de São Paulo, 2015. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/8/8142/tde-23032016-131430/.

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O objetivo deste trabalho é demonstrar que no conjunto de sua obra Serafim da Silva Neto (1917-1960) apresenta subsídios para a constituição de uma teoria sobre a variação e a mudança linguística, entre os anos 40 e 50 do século XX, portanto, 20 anos antes e independentemente dos estudos a que modernamente denominamos Sociolinguística, disciplina autônoma em que se investigam as relações da língua com a sociedade. Nossa tese é a de que Serafim da Silva Neto elaborou em sua obra conceitos relacionados à variação e à mudança linguística, tendo como referência as três áreas de investigação a que esteve ligado: a Filologia Românica; a Crítica Textual (edição de textos medievais portugueses) e o conhecimento de Gramáticas Antigas, tanto latinas como portuguesas. Neste sentido, o trabalho está dividido em cinco capítulos. No capítulo um tratamos de questões teórico-metodológicas adotadas. Do segundo ao quarto capítulos, organizamos o trabalho de forma a dar conhecimento a respeito dessas três áreas de atuação do filólogo carioca, apresentando os autores citados que mais contribuíram para a construção de conceitos variacionistas na sua obra. Com isso, procuramos explorar, na medida do possível, o horizonte de retrospecção de Silva Neto para, à luz da história, esclarecer como ele construiu seus conceitos a respeito da variação e mudança linguística. O quinto capítulo apresenta a aproximação entre Silva Neto, Hugo Schuchardt (1842-1927), linguista e romanista alemão, atuante no final do século XIX e início do XX, ostensivamente presente em seu horizonte de retrospecção, e William Labov (nascido em 1927), principal nome de articulação da Teoria da Variação Linguística, organizador da Sociolinguística, enquanto disciplina linguística e líder desse campo de pesquisa, para demonstrar que a proximidade de alguns conceitos teóricos presentes nas suas obras não é mero acaso. Embora temporal e espacialmente separados e filiados a correntes teóricas e metodológicas distintas, o trabalho desses autores contribui para a construção do conhecimento sobre a variação e mudança linguísticas, ainda que de forma não linear e assistemática, alcançando resultados significativos para o desenvolvimento das pesquisas nas ciências da linguagem, em diferentes campos de atuação. Buscamos, deste modo, estabelecer uma possível causalidade entre o pensamento crítico dos três autores, articulados por uma complexa rede de referências, incluindo aí Uriel Weinreich (1926-1967), em cuja obra poderíamos encontrar uma das possíveis explicações para a relação entre os autores apontados, embora ela não seja a única. Ao longo do trabalho, fazemos incursões pelos domínios da Gramaticografia portuguesa e latina, pela Crítica Textual, pela Filologia Românica, e pela Sociolinguística contemporânea, levantando subsídios que comprovem nossa tese. Discutem-se alguns conceitos linguísticos e gramaticais, analisados na perspectiva da dimensão temporal, isto é, na longa duração do tempo, o que o inscreve no contexto da História das Ideias Linguísticas, segundo o modelo de Sylvain Auroux (1992, 1998, 2006, 2008); Colombat (2007) e Colombat, Fournier e Puech (2010).
The aim of this study is to demonstrate that in his whole work, Serafim da Silva Neto presents data for the configuration of a theory of linguistic variation and change, between the years 40 and 50 of the 20th century, therefore 20 years before, and independently of the modern studies called Sociolinguistics, autonomous subject in which we investigate the relations between language and society. Our thesis is that Serafim da Silva Neto has developed, in his work, concepts related to linguistic variation and change, having as reference the three areas of research which he was connected to: Romance Philology; Textual Criticism (edition of Portuguese medieval texts) and the knowledge of Old Grammars such as Latin and Portuguese. In this sense, this work is divided into five chapters. In the first chapter, we deal with adopted theoretical and methodological issues. From second to fifth chapters, we organize this work in order to inform about these three areas of the philologist action, with the aforementioned authors who contributed to the construction of variations concepts in his works studied in a way as to provide knowledge about these three areas of interest of the philologist from Rio de Janeiro. Thus, we have tried to exploit, as far as possible, the retrospective horizons of this author so that, in the light of history, be able to explain how he built his concepts about linguistic variation and change. The fifth chapter presents the approach between Silva Neto, Hugo Schuchardt (1842-1927), linguist and German Romanist, active in the late 19th century and early 20th century, noticeably present in his retrospective horizons, and William Labov (born in 1927), main name of the Theory of Language Variation and organizer of Sociolinguistics as a Linguistic discipline, to demonstrate that the proximity of some theoretical concepts presented in his works is no accident. Although temporally and spatially separated, and affiliated to different theoretical and methodological currents, the work of these authors contributes to the construction of knowledge about the language variation and change, albeit in a non-linear and unsystematic way, achieving significant results for the development of research in the sciences of language in different fields. We sought, therefore, to establish a possible causal link between the critical thinking of the three authors, joined by a complex network of references, including around Uriel Weinreich (1926-1967), in whose work it could find a possible explanation for the connection between the authors highlighted, although it is not the only one elucidation. Throughout this study, we have, therefore, done research about Latin-Portuguese Grammaticography, Textual Criticism, Romance Philology and Contemporary Sociolinguistics, in such a way as to shed light upon the whole of this complex issue and, consequently, raising data to prove our thesis. In this work, we discuss some linguistic and grammatical concepts, analyzed from the perspective of the temporal dimension, that is, in the long duration of time, which places it in the context of the History of Linguistic Ideas, following the model of Sylvain Auroux (1992, 1998, 2006, 2008); Colombat (2007) and Colombat, Fournier and Puech (2010).

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Oliveira, Fernando Augusto de Lima. "A alternância entre o futuro do pretérito e o pretérito imperfeito do indicativo na oração principal em contextos hipotéticos na fala de alagoanos." Universidade Federal de Alagoas, 2010. http://repositorio.ufal.br/handle/riufal/485.

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The goal of this work is the study of the alternation between two verb tenses Futuro do Pretérito ( Future of Past Tense) and Pretérito Imperfeito of the Indicativo (Imperfect Tense) in main clauses of hypothetical contexts in the speech of alagoanos (people who live in Alagoas, in the northeast of Brazil). We adopt as the theoretical and methodological framework the theory of Linguistic Variation (LABOV, 1972). The alternation between these two verb tenses becomes possible because of the fact that these tenses share the property to refer to unfinished/unbounded events/actions. What puzzles us is the reason(s) that makes a speaker choose one or another verb tense. We start from the hypothesis that the Imperfect Tense supersedes the Future of Past Tense in main clauses of hypothetical contexts of spoken language. In this dissertation we intend to verify what linguistic and non-linguistic variables are statistically significant in terms of VARBRUL for the dependent variable. For this purpose, we selected as external factors age, gender and educational level; and as internal factors we selected the formal parallelism and the order of the clause.
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O presente trabalho tem como objeto de estudo a variação entre o futuro do pretérito (FP) e o pretérito imperfeito do indicativo (PII) na oração principal em contextos hipotéticos na fala de alagoanos. Seguimos como pressuposto teórico/metodológico o da Teoria da Variação Linguística, representado por William Labov (1972), uma vez que a variação é algo inerente à língua, já que ela é indissociável da comunidade que a fala e não existe comunidade linguística homogênea (BELINE, 2003). A alternância entre os tempos verbais (FP) e (PII) se torna possível pelo fato de esses verbos compartilharem a possibilidade de manifestar traços de aspecto inconcluso. O que nos intriga é (são) o (s) motivo (s) que leva (m) o falante a optar por uma forma ou outra. Partimos da hipótese de que o (PII) suplanta o (FP) na oração principal em contextos hipotéticos, na língua falada. Nesta dissertação buscamos, portanto, verificar quais variáveis linguísticas e não linguísticas são estatisticamente significativas na rodagem do VARBRUL para a variável dependente. Para tanto, selecionamos como fatores externos: a idade, o sexo e a escolaridade; e como fatores internos: o paralelismo formal e a ordem da sentença.

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Lucini, Luciana. "Hipocorização sob a perspectiva variacionista." reponame:Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da UFRGS, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10183/28762.

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Esta pesquisa tratará de examinar o fenômeno de Hipocorização, processo de formação de hipocorísticos, em dados coletados sob perspectiva da Teoria da Variação Linguística, modelo sociolinguístico Laboviana. Hipocorístico, neste trabalho, será entendido como um nome próprio de pessoa que é utilizado de forma reduzida em termos de sílabas e/ou sons. Por exemplo, o nome ‘Isabel’, que pode ser dito como ‘Isa’ ou ‘Bel’, permite dois hipocorísticos. O objetivo primordial desta dissertação é realizar um estudo sobre a Hipocorização de nomes próprios de pessoas sob a perspectiva variacionista e examinar se o fenômeno consiste em uma regra variável. Temos as seguintes hipóteses: o processo de Hipocorização mais utilizado é o padrão que realiza a permanência do início da palavra; a sílaba tônica da palavra permanece no hipocorístico; falantes do sexo feminino utilizam mais a forma reduzida dos nomes próprios; a idade dos falantes não é um fator relevante para a aplicação dos hipocorísticos. Para alcançarmos nosso objetivo principal e para confirmarmos, ou não, nossas hipóteses, utilizaremos o pacote computacional Varbrul – versão Goldvarb e um corpus formado a partir de material coletado com 160 estudantes, de idades entre dez (10) a dezessete (17) anos, de uma escola privada confessional de classe média, na cidade de Porto Alegre. Nossa variável dependente é a aplicação ou não de formas reduzidas de nomes próprios de pessoas, denominadas como Hipocorístico.
This research will try to examine the Hypocorization phenomenon, a process of formation of hypocoristics, with data collected under the Linguistic Variation Theory perspective, from a Laboviana sociolinguistic model. Hypocoristic, in this work, is understood as a person’s proper name which is used in a reduced form both syllables and/or sounds. For example, the name “Isabel”, allows two hypocoristics, it can be said either “Isa” or “Bel”. The primordial objective of this master thesis is to carry through a study on the Hypocorization of people’s proper names under the variationist perspective and to examine if the phenomenon consists of a changeable rule. We have the following hypotheses: the most used Hypocorization process is the type that chooses the beginning of the word; the tonic syllable of the word remains in the hypocoristic. Reduced forms of proper names are more used by female speakers. The age of the speakers is not a relevant factor for the application of the hypocoristic. To reach our principal objective and to confirm, or not, our hypotheses, will be used the Varbrul software – GoldVarb version and a corpus formed with the material collected from 160 students, aged from ten (10) to seventeen (17) years, coming from a middle class confessional private school of the city of Porto Alegre. Our dependent variable is the application or not of the reduced forms of people’s proper names, denominate as Hypocoristic.

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Cornillon, Jeanne. "On interpretive constraints and expletives : the case of the standard French 'ne' element." Thesis, SOAS, University of London, 1998. http://eprints.soas.ac.uk/28500/.

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This thesis studies the particle ne in Standard French as it appears in the ne...pas/personne/rien and the ne...queXP structures. Based on the assumptions of a syntactic theory as developed in the Principles and Parameters, the thesis makes the following main claims: 1. Ne is an expletive. Its function is to satisfy a structural requirement on both the expression of sentence negation and association with focus. It is semantically defective, but it constrains the interpretation of the associate term it combines with (scope-marker function). 2. Some cross linguistic variations in the expression of sentence negation subsumed under a negative concord account are due to the special status of m as an expletive together with the requirement that each object must receive an independent interpretation at the interface with the Conceptual-Intentional system. 3. In the association with focus structure ne.queXP, the meaning of ne...que which is equivalent to [[only]] is not syntactically derived by combining a negative operator and an operator with the meaning of [[other than]], but built in the lexical element que. The unified account of ne in both the sentence negation and association with focus structures makes various empirical predictions. Ne, as a semantically defective element, cannot be free standing combining instead with a denotating element like pas or que, nor can it rescue a negative phrase inside an island although the ne...pas/personne/rien complex does. Ne, as a (clausal) scope marker, precludes local scope interpretations of its negative associates and the element que. Consequently, constituent negation is expressed by pas/personne/rien alone. The que element which combines with ne is excluded from positions where focus particles typically have local scope. In conclusion, cross linguistic variations cannot be reduced to structural constraints, interpretive requirements must also be taken into consideration.

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Courriol, Florence. "Pour une étude traductologique du plurilinguisme littéraire : la traduction française de l'insertion du dialecte dans le récit italien contemporain." Thesis, Dijon, 2015. http://www.theses.fr/2015DIJOL027/document.

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Cette thèse se propose d'étudier la présence et la fonction des insertions dialectales dans les oeuvres littéraires italiennes contemporaines. Se focalisant sur les genres narratifs (prose et nouvelle) où le phénomène du plurilinguisme est le plus marqué, l'étude se concentre sur quatre auteurs (Andrea Camilleri, Salvatore Niffoi, Laura Pariani et Andrej Longo) chez qui le mélange vernaculaire / italien est le plus représentatif. Après avoir évoqué la situation linguistique particulière de l'Italie, ce travail de recherche analyse cette langue mêlant deux systèmes linguistiques différents sous lřangle de la traduction pour pouvoir dresser un parallèle entre les situations italienne et française. C'est le problème de la restitution de la langue mêlée, laquelle renvoie à un ancrage culturel et géographique très fort, qui est au centre de cette étude. Elle interroge la possibilité d'une recréation du même effet de lecture dans une culture cible qui ne connaît pas la même situation de diglossie. Nous voulons toutefois montrer, par l'analyse des traductions existantes, que le recours à un parler régional hexagonal peut être à même de restituer l'effet de défamiliarisation provoqué à la lecture des textes sources
This PhD thesis examines Italian contemporary literary works (novels and short stories) in which dialect is used as a linguistic variety in combination with the national Italian idiom. The analysis is conducted through the works of four Italian writers, in which multilingualism is particularly significant: Andrea Camilleri, Salvatore Niffoi, Laura Pariani and Andrej Longo. Taking into account the complex linguistic situation of Italy, the thesis focuses on the translation of these works characterized by the co-existence of two different linguistic systems. Through an examination of the colourful mixture of linguistic varieties and the function of dialect in these contemporary texts, the thesis aims to make a contribution to the field of Translation Studies and of History of modern and contemporary Italian Literature (examining in particular linguistic and stylistic aspects). It begs the question of the reproducibility of the linguistic mosaic created by these Italian authors in their French translations. Translation of dialect and linguistic varieties, intended as a non-standard language usage in contemporary Italian literature, represents a challenge for countries (in this case France) in which diglossia has disappeared. However, the author argues that the use of certain regional French dialects enables to recreate the defamiliarization effect of the original Italian texts

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Pulleyblank, Douglas, Ping Jiang-King, Myles Leitch, and Nike Ola. "Typological Variation Through Constraint Rankings: Low Vowels in Tongue Root Harmony." Department of Linguistics, University of Arizona (Tucson, AZ), 1995. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/227278.

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One of the fundamental claims of Optimality Theory is that by varying the rankings of universal constraints, different grammars result (Prince & Smolensky 1993). Just as the ranking A » B should define an occurring language, so should the ranking B ≫ A. In this paper, we examine this claim in the domain of tongue root harmony systems, specifically with respect to the behaviour of low vowels. We examine cases where the relative ranking of faithfulness conditions and alignment conditions is varied with respect to substantive conditions governing low vowels. Our primary conclusions are twofold. First, we find that the types of typological variation expected to occur do occur; six different types of harmony patterns are presented. Second, we note that a large degree of variation is attested in a very narrowly defined area of the phonology. This paper begins by a basic discussion of the formal constraints assumed to govern vowel harmony, followed by a discussion of a case where low vowels harmonise in a manner comparable to other vowels (Degema). We then turn to six cases (five languages) where we observe asymmetric behaviour. First, we discuss cases involving constraints against feature "insertion" and feature "spreading ", constraints of the faithfulness family (Yoruba, Konni, Ngbaka-Ma'bo). Second, we turn to cases involving constraints of the alignment family, cases where harmony exhibits directional asymmetries (Ngbaka-Ma'bo, Emalhe, Maasai).

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Engels, Eva. "Adverb placement an optimality theoretic approach /." Phd thesis, [S.l. : s.n.], 2004. http://deposit.ddb.de/cgi-bin/dokserv?idn=974371874.

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Books on the topic "Linguistic variation theory"

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Linguistic variation: Confronting fact and theory. New York: Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2014.

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Linguistic variables: Towards a unified theory of linguistic variation. Amsterdam: J. Benjamins, 1993.

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Sociolinguistic theory: Linguistic variation and its social significance. Cambridge, Mass: Blackwell, 1995.

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Sociolinguistic theory: Linguistic variation and its social significance. 2nd ed. Oxford: Blackwell, 2003.

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Sociolinguistic theory: Linguistic variation and its social significance. Malden, MA: Blackwell, 2008.

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Jackson, Michel Tah Tung. Phonetic theory and cross-linguistic variation in vowel articulation. Los Angeles, Ca: Phonetics Laboratory, Dept. of Linguistics, UCLA, 1988.

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Grammatical change: Theory and description. Canberra , A.C.T: Pacific Linguistics, 2010.

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Language system and its change: On theory and testability. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 1985.

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Gymnich, Marion. Metasprachliche Reflexionen und sprachliche Gestaltungsmittel im englischsprachigen postkolonialen und interkulturellen Roman. Trier: WVT, Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier, 2007.

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Renaissance truth and the Latin language turn. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003.

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Book chapters on the topic "Linguistic variation theory"

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Epstein, Samuel D., Miki Obata, and T. Daniel Seely. "Is Linguistic Variation Entirely Linguistic? *." In A Minimalist Theory of Simplest Merge, 82–110. New York: Routledge, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9780367343699-6.

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Rickford, John R. "Variation theory." In Cross Currents in Second Language Acquisition and Linguistic Theory, 225. Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company, 1991. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/lald.2.13ric.

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Schwarze, Christoph. "Types of Lexical Variation." In Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 187. Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company, 1998. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/cilt.171.11sch.

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Geveler, Jasmin, Laia Arnaus Gil, and Natascha Müller. "The acquisition of variation." In Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory, 143–57. Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/rllt.13.10gev.

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Auer, Peter. "Co-Occurrence Restrictions between Linguistic Variables." In Variation, Change, and Phonological Theory, 69. Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company, 1997. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/cilt.146.05aue.

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Di Caro, Vincenzo Nicolò, and Giuliana Giusti. "Chapter 4. Dimensions of variation." In Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory, 53–68. Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/rllt.14.04car.

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Burnett, Heather. "Variation as a testing ground for grammatical theory." In The Locus of Linguistic Variation, 117–50. Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/bct.97.05bur.

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Wolfe, Sam. "Microparametric variation in Old ItaloRomance syntax." In Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory, 51–66. Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/rllt.8.04wol.

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Cameron, Deborah. "The Politics of Variation: Sex Differences in Language (I)." In Feminism and Linguistic Theory, 36–54. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK, 1992. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-22334-3_3.

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Lloret, Maria-Rosa. "When does Variability become Relevant to Formal Linguistic Theory?" In Variation, Change, and Phonological Theory, 181. Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company, 1997. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/cilt.146.09llo.

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Conference papers on the topic "Linguistic variation theory"

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Moreno, Jorge Sa´nchez, Edison Castro Prates de Lima, and Gilberto Bruno Ellwanger. "Prediction on Aging of Reconstitutive Clayey Marine Soils Using Fuzzy-Logic." In ASME 2003 22nd International Conference on Offshore Mechanics and Arctic Engineering. ASMEDC, 2003. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/omae2003-37088.

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This paper presents an application of the fuzzy logic theory for the prediction of the soil strength depth variation due to aging effects. The results of experimental tests with reconstituted clayey soils of the Bay of Campeche in Mexico were used for the fuzzy rule-based system training. The Evolutionary Strategy (ES) was employed as an optimization method for the learning of the Mamdani-type fuzzy rule base. Fuzzy logic provides an easy and transparent method for incorporating common-sense type reasoning. The fuzzy logic model is based on a decision (inference) process that can be better described on a linguistic level using rules with soft facts. In this manner the clay soil strength through the time could be fuzzily predicted as a function of the mean effective normal stress, the time of consolidation and the water content. Illustrative examples showed that the result of prediction seems to be acceptable in engineering practice.

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Piperski, A. Ch. "RUSSIAN LANGUAGE AND CORPUS DIVERSITY." In International Conference on Computational Linguistics and Intellectual Technologies "Dialogue". Russian State University for the Humanities, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.28995/2075-7182-2020-19-615-627.

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This paper discusses the use of most widely-known Russian corpora, namely Russian National Corpus, ruTenTen, General Internet Corpus of Russian, and Araneum Russicum Maximum, for the theoretical study of Russian language. Based on a sample of papers from 2019, I demonstrate that scholars, especially theoretical linguists, tend to ignore the opportunities provided by a wide range of Web corpora, even though these resources are well-known to the NLP community. I present a selection of case studies to show that data from “non-classical” corpora can be used for studying various linguistic phenomena, such as: 1) variation in morphology and syntax; 2) word formation and lexical change; 3) construction grammar. I also claim that the underuse of non-classical corpora is partly due to the fact that they are (perceived as) not quite user-friendly.

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Bin, Li. "The Reflection of Modern Transformation of Ancient Chinese Literary Theory in the Horizon of Variation Study." In Annual International Conference on Language, Literature & Linguistics (L3 2016). Global Science & Technology Forum ( GSTF ), 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.5176/2251-3566_l316.7.

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Sonina, Snejina, and Sylvia Mittler. "Business French and Translation in the Era of Google Translate: Variations on the Action-based Approach in Language Courses." In Fourth International Conference on Higher Education Advances. Valencia: Universitat Politècnica València, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.4995/head18.2018.8009.

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In this article we outline our practices for the inclusion of electronic translation devices in specialized French language courses and reflect upon the changing landscape of language teaching. We describe how the use of Google Translate can increase students' awareness of linguistic, stylistic, and cultural differences in our culturally and linguistically diverse clasrooms. Although we characterize our didactic approach as action based, we differenciate our use of this approach from its common use in general language courses and point out the usefulness of intellectualizing it based on our use of Google Translate in work-place-oriented courses. Furthermore, we use our experience with action based approaches and translation devices to answer the following questions: why are students still learning languages; what are the language skills that they are interested in; and what is the role of a teacher in this new world of quasi-magic linguistic tools.

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Lagacé, Josée, Stephanie Breau-Godwin, and Christian Giguère. "Regional linguistic variations in Canadian French: Do they affect performance on speech perception in noise?" In ICA 2013 Montreal. ASA, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.1121/1.4800038.

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Kida, Tsuyoshi. "A New French-Based Register in Japan? An Analysis of Commercial Naming in Public Space in Japan." In GLOCAL Conference on Asian Linguistic Anthropology 2020. The GLOCAL Unit, SOAS University of London, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.47298/cala2020.3-4.

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This paper focuses on the influence of French language on the naming of shops and commercial products that are found in public spaces in Japan. The contemporary urban environment promotes linguistic signs, which themselves designate the names of shops or products on storefronts and packages and constitute the ‘text’ of an urban space. As Barthes (1970) observed, Japanese modern life is a remarkable source generating a multiplicity of signs. However, in the current globalization, such a process gives rise to a massive presence of foreign languages in public space, such as French in Japan. Data collected through fieldwork is analysed to show features specific to Japanese society and/or language (e.g. word coinages, affection of Japanese words, a primary form of creolization). Although these linguistic signs contain regularities and variations as a device of ‘hypocorrection,’ the paper argues that French is becoming a specific register in Japan, and that people have begun to assimilate its formal part, in enriching their lexicon with a certain epilinguistic dimension. The motivation and identity of stakeholders behind such a process will be also discussed.

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Toldova, S., T. Davydova, M. Kobozeva, and D. Pisarevskaya. "DISCOURSE FEATURES OF BLOGS IN SUBCORPUS OF RUSSIAN RU-RSTREEBANK." In International Conference on Computational Linguistics and Intellectual Technologies "Dialogue". Russian State University for the Humanities, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.28995/2075-7182-2020-19-747-761.

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The paper presents a corpus study of the discourse features in the corpus of blogs. It is based on the data of Ru-RSTreebank annotated within the framework of the Rhetorical Structure theory [Mann, Thompson 1988]. The Ru-RSTreebank represents genres of news and popular science, scientific papers, and blogs texts. Blog subcorpus contains such topics as travelling, cosmetics, sports and health, psychology, IT and tech and some others. Blogs texts constitute a specific genre as they combine properties of written and spoken discourse. The purpose of the paper is to investigate discourse features of blogs in comparison with other genres. We analyze the variation in rhetoric relations distribution among genres, and single out the differences in discourse connectives usage. Furthermore, we check the distribution of other discourse features reported in different studies for spoken discourse and for social media in the Ru-RSTreebank blogs subcorpus. The general frequency analysis and the experiments on RandomForest classifier application to genre recognition have shown that the most important rhetoric relations specific to blogs are Evaluation and Contrast, that there is a tendency to use shorter discourse units and not to express the discourse relations overtly via subordinative conjunctions.

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Yang, Yike, and Si Chen. "Individual differences in Mandarin focus production." In 11th International Conference of Experimental Linguistics. ExLing Society, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.36505/exling-2020/11/0057/000472.

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This paper investigated whether and how individual speakers of Mandarin Chinese (Mandarin) mark prosodic focus (broad focus vs verb focus) differently in their production, and tested focus effects on mean F0, duration and intensity. The findings indicated the role of the three acoustic cues in Mandarin focus marking at both the group and individual levels. Meanwhile, the individual data showed great variations among speakers in terms of the extent to which the cues were employed. It is proposed that the dynamics of acoustic cues should be considered in future studies and caution should be taken when selecting stimuli for focus perception studies.

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Barone, Marco. "On only-pragmatically driven intonation change." In 11th International Conference of Experimental Linguistics. ExLing Society, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.36505/exling-2020/11/0011/000426.

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The intonation system of the Italian variety of Pescara was documented and two sentence types (neutral polar questions and contrastive focus statements) were found to exhibit the same two pitch accents as allophonic variants by the old speakers. However, moving on the new generation, the variations of the two sentence types shows different evolutions: both variants are used, remaining distinct, for contrastive focus, whereas they mainly fuse into a “midway” pattern, when used for questions. The asymmetry can only be ascribed to the pragmatics and not to the phonetic forms of the patterns, as these were originally equal across the two sentence types. This suggests that polar questions are more kin to phonetic convergence than contrastive statements.

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Mi, Fei, Minlie Huang, Jiyong Zhang, and Boi Faltings. "Meta-Learning for Low-resource Natural Language Generation in Task-oriented Dialogue Systems." In Twenty-Eighth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence {IJCAI-19}. California: International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence Organization, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.24963/ijcai.2019/437.

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Natural language generation (NLG) is an essential component of task-oriented dialogue systems. Despite the recent success of neural approaches for NLG, they are typically developed for particular domains with rich annotated training examples. In this paper, we study NLG in a low-resource setting to generate sentences in new scenarios with handful training examples. We formulate the problem from a meta-learning perspective, and propose a generalized optimization-based approach (Meta-NLG) based on the well-recognized model-agnostic meta-learning (MAML) algorithm. Meta-NLG defines a set of meta tasks, and directly incorporates the objective of adapting to new low-resource NLG tasks into the meta-learning optimization process. Extensive experiments are conducted on a large multi-domain dataset (MultiWoz) with diverse linguistic variations. We show that Meta-NLG significantly outperforms other training procedures in various low-resource configurations. We analyze the results, and demonstrate that Meta-NLG adapts extremely fast and well to low-resource situations.

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Reports on the topic "Linguistic variation theory"

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Hoinkes, Ulrich. Indexicality and Enregisterment as Theoretical Approaches to the Sociolinguistic Analysis of Romance Languages. Universitatsbibliothek Kiel, November 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.21941/hoinkesindexenregromlang.

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Social indexicality and enregisterment are basic notions of a theoretical model elaborated in the United States, the aim of which is to describe the relationship between the use of language variation and patterns of social behavior at the level of formal classification. This analytical approach is characterized by focusing on the interrelation of social performance and language awareness. In my contribution, I want to show how this modern methodology can give new impetus to the study of today’s problem areas in Europe, such as migration and language or urban life and language use. In particular, I am interested in the case of Catalan, which has been studied for some time by proponents of the North American enregisterment theory. This leads me to indicate that explicit forms of social conduct, such as language shift or the emblematic use of linguistic forms, can be interpreted with regard to the social indexicality of Catalan. I thus analyze them in a way which shows that authenticity and integration in Catalan society can be achieved to a considerable extent by practicing forms of linguistic enregisterment.

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