The meaning of words can change over time. In addition, new words may enter a language,
sometimes replacing other words. This article extends prior literature on language change in …

Without diminishing the emotional trials and suffering that some PhD students go through,
writing this dissertation has been an incredibly fun experience. Working on a single topic, as …

In this article, we present a qualitative and quantitative comparative account of Final Vowel
Loss (fvl) in the Bantu languages of the Lower Kasai region of the Democratic Republic of …

A central goal of linguistics is to understand how words evolve. Past research has found that
macro-level factors such as frequency of word usage and population size explain the pace …

En México, un país plurilingüe y pluricultural donde cohabitan 364 variantes de lenguas
indígenas y el español, el contacto lingüístico está presente, en mayor o menor medida, en …

Indigenous Cultural Translation is about the process that made it possible to film the 2011
Taiwanese blockbuster Seediq Bale in Seediq, an endangered indigenous language …

The loss of the genitive in Greek Page 1 The loss of the genitive in Greek A diachronic and
dialectological analysis Dionysios Mertyris This dissertation is submitted in total fulfillment for …

Due to its history of language contact with French, modern Vietnamese contains numerous
loanwords of French origin, many of which refer to a variety of culturally transmitted items …

This paper examines the diachronic origin of a vowel split in the Bantu language Hungan. It
is shown that the inherited Proto-Bantu seven-vowel (7V) system was first reduced to a …

Çok dilli ya da çift dilli kişilerin konuşmaları sırasında her bir dilin diğer dil ler üzerindeki
etkileri görülebilir. İlk dilin etkileri ikinci dil üzerinde görülürken, ikinci dilin de birinci dilin …