Language Policy Implementation in Latvian Pre-School: Latvian Language Skills of Minority Children by Markus Dace, Zīriņa Tija, Markus Kārlis

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Z badań nad łotewską leksyką gwarową by Mirosław Jankowiak

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In memoriam: Aina Blinkena (5.09.1929 – 22.11.2017) by Ilga Jansone

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Языковая ситуация межвоенного периода среди славянских меньшинств в Латгалии (по нарративам информантов)... by Глеб [Gleb] Пилипенко [Pilipenko]

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Contribution of Latvian Technical Intelligentsia to Development of Terminology Until the Establishment of the Republic of Latvia by Māris Baltiņš

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Latvian or English – the Language Situation in Scientific Communication in Latvia by Indra Karapetjana

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THE IMPACT OF BILINGUAL LEARNING ENVIRONMENT ON THE IDENTITY OF RUSSIAN-SPEAKING YOUNG PEOPLE IN LATVIA by V V Kalinina

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Slavic Loanwords in the Terms for Dumplings in Latvian by Brigita Bušmane

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Development of the Normative Regulation on the Official Latvian State Language During the First Period of Independence by Ringolds Balodis

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Content and Application of Duty of Care Principle in the Field of Administrative Law in Latvia by Jautrīte Briede

“…First of all, the use of term ‘duty of care’ in Latvian language is analysed and shortcomings identified. …”
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Atlas of the Baltic languages: from idea to pilot project by Anna Stafecka

“…The first geolinguistic map of the Latvian language was published in 1892 by August Bielenstein. …”
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Latvian Original Adverts and Translations in the 1920s and 1930s by Gunta Ločmele

“…Advertising also influenced the Latvian language itself. Translators added a second layer of German calques to the ones that already existed. …”
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Word-Formation Pattern Borrowing in Latvian by Andrejs Veisbergs

“…They have become part of the Latvian language and usage. In general we can view these shifts as an enhancement of Latvian’s inherent linguistic potential rather than the contact-induced change of traditional patterns. …”
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A war of words. The representation of the war in Ukraine in the sports media of Latvia by Anastasija Ropa

“…The material is sourced from the main news portal of Latvia, Delfi, which has a Latvian-language and a Russian-language versions. It is found that the two versions have significant differences in the way they refer to the war in sport-related news items. …”
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False Friends in Interpreting: the case of English, French and Latvian by Evelīna Ķiršakmene

“…The paper highlights the issues related to false friends from English and French into Latvian in the interpreting scene and considers the current lexical and semantic processes in the Latvian language. Research shows that the number of deceptive loans in Latvian has increased considerably during this century. …”
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Dažas problēmas latviešu literārās valodas izveides procesā by Jānis Rozenbergs

“…Development of the Latvian language has been affected by external sociopolitical factors and factors of migration of representatives of various cultural layers; these factors have both stimulated and hampered the overall formation of the language both in space and time.…”
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Language as a Value in a Pragmatic World: Global and National Approach by Ina Druviete

“…The paper gives an insight in Latvian language policy against the background of global and European sociolinguistic processes and wide usage of so-called international languages, English in particular. …”
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Language as a resource for ethnic and cultural identity: experience of Latvian expats in Sweden by Maruta Pranka, Ilze Koroļeva, Ginta Elksne

“…The aim of the article is to ascertain the language situation in the diaspora, explore practices and perspectives regarding the sustaining of Latvian language and ethnic culture. From the theoretical point of view, the data is approached with reference to P. …”
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From gaspaža to kundze: female honorifics in Latvian in the 16th–19th centuries by Pēteris Vanags

“…In less than a century, the semantic field of the honorific female designations in the Latvian language has undergone significant changes. From one word gaspaža to four in the 1870s, but the most significant changes took place in the last twenty years of the century. …”
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Latvian verbs of speaking and their relations to evidentiality by Joanna Chojnicka

“…The paper offers a functional analysis of three Latvian verbs of speaking used in their indicative third person forms – saka, runā and stāsta ‘say(s), speak(s) and talk(s)’ – based on the Latvian language corpus online (www.korpuss.lv) and, additionally, on examples excerpted from Internet discourse. …”
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