The Nordic Dimension as a Metaspace for Educational Research by John Benedicto Krejsler

“…The five Nordic countries thus represent historical, linguistic, and societal similarities that produced similar societal and educational values, albeit along different trajectories. …”
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Machines in the media: semantic change in the lexicon of mechanization in 19th-century British newspapers by Pedrazzini, N, McGillivray, B

“…We test existing semantic change detection techniques and analyse the results in light of previous historical linguistic scholarship.…”

Salud- Enfermedad y Cuerpo- Mente en la Medicina Ayurvédica de la India y en la Biomedicina Contemporánea. by Carlos J. Moreno Leguizamón.

“…For this, some socio-cultural, historic, linguistic, political and economic dimensions of each medical system are addressed, looking beyond their construction as merely scientific-technical fields. …”
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Lo sloveno by Matej Šekli

“… The article offers an overview of Slovene in the region Friuli-Venezia Giulia (Friulian: Friûl-Vignesie Julie, Slovene: Furlanija – Julijska krajina, German: Friaul-Julisch Venetien) in the north-easternmost part of Italy, where Slovene is present in its historical linguistic setting alongside the Italian-Slovene national border. …”
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Maritime Skills and Astronomic Knowledge in the Viking Age Baltic Sea<br>Pomorske spretnosti in zvezdoslovno védenje v vikinškem času na Baltiku</br> by George Indruszewski, Jon Godal

“…The issue of orientation at sea is discussed in relationship to archaeological, historical, linguistic information and new data obtained from experimental archaeology. …”
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Il timavese by Francesco Zuin

“…In the paper we will present the origins of the village, the sociolinguistic position of Timavese in the community’s repertoire, the similarities and differences between Timavese and Carinthian and the corpus and status planning created for this variety after its recognition by the national law 482/1999 (“Norme in materia di tutela delle minoranze linguistiche storiche”), aimed at protecting the historical linguistic minorities recognized in the national territory. …”
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Historical imagination: fiction and subjectivity in school writing by Ilse Leone Borges Chaves de Oliveira, Andréa Ferreira Delgado

“…The students production were analysed under the linguist materiality point of view, which was responsible for the texts configuration as diaries and under the construction of meanings which each students constructed based on the historic, linguistic and literaries concepts as well as under the knowledge they acquired. …”
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Kazimierz Nitsch jako historyk języka by Bogusław Dunaj

“…Growing out of dialectological research, the most important method applied to the interpretation of historical linguistic processes, was reasoning about their course on the basis of an analysis of the reaches of certain phenomena in dialects. …”
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Punctuation in Early Modern Texts: The English Translation of Rembert Dodoens’ Herbal in Handwriting and Printing by Juan Lorente Sánchez

“…The paper aims to contribute to the dissemination of knowledge on the use and distribution of punctuation in Early Modern English texts of a diverse typology, as well as to provide fresh observations as regards the historical linguistic comparison between scribes and printers’ writing practices. …”
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Wyrazy z formantem -acja w gwarach polskich na tle historycznojęzykowym by Jerzy Reichan

“…Words with the -acja Formant in Polish Dialects, Against the Background of Historical Linguistic Data Polish dialectal words with the -acja formant can be divided into two groups: 1) words with Latin roots borrowed directly from Latin or through the mediation of West European languages, e.g. administracja < administrować (Lat. administratio < administrare); mobilizacja < mobilizować (French mobilisation < mobiliser, German Mobilisation < mobilisieren; Lat. mobilis); 2) words with Slavic or German roots (in words borrowed from German), e.g. marnacja < marnować (the Slavic root marn); pielęgnacja < pielęgnować (the German word pflegen). …”
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The Shepherd Community of the Albanian Alps: Perspective on the Importance of Preserving Transhumance Practices by Martine Wolff

“…The dynamics of transhumance, a multi-millennial practice, links to a group of populations and a particular civilisation characterised by a historical, linguistic, cultural and social specificities. …”
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BOOK NOTICE: THE HISTORICAL PHONOLOGY OF TIBETAN, BURMESE, AND CHINESE (2019) by Nathan Hill

“…In this historical linguistic treatise, Hill utilizes comparative linguistic data from Tibetan, Burmese, and Chinese—three related languages with ancient literary traditions—to summarize the historical phonological relationships among these languages with respect to their membership in the Trans-Himalayan (TH hereafter) language family (aka. …”
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Diseño de corpus específicos para el estudio histórico gramatical: el caso de las construcciones con clítico femenino / The creation of specific corpora for the historical study of... by Nicolás Arellano

“…Abstract: The aim of this article is to analyze the advantages of an approach to historical linguistic data based on the creation of specifically designed corpora. …”
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Ciągłość i zmienność jako problem badań diachronicznych by Mirosława Siuciak

“…It has always been the variability that was seen as the primary indicator of a diachronic outlook on language, and the main research problem has been to describe and to date linguistic changes and their mutual relation in the historical linguistic process. It seems to be an interesting research task to invert the perspective and to concentrate on what is stable in the language and its usage, i.e. on the level of the grammatical system, vocabulary, and communication habits. …”
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What Isn’t a Cross-Cultural Adaptation, and, if You Know that, then what Isn’t a Cross-Cultural Text? by Thomas, Leitch

“… This essay begins by asking why the term ‘cross-cultural adaptation’ should not be extended from adaptations that cross national borders to adaptations that cross temporal, historical, linguistic, medial, and gendered borders. Unlike some theorists who have attempted to define away the problems that arise when the term ‘cross-cultural adaptation’ is extended so broadly that it courts ambiguity, circularity, and redundancy by referring instead to ‘transnational adaptation’, the essay takes those problems as its subject. …”
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OVERCOMING EMPTINESS IN THE TRANSLATION OF DUBRAVKA UGREŠIĆ by Olja Perišić

“…Existing between languages and interpreting such a diverse literary world requires a profound understanding of historical, linguistic, and cultural contexts, as well as translation strategies aimed at bridging the inevitable spatiotemporal gap that arises between the two versions of the text. …”
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Polish Etymology: Past, Present, Future by Jadwiga Waniakowa

“…A sharp decline in the number of specialists in etymology is argued to be a result of the withdrawal of historical-linguistic and historical-comparative subjects in university curricula and the author suggests various ways of encouraging students to study etymology. …”
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Elemente einer Soziolinguistik Nordafrikas by Wolff, H. Ekkehard

“…This will be discussed within the framework of a historical linguistic stratigraphy. The article broadens the concept of diglossia as used in the arabophonic context in order to include a multilingual dimension (polyglotism), and discusses models of conflict avoidance between native speakers of Arabic, Berber and French, respectively. …”
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TRUTHS AND CURIOSITIES IN THE HISTORICAL DICTIONARIES OF THE EAST SLAVIC LANGUAGES OF THE 20th AND 21th CENTURIES by Andrash Zoltan

“…The author by the historical-linguistic, etymological and cultural analysis of the «dark places» and gaps, as well as of the realities of their existence in the texts, restores the true picture of word existence, clarifies and reconciles its semantics. …”
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Latin at Legal world: remarks on Legal culture and the interface with the linguistic field by Maurício Sartori Resende, Márlio Aguiar

“…To suit this, this study sheds some light on the historical-linguistic nature of the so-called “legal Latin” and also on the proliferation of glossaries and manuals of this modality of Latin that do not contain linguistic and historical-cultural reflections. …”
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