Book Review: Traugott (2022). <i>Discourse Structuring Markers in English. A Historical Constructionalist Perspective on Pragmatics</i>. Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamins.... by Mengmin Xu, Fuyin Li

“…The cognitive-constructionist approach to language has significantly gained prominence, with recent developments expanding its exploration into language change [...]…”
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Gimferrer en català: del compromís individual al compromís polític by Grasset, Eloi

“… This article sheds some light on the language change – from Spanish to Catalan – that took place in Pere Gimferrer’s work, one of the most acclaimed living poets in Spain. …”
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Suffix borrowing and conflict through Latin-Greek hybrid formations by Elisabetta Magni

“…The discussion shows that these mechanisms can offer interesting perspectives not only on language contact, but also on language change.…”
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Dialect contact and the speed of Jespersen’s cycle in Middle Low German by Anne Breitbarth

“…The present paper adds empirical evidence to the observation that dialect contact can lead to language change, and in particular, structural simplification. …”
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Prescriptive Grammar in Teaching English in Indonesian Schools by Luh Putu Artini

“…Thus, the idea that prescriptivism is "out of date" as well as "not permissive to language change" is corrected by presenting some arguments of the need to maintain its application. …”
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Una metafora pisaniana by Sara Fedalto

“…KEYWORDS: Pisani, history of linguistics, metalanguage, language change, metaphor…”
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Editorial by Lauren Hall-Lew

“…The first three papers are by undergraduate students in Dr Laurel MacKenzie’s class, Language Change Across the Lifespan, at the University of Manchester. …”
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Économie et langue bretonne : un rôle déterminant, deux fois ? by Fañch Broudic

“…Can the economy once again play a decisive role in the use of Breton and contribute this time to reversing language change?…”
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Patterns and Developments in the Marking of Diminutives in Bantu by Hannah Gibson, Rozenn Guerois, Lutz Marten

“…It charts different processes of language change which have shaped the present-day situation, as well as highlighting instances in which language contact has played a role in the development of diminutive systems. …”
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Tocharian and Historical Sociolinguistics: Evidence from a Fragmentary Corpus by Malzahn Melanie

“…Furthermore, the Tocharian material confirms patterns of sound change known from other sources and can therefore offer insights for the principles of language change.…”
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Stigma and increased prestige: The change f>h in Castilian and Gascon seen from the perspective of historical sociolinguistics and variational linguistics by Frank Jodl

“…In this article, I revisit the problem of the origin of a certain language change phenomenon, i.e. [f]- &gt; [h]- in Castilian and Gascon, by contrasting structural (internal) factors with social (external) ones. …”
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The proper treatment of language acquisition and change in a population setting by Niyogi, Partha, Berwick, Robert C.

“…In contrast, the SL model leads to nonlinear dynamics, bifurcations, and possibly multiple equilibria and so suffices to model both the case of stable language populations, mixtures of more than 1 language, as well as rapid language change. The 2 models also make distinct, empirically testable predictions about language change. …”
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Morphophonological Innovations in New Speakers’ Kashubian by Maciej Bandur, Robert Borges

“… New Speakers of minority languages are a special case which gives us a unique glimpse into variation and change. In such cases, language change at an accelerated pace tends to lead to profound changes in the structure of the language. …”
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Polish in the light of grammaticalization theory by Björn Hansen, Ana Drobnjaković

“… Polish in the light of grammaticalization theory The paper is concerned with grammaticalization, a type of language change whereby lexical items, in specifi contexts, come to serve grammatical functions, and grammatical items acquire new grammatical functions. …”
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«Euskerazko doktrinia Anzuelako berba moduan» (1825) by Oxel Uribe-Etxebarria Lete

“…This brief analysis and the data provided by the edition may be of particular interest for the study of micro-dialect variation and language change on western Basque.…”
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La traduction, une problématologie : l'horreur dans Murambi, le livre des ossements de B. B. Diop by Baboucar Diouf

“…The English translation (Murambi: the Book of Bones by Fiona Mc Laughlin) of Murambi, le livre des ossements raises the issue of language change which allows the translation to target a new audience. …”
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Investigating the Semantic Development of Modal Markers: The Role of Context by Tomaž Potočnik, Matej Hriberšek

“…In the second part, Heine’s model for studying the role of context in language change is presented and applied to the modal verb licet. …”
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Handlingsreguleringer i danske lægebøger by Lasse Brunø, Susanne Annikki Kristensen

“…Many of our findings show a pattern that we try to explain through qualitative studies of e.g. word frequency, language change, and so on.…”
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How long was the nineteenth century? by David LIGHTFOOT

“…This paper reviews the problems of the deterministic and predictive view of language change initiated by nineteenth century linguists and shows that such a view is still present in many analyses proposed by twentieth century linguists. …”
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L'invariant à l'épreuve de la diachronie by Brian Lowrey, Fabienne Toupin

“…We argue instead for a flexible approach, compatible with current models of language change and taking the influence of pragmatic factors into account.…”
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