Avér o gavér?: Questo è il dilemma! Microvariazione negli esiti del latino habere nel nord d’Italia by Paoli, S

“…This contribution is an investigation of the distribution and nature of a structure found across Northern Italian varieties, a reflex of Latin HABERE to which a locative particle g has been added, within the contexts of the relation between microvariation and gradual language change. A detailed morpho-syntactic description forms the basis for an analysis that suggests a probable path of univerbation of the two elements. …”

„Nescit quo flectere puppem" (Corippi Johan. I 273). Hipoteza kontaminacyjna by Jarosław Jakielaszek

“…The analysis provides therefore support for the thesis that language change involves primarily the morphological module, which remains the main locus of diachronic and synchronic variation. …”
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Time and commitment: the grammaticalization of uúch in Lakandon Maya by Henrik Bergqvist

“…Intersubjectification as a process of language change aligns with Kockelman’s original suggestion that first-order stances may be embedded to produce second-order stances, i.e. …”
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Quantifying the quantitative (re-)turn in historical linguistics by Barbara McGillivray, Gard B. Jenset

“…Historical linguistics is the study of language change and stability, of the history of individual languages, and of the relatedness between languages. …”
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ADVERTISING MODELS OF KEMEROVO: THE ETHICAL DIMENSION by A. G. Antipov

“…The study was conducted on the regional linguistic material that allowed us to structure the system of advertising names and texts ofKemerovoas objects of transformational cultural linguistics, a special branch of contemporary ethnolinguistics engaged in the study of language change in the norms of city-space communication and in the language consciousness of kemerovites. …”
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Outdoors on the shores of the Baltic: gradience in the grammaticalization of the exterior-region by Andres Karjus

“…The central assumptions in this study are the gradualness and gradience of grammaticalization, that natural language change cannot happen overnight, and that the change is driven by individual speakers of a language community (cf. …”
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Temporal predictive regression models for linguistic style analysis by Carmen Klaussner, Carl Vogel

“…This paper presents work on modelling language change over time. In particular we use different feature types, i.e.…”
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Grammaticalité et changement d’acceptabilité : le cas de help by Mathilde Pinson

“…The corpora chosen for this study, in particular COHA and the Old Bailey Proceedings, reveal that these factors do not simply help to explain the low frequency of dispreferred structures, but can even be considered the main factor triggering language change, in line with Rohdenburg’s prediction (2003: 243). …”
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An Interview with APPLE Lecture Speaker Dr. John McWhorter by Shan An, Ashley Beccia, Kelly Katherine Frantz, Carol Hoi Yee Lo

“…McWhorter kindly took the time to speak about his work on language change, dialects, and language use. He also shared his career trajectory, tips for connecting with a wider audience, and advice for junior scholars. …”
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Phonotactic diversity predicts the time depth of the world's language families. by Taraka Rama

“…Finally, we explain our results in the model of language change given by Nettle.…”
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ENGLISH AS A FOREIGN LANGUAGE. WHAT CHALLENGES DO TEACHERS OF ENGLISH FACE? by Silvia IRIMIEA

“…The article goes out from three prerequisites: David Crystal’s statement that the ‘the greatest challenge for the teachers’ is that ‘they must keep pace with the language change, given that languages change so fast’(2013), it is studied and used everywhere in the world, and the need to eliminate the mismatch between the language taught in the classroom and the language spoken by natives or in professional environments. …”
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Code-switching and code-mixing on different language levels by Michał Głuszkowski

“…In the article on linguistic material from a Polish language island in a Russian environment (the village of Vershina in Siberia), examples of lexical and structural borrowings and various forms of language change during speech were indicated. However, this approach only allows for the characterization of selected fragments of utterances, while whole texts function in live communication. …”
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Register effects and the Spanish adjectival construction sin + INF in historical corpus data by Aaron Yamada

“…Ultimately, this study stresses the importance of measuring register effects in the analysis of language change in corpus data. …”
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Transfer and Contact-Induced Variation in Child Basque by Jennifer eAustin

“…Finally, I discuss the implications of these findings for the part that child learners play in advancing language change.…”
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The Role of Elision in Evolutionary Processes by María Elena Azofra Sierra

“…In this paper, we study the role of elision in the theoretical overview of explanatory theories of language change by focusing on the evolutionary process of the Spanish adverb <i>aparte</i>. …”
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Rival Forms of Comparatives in Russian by Daria Kosheleva

“…Rivalry is interesting because it has implications for inter alia variation and language change. Examples of rival forms are morphological doublets like -ness and -ity in English (Szymanek 2005, 441). …”
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Variation and linguistic change: an analysis of semantic expansion of loanwords in brazilian portuguese by Flavio Biasutti Valadares

“…It aims to make explicit implementation processes of language change through the use of foreign words, by contemplating their occurrences, under their original spelling, and with semantic expansion. …”
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Some Observations on What Grammaticalization Is and Is Not by Brian D. Joseph

“…My goal here is to explore what some of those problems are and to focus on what grammaticalization has to offer as a methodology for studying language change.  Drawing on case studies from the history of English and the history of Greek, I reach a characterization of how much of grammatical change can legitimately be called “grammaticalization” and how much is something else. …”
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Geolinguistica, sociolinguistica e cronologia: le dimensioni del mutamento by Romano Lazzeroni

“…Finally, the paper attempts to distinguish those changes due to irradiation from those ensuing from polygenesis.   KEYWORDS: language change, history of linguistics, geolinguistics, sociolinguistics, chronology…”
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Effects of bilingualism on working memory : examination of interlingual connections. by Chiam, Pei San.

“…Both semantic change and language change did not result in poorer memory. In addition, balanced bilinguals and average bilinguals’ memory did not differ from each other when faced with context changes but the former consistently exhibited better memory than unbalanced bilinguals in all tested conditions. …”
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