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Many Ways to Sound Diné: Linguistic Variation in Navajo
Palakurthy, Kayla. - : eScholarship, University of California, 2019
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Verum a fontibus haurire. A Variationist Analysis of Subjunctive Variability Across Space and Time: from Contemporary Italian back to Latin ...
Digesto, Salvatore. - : Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa, 2019
Abstract: This dissertation investigates the use of the subjunctive in completive clauses governed by verbs in Italian, both synchronically and diachronically, and in Vulgar Latin. By making use of the tools provided by the Variationist Sociolinguistic framework (Labov 1972, 1994), the current study sheds light on the underlying conditioning on variability using actual usage and speech-surrogate data. Contemporary actual speech data comes from LIP (De Mauro et al. 1993) and C-ORAL-ROM (Cresti & Moneglia 2005) corpora, providing spontaneous discourse in casual and careful speech as well as sub-sample divisions representative of geographical variation. In order to measure any changes in the underlying conditioning on subjunctive selection, a diachronic benchmark is established: a corpus of speech-like surrogates of 16th to 20th century Italian, COHI (Corpus of Historical Italian), and a corpus of Vulgar Latin (Cena Trimalchionis, from the Satyricon by Petronius). The subjunctives were extracted in adherence to the ...
Keyword: Diachronic Linguistics; Grammaticalization; Italian; Italian Subjunctive; Language History; Language Usage; Language Variation and Change; Latin Subjunctive; Lexicalization; Mood; Mood Variation; Quantitative Methods; Sociohistorical Linguistics; Sociolinguistics; Subjunctive; Subjunctive Use; Subjunctive Variability; Variationist Sociolinguistics; Vulgar Latin
URL: http://ruor.uottawa.ca/handle/10393/39410
https://dx.doi.org/10.20381/ruor-23654
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Verum a fontibus haurire. A Variationist Analysis of Subjunctive Variability Across Space and Time: from Contemporary Italian back to Latin
Digesto, Salvatore. - : Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa, 2019
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