Variation and change in pronominal address in 19th and early 20th-century German private letters [0.03%]
十九至二十世纪德国私人书信中称代词的变体与变化
Markus Schiegg,Stephan Elspaß
Markus Schiegg
This article for the first time provides a corpus-based investigation of the variation and change in the system of German pronominal forms of address in the 19th and early 20th century. Today's opposition between formal Sie ('Siezen') and i...
Gemma McCarley
Gemma McCarley
This study of a corpus of varieties of Spanish finds that the level of orality of a text is a strong predictor of subject pronoun expression. Following previous studies' application of orality to interrogative constructions in Brazilian Por...
Reviving the genitive. Prescription and practice in the Netherlands (1770-1840) [0.03%]
荷兰语中的属格复兴（1770-1840）：规则与实践
Andreas Krogull,Gijsbert Rutten
Andreas Krogull
Historical metalinguistic discourse is known to often prescribe linguistic variants that are not very frequent in actual language use, and to proscribe frequent variants. Infrequent variants that are promoted through prescription can be inn...