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  1. As a Haitian and a Haitian Creole–speaking linguist, I was curious as to how language shift, language change, language endangerment, and (meta-)linguistic correlates of social hierarchies in Iberian America may help us better understand related phenomena in the Caribbean, and vice versa.

  2. Such a history of successive and incremental language contacts calls for a periodized ac-count of language evolution, as suggested by Chaudenson (1992, 2002), since the relevant structures were not all in place at the same time, nor did they change overnight and in a wholesale manner.

  3. Jan 1, 2013 · It also shows how some questions have been shaped by the manifold evolution of linguistics itself since the nineteenth century, including variation on what counts as language, and by...

  4. the question of the origin of language rests on the differences between human and chimpanzee brains, when these differences came into being, and under what evolutionary pressures. What are we looking for? The basic difficulty with studying the evolution of language is that the evidence is so sparse. Spoken

  5. With an emphasis on more recent periods, every key stage in the history of the language is discussed, with full accounts of standardisation, names, the distribution of English in Britain and North America, and its global spread.

  6. Sep 1, 2017 · Latin was predominantly head-last; English and the modern Romance languages are predominantly head-first (see table). The relevancy of all this for evolution lies in the fact that the incipient structures were head-last and that they are becoming head-first.

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  8. Feb 19, 2016 · Languages completely new to the scientific community continue to be discovered every year, but these are typically languages spoken by a (usually aging) fraction of an ethnic group who otherwise speak a known language, and that is how earlier surveys were never alerted to it.

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