From Language Contact to Language Variation

This paper falls within the line of research dealing with the role of intralinguistic variation in contact-induced language change. Two constructions are compared in terms of their respective degrees of grammaticalization: the progressive periphrasis ese lì c/a+Verb, which is widespread in some Northern Italo-Romance dialects, and the corresponding Italian construction essere lì che/a+Verb. The study focuses on the presence of such constructions in Turin, the capital of the north-western Italian region of Piedmont, in which the former periphrasis is less grammaticalized than the latter. It contends that the grammaticalization process of essere lì che/a+Verb was triggered by the contact between Piedmontese dialect and Italian, whereas the pace of grammaticalization of this periphrasis is affected by the contact between different varieties of Italian. The paper points out that the case study may provide insight into more general issues concerning not only the interplay of contact and variation in language change but also the role of sociolinguistic factors in shaping contact-induced grammaticalization phenomena.

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Mapping Environmental Impacts of Rapid Urbanisation and Deriving Relationship between NDVI, NDBI and Surface Temperature: A Case Study

IOP Conference Series Earth and Environmental Science ◽

10.1088/1755-1315/940/1/012005 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 940 (1) ◽

pp. 012005

Author(s):

V Saini

Keyword(s):

Surface Temperature ◽

Environmental Impacts ◽

Landsat Data ◽

Environmental Consequences ◽

The North ◽

Hybrid Classification ◽

Critical Components ◽

North Western ◽

Insight Into

Abstract Urbanisation is a complex global phenomenon driven by unorganised expansion, increased immigration, and population explosion. Changes in land cover are one of the most critical components for managing natural resources and monitoring environmental impacts in this context. In the present study, a hybrid classification approach was applied to Landsat data to get insight into the urbanisation of the Chandigarh capital region from 2000 to 2020. The results demonstrate an increasing urbanisation tendency on the city’s outskirts, particularly in the north-western and southern directions. The most considerable alterations were seen in the class vegetation as it swiftly transformed to built-up regions. Two indices, namely NDVI and NDBI and surface temperature images, were also derived from studying their inter-relationships. The paper suggests a positive linear relationship between surface temperature and NDBI while a negative correlation between NDVI and NDBI. Such studies may help city planners to take timely and appropriate efforts to reduce the environmental consequences of urbanisation.

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Passivo e aspetto verbale in resiano, russo e sloveno

Studi e ricerche - Studi di linguistica slava ◽

10.30687/978-88-6969-368-7/028 ◽

2019 ◽

Author(s):

Malinka Pila

Keyword(s):

Language Contact ◽

Specific Situation ◽

Italian Region ◽

Passive Voice ◽

Tense And Aspect ◽

Slavic Languages ◽

The North ◽

North Eastern

Resian is a micro-language of Slovene origin spoken in the north-eastern Italian region of Friuli, specifically in the province of Udine. It has been in a situation of absolute linguistic contact with Romance varieties (Friulian and Italian) for centuries. This paper describes the forms and functions of the passive voice in Resian, taking into account how it interplays with the verbal categories of Tense and Aspect. Analysis is drawn through comparison with other Slavic languages and takes into account the possible role of language contact in the specific situation of Resian.

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The “Delaware Horror”

10.5406/illinois/9780252037467.003.0010 ◽

2017 ◽

Author(s):

Dennis B. Downey

Keyword(s):

Twentieth Century ◽

African American ◽

Social Relations ◽

Jim Crow ◽

The Other ◽

The North ◽

North And South ◽

Insight Into

This chapter provides a case study of a lynching at the other end of the northeastern seaboard: the mass mob execution by burning of George White, an African American, in Wilmington, Delaware, in June 1903. Delaware had been a slave state that did not join the Confederacy, and while it implemented a Jim Crow system similar to those in neighboring lower Mid-Atlantic states Maryland and Virginia, the state experienced less lynching. Delaware's evolving economy and social relations were strongly tied to the rapidly urbanizing regions of southeastern Pennsylvania and New Jersey. The chapter's analysis of the role of white and black Protestant ministers in the Wilmington mob execution and its aftermath offers significant insight into a well-publicized early-twentieth-century lynching that occurred somewhere between the North and South.

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Training of Village Teachers in Vilna Educational District in the 1860s and 1870s

Almanac “Essays on Conservatism” ◽

10.24030/24092517-2020-0-2-181-192 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 58 ◽

pp. 181-192

Author(s):

Anna A. Komzolova

Keyword(s):

Educational Reform ◽

Rural Teachers ◽

Cultural Brokers ◽

The North ◽

Central Russia ◽

Russian Intelligentsia ◽

Trained Teachers ◽

The Village ◽

North Western

One of the results of the educational reform of the 1860s was the formation of the regular personnel of village teachers. In Vilna educational district the goal was not to invite teachers from central Russia, but to train them on the spot by establishing special seminaries. Trained teachers were supposed to perform the role of «cultural brokers» – the intermediaries between local peasants and the outside world, between the culture of Russian intelligentsia and the culture of the Belarusian people. The article examines how officials and teachers of Vilna educational district saw the role of rural teachers as «cultural brokers» in the context of the linguistic and cultural diversity of the North-Western Provinces. According to them, the graduates of the pedagogical seminaries had to remain within the peasant estate and to keep in touch with their folk «roots». The special «mission» of the village teachers was in promoting the ideas of «Russian elements» and historical proximity to Russia among Belarusian peasants.

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The role of young fracturing in the formation and spatial distribution of hydrocarbon deposits in the North-Western Caspian Sea

Neftyanoe khozyaystvo - Oil Industry ◽

10.24887/0028-2448-2018-5-36-39 ◽

2018 ◽

pp. 36-39

Author(s):

N.A. Kasyanova ◽

Keyword(s):

Spatial Distribution ◽

Caspian Sea ◽

The North ◽

Hydrocarbon Deposits ◽

North Western

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Scales and Units

10.1093/oso/9780190657543.003.0011 ◽

2018 ◽

Author(s):

Kathryn M. de Luna

Keyword(s):

Language Change ◽

Historical Linguistics ◽

Bantu Languages ◽

The North ◽

First Case ◽

Linguistic Evidence ◽

River Region ◽

History Of ◽

Alternative Approaches

This chapter uses two case studies to explore how historians study language movement and change through comparative historical linguistics. The first case study stands as a short chapter in the larger history of the expansion of Bantu languages across eastern, central, and southern Africa. It focuses on the expansion of proto-Kafue, ca. 950–1250, from a linguistic homeland in the middle Kafue River region to lands beyond the Lukanga swamps to the north and the Zambezi River to the south. This expansion was made possible by a dramatic reconfiguration of ties of kinship. The second case study explores linguistic evidence for ridicule along the Lozi-Botatwe frontier in the mid- to late 19th century. Significantly, the units and scales of language movement and change in precolonial periods rendered visible through comparative historical linguistics bring to our attention alternative approaches to language change and movement in contemporary Africa.

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Between Pleasure and Resistance: The Role of Substance Consumption in an Italian Working-Class Subculture

Societies ◽

10.3390/soc9030058 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 9 (3) ◽

pp. 58

Author(s):

Placido

Keyword(s):

Working Class ◽

Cultural Practices ◽

Critical Criminology ◽

Ethnographic Case Study ◽

Youth Cultures ◽

The Individual ◽

Substance Consumption ◽

North Western

In this article I discuss how illegal substance consumption can act as a tool of resistance and as an identity signifier for young people through a covert ethnographic case study of a working-class subculture in Genoa, North-Western Italy. I develop my argument through a coupled reading of the work of the Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies (CCCS) and more recent post-structural developments in the fields of youth studies and cultural critical criminology. I discuss how these apparently contrasting lines of inquiry, when jointly used, shed light on different aspects of the cultural practices of specific subcultures contributing to reflect on the study of youth cultures and subcultures in today’s society and overcoming some of the ‘dead ends’ of the opposition between the scholarly categories of subculture and post-subculture. In fact, through an analysis of the sites, socialization processes, and hedonistic ethos of the subculture, I show how within a single subculture there could be a coexistence of: resistance practices and subversive styles of expression as the CCCS research program posits; and signs of fragmentary and partial aesthetic engagements devoid of political contents and instead primarily oriented towards the affirmation of the individual, as argued by the adherents of the post-subcultural position.

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