Grammatical features of a moribund coalminers’ language in a Belgian cité

2019 ◽  
Vol 2019 (258) ◽  
pp. 71-98
Author(s):  
Nantke Pecht
Keyword(s):  
First Generation ◽  
Social Ties ◽  
Stable System ◽  
Linguistic Features ◽  
Dialect Contact ◽  
Direct Information ◽  
Recent Emergence ◽  
Audio Data ◽  
The Town

Abstract This article investigates grammatical features of Cité Duits, a moribund in-group coalminers’ language spoken in the town of Eisden in Belgian Limburg. Based on audio data from eight multilingual speakers collected through a method of sociolinguistic interviews in 2015, I show that certain features are a fusion of Belgian Dutch, German and the Maaslands dialect spoken in this area, in addition to ‘well-known’ and ‘new’ features. Since grammatical properties of this contact variety have hardly been researched yet, this contribution aims at filling this gap by providing a first analysis of selected morphosyntactic features including negation, bare NPs, non-inverted V3s and participle formation. Building on Aboh’s hybridity approach to the emergence of grammar (2017), I suggest that Cité Duits displays a recombination of linguistic features that have become part of a stable system over the decades. The basic idea is that speakers are capable of weaving together abstract properties of different varieties present in the input. Research on this mining language is therefore an extraordinary opportunity to investigate language and dialect contact, largely because of its recent emergence and direct information about the first generation of speakers and their social ties.

Conservation or change? Exploring trends in Modern Hebrew in light of new spoken corpora of the first two generations of speakers

2020 ◽  
Vol 54 (s41) ◽  
pp. 89-115
Author(s):  
Einat Gonen
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
First Generation ◽  
Linguistic Features ◽  
The Feminine ◽  
Two Generations ◽  
Modern Hebrew ◽  
Small Set ◽  
Diachronic Study ◽  
The 1950S

Abstract This paper presents a diachronic study of Modern Hebrew agreement between numerals and their quantified nouns. This research is possible thanks to the discovery of two rare collections of recordings from the 1950s and 1960s, which document four generations of speakers and have become important sources of spoken Early Modern Hebrew. On the basis of these two corpora, I compare numeral agreement in the first two generations of speakers with present-day usage and analyze trends of change and conversation in Modern Hebrew. The study shows that the first generation of speakers (“Gen1”) largely acquired the gender distinction of cardinals. However, in contrast to other agreement issues that educated Gen1 speakers realized fully, numeral use showed variation and absence of agreement in a small set of cases. Moreover, some linguistic features of Gen1 Hebrew found in this study no longer characterize Present-Day Hebrew; among these features is prosodic conditioning, which led to a Gen1 tendency to use the feminine form of the numeral ‘four’ with masculine nouns more frequently than was the case with other numerals.

Urban rejection of the vernacular: The SVS undone

2012 ◽  
Vol 24 (2) ◽  
pp. 221-245 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robin Dodsworth ◽  
Mary Kohn
Keyword(s):  
Large Scale ◽  
First Generation ◽  
Acoustic Analysis ◽  
Dialect Contact ◽  
Economic Segregation ◽  
Technology Sector ◽  
Southern Vowel Shift ◽  
Regional Dialect ◽  
Vowel Shift ◽  
Conversational Interviews

AbstractIn Raleigh, North Carolina, a Southern U.S. city, five decades of in-migration of technology-sector workers from outside the South has resulted in large-scale contact between the local Southern dialect and non-Southern dialects. This paper investigates the speed and magnitude of the reversal of the Southern Vowel Shift (SVS) with respect to the five front vowels, using Trudgill's (1998) model of dialect contact as a framework. The data consist of conversational interviews with 59 white-collar Raleigh natives representing three generations, the first generation having reached adulthood before large-scale contact. Acoustic analysis shows that all vowels shift away from their Southern variants across apparent time. The leveling of SVS variants begins within the first generation to grow up after large-scale contact began, and contrary to predictions, this generation does not show wide inter- or intraspeaker variability. Previous studies of dialect contact and new dialect formation suggest that leveling of regional dialect features and the establishment of stable linguistic norms occurs more quickly when children have regular contact with one another. Dialect contact in Raleigh has occurred primarily within the middle and upper classes, the members of which are densely connected by virtue of schools and heavy economic segregation in neighborhood residence.

scholarly journals “I’m kind of agnostic”

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-19
Author(s):  
Nirukshi Perera
Keyword(s):  
First Generation ◽  
Second Generation ◽  
Sri Lankan ◽  
Linguistic Features ◽  
Hindu Temple ◽  
Migrant Youth ◽  
Belief Narratives ◽  
Working Out ◽  
Generation Migrant ◽  
Second Generation Migrants

Abstract Transplanting non-Western religions to Western nations results in first-generation migrant attempts to transmit faith in vastly different contexts. Especially as adolescents, second-generation migrants tackle mediating their personal religious beliefs in a society with diverse religions and ideologies as well as negotiating membership of their ethnoreligious community. This paper draws from an ethnography in a Tamil Hindu temple in Australia. I present Sri Lankan teenage migrants’ discourse from their faith classroom to elucidate processes of belief positioning. In working out their emergent, and provisional, faith identities, the students deploy mainly Tamil and English linguistic features in their belief narratives. Flexible languaging complements their “syncretic acts” – the practice of drawing on diverse ideologies and experiences (outside the boundaries of a particular religion) to form personalized beliefs. Translanguaging thus facilitates the expression of circumspect, nuanced, and non-traditional interpretations of their heritage religion. Understanding such processes of belief positioning can help societies and institutions to work towards migrant youth inclusion.

scholarly journals Insecticide Applied Aerially for Control of First Generation European Corn Borer, 1994

1995 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 185-185
Author(s):  
John F. Witkowski
Keyword(s):  
European Corn Borer ◽  
First Generation ◽  
Corn Borer ◽  
Egg Masses ◽  
The Town ◽  
Plot Design

Abstract The cornfield was located in Cedar county, northwest of the town of Hartington, NE. Six black headed egg masses were infested onto 30 marked plants (3, ten plant subsamples) per treatment on 24 Jun. A Cessna 188 Ag Truck was used to make the applications on 30 Jun. Aerial treatments were flown on in a strip plot design. On 9 Aug, all artificially infested plants were dissected from tassel to ground and examined for borer cavities.

“Eating the food of our place”: Sociolinguistic loyalties in multidialectal Sui villages

2009 ◽  
Vol 38 (3) ◽  
pp. 287-309 ◽  
Author(s):  
JAMES N. STANFORD
Keyword(s):  
Community Of Practice ◽  
Current Practice ◽  
Language And Identity ◽  
Linguistic Features ◽  
Dialect Contact ◽  
Ethnographic Interviews ◽  
Descent Group ◽  
Indigenous Minorities ◽  
High Degree

ABSTRACTAmong the Sui people of rural southwestern China, descent-group loyalties are closely tied to linguistic features. In every village, long-term dialect contact occurs between local villagers and in-marrying women from different clans, yet most speakers maintain their original dialect features to a high degree. The present study conducts ethnographic interviews to more deeply understand why such behavior occurs. Most current, practice-based models of identity tend to emphasize dynamic, flexible, individualistic choices – an approach that suits variation on many levels in many societies. However, to understand the descent-group loyalties particular to indigenous, non-Western, clan-based cultures like Sui, a more tempered, culturally sensitive model is necessary. Speakers show a deep sense of stability, permanence, and collective loyalty to communities of descent, (re)produced through stable linguistic expressions: acts of loyalty. The study also highlights the use of indigenous minorities’ own categories (place, toponyms, lineage) rather than non-indigenous categories. (Language and identity, place, dialect contact, clan, indigenous minority, acts of identity, acts of loyalty, community of practice, community of descent)

scholarly journals Aerial Application of Insecticides for Control of First Generation European Corn Borer, 1995

1996 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
pp. 234-235
Author(s):  
John Witkowski ◽  
Jerry Echtenkamp
Keyword(s):  
Analysis Of Variance ◽  
European Corn Borer ◽  
First Generation ◽  
Aerial Application ◽  
Corn Borer ◽  
Egg Masses ◽  
Untreated Check ◽  
The Town ◽  
Plot Design

Abstract The cornfield was located in Cedar County, northwest of the town of Hartington, NE. Two treatments and an untreated check were arranged in a strip plot design with one replication. Six black headed egg masses were infested onto 30 marked plants (3, ten plant subsamples) per treatment on 6 Jul. A Cessna 188 Ag Truck was used to make the applications on 13 Jul. On 18 Aug, all artificially infested plants were disected from tassel to ground and examined for corn borer cavities. Data were analyzed using analysis of variance procedures. Treatment means were separated using LSD procedures.

The Development of Linguistics in China

2017 ◽  
Vol 44 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-46
Author(s):  
Weiying Chen
Keyword(s):  
First Generation ◽  
Linguistic Features ◽  
Textual Exegesis ◽  
European Languages ◽  
Interdisciplinary Approaches ◽  
History Of Linguistics ◽  
History Of ◽  
Critical Mind ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Chinese Linguistics

Summary Prompted by Western science in late 19th century, Chinese linguistics gradually moved to a new direction after two thousand years of philological tradition centered on rhetoric and textual exegesis. Through the intense efforts of a few scholars in the early twenti-eth century, linguistic study in China became a science and a discipline. Yuen Ren Chao (1892–1982) and Wang Li (1900–1986) were first-generation linguists who led the movement to apply the methodology of modern linguistics to the systematic study of Chinese. This paper investigates the trend setting achievements of these founders of the discipline, and it introduces their biographical and scholarly backgrounds. It also provides a brief history of philology through the lens of Wang Li who was the first historian of Chinese linguistics. Contemporary linguists need both a critical mind to understand the philological legacy of Chinese and an open mind to welcome new interdisciplinary approaches that could produce innovative theories and facilitate the growth of the discipline. Moreover, this paper expands the history of linguistics by introducing linguistic features not found in Indo-European languages, thereby making the history of linguistics more inclusive than it has previously been. Consequently, this paper contributes to a rethinking of the definition of language.

Community, Race, and Class

2019 ◽  
pp. 70-92
Author(s):  
Cicero M. Fain
Keyword(s):  
First Generation ◽  
Physical Development ◽  
The Other ◽  
Race And Class ◽  
Class Stratification ◽  
Residential Population ◽  
Black Individual ◽  
The City ◽  
The Town ◽  
Industrial Economic

This chapter examines the period encompassing Huntington’s nascent physical development, increasing black migrant influx into the town and region, an emergent black residential population, and the developing contours of class stratification. It centers this study on the black individual and collective responses of Huntington’s first generation of black migrants and residents to two corresponding and overlapping developments: one attendant to the rise of the city as the region’s industrial, economic, social, and political hub; the other attendant to the larger historical forces of urbanization, industrialization, racism, and capitalism. It contends that in recognition of the formidable processes and forces arrayed against them, most black Huntingtonians during this era engaged in individual and communal efforts, grounded in cultural and historical commonalities, to better their lives economically.

Ice jam flood forecasting: Hay River, N.W.T.

1992 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. 212-223 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. J. Stanley ◽  
R. Gerard
Keyword(s):  
First Generation ◽  
High Water ◽  
Flood Forecasting ◽  
First Line ◽  
Field Surveys ◽  
Ice Jams ◽  
Ice Jam ◽  
Ice Regime ◽  
The Town ◽  
Gauging Station

Much of the town of Hay River, N.W.T., is located on the low-lying land of the Hay River delta, and is subject to severe ice jam floods every decade or so. As a first line of defence against these floods, it was proposed that an ice jam flood forecast procedure be developed. The major components of the study included a review of historical flood data, resident interviews, field surveys, and observations of the delta ice regime. It was found that a 1–2 day forecast of discharge in Hay River can be directly determined from discharges measured at a Water Survey of Canada gauging station upstream. From this and from an understanding of the breakup ice regime developed from the study as well as the water level–discharge relations determined for ice jams at three locations in the delta, it was possible to develop a first-generation ice jam flood forecasting procedure that gave a 1–2 day warning of high water at each of the three locations. The procedure was evaluated against the breakup events of 1988 and 1989 with reasonable success. The development and application of this procedure is described in the paper. Key words: rivers, floods, ice jams, forecasting.

scholarly journals Intensifiers, Reflexive and Reciprocal Pronouns in Argobba Language, Ethio-Semitic

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 25
Author(s):  
Ousman Shafi Awol
Keyword(s):  
Native Speakers ◽  
Linguistic Features ◽  
Linguistic Data ◽  
Reflexive Pronouns ◽  
Semitic Language ◽  
Islamic Religion ◽  
Central Statistical ◽  
The Town ◽  
Statistical Agency ◽  
Administrative Center

Argobba is a South Ethio-Semitic language which is predominantly used in day-to-day communication by a population of about 140, 134 people in the Argobba Zone (Central Statistical Agency (2008:59), Ethiopia, whose linguistic features were not well described. The Argobba lives in the escarpment slopes of northeastern Shewa and southeastern Wollo, a minority of them are live in the adjoining settlements of the town of Harar in eastern Ethiopia.The Argobba make their living by cultivating plants, by breeding animals, weaving and by trade (Hussein, 2006:416). Most of the Argobba people are followers of Islam. As a result, the Islamic religion greatly influences the culture as well as the living style of the society. The central aim of this paper is to provide a comprehensive description and features of Intensifiers, reflexive and reciprocal pronouns of the Argobba language. The paper is descriptive in natureonly in Argobba language not comparing with other languages, since the study is mainly concerned with describing what is actually being in, and mainly relies on primary linguistic data. The linguistic data, i.e. the elicited grammatical data concerning Intensifiers, reflexive and reciprocal pronouns, was collected from native speakers of the language during 6 months of fieldwork conducted between 2015 and 2016 in five Kebeles and the administrative center of the Argobba. Intensifiers in Argobbaare derived from the noun ‘self’, which has the meaning ‘self’ as intensifier, or its reduplicated form ‘self with self’. Reflexive pronouns are formed by combining ‘self’ with the possessive suffixes while reciprocal pronouns can be formed through a construction consisting of the comitative morpheme, which intersects between the reduplicated noun ‘self’, and the plural possessive suffixes.

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