Language contact and lexical change: a lexicographical terminographical interface in Zimbabwean ndebele

a synchronic and diachronic approach to the change route of address terms in the two recent centuries of persian language

terms of address as an important linguistics items provide valuable information about the interlocutors, their relationship and their circumstances. this study was done to investigate the change route of persian address terms in the two recent centuries including three historical periods of qajar, pahlavi and after the islamic revolution. data were extracted from a corpus consisting 24 novels w...

Language Change and Language Contact

Pragmatics in language change and lexical creativity

This essay examines language change and linguistic creativity as revealed by remodelling, especially as a source for euphemisms and euphemistic dysphemisms and as a function of verbal play. Within the scope of this essay, there are predominantly two ways in which novel terms and expressions are created leading to language change: formally through remodelling and semantically through figurative ...

Language Contact and Deliberate Change

Historical linguists have always known that some linguistic changes result from deliberate, conscious actions by speakers. But the general assumption has been that such changes are relatively trivial, confined mainly to the invention or borrowing of new words, changes in lexical semantics, and the adoption of a few structural features from a prestige dialect. The goal of this paper is to show t...

Lexicographical Generation of a Generalized Dyck Language

Given two disjoint alphabets T and T ] and a relation R T T ] , the generalized Dyck language D R over T T ] consists of all words w 2 (T T ]) ? which are equivalent to the empty word " under the congruence deened by x y " mod for all (x; y) 2 R. In this paper we present an algorithm that generates all words of length 2n of the generalized Dyck language lexicograph-ically. Thereby, each Dyck wo...