One centennial discussion in linguistics concerns whether languages, or linguistic systems, are, essentially, homogeneous or rather show “structured heterogeneity.” In this contribution, the question is addressed whether and how sociolinguistically defined systems (or ‘varieties’) are to be distinguished in a heterogeneous linguistic landscape: to what extent can structure be found in the myria...

Like every discipline, theorizing in linguistics crucially involves drawing (often tentative) conclusions about the relation between the available evidence and the theories under consideration. At many points in their research, linguists must decide whether the available evidence (theoretical, empirical, etc.) supports a given theory well enough to accept it, possibly over various competing the...

In this paper, we investigate the linguistic relevance of the notion of frequency in theories of lexicon organisation, in particular the definition of verb classes. Traditionally, the subject matter of linguistics has been to develop linguistic representations to describe and explain language as a cognitive process, including language acquisition and language comprehension and production. Theor...

An overview of domestic publications on conflictology in the field linguistics is provided article. A quantitative analysis linguistic works problem conflict from 1990 to 2022 carried out. The features study dissertations, monographs, articles and textbooks are evaluated. Leading research methods: bibliometric analysis, publication method, classification method. relevance related objective need...

language acquisition is a varied field, and there is an ocean of approaches from which one can investigate first/second language acquisition. these approaches root in different fields, basically linguistics. as for linguistics, research in language acquisition ranges from structural and generative-transformational to cognitive linguistics. while in contrast with each other in main respects theo...

Traditional qualitative data analysis software, while greatly facilitating text analysis, remains entrenched in a tradition of semantic coding. Such an approach, being both time-consuming and poor at incorporating quantitative variables, is seldom applied to large-scale survey and database research (especially within the commercial sector). Lexical analysis, on the other hand, with its origins ...

There are such great names in language studies as Noam Chomsky, Lev S. Vygotsky, Howard Gardener and Michael Halliday who are widely accredited with having introduced new concepts in linguistics and neighboring disciplines and to whom we remain deeply indebted. In this article which has been written on the occasion of Professor Henry Widdowson's visit in April 2018 to Azarbaijan Shahid Madani U...

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