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  2. Language contact - Wikipedia

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    The influence can go deeper, extending to the exchange of even basic characteristics of a language such as morphology and grammar.. Newar, for example, spoken in Nepal, is a Sino-Tibetan language distantly related to Chinese but has had so many centuries of contact with neighbouring Indo-Iranian languages that it has even developed noun inflection, a trait that is typical of the Indo-European ...

  3. Janet Holmes (linguist) - Wikipedia

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    In 1996, she established the Wellington Language in the Workplace (LWP) project, [3] which is an ongoing study of communication formats occurring in the workplace, which examines “small talk, humour, management strategies, directives, and leadership in a wide range of New Zealand workplaces”.

  4. Jenny Cheshire - Wikipedia

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    Jenny L. Cheshire is a British sociolinguist and emeritus professor of linguistics at Queen Mary University of London. [1] Her research interests include language variation and change, language contact and dialect convergence, and language in education, with a focus on conversational narratives and spoken English.

  5. Raymond Hickey - Wikipedia

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    Raymond Kevin Hickey (born 3 June 1954) is an Irish linguist specialising in the English language in Ireland, especially in the capital Dublin, working within the sociolinguistic paradigm of language variation and change. Hickey has also worked on the Irish language, specifically the phonology of the modern language.

  6. Language family - Wikipedia

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    This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 25 November 2024. Group of languages related through descent from a common ancestor 2005 map of the contemporary distribution of the world's primary language families A language family is a group of languages related through descent from a common ancestor, called the proto-language of that family. The ...

  7. Brittonicisms in English - Wikipedia

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    [19] [page needed] According to a previously held model, the Romano-Britons of England were to a large extent exterminated or somehow pushed out of England – affecting their ability to influence language. [20] There is now a much greater body of research into language contact and a greater understanding of language contact types.

  8. List of style guides - Wikipedia

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    Conscious Style Guide [32]-- A website "devoted to conscious language. My mission is to help writers and editors think critically about using language—including words, portrayals, framing, and representation—to empower instead of limit." Created by author and Robinson Prize winner Karen Yin.

  9. Jack Chambers (linguist) - Wikipedia

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    J. K. "Jack" Chambers (born 12 July 1938 in Grimsby, Ontario, growing up in Stoney Creek, Ontario) is a Canadian linguist, and a well-known expert on language variation and change, who has played an important role in research on Canadian English since the 1980s; he has coined the terms "Canadian Raising" and "Canadian Dainty", [1] the latter used for Canadian speech that mimics the British ...