CANADIAN VARIANT OF ENGLISH: ETYMOLOGICAL ASPECT

second language acquisition of telicity and aspect by persian learners of english

این تحقیق از دو قسمت اصلی تشکیل شده است: در قسمت اول فراگیری ختمیت به ویژه درک و تولید اینگونه جملات توسط فراگیران ایرانی زبان انگلیسی مورد بررسی قرار گرفته است. قضاوت تعدادی انگلیسی زبان بر روی این جملات نیز هدفی دیگر بود که در این رساله بررسی شده است. از موضوعات دیگر تفاوت بین نشانه های ختمیت در زبان انگلیسی و فارسی و تاثیر زبان اول فراگیران در درک و تولید اینگونه جملات است. در قسمت دوم استفا...

Hapax Legomena in the Old English Exodus: An Etymological Study

This essay serves as an attempt to examine various hapax legomena in the Old English poem Exodus from an etymological perspective in order to more conclusively determine its date of composition. Exodus is somewhat unique among Old English epic poems in its proportion ofhapax legeomena, having over 150 examples in under 600 surviving lines. Its date of composition is ofparticular scholarly inter...

A Niuean variant of New Zealand English?

This paper provides an acoustic analysis of the vowels of five Niuean speakers of New Zealand English (NZE). The speakers are second-generation New Zealanders raised in a bilingual English/Niuean environment. Analysis reveals differences between the vowel space of the Niuean New Zealanders and speakers of general NZE. Of particular note is the use of monophthongal variants of the HAY and HOE vo...

Minimum Description Length Modeling of Etymological Data

Etymological Wordnet: Tracing The History of Words

Research on the history of words has led to remarkable insights about language and also about the history of human civilization more generally. This paper presents the Etymological Wordnet, the first database that aims at making word origin information available as a large, machine-readable network of words in many languages. The information in this resource is obtained from Wiktionary. Extract...