IJDL International Journal of Diachronic Linguistics and Linguistic Reconstruction

Applied and ‘appliable’ linguistics in Australia

From the mid-1970s in Australia, there was a notable complementarity between the efforts of applied linguists and the theoretical developments emerging from the work of systemic functional linguists. This collaboration was the outcome of sharing an institution — the Applied Linguistics Association of Australia (ALA...

The Germanic jō-Stems in Gothic

Among the early Germanic languages, Gothic best preserves the two subtypes of jō -stem nouns, which differ only in the nom.sg , e.g. bandi ‘bond’ vs. wrakja ‘persecution’. It has been assumed since the 19th century that the distribution of the bandi and wrakja types is conditioned by weight of the nomin...

JOURNAL OF LANGUAGE AND LINGUISTIC STUDIES

Selected Grammatical Issues in the Silesian Translations of World Literary Classics

This study analyses and discusses word-formation, inflectional, and syntactic differences in contemporary translations of world literature into Silesian. The analysis is based on a corpus of nine extensive literary texts translated by seven translators (G. Buchalik, J. Ciurlok, Z. Kadłubek, G. Kulik, M. Melon, M. Synia...

„Bukwar” Wasilija Burcowa jako zabytek piśmiennictwa Rusi Moskiewskiej

The paper is focused on linguistic analysis of the 17th century Vasiliy Fiodorovich Burcov’s “Bukvar”. It was the first printed grammar handbook issued in Moscow. The research which was directed towards selected phonetics and morphological features shows that the analyzed text is differentiated in respect of its langua...

Uvodnik

The thematic issue of the journal Slovenščina 2.0, entitled Speech: A Challenge for Linguistics and Technology, brings together a selection of articles that emerged from the research project Mezzanine: Basic Research for the Development of Spoken Language Resources and Speech Technologies for the Slovene Language. From...