Historical linguistics has no generally accepted methodology for statistically estimating whether the connections it documents between languages are coincidental or statistically significant (likely to reflect historical realities). Currently the best proposals are very suscepti…
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The present thesis investigates adjective ordering across languages, with an emphasis on Greek and Cypriot Maronite Arabic (CMA). Cross-linguistically, attributive adjectives are argued to be ordered according to their semantic class (Hetzron 1978; Dixon 1982; Cinque 1994, 2010,…
In Lebanon, the symbolic value of language has held prominence in religious and secular nationalist discourses and ideological struggles over the last century, as bilingual educational practices spread through missionary and colonial institutions. This dissertation examines the …