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Over the course of the nineteenth century and early twentieth century, Wales experienced its most sustained and prononounced phase of demographic growth. Migration was a critical catalyst in this process, of which the most substantial contributors in terms of absolute volume wer…

This dissertation is an analysis of the internal construction of simple verbs in Persian within the Distributed Morphology (DM) framework. Farsi (a variant of Persian spoken in Iran) has two types of simple verbs: verbs with past and present alternating stems (afzâ/afzud ‘increa…

This dissertation presents a new subgrouping of South Halmahera-West New Guinea (SHWNG) languages. The 38 SHWNG languages form a small, poorly known branch of Austronesian. The Austronesian family originated in Taiwan and later spread into Indonesia, across New Guinea, and to th…

The Spanish language is in contact with many languages throughout the world, from minority regional languages in the Iberian Peninsula to indigenous languages throughout Latin America. Despite the volume of research on Spanish in contact with other languages, many previous studi…