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| Weir, E. M. Helen | Footprints of yesterday’s syntax: Diachronic development of certain verb prefixes in an OSV language (Nadëb) | 1986 | Lingua | Linguistics, Sociolinguistics |
| Derbyshire, Desmond C. and Geoffrey K. Pullum | Object initial languages | 1979 | Work Papers of the Summer Institute of Linguistics, University of North Dakota Session | Linguistics, Sociolinguistics |
| Souza, Isaac Costa de; Parker, Steve | Talking to pets in Arara | 2012 | Anthropological Linguistics | Linguistics, Sociolinguistics |
| Cahill, Michael | Endangered languages and Bible translation in Brazil and Papua New Guinea | 2015 | Berkeley Insights in Linguistics and Semiotics | Linguistics, Sociolinguistics, Translation |
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| Fortune, Gretchen | Interferences in Second/Third Language Learning Resulting from Men's/Women's Vocabulary and Gender Differences in the First Language | 1984 | | Linguistics, Sociolinguistics |
| Derbyshire, Desmond C | Language universals, syntactic typology, and diachronic syntax: a select bibliography, with introductory survey | 1981 | Notes on Linguistics | Linguistics, Sociolinguistics |
