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Transactions of the Philological Society, EarlyView.Abstract Based on an analysis of the Old Literary Tibetan corpus—a corpus of the oldest documented Tibetic language—the present study provides evidence that literary Tibetan v3 verb stems (commonly termed ‘future’) initially encoded passive voice. New arguments put forward in this article range from Trans‐Himalayan nominal morphology to early Tibetan ...
Joanna Bialek
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Morphosyntactic features of universal quantifiers in isiZulu and Xitsonga: A comparative study
LiteratorDue to their common roots within the Bantu language family, isiZulu and Xitsonga exhibit several shared linguistic features, notably the use of a noun class system. Yet, their distinct morphological rules differentiate them.
Rivalani X. Masonto, Elliot M. Mncwango
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Analytic tendencies in modern Polish and Russian
Cognitive Studies | Études cognitives, 2015 Analytic tendencies in modern Polish and Russian Modern Polish and Russian are characterized by some features which demonstrate an increasing level of analitism.
Wojciech Sosnowski
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A global approach for a dictionary of Lingála: from the localization of software to a lemmatization strategy [PDF]
, 2011 Lingála is the national language spoken in Kinshasa, the capital of the country. Even if this language is going through a straightforward empowering process, its progress is still hindered by the lack of terminological and lexicographic tools; hence the ...
Sene Mongaba, Bienvenu
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Phrasal Alternation in the Pondok Tinggi Dialect of Kerinci; an Intergenerational Analysis [PDF]
, 2015 This paper examines the implications of language contact in a Malay sub-variety known as Pondok Tinggi, spoken in Sumatra. My focus is on the grammatical phenomenon of phrasal alternation.
Ernanda, E. (E)
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Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article argues that marriage was central to historical change in the Yoruba‐speaking region of West Africa during the eighteenth century. It draws on ìtàn, a distinct oral source, to show that conjugality shaped Yoruba processes of urbanisation and political centralisation, gendered divisions of labour and social innovation and creativity.
Insa Nolte
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Ce que cache un nom : les ethnonymes slaves dans Le Nouveau Larousse illustré (1898-1904)
Revue des études slaves, 2016 This study of the various entries devoted to the « Slavs » in the French encyclopaedia Le Nouveau Larousse illustré (1898‑1904) confronts the reader with an incredible expansion of nouns: bohémien, tchèque, czèche, cassoube, kachoube, serbe, sorbe ...
Cécile Gauthier
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Studia Linguistica Romanica, 2020 Résumé : Les noms collectifs du français (Ncoll), qui désignent une pluralité de référents par une forme lexicale au singulier, sont connus pour être soumis à un accord verbal (mais aussi pronominal) variable, notamment dans la langue orale.
Pusch, Claus D.
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Grounds in Equality Law: Before and After For Women Scotland
The Modern Law Review, EarlyView.Grounds are the fulcrum of equality law. Thus, discrimination is discrimination when it is based on or because of certain kinds of personal characteristics or grounds such as race or sex. But there is no definition of grounds in general or a definition of grounds such as race or sex in particular in equality law. This article shows that in defining the
Shreya Atrey
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Reflections on the “ad hoc categories”
Linguistic Typology at the CrossroadsThis article is a reflection on the concept of ad hoc categories (AHCs) as developed in a copious number of recent publications. The article refers to well-known concepts such as prototype, and theoretical frameworks such as cognitivism, and construction
Paolo Ramat
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