K jedné kapitole z dějin jazykovědy. Příspěvek k 150. výročí úmrtí srovnávacího jazykovědce Augusta Schleichera | One chapter in the history of linguistics. A note on the 150th anniversary of the death of comparative linguist August Schleicher [PDF]
The article concerns the history of linguistics in the 19th century, in particular August Schleicher’s place in the history of linguistics and his scholarly heritage for linguistics in the 20th century, recalling that he was the founder of a method ...
Lenka Vodrážková
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Comparative Linguistics of Mesoamerican Languages Today
Este artículo examina el estado actual de la Lingüística Comparada aplicada a las diez familias lingüísticas y lenguas aisladas de Mesoamérica. La clasificación de las lenguas mesoamericanas está bien establecida y también está avanzada la reconstrucción de las protolenguas.
Lyle Campbell
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Linguists and archaeologists offer complementary viewpoints on human behaviour and culture in past African communities. While historical-comparative linguistics commonly deals with the immaterial traces of the past in Africa’s present-day languages ...
Bostoen, Koen
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Enhancing L2 Confidence Through Learning Diaries: A Replication Study on Italian Lower-Secondary School Students [PDF]
Drawing on the literature on self-confidence, motivational theories, and positive psychology in the field of language learning, the present paper aspires to contribute to the literature by discussing some key findings of a recent conceptual replication
Marcella Menegale, Lucia Spricigo
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The Comparative Method in Synchronic Linguistics: The Case of Word Order
In this article I discuss the comparative method in formal linguistics when applied to word order phenomena in Italian, English and German. I argue that the comparison has to rest on sound theoretical basis in order to reach interesting conclusions ...
Alessandra Giorgi
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Books to the Masses! An Investigation of Russian WWI ‘Dime Stories’
The impact of WWI on Russian society was immediately disruptive. This effect affected every sphere of social and cultural environs. Although previous research has established that WWI was a major topic of the cultural discourse of that time, the way in ...
Luca Cortesi
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Affixoidhungrig? Skitbra! Comparing Affixoids in German and Swedish [PDF]
In this article we offer a comparative survey of word-forming elements in German and Swedish known as “affixoids”. A highly controversial topic in German linguistics, the notion of “affixoid” does remain useful given the position of the elements in ...
Ascoop, Kristin, Leuschner, Torsten
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Phonetic Effects in the Perception of VOT in a Prevoicing Language
Previous production studies have reported differential amounts of closure voicing in plosives depending on the location of the oral constriction (anterior vs. posterior), vocalic context (high vs. low vowels), and speaker sex.
Viktor Kharlamov
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The law of double negation in the history of the research on natural languages [PDF]
The paper deals with the philosophical assumptions of linguistic theories. It is concerned with three paradigms of linguistic thought (generativist, structuralist, and historical-comparative).
Zabrocki, Władysław
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A Fork in the Road: Grammatical Gender Assignment to Nouns in Spanish Dialects
Spanish nouns are classified as either feminine or masculine. Although some nouns vary depending on their denotation (such as niño ‘male child’ vs. niña ‘female child’), in most cases a fixed gender is assigned.
Florencio Del Barrio de la Rosa
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