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Comparative discourse linguistics : assumptions, principles, problems [PDF]
, 2018 This article outlines theoretical and methodical principles of linguistic comparative discourse analysis from a reflective viewpoint. First, we raise key questions such as ’what are the reasons for comparingf discourses?’ and ‘what exactly comparing ...
Czachur, Waldemar, Dreesen, Philipp
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Linguistics, 2022 Perfective stem allomorphy and stress are morphological traits which interact in complex ways in Romance verbal inflection. This article surveys the whole range of variation of these traits across Romance varieties, typologizes the observed interactions ...
Herce Borja
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Literature, 2022 This article responds to the arguments put forth by Peter Lamarque and Stein Haugom Olsen in Truth, Fiction, and Literature: A Philosophical Perspective (1994).
Paolo Pitari
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Mathematical approaches to comparative linguistics [PDF]
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 1997 The inference of the evolutionary history of a set of languages is a complex problem. Although some languages are known to be related through descent from common ancestral languages, for other languages determining whether such a relationship holds is itself a difficult problem.
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Bantu lexical reconstruction [PDF]
, 2016 Lexical reconstruction has been an important enterprise in Bantu historical linguistics since the earliest days of the discipline. In this chapter a historical overview is provided of the principal scholarly contributions to that field of study.
Bastin, Yvonne, Bostoen, Koen
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Speech Rhythm Variation in Early-Stage Parkinson's Disease: A Study on Different Speaking Tasks
Frontiers in Psychology, 2021 Patients with Parkinson's disease (PD) usually reveal speech disorders and, among other symptoms, the alteration of speech rhythm. The purpose of this study is twofold: (1) to test the validity of two acoustic parameters—%V, vowel percentage and VtoV ...
Marta Maffia +6 more
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Microvariation in the Languages of the Iberian Peninsula [PDF]
, 2013 This issue of the Catalan Journal of Linguistics was conceived with the idea to promote comparative studies of the languages spoken in the Iberian Peninsula.
Ordóñez, Francisco, Roca, Francesc
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Man, nature, and semiotic modelling or How to create forests and backyards with language
Sign Systems Studies, 2013 This paper explains how we create concepts such as the forest or the backyard through language. Reflecting on Andreas Weber’s hope for a revolution of the life sciences and a re-evaluation of the role human beings play in nature, this paper adopts as a ...
Prisca Augustyn
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Information, 2023 Poetic devices implicitly work towards inducing the reader to associate intended and expressed meaning to the sounds of the poem. In turn, sounds may be organized a priori into categories and assigned presumed meaning as suggested by traditional literary
Rodolfo Delmonte
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Egophoricity, Involvement, and Semantic Roles in Tibeto-Burman Languages
Open Linguistics, 2017 In this study, we explore typological aspects of egophoricity marking based on selected Tibeto- Burman languages. Conceptualizing egophoricity as an autonomous grammatical category that marks access to knowledge, we first discuss how egophoricity marking
Widmer Manuel, Zúñiga Fernando
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