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A Fork in the Road: Grammatical Gender Assignment to Nouns in Spanish Dialects
Languages, 2023 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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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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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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Humanities, 2023 With its suspenseful atmosphere, mysterious and murderous male protagonist, and magical objects, it is hardly surprising that Charles Perrault’s conte bleu ‘La Barbe bleue’ (1697) was the inspiration for numerous Gothic tales in the nineteenth century ...
Alessandro Cabiati
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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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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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Books to the Masses! An Investigation of Russian WWI ‘Dime Stories’
Literature, 2023 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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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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