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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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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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Strategies of Indefiniteness Marking in Central Sicilian—Evidence from the Dialect of Delia
Languages, 2023 This paper is meant as a contribution to the research project on variation and optionality in the determiner system in Italo-Romance, with novel data from the Sicilian dialect of Delia. The study is based on fieldwork interviews and the construction of a
Vincenzo Nicolò Di Caro
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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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Stative vs. Eventive Participles in an Arbëresh Variety under the Influence of the Italian Language
Languages, 2023 In this paper, I explore the properties and the uses of the past participles in the Arbëresh variety of S. Nicola dell’Alto, an Albanian dialect still spoken in Southern Italy, which has been in contact with Italo-Romance varieties for more than five ...
Giuseppina Turano
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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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Labelled glossaries in the context of migration: a proposal for Italian and English
De Europa, 2023 This paper investigates the way in which the words used to talk about migration are described by international organisations and public administrations.
Ferdinando Longobardi, Valeria Pastorino
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Solar energy discourse in the Sunshine State
Sign Systems Studies, 2021 This case study of a 2016 Florida constitutional amendment analyses the semiotic devices and mechanisms of shaping public opinion on solar energy and beliefs about energy distribution.
Prisca Augustyn
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Comparative Legilinguistics, 2022 This article describes Heikki E.S. Mattila’s achievements in the area of comparative legal linguistics. It concentrates on the process of emergence of basic conceptual structure in Mattila’s work.
Marcus Galdia
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