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The pragmatic import of pronominal usage in chiShona discourse

Per Linguam : A Journal of Language Learning, 2003
This article discusses the pragmatic significance of chiShona pronouns by examining the use of different pronouns: personal, enumerative, and demonstrative, and by demonstrating their address and referential value and social meanings.
Makoni, Sinfree , Mashiri, Pedzisai
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‘The biggest conversation in a generation’? A critical discourse analysis of the UK government's national conversation on England's SEND reform

British Journal of Special Education, EarlyView.
Abstract This study was conducted as a rapid response to the UK government's announcement of a ‘national conversation’ on England's special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) reforms, prior to the publication of the English Schools White Paper in early 2026.
Jill Pluquailec, Emma Sadler, Gill O'Connor   +2 more
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Demonstrative Pronouns in the Comments of Internet Sport News

, 2013
Bakalaura darba tēma ir “Norādāmo vietniekvārdu lietojums interneta sporta ziņu komentāros”. Bakalaura darba mērķis ir izpētīt teorētisko literatūru par norādāmajiem vietniekvārdiem un to funkcijām valodā un analizēt norādāmos vietniekvārdus, kas ...
Kalniete, Madara
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Fronting in Old Catalan: Asymmetries between Narration and Reported Speech1

Transactions of the Philological Society, Volume 123, Issue 1, Page 1-28, March 2025.
Abstract This article explores the distribution, syntax, and information structure of XVS clauses in the narrative text and the reported speech of a thirteenth‐century Old Catalan chronicle, the Llibre dels Fets. It is shown that XVS occurs mainly within reported speech and in embedded clauses.
Afra Pujol i Campeny
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The Development of Indo‐Iranian Voiced Fricatives

Transactions of the Philological Society, Volume 123, Issue 1, Page 97-115, March 2025.
Abstract The development of voiced sibilants is a long‐standing puzzle in Indo‐Iranian historical phonology. In Vedic, all voiced sibilants are lost from the system, but the details of this loss are complex and subject to debate. The most intriguing development concerns the word‐final ‐aḥ to ‐o in sandhi.
Gašper Beguš
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On the “Articlization” of the Propositional Argument in Bulgarian (in Comparison to Polish)

Slavia Meridionalis
In the paper I discuss content explication processes in sentences expressing the causal relation in Bulgarian and Polish. The work implements the model of theoretical contrastive studies with a semantic interlanguage. I focus on condensation processes in
Jakub Banasiak
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There Is no First Phase of the Jespersen Cycle1

Transactions of the Philological Society, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper challenges the traditional conception of the Jespersen Cycle by arguing that no ‘pure’ first phase of the cycle exists where a single negator operates without reinforcement. Drawing on historical data from Northern Italian dialects (Piedmontese, Lombard, Emilian), we demonstrate that emphatic negative structures systematically co ...
Tommaso Mattiuzzi, Cecilia Poletto
wiley   +1 more source

Pronouns (demonstrative, interrogative, indefinite, relative)

, 2014
This entry discusses the use of pronouns in Ancient (especially Archaic and Classical) Greek, with a focus on demonstrative, interrogative, indefinite and relative pronouns.
Bentein, Klaas
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From Nouns and Adjectives to Verbs: Base Effects on the Grammatical Behaviour of Denominal Verbs in Ancient Greek1

Transactions of the Philological Society, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper investigates the role of semantic features of noun and adjective bases in determining the grammatical behaviour of Ancient Greek denominal and deadjectival verbs in *‐ye/o‐. The paper adopts a lexicalist framework (Rappaport Hovav & Levin 1998) and examines how the event schema, actionality, telicity and voice of derived verbs are ...
Carolina Marescotti
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The Gender of Heteroclites1

Transactions of the Philological Society, EarlyView.
Abstract Few have asked what happens to gender when a noun is heteroclitic – when its inflection draws on more than one inflection class. While heteroclisis has moved from being treated as a marginal irregularity to a theoretically revealing phenomenon, its implications for gender assignment remain largely unexplored.
Greville G. Corbett
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