Results 61 to 70 of about 76,302 (282)
Linguistic Evidence Suggests that Xiōng‐nú and Huns Spoke the Same Paleo‐Siberian Language
Transactions of the Philological Society, EarlyView.Abstract The Xiōng‐nú were a tribal confederation who dominated Inner Asia from the third century BC to the second century AD. Xiōng‐nú descendants later constituted the ethnic core of the European Huns. It has been argued that the Xiōng‐nú spoke an Iranian, Turkic, Mongolic or Yeniseian language, but the linguistic affiliation of the Xiōng‐nú and the ...
Svenja Bonmann, Simon Fries
wiley +1 more source
Taraldsen’s generalization in diachrony : evidence from a diachronic corpus [PDF]
, 2016 International audienceWe present the first large scale quantitative investigation of the syncretisation of verbal subject agreement in Medieval French and test a classic analysis which relates non-syncretic agreement and null subjects as parts of the ...
Crabbé, Benoît +2 more
core +2 more sources
Transactions of the Philological Society, EarlyView.Abstract This study investigates the lexicographical potential of Medieval Latin documentation from the Venetian area of the Italo‐Romance domain, highlighting the need for a systematic approach to bridge Latin and vernacular linguistic developments. The project MEDITA – Medieval Latin Documentation and Digital Italo‐Romance Lexicography.
Jacopo Gesiot
wiley +1 more source
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
core +2 more sources
Transactions of the Philological Society, EarlyView.Abstract In Welsh, in certain tenses, unique forms of the verb for ‘be’ are used in positive clauses. These specialised forms of ‘be’ are incompatible with positive main‐clause declarative complementizers, despite their apparent featural compatibility. For most speakers, they are also blocked from if‐clauses; although, I report on data regarding their ...
Frances Dowle
wiley +1 more source
Ordinal Numerals as a Criterion for Subclassification: The Case of Semitic
Transactions of the Philological Society, EarlyView.Abstract This article explores how ordinal numerals (like first, second and third) can help classify languages, focusing on the Semitic language family. Ordinals are often formed according to productive derivational processes, but as a separate word class, they may retain archaic morphology that is otherwise lost from the language.
Benjamin D. Suchard
wiley +1 more source
Plenty of room left for the Dogmatist [PDF]
, 2020 Barnett provides an interesting new challenge for Dogmatist accounts of perceptual justification. The challenge is that such accounts, by accepting that a perceptual experience can provide a distinctive kind of boost to one’s credences, would lead to a ...
Raleigh, Thomas
core
Vulgar Minimisers in English and Spanish1
Transactions of the Philological Society, EarlyView.Abstract In this paper, we investigated whether vulgar minimisers form a natural class in English and Spanish by evaluating (i) their similarities and differences with respect to non‐vulgar minimisers and (ii) whether vulgar minimisers are inherently negative in these languages.
Ángel L. Jiménez‐Fernández +1 more
wiley +1 more source
A Diachronic Study of Introduction Sections [PDF]
Journal of Humanistic and Social Studies, 2018 We analyzed the introduction sections of a hundred and eighty doctoral dissertations of L1 culture over the last fifty years to discover the change concerning the utilization of interactive markers. Interactive markers are employed by writers to guide
Fatemeh Bagheri, Liming Deng
doaj
'Should conditionals be emergent ...': asyndetic conditionals in English and German as a Challenge to Grammaticalization Research [PDF]
, 2010 The present article examines asyndetic or conjunctionless conditionals in German and English. According to Jespersen’s Model (1940), this construction arose diachronically from a paratactic discourse sequence with a polar interrogative, but more recently
Van den Nest, Daan
core +1 more source