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Tracing change in the public perception of plants: insights from archives and social media in China

PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.
As urbanization accelerates, historic gardens serve as vital cultural treasures that offer spiritual and cultural support to the public. This study proposes an innovative approach that merges historical records from the Qing Dynasty with contemporary social media data to explore changes in public perceptions of these gardens.
Dong Xu, Pei‐yan Wang, Ya‐nan Li, Nan Hu, Yun‐yuan Li   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Prog imperfective drift in ancient Greek? Reconsidering eimi 'be' with present participle [PDF]

, 2013
In this paper, I reconsider the diachrony of the Ancient Greek periphrastic construction of eimi 'be' with present participle by means of Bertinetto’s recently proposed model for the development of progressive grams (a process called ‘PROG imperfective ...
Adrados, Aerts, Alexander, Amenta, Bailey, Barbelenet, Beekes, Behrens, Bentein, Bentein, Bentein, Benveniste, Bertinetto, Bertinetto, Bertinetto, Bertinetto, Bertinetto, Bertinetto, Björck, Brinton, Brugmann, Bybee, Bybee, Castelnovo, Ceglia, Chantraine, Clark, Comrie, Coseriu, Coseriu, Croft, Croft, Cutrer, Dahl, De Smet, Declerck, Dietrich, Dietrich, Dietrich, Dik, Dik, Dover, Ebert, Fanning, Fischer, Fleischman, Fleischman, Freeze, Giacalone Ramat, Givón, Gonda, Grimes, Guiraud, Hagège, Haspelmath, Haspelmath, Heine, Hopper, Huddleston, Jannaris, Johanson, Jones, Kahn, Killie, Kirk, Kühner, Lambrecht, Langacker, Lanérès, Lasso de la Vega, Leech, Lehmann, Lesher, Liddell, Longacre, Lyons, Lyons, Marchello-Nizia, Matič, Metslang, Michaelis, Michaelis, Mufwene, Nickel, Oldsjö, Payne, Pollak, Polzenhagen, Porter, Pusch, Rijksbaron, Rosenkranz, Rosén, Rosén, Rosén, Ruijgh, Rydbeck, Sihler, Stassen, Tichy, Vendler, Viti, Wackernagel, Wheeler, Wifstrand, Ziegeler   +105 more
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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
wiley   +1 more source

Method of Reconstruction of Language Spatial Picture of the World according to Written Monuments of Pre-National Period (on Example of “Arable Land” Field)

Научный диалог, 2018
The work is devoted to the problem of reconstruction of the language spatial picture of the world in diachrony. The relevance of the study is due to the discrepancy between the modern linguistic consciousness and the mentality of native speakers, who ...
L. A. Inyutina, T. S. Shilnikova
doaj   +1 more source

Poznawcze przesłanki semiozy zorientowanej na mit [PDF]

, 2019
This article addresses the cognitive premises of designation units denoting mythic concepts in a variety of texts and discourses. The article focuses on myth-oriented semiosis as a cognitive and cultural phenomenon reflected in the semantic ...
Колесник, Олександр Сергійович
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The wolf in sheep's clothing: Camouflaged borrowing in Modern German [PDF]

, 2008
This article addresses a phenomenon of language contact that has not received much attention in mainstream contact linguistics, namely borrowing via a mechanism Zuckermann (2003) calls MULTISOURCED NEOLOGISATION.
Busse Ulrich, Hill Eugen, Robert Mailhammer, Ronneberger-Sibold Elke, Vennemann Theo, Vennemann Theo, Zifonun Gisela, Zuckermann Ghil'ad   +7 more
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From Nominalisation to Passive in Old Tibetan: Reconstructing Grammatical Meaning in an Extinct Language1

Transactions of the Philological Society, EarlyView.
Abstract Based on an analysis of the Old Literary Tibetan corpus—a corpus of the oldest documented Tibetic language—the present study provides evidence that literary Tibetan v3 verb stems (commonly termed ‘future’) initially encoded passive voice. New arguments put forward in this article range from Trans‐Himalayan nominal morphology to early Tibetan ...
Joanna Bialek
wiley   +1 more source

Reflexive Morphology in the Kikongo Language Cluster: Variation and Diachrony

Languages
This paper provides a comparative and diachronic account of reflexive morphology in the Kikongo language cluster, a genealogically closely related group of 40+ West Coastal Bantu languages.
Sebastian Dom
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That old time religion in West Africa [PDF]

, 1979
African Studies Center Working Paper No.
McCall, Dan
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Remnant Case Forms and Patterns of Syncretism in Early West Germanic

Transactions of the Philological Society, EarlyView.
Abstract Early stages of the Old West Germanic languages differ from the other two branches, Gothic and Norse, by showing remnants of a fifth case in a‐ and ō‐stem nouns. The forms in question, which have the ending ‐i or ‐u, are conventionally labelled ‘instrumental’ and cover a range of functions, such as instrument, means, comitative and locative ...
Will Thurlwell
wiley   +1 more source