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The Semantic and Syntactic Evolution of Conjunctions in French: The Case of ains
The present study is part of the current of diachronic research on conjunctions. All linguists confirm that in Old French two opposing conjunctions were used: ains / mais.
Swietłana Niewzorowa
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Gianni Rodari: un aedo del Novecento
We propose an analysis of the poetics of Gianni Rodari's fables. It focuses on the original problem of human storytelling, that is, on the possibility of finding the origin or the primordial topic of the narrative fact: the problem of the beginning, the ...
Angela Arsena
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Doubled up all over again: borrowing, sound change and reduplication in Iwaidja [PDF]
This article examines the interactions between reduplication, sound change, and borrowing, as played out in the Iwaidja language of Cobourg Peninsula, Arnhem Land, in Northern Australia, a non-Pama-Nyungan language of the Iwaidjan family.
Evans, Nicholas
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Matthew 18:15 20: A diachronic and synchronic investigation with special reference to church discipline It is well known that gospel material consists of traditional matter as well as the evangelists' own input.
H. C. van Zyl
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Les associations évoquées par les mots : collecte, analyse, exploitation
The paper presents dictionaries of words associations, which are not frequently discussed in French linguistics. We introduce the base principles of word associations lexicology and the methodology used to build such dictionaries, then the results and ...
Michèle Debrenne
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The diachrony of Mapudungun stress assignment
Stress assignment is one of the most widely-known and controversial aspects of present-day Mapudungun (aka Araucanian) phonology. Here, the diachrony of the phenomenon is explored based on the available written record spanning 1606–1936.
Benjamin Molineaux
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Research on historical terminology is a key step to understanding a specialised language and its evolution, and to getting to the core of a historical discipline in context.
Delphine-Anne Rousseau
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The emergence of approximative values in the Italian prefixes semi- and para-
This paper examines the diachrony of two neoclassical prefixes in Italian, namely semi- (from Latin sēmi- ‘half’) and para- (from Ancient Greek parà close to’), based on data extracted from corpora.
Maria Silvia Micheli
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The “Paris School” and the “Structuralist Invasion” in North America
This essay offers some broader contextualization on the role of “structuralism” in North America and its relationship to the works of scholars who have been broadly classified under the exonym “Paris School” including Jean-Pierre Vernant, Marcel Detienne,
Charles H. Stocking
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Elements of Romanian historical morphology, based on the first Romanian translation of the Septuagint (ms. 45, BAR Cluj) [PDF]
In the CNCS project with the title Prima traducere românească a Septuagintei, operă a lui Nicolae Milescu (Ms. 45 BAR Cluj). Ediție critică, studii lingvistice și filologice, we have developed the morphological study of the text.
Ana-Maria Minuț
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