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3D in history of the English language: Learning a L2 through history, context and cross-cultural experiences

open access: yesJournal of English Studies, 2014
Given the four elements involved in having a communicative competence, it could be argued that learning a L2 does not only involve overcoming linguistic differences, but also cultural ones.
Ana Sáez-Hidalgo, Laura Filardo-Llamas
doaj   +1 more source

The specifier–head relationship: negation and French subject proforms [PDF]

open access: yes, 2007
This article1 and the three others in this thematic collection are about heads and specifiers, the relationship between them, and how this relationship can change over time.
Adger   +56 more
core   +1 more source

Justice Between Coexisting Generations: Birth Cohorts or Age Groups?

open access: yesGlobal Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper will deal with intergenerational justice, focusing on the relationship between coexisting generations. The first section will be reserved for some conceptual clarifications on the concept of justice, on the distinction between age groups and birth cohorts, and on the specificity of age as a category for apportioning benefits and ...
Anna Elisabetta Galeotti
wiley   +1 more source

Speech act attenuation in the history of English: The case of apologies

open access: yesGlossa, 2019
This paper develops a new theoretical framework to describe the long diachrony of speech acts. Such an undertaking requires a careful reconsideration of some of the basic properties of the nature of speech acts.
Andreas H. Jucker
doaj   +2 more sources

To be or not to be? About the copula system in Buli (Gur) [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
This talk concerns the copula system in Buli, a Ghanaian language which has also been attested in Bahia (Rodrigues 1935, Zwernemann 1968). Special focus will be put on the categorization of two copula-reminiscent elements for which I will propose a ...
Schwarz, Anne
core  

Revisiting Ontology to Reshape Transgenerational Justice

open access: yesGlobal Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article develops a philosophical framework for understanding transgenerationality as a foundational concept for intergenerational justice. Drawing on social ontology and the philosophy of action, it introduces the notion of transgenerational civitas—a temporally extended community composed of past, present and future generations.
Tiziana Andina
wiley   +1 more source

Axiological component of the linguistic worldview (on the material of “Hagiography of Protopope Avvakum”)

open access: yesНеофилология, 2019
We made an attempt of development theoretical propositions “diachrony in synchrony of language”, reflected in the works of N.I. Gainullina. On the text material we consider axiological representation of a linguistic personality with a position diachrony ...
Leyla Y. Mirzoeva
doaj   +1 more source

Late Paleocene event chronology: unconformities, not diachrony [PDF]

open access: yes, 2000
The chronology of the events associated with the late Paleocene thermal maximum (LPTM, Chron C24r) has been established through the construction of a composite reference section that involved chemomagnetobiostratigraphic correlations and assumed minimum ...
Aubry, Marie-Pierre   +5 more
core   +2 more sources

Justice Across Generations: Rethinking Reciprocity Under Conditions of Uncertainty

open access: yesGlobal Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This introduction investigates the role of justice as reciprocity in intergenerational settings. It argues that the growing prominence of intergenerational framing in contemporary policy agendas is best understood in light of distinct questions emerging within the normative debate on intergenerational justice.
Valentina Gentile, Fiammetta Sacconi
wiley   +1 more source

Current research in phonological typology. [PDF]

open access: yesLinguist Typol, 2023
Moran S, Easterday S, Grossman E.
europepmc   +1 more source

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