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A Translation Analysis of Black English Dialect in The Color Purple Film [PDF]

, 2008
Betaria NAE Hastuti. C1306516. 2009. A Translation Analysis of Black English Dialect in The Film The Color Purple. English Department. Faculty of Letters and Fine Arts. Sebelas Maret University. Surakarta.
NAE HASTUTI, BETARIA
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#LinguisticSunday: Adelung's 1774 dictionary of the 'High German dialect'

, 2023
This post was orginally published in the series #LinguisticSunday in July 2020 on twitter and in September 2023 on mastodon and bluesky. Title page of Adelung's Grammatisch-kritisches Wörterbuch der Hochdeutschen Mundart Johann Christoph Adelung's ...
Maria Zielenbach
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Cutting freedom down to size Liberté calibrée

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
Freedom, as a concept and a value, presents limited prospects for anthropological comparison. The study of enslavement, much neglected in attempts to develop an anthropology of freedom, shows that freedom has been imagined by the enslaved as the opposite of their condition only under particular circumstances.
Harri Englund
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Lexicography of the Syrian dialect of Arabic: Sources and dictionary [PDF]

Training, Language and Culture
This study focuses on the development of an algorithm for constructing the vocabulary of a Syrian dialectal multimedia dictionary. The significance of this research stems from the inadequate representation of Syrian dialectal lexicon in existing ...
Aida D. Haddad, Amr A. A. Khalil
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Loanwords and Linguistic Phylogenetics: *pelek̑u‐ ‘axe’ and *(H)a(i̯)g̑‐ ‘goat’1

Transactions of the Philological Society, Volume 123, Issue 1, Page 116-136, March 2025.
Abstract This paper assesses the role of borrowings in two different approaches to linguistic phylogenetics: Traditional qualitative analyses of lexemes, and quantitative computational analysis of cognacy. It problematises the assumption that loanwords can be excluded altogether from datasets of lexical cognacy.
Simon Poulsen
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Amateur dialect dictionary : the basics of creating a dialect dictionary

, 2021
The paper presents the most important methodological and practical problems faced by an amateur lexicographer who has an interest in the vocabulary and culture of his or her region but does not have a professional dialectological or lexicological ...
Kąś, Józef
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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
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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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Features in Lexicography for Arabic Dialects: Multimedia Dictionary of the Syrian Dialect

RUDN Journal of Language Studies, Semiotics and Semantics
The linguistic situation in Arab countries is characterized by the presence of several variants of the Arabic language, which interact constantly, complicating the establishment of a lexical corpus for each dialect.
Natalia V. Novospasskaya, Aida D. Haddad
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‘More Beastliness Than Beauty’: Gendering Pica in Seventeenth‐Century English Medicine and Culture

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Today, defined as the ‘persistent eating of non‐nutritive substances’, pica is a lesser‐known eating disorder with a long history. Defined in early modern England as the ‘desire to eat absurd things’, pica was explicitly gendered, associated with pregnant women and pubescent girls.
Helena C. Aeberli
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