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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, Susagna Tubau   +1 more
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Continuous Representation of Location for Geolocation and Lexical Dialectology using Mixture Density Networks

, 2017
We propose a method for embedding two-dimensional locations in a continuous vector space using a neural network-based model incorporating mixtures of Gaussian distributions, presenting two model variants for text-based geolocation and lexical ...
Baldwin, Timothy, Cohn, Trevor, Rahimi, Afshin   +2 more
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Toward a Critique of Critique: Paradoxes of Byung‐Chul Han and the Dialectic of Despair and Possibility

Constellations, EarlyView.
İbrahim Berkan Karataş
wiley   +1 more source

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

Reverse Trigrams and Tetragrams [PDF]

, 2018
A list of words that contain sets of trigrams and tetragrams but the letters are in reverse alphabetical order.
Francis, Darryl
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James Platt Junior's Contributions to Old English Grammar1

Transactions of the Philological Society, EarlyView.
Abstract In 1883, Henry Sweet took issue with James Platt junior, a 21‐year‐old language enthusiast. At the time, Platt was England's brightest young prospect in Old English linguistic studies. Sweet recognised Platt's talent, but he became convinced that he was also a plagiarist and tried to have him expelled from the Philological Society.
Stephen Laker
wiley   +1 more source

A Contrastive Analysis of the Vocabulary of the Izhma Dialect of the Komi-Zyryan Language (Based on Materials from M. A. Castrén’s Dictionary and Modern Audio Documentation)

Финно-угорский мир
Introduction. Currently, there is no verified basis for assessing the accuracy of early field recordings of the Izhma dialect of the Komi-Zyrian language or for determining the facts of phonetic changes that have actually occurred in the dialect over a ...
Olga N. Bazhenova, Julia V. Normanskaya
doaj   +1 more source

Regional Specificity of Proverbs and Sayings: Opportunities of Representation in Synoptic Phraseological Dictionary

Научный диалог, 2019
The article presents the possibilities of the representation of the regional specificity of phraseology in the synoptic dictionary on a broad all-Russian and inter-regional background.
T. G. Nikitina
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PRESERVING VERNACULARS IN INDONESIA: A BILINGUAL VERNACULAR-ENGLISH DICTIONARY APPROACH [PDF]

, 2015
English learners in Indonesia learn the English language through the Indonesian language, the language oinstruction in the country's education, despite the fact that 80% of the country's population speakvernaculars as mother tongue.
Munandar , Aris, Ramadhani, Cahyo
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Improvement in the English Translations of Albrecht von Haller's Usong (1771)

Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract The political novel Usong (1771), written by the Swiss physiologist Albrecht von Haller (1708–1777), is set in the fifteenth century and tells the story of a Mongolian prince who becomes the Emperor of Persia and redesigns the government of his empire to promote the happiness of his subjects.
Laura Tarkka
wiley   +1 more source