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Games and gamification projects in the Australian public sector

Australian Journal of Public Administration, EarlyView.
Abstract This article surveys the arrival of gameful government into Australian public sector practice. Gameful government is a shorthand, descriptive term denoting the interpenetration of (video)games, and design elements and thinking from them, into public sector work.
David Threlfall, Catherine Althaus
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A Comparative Analysis of the Expression of Possessive Relations in the Erzya Dialects of the Kochkurovo District, Republic of Mordovia

Финно-угорский мир
Introduction. The dialects of the Mordovian Prisurye are characterized by a developed system of possessive suffixes and feature various means and forms of expressing possessive relations.
Ivan N. Ryabov, Nina A. Agafonova, Galina V. Ryabova   +2 more
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Les méthodes de la lexicographie dialectale : variation formelle et recueil des données

Géolinguistique, 2019
This paper provides an overview of how lexicographers deal with elusive dialectal data. It gives answers to the following questions: what methods are used—or can be used— (a) to represent geographic, social and free variation in reference works?
Philippe Del Giudice
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Closeness and disappointment in Jordanian friendships Proximité et déception en amitié en Jordanie

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
Western folk models of friendship assume that friends like one another, implying mutually positive feelings. However, accounts of friendship from across times and places suggest that disappointment goes along with friendship as often as mutual affection.
Susan MacDougall
wiley   +1 more source

THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN DIALECTOLOGY AND HISTORY: METHODOLOGICAL AND THEORETICAL REFLECTIONS FOR THE STUDY OF THE PORTUGUESE SPOKEN IN MINAS GERAIS

Gragoatá, 2016
This text presents a summary of the dialectological projects that have been developed in Minas Gerais. The description of the variation of Portuguese used in this state suggests a delimitation of two or three basic dialectal areas – division which can ...
Ana Paula Antunes Rocha, Francisco Eduardo Andrade   +1 more
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Diminutivos en el habla de aprendices de español [PDF]

marcoELE. Revista de Didáctica Español Lengua Extranjera, 2019
El objetivo de este artículo es analizar el uso de los sufijos diminutivos entre los aprendices de español como lengua extranjera con el fin de discutir sobre el desarrollo de su competencia pragmática.
Malaver, Irania
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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
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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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Boundary disputes and sociophonetic variation: schwa-epenthesis in Dutch rCclusters

, 2015
Dutch schwa-epenthesis in liquid+consonant clusters has been the subject of a “boundary dispute”, as to its phonetic or phonological status. There has been surprisingly little instrumental work on the phenomenon that could function as an arbiter in this ...
Sebregts, Koen, Engelse taalkunde, ILS Variation   +2 more
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Negative Particle Questions: A Dialectal Comparison

, 2014
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Cheng, L. L. -S.;Huang, C. -T. J.;Tang, C. -C. J.
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