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The Status of De in Romance Indefinites, Partitives and Pseudopartitives*
Abstract This paper focuses on the status of de in Romance indefinites, partitives and pseudopartitives. It argues that there is neither a ‘partitive article’ nor a ‘partitive preposition’ in syntax. De in Romance indefinites is the overt Spell‐Out of an abstract operator de that cancels the definiteness of articles and is responsible for ...
M.Teresa Espinal, Sonia Cyrino
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On the Syntax of Number in Romance
Abstract Inflectional languages, and Romance languages in particular, display morphological variation in plural marking within the nominal domain. While standard varieties show plural inflection on all the constituents within the DP, other varieties show this plural marking only on some of its constituents.
Sonia Cyrino, M.Teresa Espinal
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Cuatro poemas de amor y un elogio cortés: poesía catalana inédita de los siglos XV-XVI [PDF]
Starting from a state of affairs of different bibliographical contributions on medieval Catalan poetry, this article presents the Repertori d’Obres en Vers (ROV) and includes the edition of five unpublished poems of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries,
Mahiques Climent, Joan
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Aproximación teórica a la traducción y la autotraducción. A propósito de las literaturas catalana y española [PDF]
Theories about translation and self-translation between Catalan and Spanish literatures during Franco’s dictatorship are strictly subject to cultural and linguistic dispositions imposed by Franco’s regime from its victory.
Ramis Llaneras, Josep M.
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The Archaeological Record Speaks: Bridging Anthropology and Linguistics
This paper examines the origins of language, as treated within Evolutionary Anthropology, under the light offered by a biolinguistic approach. This perspective is presented first. Next we discuss how genetic, anatomical, and archaeological data, which are traditionally taken as evidence for the presence of language, are circumstantial as such from this
Sergio Balari+6 more
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Guerra Civil i narrativa juvenil catalana: testimoni i literatura [PDF]
The historical novel has been a highly cultivated genre in Catalan Young Adult Literature, but until the end of the 20th century, the topic of the Spanish Civil War was little dealt with.
Valriu, Caterina
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Pragmatic Ambiguity, Implicatures, and Translation1
Abstract The goal of this work is to put forward a pragmatic and translational framework for analysing target texts (TT) and source texts (ST) containing conversational implicatures that lead to pragmatic ambiguity. Ambiguity, sensu lato, is deemed to be related to indeterminacy and vagueness.
Pau Francesch, Lluís Payrató
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Estudios Filológicos: revisión de las Memorias de grado [PDF]
El trabajo llevado a cabo por la Red Estudios Filológicos ha consistido en la revisión de las memorias de los siguientes grados: Español: lengua y literaturas; Estudios árabes e islámicos; Estudios franceses; Estudios ingleses y Filología Catalana.
Aleson-Carbonell, Marian+9 more
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Abstract Ambiguity is conventionally defined in Linguistics as a property of a word or an utterance that has two meanings or two interpretations, and is usually classified as lexical, morphological, syntactic (or structural), and pragmatic. Giving an adequate definition of linguistic ambiguity is not trivial, nor is there unanimity in accepting it ...
Jordi Fortuny, Lluís Payrató
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Abstract The main aim of this chapter is to analyse under‐determination, generalisation, vagueness, and ambiguity in the speaker's self‐reference strategies used in Catalan parliamentary debate and Twitter. Parliaments are one of the main arenas where politicians develop their activity.
Neus Nogué‐Serrano
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