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Two Nationalisms, One City: Official and Diasporic Framings of the 2019 Hong Kong Protests
ABSTRACT This study analyses the contested collective memories of the 2019 Anti‐Extradition Law Amendment Bill (Anti‐ELAB) movement, investigating how the Hong Kong government and diaspora construct divergent narratives to shape national identity and nationalism.
Isaac Iu
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Constructional transfer: compound constructions in second language acquisition
In this poster, we will present the preliminary results of a study on the acquisition of Dutch compound constructions by French-speaking learners in Belgium.
Van Goethem, Kristel +2 more
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Homo Nationalis and the Moralisation of Belonging: Rethinking National Identity in Austria
ABSTRACT This article examines how national identity and belonging in contemporary Austria are articulated through moral rather than ideological vocabularies. Analysing presidential, party, media and social media discourse surrounding the 2025 National Day, it conceptualises the homo nationalis as the moral citizen who embodies the nation's virtues of ...
Markus Rheindorf
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ABSTRACT Evaluative adjectives are gradable. The standard for falling under a gradable adjective “F” is either context‐relative or absolute. Some philosophers have recently used general linguistic tests to argue that “rational” and (moral) “good” are maximum‐degree absolute gradable adjectives: Only what's perfectly morally good strictly counts as ...
Pekka Väyrynen
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We try to show that predication plays a greater role in syntax than commonly assumed. Specifically, we wil argue that predication to a large extent determines both the phrase structure of clauses and trigger syntactic processes that take place in clauses.
Eide, Kristin M., Åfarli, Tor A.
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A verbalklammer :: estruturas verbais descontínuas em alemão / [PDF]
Tese (Doutorado) - Universidade Federal de de Santa Catarina, Centro de Comunicação e Expressão.Análise sintática das estruturas verbais descontínuas do alemão (Verbalklammer), com embasamento e orientação funcionalista.
Weininger, Markus
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In this poster, we present the preliminary results of a study on the acquisition of Dutch compound constructions by French-speaking learners in Belgium.
Van Goethem, Kristel +2 more
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The transportation of embedded inversion in world Englishes
Abstract The present study uses private correspondence to investigate the use of embedded inversion on both sides of the Atlantic as an illustration of the spread of spoken/conversational features through writing. The paper discusses the use of embedded inversion in Irish English (IrE) and briefly compares its occurrence in other varieties of English ...
Carolina P. Amador‐Moreno
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Why languages differ : variation in the conventionalization of constraints on inference
Sperber and Wilson (1996) and Wilson and Sperber (1993) have argued that communication involves two processes, ostension and inference, but they also assume there is a coding-decoding stage of communication and a functional distinction between lexical ...
LaPolla, Randy J.
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Modal verbs in South Asian online Englishes: must, (have) got to, have to and need to
Abstract This research article presents an analysis of four (semi‐)modals of necessity/obligation (must, (have) got to, have to and need to) in four CMC registers (comments, tweets, web forums and websites) originating from four South Asian countries (Bangladesh, India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka) along with the United Kingdom and United States.
Muhammad Shakir
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