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If‐Conditionals as Arguments in Nineteenth‐Century Women's Instructive Writing in English
Transactions of the Philological Society, EarlyView.Abstract This article seeks to analyse the if‐conditionals in a corpus of cookery recipes written by women, namely the Corpus of Women's Instructive Texts in English (1800–1899) (CoWITE19). These texts are original texts written by British and American women between 1800 and 1850.
Margarita‐Esther Sánchez‐Cuervo
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Transactions of the Philological Society, EarlyView.Abstract In Welsh, in certain tenses, unique forms of the verb for ‘be’ are used in positive clauses. These specialised forms of ‘be’ are incompatible with positive main‐clause declarative complementizers, despite their apparent featural compatibility. For most speakers, they are also blocked from if‐clauses; although, I report on data regarding their ...
Frances Dowle
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Transactions of the Philological Society, EarlyView.Abstract Building on Uriel Weinreich's pioneering (1953) Languages in Contact and on Peter Matthews' insightful commentary on it (2006, this volume) this paper discusses the crucial role of bilingualism, and specifically different types of bilingualism, in understanding whether and how the initial changes at the level of Saussure's parole can ...
Luna Filipović, John A. Hawkins
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Commentary: Titi semantics: Context and meaning in Titi monkey call sequences
Frontiers in Psychology, 2019 Swan Commier, Mélissa Berthet
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Contact and Language Change: Using the Present to Explain the Past1
Transactions of the Philological Society, EarlyView.Abstract Although we may know the outcome of language changes that could have resulted from language contact in the past, we are unlikely to know how and why these changes occurred unless we also know about the individual speakers who came into contact and the nature of their interactions—information that all too often is impossible to uncover.
Jenny Cheshire
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Cadernos CajuínaRESUMO: A personificação do sujeito através da linguagem é algo notório nos usuários de uma língua. No Brasil, existem várias formas de comportamentos linguísticos, seja por função de região, de classe social, de situações (formais e informais) e por ...
Daniel dos Santos Teixeira +1 more
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Recognising Capabilities: The Importance of Recognition for Human Flourishing
The Modern Law Review, EarlyView.This article aims to enrich critical sociolegal scholarship and methodological approaches within the field of capability theory by introducing ‘recognising capabilities analysis’. The recognising capabilities analysis embeds Nancy Fraser's theory of recognition (particularly her concept of parity of participation), into the capability paradigm.
Alex Louise Pearl
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Global Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Amid shifting geopolitical tensions, the notion of “research security” has become an increasingly prominent concern in science policy. This paper analyzes how research security is framed and operationalized in Germany and the United States using discourse analysis and securitization theory.
Nicolas V. Rüffin +3 more
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Applying cognitive linguistics to pedagogical grammar: the english prepositions of verticality
Revista Brasileira de Linguística Aplicada, 2005 In this paper, we illustrate the merit of applying insights from Cognitive Linguistics to pedagogical grammar. We do so by examining English prepositions, long assumed to be one of the most difficult areas of acquisition for second language learners. The
Vyvyan Evans, Andrea Tyler
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