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Scrambling as verum focus: German scrambling meets Romance anaphoric anteposition. [PDF]
, 2017 In this paper I demonstrate that in Mòcheno, a German dialect spoken in Northern Italy, scrambling, i.e. the movement of any constituent above sentential adverbs and below the finite verb, is permitted like in Continental Germanic languages.
Cognola, Federica
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Names, 2022 The fifteenth annual Name of the Year vote was held during the online annual conference of the American Name Society on January 23, 2022. The vote was chaired by Deborah Walker, the ANS Name of the Year Coordinator, and was attended by 23 international ...
I. M. Nick
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Names, 2021 Book review by I. M. Nick of Michael Ohl's The Art of Naming [ISBN: 978-0-262-53703-2].
I. M. Nick
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Laryngeal stop systems in contact: connecting present-day acquisition findings and historical contact hypotheses [PDF]
, 2011 This article examines the linguistic forces at work in present-day second language and bilingual acquisition of laryngeal contrasts, and to what extent these can give us insight into the origin of laryngeal systems of Germanic voicing languages like ...
Simon, Ellen
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‘Pitch accent’ and prosodic structure in Scottish Gaelic: Reassessing the role of contact [PDF]
, 2015 This paper considers the origin of ‘pitch accents’ in Scottish Gaelic with a view to evaluating the hypothesis that this feature was borrowed from North Germanic varieties spoken by Norse settlers in medieval Scotland. It is shown that the ‘pitch accent’
Pavel Iosad
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Danish Vestigial Case and the Acquisition of Vocabulary in Distributed Morphology
Biolinguistics, 2009 As Halle & Marantz (2008: 71) acknowledge, “we have no real idea about how a child assigns features to Vocabulary Items” in Distributed Morphology (DM).
Jeffrey K. Parrott
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Intertextual Identittis? Sanyal's Ambiguous Acts of Appropriation
Genealogy+Critique, 2023 In 2021, Mithu Sanyal published her novel Identitti, which marked the author's turn to fictional formats and her debut as a novelist. Acclaimed by critics, feuilleton, and readers alike, Identitti simultaneously commits to and comments on the "boom of ...
Sophie Schweiger
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Tribal ethos favours self-transcendence, within the Tribe
Journal of Innovation Management, 2020 Where there is little trust, can there be self-transcendence? Can one strive for openness as well as closeness between tribes? Preference to trust own clan members is much higher among Mediterranean peoples than among Germanic ones. In both Germanic and
Alfredo Behrens
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Ludic effects in fiction: A case study of J.M. Coetzee’s Disgrace and its Russian and Ukrainian translations [PDF]
SHS Web of Conferences, 2021 This article discusses translation strategies involved in reproducing ludic effects in Russian and Ukrainian translations of Coetzee’s novel Disgrace. Ludic effects, embedded in the text, outline the potential result(s) of literary gaming.
Izotova Natalya
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Germanic Names in early Byzantine Inscriptions. Personal Names and Collective Identity
Gephyra, 2018 Early byzantine inscriptions show that germanic people assimilate their identity to the environment in Constantinople and Asia Minor: They use Greek language, Christian symbols, and imperial titles to present their position in society.
Ulrich Huttner
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