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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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All the bedrooms a stage: Reconceptualizing sex as “performance” to sex as “rehearsal”

Feminist Anthropology, EarlyView.
Abstract In the United States, sex is often spoken about in terms of performance, and naturally invokes language of theatricality. Sexual performance has been used as an umbrella term to refer to sexual satisfaction, behavior, embodiment, and also pathology in terms of conditions such as erectile dysfunction.
Taylor Harmon
wiley   +1 more source

From Teamchef Arminius to Hermann Junior: glocalised discourse about a national foundation myth [PDF]

, 2012
If for much of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, the ‘Battle of the Teutoburg Forest’, fought in 9 CE between Roman armies and Germanic tribes, was predominantly a reference point for nationalist and chauvinist discourses in Germany, the first ...
Andreas Musolff, Aßkamp R, Bendikowski T., Berke S, Brockmann R, Charteris-Black J., Clunn A., Derks H, Fauconnier G., Halle U, Heine H, Hille-Priebe N, Husemann D, Hutten U. von, Hutter P, Kammerer I., Krebs C.B., Lippe Landesverband, Mellies D, Mellies D, Multhaupt H., Musolff A., Musolff A., Münkler H., Niebuhr H, Niebuhr H, Oergel M., Ottomeyer H, Pape E.-W, Pape E.-W, Pfaff H, Pleyter R., Raidt M., Reitemeier J., Roloff H.G., Seewald B, Seewald B, Spiegel F, Tacitus P.C., Tacitus P.C., Tourismus Lippe, Weber F.W., Wodak R, Wodak R., Wolters R.   +44 more
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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
wiley   +1 more source

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
wiley   +1 more source

Etymology and Comparative Phonology of North Germanic Personal Names in the Primary Chronicle [PDF]

Вопросы ономастики, 2017
The paper presents comparative analysis of the names of North Germanic origin in the Primary Chronicle. In Section 1, the author analyses the spelling of the names of the ambassadors who participated in the conclusion of the Treaty of Prince Igor with ...
Sergey L. Nikolaev
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„Auf Germanen! Schützet Eure Marken!“

Österreichische Zeitschrift für Geschichtswissenschaften, 2021
The now abundant literature on Germanic legends and the Germanic cult in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries has so far mainly focused on Germany. Austrian components, in contrast, have only been mentioned in passing or neglected altogether, unless ...
Rudolf Jaworski
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Germanic language and Germanic Homoianism [PDF]

, 2018
Religious and linguistic lines overlapped in Late Antiquity, when the Homoian heresy was eventually almost exclusively associated with Germanic-speakers.
Wolfe, Brendan
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Remnant Case Forms and Patterns of Syncretism in Early West Germanic

Transactions of the Philological Society, EarlyView.
Abstract Early stages of the Old West Germanic languages differ from the other two branches, Gothic and Norse, by showing remnants of a fifth case in a‐ and ō‐stem nouns. The forms in question, which have the ending ‐i or ‐u, are conventionally labelled ‘instrumental’ and cover a range of functions, such as instrument, means, comitative and locative ...
Will Thurlwell
wiley   +1 more source

Spontaneous side-taking drives memory, empathy, and author attribution in conflict narratives

Discover Psychology
In two studies, we introduce the concept of spontaneous side-taking (SST) to describe how people initially align themselves in a conflict. The effects of side-taking in established conflicts are well studied, such as empathetic engagement and ...
Claire Woodward, Ben Hiskes, Fritz Breithaupt   +2 more
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