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CASE STUDIES OF CULTURAL COMMUNICATION CONCEPTS EXPRESSED IN THE GERMANIC TERMS FOR ‘SPEECH’. THE HISTORICAL LINGUISTIC BACKGROUND OF A CONCEPT AS GROUND FOR STUDIES IN CONTRASTIVE RHETORIC [PDF]
Studii si Cercetari Filologice: Seria Limbi Straine Aplicate, 2012 This article refers to the studies of ‘contrastive rhetoric’ from a historical perspective examining ‘language contact’-situations of Germanic languages within the IndoEuropean group.
Fee-Alexandra Haase
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Toward a uniform account of scrambling and clitic doubling [PDF]
, 2008 A commonly held view in the literature on Scrambling and Clitic Doubling is that both constructions are sensitive to Specificity. For this reason Sportiche (1992) proposes to unify the two, an approach which has become quite standard in the relevant ...
Alexiadou, Artemis +1 more
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Secularism, Gender and Masculinity in Nineteenth‐Century Cremation in Europe and the USA
Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This essay explores, from transnational perspectives, the early history of modern cremation, which developed in the long nineteenth century with secularist connotations. I argue that the beginnings of modern cremation were shaped by bourgeois men who claimed certain identifiers for themselves in a gendering and Othering way.
Carolin Kosuch
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Diversity in White: An Autoethnographic Case Study of Experienced Diversity and (Un‐)Silencing
Social InclusionDrawing on Sara Ahmed’s observation that the one who files a complaint ultimately becomes perceived as the problem, this article exposes the processes of silencing that occur within academia—particularly regarding issues of diversity, racism, and ...
Faime Alpagu
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NULL SUBJECTS IN OLD GERMANIC LANGUAGES
Філологічні студії, 2020 The article outlines the approaches to defining universal subjecthood properties from cognitive, generative, and functional perspectives. Three types of languages are distinguished according to the type of null subjects they allow – pro-drop, topic-drop,
Г. Зінченко
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Dialectal variation in german 3-verb clusters : a surface-oriented optimality theoretic account [PDF]
, 2004 We present data from an empirical investigation on the dialectal variation in the syntax of German 3-verb clusters, consisting of a temporal auxiliary, a modal verb, and a predicative verb. The ordering possibilities vary greatly among the dialects. Some
Schmid, Tanja, Vogel, Ralf
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Churchill and Germany: A ‘Special’ Relationship
History, EarlyView.Abstract No other country defined the trajectory of Churchill's political career more than Germany, a country of which he had little direct knowledge but which he either sought to emulate, accommodate or oppose throughout his time in politics. This article traces Churchill's relationship with Germany from his entry into politics at the beginning of the
T. G. Otte
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Linguistica, 1986 It seems tempting to treat akull as a potential borrowing from Germanic, if one remembers of a specific Germanic term for icicle: *jakulaz/*jakilaz, cf.ON. jǫkull, OE. gicel, gicela, īses gicel 'icicle of ice'.
Vladimir E. Orel
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Abacus, EarlyView.This paper provides evidence on the choices made by European firms when measuring non‐controlling interest (NCI) and goodwill. Since 2009, IFRS 3 allows measurement of NCI either at fair value (full goodwill method) or at the proportionate share of net assets (partial goodwill method). IFRS 3 allows this policy choice on a per transaction basis.
Matilda Hellman Aasen +3 more
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General linguistics and Indo-European reconstruction [PDF]
, 2010 There is good reason to be ambivalent about the usefulness of general considerations in linguistic reconstruction. As a heuristic device, a theoretical framework can certainly be helpful, but the negative potential of aprioristic considerations must not ...
Kortlandt, Frederik H. H.
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