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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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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
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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
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Nominal Inflectional Morphology in Germanic: Pronouns
, 2022 Pronouns are words that represent morphosyntactic features of nominal referents located somewhere else in the sentence or the context. They display the highest degree of morphosyntactic exponence in the nominal domain, including features of person ...
Rabanus, Stefan
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Spontaneous side-taking drives memory, empathy, and author attribution in conflict narratives
Discover PsychologyIn 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 +2 more
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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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James Platt Junior's Contributions to Old English Grammar1
Transactions of the Philological Society, EarlyView.Abstract In 1883, Henry Sweet took issue with James Platt junior, a 21‐year‐old language enthusiast. At the time, Platt was England's brightest young prospect in Old English linguistic studies. Sweet recognised Platt's talent, but he became convinced that he was also a plagiarist and tried to have him expelled from the Philological Society.
Stephen Laker
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, 2023 A foot is an organising unit of prosodic structure built on moras and syllables. Prominence falls on the heads of feet, and feet can be right or left-headed (an iamb or a trochee, respectively). Feet can be constructed from the right or the left edge and
Booth, Joshua, Lahiri, Aditi
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Francosphères, 2012 This article will begin to answer the question: what might happen if a decentred view of Francophone Cinema were to emerge? It will go beyond the definition of ‘Francophone Cinema’ as simply the ‘Other’ to metropolitan film production and examine the ...
Bill Marshall
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Parameter Hierarchies and Language Contact: The Present Perfect in Ecuadorian Spanish1
Transactions of the Philological Society, EarlyView.Abstract This article explores the hypothesis that the ‘fine‐grained’ grammatical differences that adult grammars under contact are said to be sensitive to (e.g., Hicks et al. 2023) amount to micro/nanoparametric distinctions, in the sense of Roberts (2019).
Norma Schifano
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