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On the Similarities Between Native, Non-native and Translated Texts
We present a computational analysis of three language varieties: native, advanced non-native, and translation. Our goal is to investigate the similarities and differences between non-native language productions and translations, contrasting both with ...
Nisioi, Sergiu +3 more
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The status of thegn in late Anglo‐Saxon England
This article considers how the term ‘thegn’ was used in tenth‐ and eleventh‐century England. Although commonly thought to indicate members of a face‐to‐face service aristocracy with specific attributes, it has resisted close definition. Examination of references to anonymous thegns in administrative and legal texts suggests that the people meant were ...
Richard Purkiss
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UNWARRANTED CONFIDENCE: A CRITICAL REVIEW OF THE POVERTY OF ANTI‐REALISM
ABSTRACT The Poverty of Anti‐Realism: Critical Perspectives on Postmodernist Philosophy of History, edited by Tor Egil Førland and Branko Mitrović, celebrates the new dawn of historical realism, which it claims supersedes the erroneous and harmful anti‐realism.
Jouni‐Matti Kuukkanen
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The Semantic Distribution of Germanic Loanwords in Proto-Slavic
In this article, the author reviews the evidence supplied by loanwords for the nature of contacts between the Proto-Slavs and their Germanic neighbours, i.e. the Goths and various western Germanic peoples.
Saskia Pronk-Tiethoff
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#INSTAPOETRY. POPULÄRE LYRIK AUF INSTAGRAM UND IHERE AFFORDANZEN
This paper examines a popular phenomenon of contemporary poetry which is circulated via Instagram. The global recognition of Instapoetry is to be reflected against the background of trending small forms.
Niels Penke
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"The German language and literature special collections at the University library of Frankfurt am Main and the work of the subject specialist" : paper delivered in Göttingen, 4. 9. 2007, at the annual conference of the German Studies Library Group (GSLG) [PDF]
Contents - BIX: pole position and runner-up - Frankfurt University Library: its responsibilities, its collections, its databases, its supra-regional collecting responsibilities – and some statistics - The "Sondersammelgebiet" Germanistik: its scope and ...
Giesen, Winfried
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ABSTRACT This article presents the findings of a quantitative study on sentencing practices in Brazil, focusing on the presence of numerical patterns and “penal clustering” in judicial decisions. Drawing on a dataset of criminal sentences from São Paulo—the country's most populous and active judiciary—the research statistically investigates whether ...
Gabriel Silveira de Queirós Campos +2 more
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North Sea Germanic languages were closely related in the Middle Ages, sharing many phonological, morphological and lexical features. A conspicuous grammatical parallel among these languages is found in the system of personal pronouns.
Rosella Tinaburri
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This paper contends that traumatic memories are not inherently memories of an experienced trauma. It explores a new perspective on post-1945 Jewish-American fiction.
Thorsten Wilhelm
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Indo-Uralic consonant gradation [PDF]
Koivulehto and Vennemann have recently (1996) revived Posti’s theory (1953) which attributed Finnic consonant gradation to Germanic influence, in particular to the influence of Verner’s law. This theory disregards the major differences between Finnic and
Kortlandt, Frederik H. H.
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