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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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Rumors of Nature: An Ecotranslation of Ulrike Almut Sandig’s “so habe ich sagen gehört”
Humanities, 2021 Only recently have scholars begun to discuss the implications of the Anthropocene for the translation of literature, introducing the new practice and study of ecotranslation. The Anthropocene—a term popularized by Paul Crutzen—describes the current epoch
Hannah Bradley
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Studia Metrica et Poetica, 2020 Russian Binary Meters.
Kiril Taranovsky, Lawrence E. Feinberg
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Функция характеризации в настоящем времени [Function of characterization in present tense]
Sign Systems Studies, 2003 Function of characterization in present tense. This article is devoted to a field in cognitive and semantic analysis where stylistics and grammar meet: it concerns the function of characterisation in the Present tense. In general, linguistic works, which
Michel Paladian
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Glossa, 2018 This paper discusses cases where non-adjacent cells in morphological paradigms are syncretic, commonly called ABA patterns (Bobaljik 2012 et seqq.). Data from verbs in Germanic languages are examined, as earlier work suggests that a *ABA constraint may ...
Samuel Andersson
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English relative clauses in a cross-Germanic perspective
Nordlyd: Tromsø University Working Papers on Language & Linguistics, 2020 The article talk examines the distribution of relativising strategies in English in a cross-Germanic perspective, arguing that English is quite unique among Germanic languages both regarding the number of available options and their distribution.
Julia Bacskai-Atkari
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Paleolinguistics brings more light on the earliest history of the traditional Eurasian pulse crops [PDF]
, 2011 Traditional pulse crops such as pea, lentil, field bean, bitter vetch, chickpea and common vetch originate from Middle East, Mediterranean and Central Asia^1^.
Aleksandar Medovic +7 more
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Teaching Situational Grammar Items Effectively
Armenian Folia Anglistika, 2015 Traditional Foreign language curricula at Armenian schools have mainly focused on the grammar, vocabulary and pronunciation of the target language. The disparity between the gained knowledge of a foreign language and university classes aimed at enhancing
Susanna Baghdasaryan
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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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Correlative Adverbs in Germanic Languages
Nordlyd: Tromsø University Working Papers on Language & Linguistics, 2004 Correlative words like either, both and neither have not been adequately discussed in the literature. Schwarz (1999) and Larson (1985) give an account of some of them (mainly either) in terms of reduction and movement, respectively, but their theories ...
Janne Bondi Johannessen
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