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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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Correlative Adverbs in Germanic Languages
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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Street art as a cultural and educational project
The necessity of discovering ways to form and develop value orientations of the younger generation makes the research topical. Value orientations are formed under the influence of various sociocultural factors, but there is also a regulated factor ...
Gerkerova Alexandra
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Pulmonalis or Pulmonaris? It's Elementarius, My Dear Watson
ABSTRACT The adjectival suffix ‐alis and its allomorph ‐aris are very common in the anatomical nomenclature; however, rules governing differential usage, such as ‐aris substituting for ‐alis following an ‐l‐, leave many exceptions. Here, we report an empirical study of 985 adjectives with ‐alis and ‐aris suffixes used in Terminologia Anatomica (2nd ed.)
Paul E. Neumann +3 more
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Morphosyntactic features of progressive in the K’iche’an languages of the Mayan family
The article deals with the morphosyntactic features of the aspectual category of progressive in K’iche’an languages. The analysis is carried out using methods of intragenetic typology.
Sychev Roman V.
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The diachronic emergence of retroflex segments in three languages [PDF]
The present study shows that though retroflex segments can be considered articulatorily marked, there are perceptual reasons why languages introduce this class into their phoneme inventory. This observation is illustrated with the diachronic developments
Hamann, Silke
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Bodily injuries and dative experiencers in Old Frisian [PDF]
This article offers a descriptive account of body part constructions in Old East Frisian texts and analyzes the occurrence of dative experiencers in such clauses.
Bruno, Laura, Kerkhof, Peter Alexander
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All the bedrooms a stage: Reconceptualizing sex as “performance” to sex as “rehearsal”
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
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The Germanic weak preterit [PDF]
The main difficulty with the Germanic weak preterit is that one cannot endeavor an explanation of its origin without taking into account almost every aspect of the historical phonology and morphology of the Germanic languages.
Kortlandt, Frederik H. H.
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Fronting in Old Catalan: Asymmetries between Narration and Reported Speech1
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
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