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Studies in German Literature of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries [PDF]
, 1970 Twenty-one distinguished American Germanists pay tribute to F. E. Coenen, previous longtime editor (1952-1968) of UNC Press' Studies in Germanic Languages and Literatures series.
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Glossa, 2021 In the Romance languages, definite plural articles (e.g., le rane ‘the frogs’) are generally ambiguous between a generic and a specific interpretation, and speakers must reconstruct the intended interpretation through the linguistic or extra-linguistic ...
Anna Czypionka +3 more
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Weather, EarlyView.The English language is a gargantuan, gluttonous beast. It has become extraordinary in its powers of assimilation – such that we rarely consider the origins of the words we use. In this paper, we will shed light on these origins, including the Pontic–Caspian steppe, the British Empire and, of course, a TV show.
Kieran M. R. Hunt
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Records of the Department Of Germanic Languages (Swedish Department), University of Melbourne, third accession [PDF]
, 1962 This record was harvested from a previous catalogue system and will be withdrawn in 2025. Information in this record may be superseded or incomplete.
University Of Melbourne. Department Of Germanic Languages. Swedish Department
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The position of subjects in Germanic and Romance questions [PDF]
, 2021 This chapter discusses a difference between Germanic and Romance languages in the syntax of subjects: While in Germanic wh-questions, full subjects can occur in the canonical, preverbal position (English: where has John gone?), in Romance, this is ...
Anna Cardinaletti
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Old English lida and the sailors of the North Sea
Filologia GermanicaThe essay examines the words for ‘sailor’ in the Germanic languages, with particular regard to those going under the sobriquet of North Sea Germanic languages. The research begins with the lida of Maxims I and his safe return home.
Patrizia Lendinara
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Fronting in Old Catalan: Asymmetries between Narration and Reported Speech1
Transactions of the Philological Society, Volume 123, Issue 1, Page 1-28, March 2025.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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Records of the Department Of Germanic Languages (Swedish Department), University of Melbourne, second accession [PDF]
, 1963 This record was harvested from a previous catalogue system and will be withdrawn in 2025. Information in this record may be superseded or incomplete.
University Of Melbourne. Department Of Germanic Languages. Swedish Department
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Nominal Inflectional Morphology in Germanic: Pronouns [PDF]
, 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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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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