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On the contrast between Germanic and Romance negated quantifiers
Bucharest Working Papers in Linguistics, 2009 Universal quantifiers can be stranded in the manner described by Sportiche (1988), Giusti (1990) and Shlonsky (1991) in both the Romance and Germanic languages, but a negated universal quantifier can only be stranded in the Germanic languages.
Robert Cirillo
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Towards an Ecological Catholicism: Marian Pilgrimage in the Anthropocene
Religions, 2018 This article analyzes how the author and environmental activist Carl Amery draws together the topics of Catholicism and ecological criticism in the pilgrimage novel Die Wallfahrer, or The Pilgrims (1986).
Sarah Traylor
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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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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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Trans-germanic peculiarities of preterite-present verbs
Актуальні проблеми української лінгвістики: теорія і практика, 2020 DOI: https://doi.org/10.17721/APULTP.2020.40.140-155 This article contains systematic and detailed analysis of morphological and semantic parameters of Germanic preterite-present verbs, dividing them into major and minor subgroups.
Andriy Botsman, Olga Dmytruk
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Genealogies and Challenges of Transcultural Studies
Humanities, 2017 My introductory essay discusses some of transculturalism’s enduring conceptual challenges from the perspective of the history of German cultural and political theory.
Bernd Fischer
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Twenty-seventh Annual Bibliography, Supplement, 2013 (Contemporary German Literature Collection)
, 2017 Bibliography of contemporary German literature volumes added the previous year to Washington University Libraries' Contemporary German Literature Collection.
Paul Michael Lützeler +2 more
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Secularism, Gender and Masculinity in Nineteenth‐Century Cremation in Europe and the USA
Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This essay explores, from transnational perspectives, the early history of modern cremation, which developed in the long nineteenth century with secularist connotations. I argue that the beginnings of modern cremation were shaped by bourgeois men who claimed certain identifiers for themselves in a gendering and Othering way.
Carolin Kosuch
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Constructions with Reflexive and Reciprocal Verbs in English and Armenian
Armenian Folia Anglistika, 2014 Reflexive and reciprocal verbs constitute a special class both in the English and Armenian verbal system. As for their semantics, they manifest similarity, but morphologically and syntactically they show some differences.
Yelena Mkhitaryan, Mary Vardanyan
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Folklore Studies, Fieldwork and the Making of a Domestic Anthropology in Fin‐de‐Siècle Britain
History, EarlyView.Abstract This article follows the ‘communities of knowledge‐making’ that formed around folklore collection at the end of the nineteenth century. Often regarded as eccentric or marginal figures in the history of human science, these collectors in fact engaged in lively and sophisticated discussions about the methodologies needed to study the mental ...
HARRY PARKER
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