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A multifaceted framework to establish the presence of meaning in non‐human communication
Biological Reviews, Volume 98, Issue 6, Page 1887-1909, December 2023., 2023 ABSTRACT Does non‐human communication, like language, involve meaning? This question guides our focus through an interdisciplinary review of the theories and terminology used to study meaning across disciplines and species. Until now, it has been difficult to apply the concept of meaning to communication in non‐humans.
Jenny Amphaeris +4 more
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Morphosyntactic Contact in Translation: Greek ídios and Latin proprius in the Bible
Transactions of the Philological Society, Volume 121, Issue 3, Page 404-426, November 2023., 2023 Abstract We investigate the possibility that contact with Greek through the translation of biblical texts may have played a role in the development of Latin proprius ‘personal’, ‘peculiar’ into a reflexive possessive adjective. A few centuries earlier, post‐Classical Greek witnesses a similar development with the adjective ídios ‘private’, ‘personal ...
Marina Benedetti, Chiara Gianollo
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Support‐Verb Constructions with Objects: Greek‐Coptic Interference in the Documentary Papyri?1
Transactions of the Philological Society, Volume 121, Issue 3, Page 382-403, November 2023., 2023 Abstract Support‐verb constructions are combinations of a verb and a noun that fill the predicate slot, for example, to make a suggestion in I made the suggestion yesterday. The article examines direct‐object structures with support‐verb constructions in Greek documentary papyri from fourth‐ to mid‐seventh‐century Egypt.
Victoria Beatrix Fendel
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Linguistica, 2011 Dans le cadre des études de la morphologie traditionnelle, le gérondif et le participe sont considérés être les formes verbales, formées à partir des désinences particulières, fait prouvé en diachronie. Ce procédé reste-t-il productif en synchronie ?
Mojca Schlamberger Brezar
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Negation in Contact: French and Occitan
Transactions of the Philological Society, Volume 121, Issue 3, Page 444-459, November 2023., 2023 Abstract Development of negative markers along the lines of the well‐known Jespersen's Cycle occurred in a wide number of languages. This article investigates the possibility of contact playing a role in such developments in Lengadocian Occitan. The evolution of negation in Lengadocian Occitan followed two main lines.
Xavier C. A. Bach
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Direct speech, subjectivity and speaker positioning in London English and Paris French [PDF]
, 2018 This paper examines functional similarities and differences in the use of pragmatic features – in particular quotatives and general extenders – on the right and left periphery of direct quotations.
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‘E sí la hoïren tots’: sí and emphatic positive polarity in Old Catalan
Isogloss, 2020 This paper explores the semantic value and syntactic distribution of the lexical item sí in Old Catalan. After examining data extracted from El Llibre dels Fets, a 13th century chronicle, it is concluded that sí was an Emphatic Positive Polarity Particle
Afra Pujol Campeny
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Discourse-pragmatic variation in Paris French and London English: Insights from general extenders [PDF]
, 2017 This paper examines the use of general extenders (GEs), such as and stuff in English and et tout in French, in Paris French and London English. We aim to compare the social and the linguistic conditioning of extender use in the two languages, discuss the
Secova, Maria
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Ambiguität in kritischen Kontexten: Der lexical split des deutschen Modalverbs dürfte / Ambiguity in Critical Contexts: The Lexical Split of the German Modal dürfte [PDF]
Linguistische Treffen in WrocławThe present-day German modal verb dürfen (‘to be allowed to do sth’) is currently undergoing a lexical split in its grammaticalisation. In the subjunctive II, dürfte, it is developing into an epistemic marker of phoric non-factuality used to express a ...
Katja Politt
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Negative inversion, negative concord and sentential negation in the history of English [PDF]
, 2012 It is claimed in van Kemenade (2000: 62) that clauses with initial negative constituents are a context in which subject–verb inversion occurs throughout the history of English.
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