The Insistence of Blackness and the Persistence of Antiblackness in Ireland
ABSTRACT This paper positions Ireland as a critical site for examining the insistence of blackness and an antiblackness created and sustained through Irish ethnonationalist imaginaries and exclusionary processes. Drawing on connected sociologies and Irish Black Studies, this enquiry argues that antiblackness in Ireland operates as a generational force,
Philomena Mullen
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Implications of macro-areal linguistics
Implications of macro-areal linguistics Using the examples of some Balkan words with a difficult etymology, we attempt to show the possibilities for and implications of applying a macro-areal linguistic perspective to establish a wider view of the ...
Corinna Leschber
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Review: Gender shifts in the history of English. Anne Curzan.Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003.pp. 223 + xii. [PDF]
Herbert Schendl (2001:9) defines ‘the study of ongoing changes in a language’ as one of the fundamental goals of historical linguistics. Curzan’s book, which examines the historical development of the English gender system, is a work noteworthy not ...
Kádár, Daniel Z.
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Abstract US clinical practice guidelines for the diagnostic evaluation of cognitive impairment due to Alzheimer's disease (AD) or AD and related dementias (ADRD) are decades old and aimed at specialists. This evidence‐based guideline was developed to empower all—including primary care—clinicians to implement a structured approach for evaluating a ...
Alireza Atri+10 more
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Medical terminology across the centuries: distinctive features of a chronological study in the field of ophthalmology [PDF]
This article deals with the comparison of the lexical features of two texts from a diachronic point of view. Interest in lexical comparison arises from the fact that the two texts belong to a specialised field within medicine –ophthalmology– and both can
María José Esteve Ramos
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Correlational Studies in Typological and Historical Linguistics
We review a number of recent studies that have identified either correlations between different linguistic features (e.g., implicational universals) or correlations between linguistic features and nonlinguistic properties of speakers or their environment
D. Ladd, Seán G. Roberts, D. Dediu
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Brain Metabolic Features of FUS‐ALS: A 2‐[18F]FDG‐PET Study
Objective We aimed at evaluating the brain metabolic features of fused in sarcoma amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (FUS‐ALS) compared with sporadic ALS (sALS), using 2‐[fluorine‐18] fluoro‐2‐deoxy‐D‐glucose positron emission tomography (2‐[18F]FDG‐PET). Methods We employed the 2‐sample t‐test model of SPM12, implemented in MATLAB, to compare 12 FUS‐ALS ...
Antonio Canosa+24 more
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About text frequencies in historical linguistics: Disentangling environmental and grammatical change
This paper is concerned with the limitations of inferring grammar change from variable text frequencies in historical corpus data. We argue that fluctuating frequencies of grammatical variants in real time are a function not only of changing grammars but
Benedikt Szmrecsanyi
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Let us have articles betwixt us: Papers in Historical and Comparative Linguistics in Honour of Johanna L. Wood [PDF]
Papers in Historical and Comparative Linguistics in Honour of Johanna L ...
Abraham, Werner+25 more
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The Lexiculture Papers: English Words and Culture [PDF]
The Lexiculture Papers is a collection of scholarship on English words and culture. Each of the 62 chapters was originally authored by a student-scholar in the course, Language and Culture, at Wayne State University, between 2013 and 2020.
Chrisomalis, Stephen
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