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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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New Frontiers in EU Trade Policy: Moving Beyond Conventional Trade Agreements

Global Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT As the rules‐based international trading system faces stagnation and increasing unilateralism, the European Union's trade policy must evolve beyond conventional free trade agreements (FTAs). This article examines recent trends in EU trade agreements, highlighting not only their expanded scope to include areas such as digital trade ...
Niall Moran
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Defining the Human

Scripta Islandica
This article focuses on depictions of skin(s) – fleshy objects used to cover the human body that are representative of a state of being or a specific identity.
Tiffany Nicole White
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Syntactic reconstruction in Indo-European : the state of the art [PDF]

, 2016
Interest in syntactic reconstruction was implicit in the work of the founding fathers of the Comparative Method, including Franz Bopp and his contemporaries. The Neo-Grammarians took a more active interest in syntactic issues, concentrating especially on
Barddal, Johanna, Eythórsson, Thórhallur   +1 more
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Associations of cannabis use, tobacco use and co‐use with brain volume: A systematic review and meta‐analysis

Addiction, EarlyView.
Abstract Background and aims Cannabis is the most widely used illicit drug worldwide and is often co‐used with tobacco, the leading cause of preventable death. Although cannabis and tobacco have distinct neurobiological actions, their associations with brain volumes are unclear.
Katherine Sawyer, Tom P. Freeman, Martine Skumlien, Esther Walton, Thomas Lancaster, Jorien L. Treur, Valentina Lorenzetti, Anna K. M. Blackwell, Chloe Burke, Richie J. Carr, Constantinos Constantinides, Maisie Cox, Sarah Dance, Shadi Daryan, Sorcha Hamilton, Tom Jenkins, Gemma M. J. Taylor   +16 more
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Declining trends in adolescent alcohol consumption and related harms: No room for complacency (an empirical reply to Vieira et al. 2025)

Addiction, EarlyView.
Abstract Vieira et al. report that alcohol‐related harms among adolescents have generally declined in high‐income countries where youth drinking has decreased, but several methodological choices complicate this conclusion. By performing reproducibility analyses on Vieira et al.'s raw data, we show that their findings are more nuanced and complex ...
Charlotte R. Pennington, Daniel J. Shaw, Magda Skubera, Abigail K. Rose, Andrew Jones   +4 more
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Martha Ostenso, literary history, and the Scandinavian diaspora [PDF]

, 2008
Through a case study of Martha Ostenso, this essay explores the exclusionary practices of literary history, and the ability of migrant writers to destabilise constructs of nation and region.
Hammill, Faye
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Birth and abortion rates among young women over the past 50 years examined in relation to providers and reimbursement for hormonal contraception across the Nordic countries, an ecological study

Acta Obstetricia et Gynecologica Scandinavica, EarlyView.
Along with the liberalization of the abortion laws in the Nordic countries during the 1970s, there were efforts to prevent unplanned pregnancies among young women by improved contraceptive provisions. The strategies for preventing unplanned pregnancies have varied across the Nordic countries.
Finn Egil Skjeldestad, Mika Gissler, Reynir Tómas Geirsson, Kristina Gemzell‐Danielsson, Oskari Heikinheimo   +4 more
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Losing One’s Way: Poet as Nomadic Translator in Caroline Bergvall’s “Via” and 'Drift'

Modern Languages Open
The process of translation generates exciting new possibilities through deep and prolonged engagement with the material of the source text; yet, as Lawrence Venuti has demonstrated, the creative agency that translators bring to the text has often been ...
Gareth Hughes
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\u27Those Who Cling in Queer Corners To The Forgotten Tongues and Memories of an Elder Day\u27: J.R.R. Tolkien, Finns and Elves [PDF]

, 2016
Those Who Cling in Queer Corners To The Forgotten Tongues and Memories of an Elder Day\u27 J.R.R. Tolkien, Finns and Elves Dr. Andrew Higgins In this paper I will explore how several historic, literary and mythic associations of the Finnish people with ...
Higgins, Andrew Scott
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