Results 91 to 100 of about 114,054 (216)

A Typological Perspective on the System of MOOD TYPE in Azeri Turkic [PDF]

̒Ilm-i Zabān
The present study has been conducted in the framework of Systemic Functional Grammar and on the basis of systemic functional typology, specifically Matthiessen’s typological generalizations. Based on examples taken from various written documents in Azeri
Esmaeil Safaei Asl
doaj   +1 more source

‘Chrystalline Talk’: Thomas Browne's Poetics of Concretion and Mineral Plain Style

Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article charts the figuration, both material and rhetorical, of mineral bodies in early modern natural philosophy, paying particular attention to the second book of Thomas Browne's Pseudodoxia Epidemica (1646). It argues that concretions (stony calculi and crystals formed through the aggregation of physical matter) make manifest a mineral
Jess Dunmore
wiley   +1 more source

Clause typing in the Old Irish verbal complex: morphological expression, paradigmatic organization, and syntactic implications Trends in linguistics., 339./ Carlos García-Castillero.

, 2020
In English.Includes bibliographical references and index.This monograph offers a systematic description of the expression of clause typing in the Old Irish (7th-9th AD) verbal complex and discusses some of its diachronic aspects.
García Castillero Carlos
core  

A Natural History of ‘Annoyances’: Knowing Weeds and Weeding Knowledge in the Early Royal Society and its ‘Georgicall Committee’

Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Seventeenth‐century virtuosi often figured themselves as epistemic weeders, grubbing up rank thickets of accumulated error. In this article, I argue that these metaphors were unnerved by the shifting status of weeds—ostensibly unwanted plants from the margins of cultivated space, unploughed land or the disturbed soils between growing crops—in ...
Francis Taylor
wiley   +1 more source

Gukurahundism, Constitutionality and Ethnonationalist Language Policy Contestations: An Ideological Critique of Mediated Discourses About Mother Tongue Instruction in Zimbabwe

Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper examines mediated discourses on the state of implementation of language in education policy using a critical incident as a reference. Employing Thompson's modes of ideology, we perform an ideological critique of purposively sampled cross‐media discourses spawned by the failed attempt of a Zimbabwean government deputy minister to ...
Khulekani Ndlovu, Busani Maseko, Liqhwa Siziba   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

A FIRST LOOK AT CHEN (KONYAK) ARGUMENT AND CLAUSE STRUCTURES

Journal of the Southeast Asian Linguistics Society, 2021
Chen (Bodo-Konyak-Jingphaw, Tibeto-Burman) is an undocumented language of the Konyak ethnic group. It is spoken in northeast India and northwest Myanmar. This article provides a first description of the Chen simple argument and clause structures.
Hoipo Konyak
doaj  

The Grammar of Perception: A Case Study of Guambiano (Namtrik) and Duna

Topics in Cognitive Science, EarlyView.
Abstract Although the senses provide a common basis for our experience of the world, cross‐linguistic research has revealed substantial diversity across languages in how perceptual experiences are encoded in words. Such variability is also present at the level of grammatical structure, though the project of charting the parameters and limits of cross ...
Elisabeth Norcliffe, Lila San Roque
wiley   +1 more source

Allora as an Italian discourse particle

Linguistik Online
This article investigates the use of allora as an Italian discourse particle establishing a parallel with the German modal particle denn: both elements can namely be used in interrogative contexts to link the question in which they appear to the context
Marta Massaia
doaj   +1 more source

Street Furniture as an Assetizing Apparatus: Advertising Concessions, Public Maintenance and the Production of Neoliberal Urban Space in Glasgow

Antipode, Volume 58, Issue 6, November 2026.
ABSTRACT Across British cities, everyday street infrastructure is increasingly sustained through revenue‐generating concessions that detach maintenance from direct municipal budgets. This article examines how street furniture in Glasgow has been incrementally reorganized as an assetizing apparatus under prolonged austerity.
Sinan Wang
wiley   +1 more source

SCl enclisis in North Italian and Rhaeto-Romance varieties: merge and phases

Quaderni di Linguistica e Studi Orientali
In many Romance varieties the inverted order between subject clitic and verb characterizes interrogation contexts and, in Rhaeto-Romance languages, V2 contexts.
Benedetta Baldi, Leonardo M. Savoia
doaj   +1 more source