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The grammaticalization path DEICTIC SPATIAL ADVERB > ADPOSITION

open access: yesCuadernos de Lingüística de El Colegio de México, 2023
In addition to the grammaticalization of nouns and verbs into adpositions, which has been widely discussed in the grammaticalization literature, this paper identifies and describes a much less well known grammaticalization path, by which deictic spatial
Denis Creissels
doaj   +1 more source

Speech is My Hammer, It\u27s Time to Build: Hip Hop, Cultural Semiosis and the Africana Intellectual Heritage [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
The article examines Hip Hop music\u27s relationship with African cultural symbolism and the discipline of Africana Studies. The author maintains that Africana Studies must reclaim the study of cultural semiosis, which may be used to contextualize Hip ...
Livingston, Samuel T.
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Strategies for Representing Tone in African Writing Systems [PDF]

open access: yes, 1999
Tone languages provide some interesting challenges for the designers of new orthographies. One approach is to omit tone marks, just as stress is not marked in English (zero marking).
Bird, Steven
core   +1 more source

Patient's Perspective on the Impact of Psoriasis on Their Quality of Life After 1 Year of Tildrakizumab Treatment: Despite Clinical Improvement, Persistence of a Potential Mental Cicatricial Memory of the Disease

open access: yesJEADV Clinical Practice, Volume 4, Issue 4, Page 732-740, September 2025.
In this real‐life study, tildrakizumab confirmed its efficacy in treating moderate‐to‐severe psoriasis, including challenging areas. Despite good disease control, some patients expressed dissatisfaction, highlighting the cumulative mental burden of delayed effective treatment and underscoring the mental scars left by psoriasis, persisting even after ...
Ziad Reguiai   +16 more
wiley   +1 more source

Acculturation et dénomination des langues africaines [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
Nombreuses sont les langues africaines qui, à l’heure actuelle, connaissent deux dénominations, l’une donnée par le colonisateur européen, l’autre, plus récemment, par les langagiers.
Halaoui, Nazam
core   +1 more source

Aloneness and the terms of detachment in West African migration

open access: yesJournal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Volume 31, Issue 3, Page 699-716, September 2025.
In this article, I examine practices of social detachment among West African migrants in urban Ghana. Faced with pressures arising from expectations of reciprocity, especially from kin back home, some migrants exert considerable efforts to break, if temporarily, with relations of mutual recognition and support, entering what I term migratory aloneness.
Michael Stasik
wiley   +1 more source

Settlement histories and ethnic frontiers [PDF]

open access: yes, 2006
One of the powerful conventional images of pre-colonial Africa is that of a continent of more or less immobile ethnic groups, living since time immemorial on their ancestral lands, steeped in their traditional cultures. In this image, Africa appears like
Lentz, Carola
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Organizational altercasting: Developing impression management and cyber‐risk disclosures

open access: yesContemporary Accounting Research, Volume 42, Issue 3, Page 1929-1959, Fall 2025.
Abstract The study develops theorizing of external organizational communications that entail impression management. This includes developing linkages to Goffman's work and a Goffmanian research tradition. Our approach innovatively articulates dimensions of impression management entailing the presentation of others and nuanced practices of what we term ...
Monika Łada   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

What tone teaches us about language [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
In ‘Tone: Is it different?’ (Hyman 2011a), I suggested that ‘tone is like segmental phonology in every way—only more so’, emphasizing that there are some things that only tone can do.
Hyman, LM
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Are auditors insulated to positive client news? Evidence from audit fees and going‐concern opinions

open access: yesAccounting &Finance, Volume 65, Issue 3, Page 2339-2386, September 2025.
Abstract This paper investigates if and how auditors consider positive news, related to their clients, when making audit decisions. Using a large sample of US listed companies, we find that auditors charge lower audit fees and are less likely to issue going‐concern opinions when there are a higher number of positive news items related to their clients.
Ting‐Chiao Huang   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

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