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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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Vasilyev about Crimean Gothia of the Second Half of the 10th – the Beginning of the 11th Century

Вестник Волгоградского государственного университета. Серия 4. История, регионоведение, международные отношения, 2018
Introduction. In the national historiography there is an opinion that the work of A.A. Vasilyev The Goths in the Crimea still remains the most authoritative, if not the only research on this problem.
Valeriy P. Stepanenko
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Romance Loans in Middle Dutch and Middle English: Retained or Lost? A Matter of Metre1

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Abstract Romance words have been borrowed into all medieval West‐Germanic languages. Modern cognates show that the metrical patterns of loans can differ although the Germanic words remain constant: loan words Dutch kolónie, English cólony, German Koloníe compared with Germanic words Dutch wéduwe, English wídow, German Wítwe.
Johanneke Sytsema, Aditi Lahiri
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From criminal to enemy: the birth and development of the scientific police and criminal identification in Italy

Revista Ítalo-Española de Derecho Procesal, 2020
The aim of this article is to briefly retrace the history of criminal identification tech- niques in Italy in order to shed new light on the legacy of criminal anthropology in policing and criminal justice in the delicate transition from liberal ...
Emilia Musumeci
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The Fate of the Lost Lands as Viewed by Byzantine Emperor Manuel II Palaiologos

Вестник Волгоградского государственного университета. Серия 4. История, регионоведение, международные отношения, 2018
Introduction. In the Late Byzantine Period, the predominant trend was the reduction of possessions of the emperors of the Palaiologoi dynasty. The main reason of the Empire’s territorial decay was the Ottoman conquests. Methods.
Tatiana V. Kushch
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On the Morphology of Toponyms: What Greek Inflectional Paradigms Can Teach us

Transactions of the Philological Society, Volume 123, Issue 1, Page 77-96, March 2025.
Abstract The research is a contribution to the investigation of the grammatical status of toponyms from the point of view of inflectional paradigmatic morphology. By examining data from Standard Modern Greek, as well as select data from its historical development, the analysis reveals that the inflectional morphology of toponyms shows significant ...
Michail I. Marinis
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Vignette of Constantinople on the "Tabula Peutingerianana". The Column of Constantine or the Lighthouse

Studia Ceranea, 2019
The article contains the analyses of 40 descriptions of the vignette of Constantinople in Tabula Peutingeriana created between the years 1768 and 2018.
Piotr Kochanek
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Pestilential complexities. Understanding medieval plague. Ed. by Vivian Nutton. London, The Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at UCL, 2008 (Medical History, Supplement, no 27). 130 p. Ill. £ 35.–.; € 52.–. ISBN 978-0-85484-116-1. [PDF]

, 2009
Concetta Pennuto
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The Venetian Vernacular Lexicon in Eleventh‐ and Twelfth‐Century Latin Documents: Insights from the Codice Diplomatico Veneziano

Transactions of the Philological Society, EarlyView.
Abstract This study investigates the lexicographical potential of Medieval Latin documentation from the Venetian area of the Italo‐Romance domain, highlighting the need for a systematic approach to bridge Latin and vernacular linguistic developments. The project MEDITA – Medieval Latin Documentation and Digital Italo‐Romance Lexicography.
Jacopo Gesiot
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Relics as Instruments of Divine Leadership in the First Crusade

Religions
The use of relics for exhortation was not a novelty of the First Crusade, but it is remarkable how, in the most crucial moments, various relics were found and used effectively to inspire pilgrims. Beyond their motivational function, they also contributed
Sándor Ónadi
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