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Indirect evidentiality and related domains: some observations from the current evolution of the Romanian presumptive. [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
One distinguishing feature of the Romanian tense-aspect-mood (hence- forth, TAM) domain is the presence of a morpho-syntactic paradigm tradi- tionally labelled the presumptive mood. As noticed several times (Slave 1957, Goudet 1977, Dimitriu 1979, Irimia
IRIMIA, Monica Alexandrina
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THE AESTHETICS OF URBAN METABOLISM: Landscape, Design and the Politics of In/Visibility

open access: yesInternational Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract In this article, we chart the evolving aesthetic contours of urban metabolism across London, focusing on the River Lea and Thamesmead to the north and south of the River Thames, respectively. We begin in the nineteenth century, when these two sites formed critical nodes within a new sewerage system that relegated the city’s circulatory flows ...
Ben Platt, Zuhri James
wiley   +1 more source

Mirativity and evidentiality in Bantu

open access: yesStudies in African Linguistics
This special issue addresses how evidentiality and mirativity are expressed in various Bantu languages. Both the notions of evidentiality and mirativity remain underexamined for the Bantu languages – the following quote is quite typical: “It appears ...
Hannah Gibson, Jenneke van der Waal
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COMMON SENSE LAW: Making Right/s in the Liberal City

open access: yesInternational Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract This article, co‐authored by encampment and university scholars, is concerned with how homeless persons challenge rightlessness. We do so by advancing a conceptual framework of common sense law, arguing that such contestations take place not only in courtrooms but also in the lived spaces of homelessness.
Ananya Roy   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Appositive possession in Ainu and around the Pacific. [PDF]

open access: yesLinguist Typol, 2022
Bugaeva A, Nichols J, Bickel B.
europepmc   +1 more source

On the expression of mirativity in Rukiga

open access: yesStudies in African Linguistics
Rukiga (Bantu, JE14) generally does not have a dedicated morphological system to express mirativity, that is, speaker’s surprise at an unexpected occurrence. Nevertheless, using elicited data, I show that there are various non-dedicated linguistic tools
Allen Asiimwe
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The place of exclamatives and miratives in grammar: a functional discourse grammar view

open access: yesRevista Linguística, 2015
The concept of mirativity has come to interfere in the recently developed framework of Functional Discourse Grammar with what would be considered to be exclamative elsewhere.
Hella Olbertz
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On English turn out and Spanish resultar mirative constructions. A case of ongoing grammaticalization? [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
This article focuses on the diachronic development of English turn out and Spanish resultar ‘turn out’ mirative constructions. Having undergone processes of semantic generalization over time, both verbs express evidential and, most prominently ...
Serrano Losada, Mario
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MIRATIVITY IN BANTU: THE CASE OF GĨKŨYŨ (E51) AND KISWAHILI (G42)

open access: yesStudies in African Linguistics
This paper argues for the recognition of mirative marking in two Bantu languages: Gĩkũyũ and Kiswahili. It shows that the two languages use lexical particles to indicate mirativity.
Claudius P. Kihara
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Gamale Kham phonology revisited, with Devanagari-based orthography and lexicon [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
The purpose of this article is twofold. Firstly, it is a revision of certain aspects of the phonological analysis of Gamāle Khām by Wilde (2011), a lesser known Central Himalayish language spoken in midwestern Nepal.
Wilde, Christopher P.
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