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Transactions of the Philological Society, EarlyView.Abstract Based on an analysis of the Old Literary Tibetan corpus—a corpus of the oldest documented Tibetic language—the present study provides evidence that literary Tibetan v3 verb stems (commonly termed ‘future’) initially encoded passive voice. New arguments put forward in this article range from Trans‐Himalayan nominal morphology to early Tibetan ...
Joanna Bialek
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James Platt Junior's Contributions to Old English Grammar1
Transactions of the Philological Society, EarlyView.Abstract In 1883, Henry Sweet took issue with James Platt junior, a 21‐year‐old language enthusiast. At the time, Platt was England's brightest young prospect in Old English linguistic studies. Sweet recognised Platt's talent, but he became convinced that he was also a plagiarist and tried to have him expelled from the Philological Society.
Stephen Laker
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Sepedi-toets vir Spraakverstaanbaarheid
South African Journal of Communication Disorders, 1999 The aim of this study was to develop the "Sepedi-toets vir Spraakverstaanbaarheid" to objectively evaluate the speech intelligibility of the client and to give appropriate phonetic information.
Sunel Fouché, Anita van der Merwe
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Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article examines a wave of Orientalism‐inspired food commercials that appeared on television in France between 1975 and 2000. Older commercials for couscous were more banal, emphasizing a given product's superiority or affordability. Around 1975, however, there was a concerted shift in the advertising; new spots contained exoticized ...
Kelly Ricciardi Colvin
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Letter from Mother Fish, Partridge Island, [New York?], to her son, Edmund Fish, Bellevue Hospital, New York, August 21, 1863 [PDF]
A letter sent from Mother Fish to her son Edmund Fish, in Bellevue Hospital.
Fish, Mother
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COURSE “BILINGUALISM AND MOTHER TONGUE (RUSSIAN)” IN THE PROCESS OF EDUCATING RUSSIAN TEACHERS
Polylinguality and Transcultural Practices, 2017 The authors introduce the grounds and principles of the course „Bilingualism and Mother Tongue (Russian)“ for MA students of Tallinn University. The investigations of different research projects and MA dissertations under the authors’ leadership have ...
Irina М Moissejenko +2 more
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Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Bringing together historical evidence, postcolonial fiction and memory work, this study recovers South Asian cultural attitudes towards interracial heterosexual romance from the margins of East African history. It asks why Black/brown intimacy was treated as taboo and denied legitimacy within South Asian diasporic communities in British‐ruled ...
Carissa Chew
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The Mother Tongue as Border [PDF]
, 2014 International audienceIn 1920, the philosopher Fritz Mauthner published an essay entitled “Mother tongue and Fatherland” (Muttersprache und Vaterland) in which he offers a reflection on the metaphor of the “mother tongue” and its political uses, in the ...
François, Anne Isabelle
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Preparing Namibian Student Teachers to Teach Literacy in Mother Tongue
African Journal of Teacher Education, 2019 Scholars of language teaching agree that the development of initial literacy is best achieved when taught in the mother tongue. Namibia’s language policy for schools prescribes teaching using mother tongue or the predominant local language as a medium of
Alina Kakunde Niipare
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