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Weather, EarlyView.The English language is a gargantuan, gluttonous beast. It has become extraordinary in its powers of assimilation – such that we rarely consider the origins of the words we use. In this paper, we will shed light on these origins, including the Pontic–Caspian steppe, the British Empire and, of course, a TV show.
Kieran M. R. Hunt
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West Germanic diachronic constant: the case of negative constructions [PDF]
, 2023 This paper explores the common path of the sentence negation practice in the Early West Germanic languages. The prior idea is to find out the general set of markers, which implement the negation pattern. Our assumption is that West Germanic languages, as
Horodilova, Tetiana
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NOA, 2021 Nasjonalt og internasjonalt uttrykkes behovet for forskning på barns og voksnes andrespråksdeltakelse i samtaler i ulike kontekster og sammenhenger. Målet med denne artikkelen er todelt.
Maria Elisabeth Moskvil
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Loanwords and Linguistic Phylogenetics: *pelek̑u‐ ‘axe’ and *(H)a(i̯)g̑‐ ‘goat’1
Transactions of the Philological Society, Volume 123, Issue 1, Page 116-136, March 2025.Abstract This paper assesses the role of borrowings in two different approaches to linguistic phylogenetics: Traditional qualitative analyses of lexemes, and quantitative computational analysis of cognacy. It problematises the assumption that loanwords can be excluded altogether from datasets of lexical cognacy.
Simon Poulsen
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Kompetanse for språklig og kulturelt mangfold i utdanning
NOA, 2023 Artikkelen presenterer en studie av innholdet i den nasjonale etterutdanningssatsingen Kompetanse for mangfold, som var en innsats for utvikling av skolers og barnehagers kompetanse for pedagogisk arbeid med språklig og kulturelt mangfold i utdanning ...
Randi Myklebust, Birgitte Fondevik
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Russian Binary Meters. Part Two. Chapters 7–8
Studia Metrica et Poetica, 2023 Russian Binary Meters. Part Two.
Kiril Taranovsky, Lawrence Feinberg
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Secularism, Gender and Masculinity in Nineteenth‐Century Cremation in Europe and the USA
Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This essay explores, from transnational perspectives, the early history of modern cremation, which developed in the long nineteenth century with secularist connotations. I argue that the beginnings of modern cremation were shaped by bourgeois men who claimed certain identifiers for themselves in a gendering and Othering way.
Carolin Kosuch
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Er "å holde hodet kaldt" det samme som "å (be)holde kaldt blod"?
NOA, 2023 Artikkelen tar for seg forståelse og til dels bruk av metaforiske uttrykk og metaforisk bevissthet blant polske norskstudenter. Ved å rette fokuset mot ekvivalensbegrepet ønsker vi å få dypere innsikt i årsakene som gjør at enkelte L2-uttrykk er ...
Oliwia Szymanska
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Folklore Studies, Fieldwork and the Making of a Domestic Anthropology in Fin‐de‐Siècle Britain
History, EarlyView.Abstract This article follows the ‘communities of knowledge‐making’ that formed around folklore collection at the end of the nineteenth century. Often regarded as eccentric or marginal figures in the history of human science, these collectors in fact engaged in lively and sophisticated discussions about the methodologies needed to study the mental ...
HARRY PARKER
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Growing syntax: The development of a DP in North Germanic [PDF]
Language, 2016 Grammaticalization as standardly conceived is a change whereby an item develops from a lexical to a grammatical or functional meaning, or from being less to more grammatical. In this article we show that this can only be part of the story; for a full account we need to understand the syntactic structures into which grammaticalizing elements fit and how
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