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Racialized Labour in the Colonial Food Regime: The Whitening of England's Farmworkers
Journal of Agrarian Change, Volume 26, Issue 2, April 2026.ABSTRACT The crystallization of a colonial food regime in the 1870s centred around Britain is key to historical accounts of agrarian political economy. Yet such accounts have neglected the role of the agrarian proletariat in shaping this regime from below and its basis in racialized hierarchy.
Ben Richardson
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Expletive Constructions and Agreement in Labeling Theory
Studia Linguistica, Volume 80, Issue 1, April 2026.ABSTRACT In this paper, I explain how agreement occurs in English expletive constructions, in accord with recent work in the Minimalist Program. I develop a proposal that relies on feature unification and probe‐goal agreement, as well as the notion that internal merge of arguments generally applies freely.
Jason Ginsburg
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The Continuous tence forms of the English language in the cognitive-semiotic aspect
Этническая культураThe article offers a cognitive-semiotic analysis of English Continuous tense forms. The purpose of this study is to analyze the internal form of Continuous tenses which are considered as grammatical phraseological units.
Elena E. Chikina, Elena D. Arabey
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New Insights Into Lakota Syntax: The Encoding of Arguments and the Number of Verbal Affixes
Studia Linguistica, Volume 80, Issue 1, April 2026.ABSTRACT This paper examines the morphosyntax of transitive constructions in Lakota, with particular emphasis being placed on the encoding of arguments. The analysis of argument marking through verbal affixes in Lakota transitive constructions raises two main questions: the existence or non‐existence of the zero marker for the third person singular and
Avelino Corral Esteban
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Identifying neuropathologic disease in primary progressive aphasia using narrative speech
Alzheimer's &Dementia, Volume 22, Issue 3, March 2026.Abstract INTRODUCTION We present an application of artificial intelligence to narrative speech with the primary objective of predicting neuropathologic disease underlying primary progressive aphasia (PPA). METHODS Using natural language processing toolkits, features were extracted from transcribed narratives of the Cinderella story.
Daniel B. Gutstein +12 more
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Non-verbal sentences in Chadic
Studies in African Languages and Cultures, 1992 The non-verbal sentences are sentences in which there is no explicit aspect marking and no verb. The predicate position of such sentences is usually filled by nouns, noun phrases, prepositional phrases or adverbials.
Nina Pawlak
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Kōtuitui: New Zealand Journal of Social Sciences Online, Volume 21, Issue 1, March 2026.Indigenous ways of sharing and developing knowledge survive in ceremony, songs, proverbs, storytelling and purposeful dialogues. Wānanga (space for knowledge sharing) is the epitome of traditional knowledge transmission—grounded in Indigenous practice and worldview, allowing for the co‐creation of new knowledge and passing down of inherited knowledge ...
Deborah Heke +3 more
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Developmental Science, Volume 29, Issue 2, March 2026.ABSTRACT Languages differ in how words carve up the world into categories, and these differences in lexical categories often influence how speakers interpret perceived events. Past research has shown that languages with a single and general word for one domain tend to cue attention more broadly than languages with multiple, more specific verbs.
Hiromichi Hagihara +3 more
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Structures with Noun Predicative Actants in Romanian
Postmodern Openings, 2012 This article discusses one of the types of structures with predicative actants: those actants that manifest predicative actants expressed by nouns with verbal value, as well as the actantial structures organized by the nouns with verbal value. It should be mentioned that in the specialized literature these nouns are known as verb nominalisations, being
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