Results 121 to 130 of about 53,480 (303)
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
wiley +1 more source
Rasprave Instituta za Hrvatski Jezik i Jezikoslovlje, 2008 This paper analyzes the language described in the grammar of Ardelio Della Bella in relation to the language of one of the books on which he based his grammatical description – Suze sina razmetnoga by Ivan Gundulić.
Ivana Sanković
doaj
There Is no First Phase of the Jespersen Cycle1
Transactions of the Philological Society, EarlyView.Abstract This paper challenges the traditional conception of the Jespersen Cycle by arguing that no ‘pure’ first phase of the cycle exists where a single negator operates without reinforcement. Drawing on historical data from Northern Italian dialects (Piedmontese, Lombard, Emilian), we demonstrate that emphatic negative structures systematically co ...
Tommaso Mattiuzzi, Cecilia Poletto
wiley +1 more source
La formation du pluriel des noms en konabéré
MandenkanThe paper examines nominal plural marking in Konabere, the northern variety of the Bobo Madare language. The formation of plurals in Konabere is a complex system of different patterns, the choice between which is determined lexically for each noun.
Samassé Diarra, Nadezhda Makeeva
doaj +1 more source
Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article argues that marriage was central to historical change in the Yoruba‐speaking region of West Africa during the eighteenth century. It draws on ìtàn, a distinct oral source, to show that conjugality shaped Yoruba processes of urbanisation and political centralisation, gendered divisions of labour and social innovation and creativity.
Insa Nolte
wiley +1 more source
Collective nouns, aggregate nouns, and superordinates
, 2010 ‘Part of’ and ‘kind of’ relations in the lexicon have been matter of some linguistic research, but strangely enough, they have only rarely been investigated together.
Frank Joosten
core +1 more source
Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article considers travel writings by metropolitan men in Republican China about Shanxi and western Inner Mongolia as a case study to further explore the transformations and continuities of Chinese masculinities. Drawing upon a range of popular travel narratives, it shows that so‐called “Worn‐Out Shoes (poxie)” – women perceived as ...
Amanda Zhang
wiley +1 more source
, 2015 An XML-based file containing Arabic Stop-words respecting nouns syntax; particle nouns, signal nouns, separated pronouns and connected nouns Citation: Driss Namly, Yasser Regragui, Karim Bouzoubaa.
Namly, Driss
core
Looking at Us Through Their Eyes. The Analytical Process from Ethnographic Perspectives1
Journal of Analytical Psychology, EarlyView.Abstract This article looks at the analytical situation through the Others’ eyes—through examples from contemporary ethnographies of foreign cultures. It discusses the following issues: a) The analogy between the ontological worlds of the dead, ghosts, animals and dreams in “primitive populations” and the analytical psychological descriptions of the ...
Stefano Carta
wiley +1 more source
A Tipologia linguística e a língua de sinais brasileira: elementos que distinguem nomes de verbos [PDF]
, 2012 Tese (doutorado) - Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Centro de Comunicação e Expressão, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Linguística, Florianópolis, 2011O trabalho realizado nesta tese buscou identificar elementos que distinguissem os nomes de verbos ...
Pizzio, Aline Lemos
core