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Fronting in Old Catalan: Asymmetries between Narration and Reported Speech1

open access: yesTransactions of the Philological Society, Volume 123, Issue 1, Page 1-28, March 2025.
Abstract This article explores the distribution, syntax, and information structure of XVS clauses in the narrative text and the reported speech of a thirteenth‐century Old Catalan chronicle, the Llibre dels Fets. It is shown that XVS occurs mainly within reported speech and in embedded clauses.
Afra Pujol i Campeny
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Remarks on the diachronic reconstruction of intonational patterns in Romance with special attention to Occitan as a bridge language

open access: yesCatalan Journal of Linguistics, 2003
This paper approaches Romance intonation from a diachronic point of view. The position that is adopted is that this is an area open to investigation. Comparative techniques can be fruitfully employed for investigating the evolution and diversification of
José Ignacio Hualde
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There Is no First Phase of the Jespersen Cycle1

open access: yesTransactions 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

À la naissance de deux graphèmes-symboles : LH et NH

open access: yesLengas, 2020
Occitan language begins to be written as soon as the XIth century, for literary but also practical socio-economic uses. Therefore, the graphic system inherited from classical latin must be adapted, and new graphems designed, in order to permit a clear ...
Philippe Martel
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Executive Function and Epigenetic Markers in Youth Exposed to Family and Community Violence in Childhood

open access: yesDevelopmental Psychobiology, Volume 68, Issue 5, September 2026.
ABSTRACT Although exposure to violence has been linked to executive functioning impairments, the biological mechanisms underlying this association remain unclear. This study examined CpG sites associated with executive functions in 78 young adults and their links to family (psychological and physical) and community violence during childhood. The scales
Renata Queiroz Ramos   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Topographische vs. virtuelle Räume des Okzitanischen: « Faut-il abolir les frontières ? »

open access: yesLinguistik Online, 2017
The present study aims to investigate the area of conflict between the decline and the expansion of communication options in regional and minority languages, which has increasingly been brought into the focus of attention by the new digital media.
Adrian Görke, Ramona Jakobs
doaj   +1 more source

Exhumed eo‐Alpine High‐Pressure Rocks Fed Campanian Turbidites in Eastern Sardinia

open access: yesGeochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, Volume 27, Issue 8, August 2026.
Abstract This study investigates the detrital record of the early orogenic evolution of the Sardinia‐Calabria system, preserved in Upper Cretaceous arenites exposed in eastern Sardinia. Sardinia and Corsica form a continental block that includes a segment of the Alpine orogen and of its former foreland basin.
Francesco Massari   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Thermochemical Controls on the X, 410, and 660 Discontinuities in the Central Mediterranean

open access: yesJournal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, Volume 131, Issue 8, August 2026.
Abstract The mantle beneath the Central Mediterranean is thermally and compositionally heterogeneous, as indicated by fragmented and locally stagnant slabs in tomographic images and HIMU‐like anorogenic magmatism. Mantle discontinuities are sensitive to both temperature and composition, and thus provide a way to quantify these heterogeneities.
Luciana Bonatto   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

L’identità sul cartello. Esperienze di toponomastica bilingue nelle valli occitane del Piemonte

open access: yesGéolinguistique, 2013
Place names are rich in symbolic meanings, and their shared knowledge may be regarded as an evidence of the cohesion of a community; as it often happens, however, the official place names, fixed over time through writing, are very far from those normally
Matteo Rivoira
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