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A Surprise in the Past: The Historical Origins of the Catalan go-past
Catalan Journal of Linguistics, 2022 Crosslinguistically, the development of the verb go into a future tense is a common path of grammaticalization. In contrast, the past meaning of the go-periphrasis in Catalan is unexpected.
Silvio Cruschina, Anna Kocher
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Rescaling Retail and Consumption in the Contemporary Barcelona Area
Bollettino della Società Geografica Italiana, 2021 Consumption is one of the less know variable in urban studies. The article presents a general overview of Catalan and Barcelona study case, summarizing almost thirty years of research, with the goal to isolate the main contemporary trends of retail and ...
Carles Carreras i Verdaguer +2 more
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Communication & Society (Formerly Comunicación y Sociedad), 2021 As cultural content, Polònia constitutes an unusual case. We are dealing with one of the highest audience-share television programmes in Catalonia in recent years.
José-Luis Valhondo
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Catalan Journal of Linguistics, 2020 In current-day Catalan, the verb témer (‘to fear’) has an intersubjective value, together with a lexical and epistemic/evidential value. It is used as a strategy of negative politeness in contexts where an apology is made or information that the speaker ...
Jordi M. Antolí Martínez
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Catalan’s Conjecture: Another old Diophantine problem solved [PDF]
Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society, 2003 Catalan’s Conjecture predicts that 8 and 9 are the only consecutive perfect powers among positive integers. The conjecture, which dates back to 1844, was recently proven by the Swiss mathematician Preda Mihăilescu. A deep theorem about cyclotomic fields plays a crucial role in his proof.
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Properhood of human unique nouns in Romance languages
Isogloss, 2022 This paper provides evidence that human unique nouns such as king constitute a peripheral group of lexemes within the word class of common nouns. In semantic definite contexts, they semantically resemble proper names with respect to monorefentiality and
Javier Caro Reina
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Paradigms as triggers of semantic change: Demonstrative adverbs in Catalan and Spanish
Catalan Journal of Linguistics, 2015 This paper sets out to analyse the development of demonstrative adverbs of place in Catalan and Spanish. The main questions dealt with in this study are the following: (i) why two-term and three-term deictic systems often display a certain lack of ...
Manuel Pérez Saldanya
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Mesoclisis in Old Occitan [PDF]
Linguistica PragensiaThis paper delves into the intriguing phenomenon of mesoclisis in Old Occitan. Mesoclisis, the insertion of an object clitic pronoun within the verbal form rather than before or after it, is explored particularly within the context of future and ...
Xavier Bach
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The Charnegroes: Black Africans and the Ontological Conflict in Catalonia
Social Sciences, 2021 This paper frames an in depth reflection on the current social and political changes and the emerging phenomenon of body politics of migrant and racialized groups in Europe.
Saiba Bayo
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Temporal trend of cardiorespiratory endurance in urban Catalan high school students over a 20 year period [PDF]
PeerJ, 2020 Background Physical fitness is considered an important indicator of health in adolescents. However, in recent years several studies in the scientific literature have shown a considerable lower trend and an alarming worsening of the current adolescents ...
Jordi Arboix-Alió +6 more
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