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Focalization and Word Order in Old Italo-Romance [PDF]
This paper sets out a comparison between modern and old Italo-Romance varieties with the aim of understanding the mechanisms that characterize the syntactic operations associated with the information structure of the sentence, as well as identifying ...
Silvio Cruschina
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Trends in Suicidal Mortality and Motives among Working-Ages Individuals in Japan during 2007–2022 [PDF]
Suicides in Japan consistently decreased from 2009–2019, but increased during the COVID-19 pandemic. To identify causes of increasing suicides, age-dependent and temporal fluctuations of suicide mortality rate per 100,000 (SMRP) in working-age ...
Ryusuke Matsumoto +3 more
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This study aims to add to a rich scholarship on the presence of a verb second constraint in old (Italo-)Romance that has been argued to cause V-to-C raising of both the finite verb and one or more constituents, provided we understand this constraint to ...
Onkar Singh
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Questions with definite markers in (Old) Romance, with focus on Old Spanish
We will depart from the observation that Romance languages can be subdivided into two groups with respect to free relatives under question-embedding predicates (Kellert 2017). One group has grammaticalized the definite element (e.g. Pt.[1] o, Fl. i’ ‘the’
Olga Kellert
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From Latin to Modern Italian: Some Notes on Negation
This article aims at investigating some diachronic aspects of the Italian negative system, considering a time span ranging from Old Latin to Modern Italian.
Matteo Greco
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The codex-images and captions of the Barlaam-romance (cod. Athon. Iviron 463 [Lambros 4583]) [PDF]
The study examines the relations between different aspects (Ancient Greek main text, miniatures, Old French translation on the margins, Old French headlines) of the manuscript Iviron № 463, which is a bilingual (Ancient Greek-Old French ...
Egedi-Kovacs Emese
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Old Romance place names in early South Slavic and late Proto-Slavic sound changes
The analysis of Old Romance geographical names in early South Slavic confirms that the majority of late Proto-Slavic sound changes were still operative in the period of the earliest Old Romance-Slavic language contacts in the Balkan Peninsula and ...
Matej Šekli
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‘E sí la hoïren tots’: sí and emphatic positive polarity in Old Catalan
This paper explores the semantic value and syntactic distribution of the lexical item sí in Old Catalan. After examining data extracted from El Llibre dels Fets, a 13th century chronicle, it is concluded that sí was an Emphatic Positive Polarity Particle
Afra Pujol Campeny
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The language of the Story of the Sage Ahiqar from Serbian Manuscript No. 53 of the National Library of Serbia [PDF]
In terms of homogeneous diglossia, the basic characteristic of the Serbian mediaeval language situation, the usage of two language systems, Serbian Church Slavonic and Old Serbian, were clearly functionally demarcated.
Kurešević Marina F.
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Spanish epic legends, which originated in ancient times in the oral tradition, have come down to us in various written forms — from historiography (prose chronicles) and major epic poems to small folklore lyric-epic genres, such as the Spanish “old ...
N. K. Kiselyova
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