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HYPOTACTIC STRUCTURE IN ENGLISH

open access: yesJL3T (Journal of Linguistics, Literature and Language Teaching), 2017
This present study focuses on the study of a hypotactic structure in English. It is concerned with clause complex which is comprised of two or more clauses logically connected.
Dessy Kurniasy
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On the grammaticalization of ('t) schijnt 'it seems' as an evidential particle in colloquial Belgian Dutch [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
Comparing ( ’t) schijnt to (zo) schijnt het (lit. ‘so seems it’), the parenthetical use of the verb schijnen ‘seem’, we argue that ( ’t) schijnt is best analysed as an evidential particle.
Colleman, Timothy, Van Bogaert, Julie
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Adam Ważyk, the New Sentence and the question of entropy

open access: yesActa Universitatis Lodziensis. Folia Litteraria Polonica, 2017
In its first section, the article focuses on certain concepts belonging to Adam Ważyk’s theory of poetics. Specifically, I note the role of entropy in Ważyk’s thought on the form of the poem.
Paweł Kaczmarski
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Hybrid Clause Combining Strategies in Turkish Language Contacts

open access: yesStudia Linguistica, Volume 79, Issue 2, Page 391-434, August 2025.
Abstract The Turkic contact varieties of the Balkans use two main diametrically opposed subordination strategies: (i) the Turkic template, where typical subordinate clauses are prepositive, nonfinite, contain clause‐final subordinators, etc. and (ii) the Indo‐European (IE) template, where typical subordinate clauses are postpositive, finite, contain ...
Cem Keskin   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

'Should conditionals be emergent ...': asyndetic conditionals in English and German as a Challenge to Grammaticalization Research [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
The present article examines asyndetic or conjunctionless conditionals in German and English. According to Jespersen’s Model (1940), this construction arose diachronically from a paratactic discourse sequence with a polar interrogative, but more recently
Van den Nest, Daan
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THE OTHER DEMOSTHENES. ON POSSIBLE FORMS OF PHILIATION BETWEEN ECOLOGY AND PHILOLOGY

open access: yesGerman Life and Letters, Volume 78, Issue 3, Page 380-393, July 2025.
ABSTRACT Beginning with the oratorial askesis of Demosthenes and its use of nature as a tool for the amplitude and clarity of the human voice as a ‘Vexierbild’, this article suggests that the appropriation of philology to serve a particular end (rather than being an end in itself) risks repeating the very injustice that ecocritical discourses are ...
Elliot Sturdy   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

On Changes in Complex Sentences Syntax in the Russian Language of the 17th Century (on Material of Siberian Petitions)

open access: yesНаучный диалог, 2020
The article deals with the problem of forming grammatical (syntactic) norms of the Russian national language based on the material of Siberian monuments of business writing of the 17th century. Relevance of the work is determined by the fact that Russian
L. A. Inyutina, T. S. Shilnikova
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INSECT LIFE AND LETTERS: THE STUDIES OF HANNS HEINZ EWERS AND OTTO AND ROSE HECHT

open access: yesGerman Life and Letters, Volume 78, Issue 3, Page 342-363, July 2025.
ABSTRACT This article argues that vast histories of war and displacement in the twentieth century are connected to the small and almost unnoticeable lives of insects, and that philology has much to gain from paying attention to insect worlds. We examine two case studies: the work of the German entomologist Otto Hecht and his wife, Rose Caro Hecht, and ...
Alice Christensen, Ina Linge
wiley   +1 more source

Parataxis, hypotaxis and para-hypotaxis in the Zamucoan languages

open access: yesLinguistic Discovery, 2012
The term "para-hypotaxis" is commonly used by Romance linguists to refer to sentences containing a proleptic dependent clause, with the main clause introduced by a coordinator.
Pier Marco Bertinetto, Luca Ciucci
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New public financial management in liberal peacebuilding discourse: The Palestine–Israel conflict and the World Bank

open access: yesFinancial Accountability &Management, Volume 40, Issue 4, Page 549-572, November 2024.
Abstract This paper delves into the discursive recontextualization of new public financial management (NPFM) in the context of peacebuilding, reshaping the dynamics among the donor community, Israel, and the Palestinian Authority. Utilizing Fairclough's dialectical relational version of Critical Discourse Analysis (2003, 2013) as a methodological ...
Dalia Alazzeh, Shahzad Uddin
wiley   +1 more source

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