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Participles: Form, use and meaning
Glossa, 2019 This paper serves as an introduction to a special collection on the form, use and meaning of past passive participles used in perfect and passive constructions.
Berit Gehrke, Olga Borik
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Greek ΜΝΗΣΘΗ and Aramaic DKYR in the Near East: A Comparative Epigraphic Study
Arabian Archaeology and Epigraphy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Past studies of graffiti containing the word ΜΝΗΣΘΗ have never fully established its intrinsic meaning. However, due to the existence of the Aramaic term DKYR, which carries a seemingly identical meaning to ΜΝΗΣΘΗ, in similar contexts in the Roman Near East, a comparison between both words is possible. Four distinct sites where the coexistence
Sebastien Mazurek
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The problem of translating participles from German into Serbian [PDF]
Zbornik Radova Filozofskog Fakulteta u Prištini, 2023 Not only are the systemic differences of these two languages decisive, but also the ways of using language conditions in actual speech use are different.
Redžović Elma H.
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Catalan Journal of Linguistics, 2023 In this paper we discuss a change in the auxiliary selectional pattern of Brazilian Venetan, a heritage Italo-Romance variety spoken in southern Brazil.
Roberta D’Alessandro, Alberto Frasson
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Anthropology of Consciousness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This essay examines the controversy surrounding the Bhoot Vidya certificate program proposed by the Faculty of Ayurveda at Banaras Hindu University in 2019. Drawing on media coverage, curricular materials, and government policy, I analyze how the debate reveals broader tensions in the politics of contemporary Ayurveda, nationalism, and ...
Thomas Seibel
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A 2152-Point Scrabble Move [PDF]
, 2010 In the November 1979 issue of Word Ways we exhibited a 2064-point single-move Scrabble score using open sources. This was an improvement on an earlier 2037-point effort devised by Josefa Heifetz, better known as Josefa Heifetz Byrne, compiler of the ...
Grant, Jeff
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Journal of Sociolinguistics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Despite evidence that gender‐inclusive language represents genders more equally than generic masculines, it still faces resistance, possibly due to its perceived association with left‐wing politics. This study explores the social meaning of gender‐inclusive language compared with generic masculines in French and German, using four gender ...
Benjamin Storme +3 more
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On Grammatical Status of Participle Verb Forms / Constructions in Slavic Languages
Вестник Волгоградского государственного университета: Серия 2. Языкознание, 2016 The article is devoted to the semi-grammaticalized aspectual-temporal forms / constructions which represent a relatively poorly studied linguistic phenomenon in modern Russian language.
Doychil Petrovich Voyvodich
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Language Learning, EarlyView.Abstract We investigate what is learned from exposure to usage in verbal morphology using an error correction mechanism within an associative learning framework. We computationally simulated how second language (L2) learners would respond to naturalistic input of aspectual usage, characterized by “imperfect contingencies,” given two types of ...
Justyna Mackiewicz +2 more
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The Evolution of Ergativity in Iranian Languages
Acta Linguistica Asiatica, 2012 This paper presents an attempt to investigate the origins of ergativity in Iranian languages, drawing upon diachronic and synchronic analyses. In so doing, I will trace the development of the ergative structure back to Old and Middle Persian where, it is
Yadgar KARIMI
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