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Review: Gender shifts in the history of English. Anne Curzan.Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003.pp. 223 + xii. [PDF]

, 2007
Herbert Schendl (2001:9) defines ‘the study of ongoing changes in a language’ as one of the fundamental goals of historical linguistics. Curzan’s book, which examines the historical development of the English gender system, is a work noteworthy not ...
Kádár, Daniel Z.
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Yoruba Histories of Marriage and Belonging: Gender, Power and Innovation in Eighteenth‐Century West Africa

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article argues that marriage was central to historical change in the Yoruba‐speaking region of West Africa during the eighteenth century. It draws on ìtàn, a distinct oral source, to show that conjugality shaped Yoruba processes of urbanisation and political centralisation, gendered divisions of labour and social innovation and creativity.
Insa Nolte
wiley   +1 more source

Coreference resolution in clinical discharge summaries, progress notes, surgical and pathology reports: a unified lexical approach [PDF]

, 2011
We developed a lexical rule-based system that uses a unified approach to resolving coreference across a wide variety of clinical records comprising discharge summaries, progress notes, pathology, radiology and surgical reports from two corpora (Ontology ...
Gooch, P., Roudsari, A.
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The Firebrands Echo: National Fantasy as an Obstacle to Jean‐Luc Mélenchon's Populist Spectacle

Constellations, EarlyView.
Reid A. Kleinberg
wiley   +1 more source

Queering Institutional Milestones in Elite Higher Education: Queer Perspectives on Princeton University and Coeducation (1960–1980)

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT A new archive of oral history interviews from LGBTQIA‐identified alumni, faculty and staff reveals the complex ways that queer and transgender students understood, experienced and remembered the long transition from single‐sex to coeducation at Princeton University.
Ezelle Sanford III, Judy Jarvis, Eric Anglero   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Classifying pronouns: the view from Romanian [PDF]

Bucharest Working Papers in Linguistics, 2014
This paper is devoted to the analysis of (DP, AP, and PP) postnominal modifiers of personal pronouns, focusing especially on Romanian. Regarding the internal structure of personal pronouns, we adopt the traditional view that they actually do not have a ...
Alexandra Cornilescu, Alexandru Nicolae
doaj  

(De)accenting definite descriptions [PDF]

, 2013
This paper focuses on definite descriptions. It will be shown that a definite description refers to a given discourse referent if the descriptive content is completely deaccented.
Umbach, Carla
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Did William Shakespeare and Thomas Kyd Write Edward III?

, 2017
William Shakespeare is believed to be a significant author in the anonymous play, The Reign of King Edward III, published in 1596. However, recently, Thomas Kyd, has been suggested as the primary author.
Bossomaier, Terry, Bradbury, Roger, Kernot, David   +2 more
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Policing the Environmental Crisis: Climate Protest, the State, and Law and Order

Constellations, EarlyView.
Oscar Talbot
wiley   +1 more source

CENSUS UNDERCOUNTS, DIGITAL DISPLACEMENT, AND DATA JUSTICE: What Social Scientists and Data Users Need to Know About the 2020 US Census

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract Census data are foundational to democracy, research and equitable urban policy. In addition to supporting political reapportionment and redistricting, census data serve as the backbone of the federal statistical data system and are often considered the highest quality data—the ‘gold standard'—for scholarly and policy research.
Jason R. Jurjevich
wiley   +1 more source