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Linguistic Markers of Destructive Leadership: An Exploratory Cross‐domain Study
British Journal of Management, EarlyView.Abstract This article examines how destructive leadership in politics and business is reflected in distinctive patterns of language use. Drawing on Pennebaker's psycholinguistic theory and his Linguistic Inquiry and Word Count (LIWC) analytical framework, we report two studies.
Eugene Sadler‐Smith +4 more
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PERSONAL PRONOUNS IN 'MISAL HRUACKI' (1531) BY ŠIMUN KOŽIČIĆ BENJA
Fluminensia: Journal for Philological Research, 2012 The paper is trying to establish the difference in the use of personal pronouns in 'Misal hruacki' (1531) printed by Šimun Kožičić Benja in comparison to three previously printed missals: 'Misal Pavla Modrušanina '(1528), 'Senjski misal '(1494 ...
Tanja Kuštović
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Fronting in Old Catalan: Asymmetries between Narration and Reported Speech1
Transactions of the Philological Society, Volume 123, Issue 1, Page 1-28, March 2025.Abstract This article explores the distribution, syntax, and information structure of XVS clauses in the narrative text and the reported speech of a thirteenth‐century Old Catalan chronicle, the Llibre dels Fets. It is shown that XVS occurs mainly within reported speech and in embedded clauses.
Afra Pujol i Campeny
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There Is no First Phase of the Jespersen Cycle1
Transactions of the Philological Society, EarlyView.Abstract This paper challenges the traditional conception of the Jespersen Cycle by arguing that no ‘pure’ first phase of the cycle exists where a single negator operates without reinforcement. Drawing on historical data from Northern Italian dialects (Piedmontese, Lombard, Emilian), we demonstrate that emphatic negative structures systematically co ...
Tommaso Mattiuzzi, Cecilia Poletto
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Tone in the pronominal system in Bissa Barka
Mandenkan, 2016 This paper presents an introductory overview of the pronominal system in Bissa Barka, an Eastern Mande language spoken in south-east Burkina Faso and northern Ghana. Primary focus is placed on the tonal behaviour of the pronouns.
Pamela Morris
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Transactions of the Philological Society, EarlyView.Abstract This paper investigates the role of semantic features of noun and adjective bases in determining the grammatical behaviour of Ancient Greek denominal and deadjectival verbs in *‐ye/o‐. The paper adopts a lexicalist framework (Rappaport Hovav & Levin 1998) and examines how the event schema, actionality, telicity and voice of derived verbs are ...
Carolina Marescotti
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Transactions of the Philological Society, EarlyView.Abstract Few have asked what happens to gender when a noun is heteroclitic – when its inflection draws on more than one inflection class. While heteroclisis has moved from being treated as a marginal irregularity to a theoretically revealing phenomenon, its implications for gender assignment remain largely unexplored.
Greville G. Corbett
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A Corpus-Based Study of Dual Pronoun Translation
Darnioji daugiakalbystėThis article aims to answer the following questions: what is the distribution of dual pronouns in original and translated Lithuanian fiction texts; what English language patterns are rendered by Lithuanian dual pronouns; and how Lithuanian dual pronouns ...
Vaičenonienė Jurgita
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Discours, 2013 Two visual-world eye-tracking experiments were designed to investigate the resolution of ambiguous German pronouns, the personal pronoun (er) and the d-pronoun (der) in spoken discourse.
Miriam Ellert
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Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article examines Feminists for Life's (FFL) rhetoric and activism on US college campuses in the 1990s as a case study into the complexities of organizing against abortion in a historical context whereby few supports existed for young pregnant women.
Isobel Bloom
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