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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Poetic Creation Inspiration or Craft
Myths of creativity have changed throughout Western literary history. The Romantic era cherished the idea of creativity as a spontaneous, unpremeditated act, closely related to improvisation.
Fehrman, Carl.
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Loanwords and Linguistic Phylogenetics: *pelek̑u‐ ‘axe’ and *(H)a(i̯)g̑‐ ‘goat’1
Transactions of the Philological Society, Volume 123, Issue 1, Page 116-136, March 2025.Abstract This paper assesses the role of borrowings in two different approaches to linguistic phylogenetics: Traditional qualitative analyses of lexemes, and quantitative computational analysis of cognacy. It problematises the assumption that loanwords can be excluded altogether from datasets of lexical cognacy.
Simon Poulsen
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Comparative evaluation of domain-specific and general-purpose transformer models for Arabic poet classification. [PDF]
Sci RepAlnefaie S.
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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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Ethical and Legal Considerations in the Collection and Analysis of Mental Health Lived Experience Narratives: Reflections on 4 Case Studies of Research Practice. [PDF]
JMIR Form ResRennick-Egglestone S +9 more
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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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Sugammadex for preventIoN oF pOst-operative pulmoNary complIcAtions (SINFONIA): protocol for an embedded mixed-methods process evaluation. [PDF]
BJA OpenDunn C +5 more
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Poetic Cartography, Love, and Loss: On Piecing Together a Father
, 2014 In setting out to write my father in the making of the experimental artefact that accompanies this essay, a poetic cartography in a series of photographs I am calling “A Matter of View: (From a Set of Annotations),” I risk disinheritance.
Francesca Rendle-Short
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What really happens when a dev vibes with the code? An empirical study on LLM behavioral divergence in response to expressive code comments. [PDF]
Front Artif IntellJohnson AN.
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