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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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Reconstructing Old Chinese *‐ts Using Han‐Time Material

Transactions of the Philological Society, EarlyView.
Abstract Baxter & Sagart (2014b) reconstruct *‐Vt‐s on the basis of Middle Chinese reflexes in ‐jH (from some OC *‐s) coupled with either etymological or graphic connections to words in Middle Chinese ‐t. This approach, while perfectly sound, can suffer from lack of etymological or graphic data, leading to missed reconstructions. Since Old Chinese *‐ts
Julien Baley
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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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TRANSLATION OF POETIC METAPHORS IN THE ASPECT OF TEACHING RUSSIAN TO BILINGUALS

Многоязычие в образовательном пространстве
In the article the problem of translation of metaphorical means of expression in a poetic text in the aspect of teaching Russian-Greek bilinguals the Russian language is considered.
O.N. Logutenkova
doaj  

Ján Smrek (Odsúdený k večitej žízni)/(Condemned to Eternal Thirst) [PDF]

Slovenska Literatura, 2007
The aim of the study is to determine a specific place of Jan Smrek´s debut in the context of his poetry and to point out its organic connection with the following collections of poems, although typologically and aesthetically different from the first one
Michal Habaj
doaj  

Psychedelic literary studies and the poetics of disruption. [PDF]

Front Psychol, 2023
Devenot N, Erving G.
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The Gender of Fossil Fuels: Oil and Domestic Perils in Mandate Palestine

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article explores the gender dynamics behind the rise of kerosene – an oil derivative – as the main domestic fuel in Mandate Palestine. It argues that these dynamics were constitutive in determining who began to use oil, where and for what purposes, in turn demonstrating that women in Palestine were the promoters and targets of a campaign ...
Shira Pinhas
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Ján Smrek (Cválajúce dni)/(Galloping Days) [PDF]

Slovenska Literatura, 2008
The aim of the study is to show the residua of poetic world in the book Cválajúce dni (Galloping days), which altogether with the aesthetic realisation itself accent or presume ethical origin as a primary source of Smrek´s poetic gesture.
Michal Habaj
doaj  

The Firebrands Echo: National Fantasy as an Obstacle to Jean‐Luc Mélenchon's Populist Spectacle

Constellations, EarlyView.
Reid A. Kleinberg
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‘Humans Are Omnipotent and Beyond Their Destiny!’ Late Soviet Perspective on Girls’ Upbringing and the Female Self

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The article examines post‐Stalinist Soviet expertise on girls’ education and upbringing, analysing texts for and about female adolescents created by specialists in pedagogical sciences, psychology, sociology, medicine as well as children's writers and journalists from different parts of the Union, including national republics. The text focuses
Ella Rossman
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