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Aristomakhou as a Proper Noun in the Prooimial Priamel of Pindar’s Pythian 10
‘Aristomachus’, not the scholiast’s adjective but the proper name of a Thessalian ancestor linked to the Heraclidae, completes and clarifies the scope of praise of the victor at the start of the ode.
Roberto Bongiovanni
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Expletive Constructions and Agreement in Labeling Theory
ABSTRACT In this paper, I explain how agreement occurs in English expletive constructions, in accord with recent work in the Minimalist Program. I develop a proposal that relies on feature unification and probe‐goal agreement, as well as the notion that internal merge of arguments generally applies freely.
Jason Ginsburg
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New Insights Into Lakota Syntax: The Encoding of Arguments and the Number of Verbal Affixes
ABSTRACT This paper examines the morphosyntax of transitive constructions in Lakota, with particular emphasis being placed on the encoding of arguments. The analysis of argument marking through verbal affixes in Lakota transitive constructions raises two main questions: the existence or non‐existence of the zero marker for the third person singular and
Avelino Corral Esteban
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Lability in Hittite and Indo‐European: A Diachronic Perspective
ABSTRACT Lability is defined as the possibility of a verb to enter a valency alternation without undergoing any change in its form. Labile verbs were common in ancient Indo‐European languages, including Hittite, which mostly features anticausative lability, with reflexive and reciprocal lability being less prominent.
Guglielmo Inglese
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ABSTRACT The vocabulary load of university lectures and the coverage of academic vocabulary in spoken discourse have been used as benchmarks in researching whether various listening sources lexically correspond to actual university lectures. However, it remains unexplored whether contrived lecture passages from international academic English ...
Masaya Kaneko
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ABSTRACT This article engages race, infrastructural violence, and spatial memory in Ferguson, Missouri—the St. Louis suburb where police killed 18‐year‐old Michael Brown, Jr. in August 2014. It examines Black communities' use of blockades, space‐based protests, and infrastructural disruption in Ferguson before and after the teenager's execution.
Rashad Arman Timmons
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In Search of a Professional Image: How Women Comedians Engage Gender in Their Work
ABSTRACT Individuals who differ from what is typical in their occupation face a dilemma about how to incorporate their “ill‐fitting” social characteristics into their professional image. This study investigates how women working in the male‐dominated world of stand‐up comedy present their gender and whether this evolves over times of social change. Our
Clare Cook +3 more
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Abstract It is overwhelmingly plausible that part of what gives individuals their particular legal or institutional statuses is the fact that there are general laws or other policies in place that specify the conditions under which something is to have those statuses.
Louis deRosset
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Erving Goffman at 100: A Chameleon Seen as a Rorschach Test within a Kaleidoscope
The 100th anniversary of Erving Goffman's birth was in 2022. Drawing on his work, the Goffman archives, the secondary literature, and personal experiences with him and those in his university of Chicago cohort, I reflect on some implications of his work and life, and the inseparable issues of understanding society.
Gary T. Marx
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Abstract Biological collections are fundamental resources for biodiversity research, although they remain underutilised in many taxonomic efforts. In this study, we examine specimens deposited in the Entomological Collection of the Museu de Zoologia da Universidade de São Paulo (MZSP) to describe a new genus and species of cricket belonging to the ...
Lucas Denadai Campos, Vitor Tonon
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