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Racialized Labour in the Colonial Food Regime: The Whitening of England's Farmworkers
Journal of Agrarian Change, Volume 26, Issue 2, April 2026.ABSTRACT The crystallization of a colonial food regime in the 1870s centred around Britain is key to historical accounts of agrarian political economy. Yet such accounts have neglected the role of the agrarian proletariat in shaping this regime from below and its basis in racialized hierarchy.
Ben Richardson
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UNDERSTANDING PREPOSITIONS THROUGH COGNITIVE GRAMMAR. A CASE OF IN [PDF]
, 2004 Poly - semantic nature of prepositions has been discussed in linguistic literature and confirmed by language data. In the majority of research within cognitive linguistics prepositions have been approached as predicates organising entities in space, with
Turewicz, prof. Kamila
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“The Difference” of Objects “Is Spreading”: A Non‐Anthropocentric Reading of Tender Buttons
Literature Compass, Volume 23, Issue 2, April/June 2026.ABSTRACT This article discusses the nonreferentiality of both language and the object in Gertrude Stein's Tender Buttons through an analysis of “Book.” a section of the chapter “Objects.” While the inaccessibility of Tender Buttons is well known due to Stein's linguistic experimentalism, the objects presented as section titles also challenge ...
Joon Ho Hwang
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Did language give us numbers? : Symbolic thinking and the emergence of systematic numerical cognition [PDF]
, 2010 What role does language play in the development of numerical cognition? In the present paper I argue that the evolution of symbolic thinking (as a basis for language) laid the grounds for the emergence of a systematic concept of number.
Wiese, Heike
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Where Now for Migration Studies? Problems, Purpose and Potential
Tijdschrift voor Economische en Sociale Geografie, Volume 117, Issue 2, Page 164-182, April 2026.Abstract The 21st century has witnessed an explosion of academic research on migration. We now have a rich corpus of projects and publications, as well as academic posts, degree programmes, PhDs, conferences, journals, departments and other (often well‐funded) ventures dedicated to migration. In parallel, however, ultra‐nationalism, militarised borders
Melanie Griffiths
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Semantics of nouns and nominal number [PDF]
, 2010 In the present paper, I will discuss the semantic structure of nouns and nominal number markers. In particular, I will discuss the question if it is possible to account for the syntactic and semantic formation of nominals in a parallel way, that is I ...
Wiese, Heike
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Innateness Hypothesis: Prenatal Image Schemas and Language
Academic Journal of Modern PhilologyThe paper demonstrates that it is the image schemas that are universal elements in the foetus's nervous system, disproving Chomsky's Innateness Hypothesis with the fabricated universal grammar, structure and rules, in the prenatal period (in the foetus).
Aleksander Szwedek
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Core Lexicon and Contagious Words
, 2003 We present the new empirical parameter $f_c$, the most probable usage frequency of a word in a language, computed via the distribution of documents over frequency $x$ of the word.
Blanchard, Philippe +2 more
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A formal theory of conceptual modeling universals [PDF]
, 2004 Conceptual Modeling is a discipline of great relevance to several areas in Computer Science. In a series of papers [1,2,3] we have been using the General Ontological Language (GOL) and its underlying upper level ontology, proposed in [4,5], to evaluate ...
Guizzardi, Giancarlo +2 more
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The Activations of Relational Structures in Processing Second Language Noun-noun Compound
Linguistic Research, 2011 A theoretically interesting aspect of noun-noun compounds is how two nouns in the compounds are conceptually combined to be interpreted.
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