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To break “the Black Wall”. The motif of fear in plays by Henri-René Lenormand

open access: yesActa Universitatis Lodziensis. Folia Litteraria Polonica, 2020
Henri-René Lenormand refreshed theatre, defining a new domain for it: the mysteries of the human soul. In all of his plays, he strived to explain the secret of internal life, as well as to solve the mystery that people are to themselves.
Tomasz Kaczmarek
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On the presence and absence of definite articles with anthroponyms in rural varieties of Madeiran Portuguese

open access: yesJournal of Portuguese Linguistics, 2023
European Portuguese (EP) generally manifests a systematic use of the definite article with anthroponyms in communicative immediacy (in the sense of Koch & Oesterreicher, 1986). In Brazilian Portuguese (BP), there is a well-documented variation in the
Yoselin Henriques Pestana
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Questions with definite markers in (Old) Romance, with focus on Old Spanish

open access: yesIsogloss, 2019
We will depart from the observation that Romance languages can be subdivided into two groups with respect to free relatives under question-embedding predicates (Kellert 2017). One group has grammaticalized the definite element (e.g. Pt.[1] o, Fl. i’ ‘the’
Olga Kellert
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The Interweaving of Life and Text. Authorial Inscription and Readerly Self-Understanding Exemplified in Les Fleurs du mal [PDF]

open access: yesPhainomena, 2022
The present article attempts to make explicit the existential dimension of a canonical literary text: Baudelaire’s The Flowers of Evil. This work is chosen because it transmits a series of disturbing existential assertions; that is, it is used, in the ...
Julio Jensen
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Romance

open access: yesCollege Music Symposium, 2016
Abstract This chapter undertakes a critical typological review of the position of Romance in relation to other language families, highlighting the extent to which the Romance family can be considered to represent a coherent linguistic ‘type’, what typological similarities and differences it presents with respect to other branches of Indo-
Ramat, Paolo, RICCA, Davide
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Differential Marking of inanimate direct objects across four varieties of Spanish: Evidence for grammatical differences from elicitation experiments

open access: yesGlossa
While animacy is considered to be one of the decisive factors for Differential Object Marking (DOM) in Spanish, many authors have capitalized on the fact that inanimate objects also can be marked to a certain degree (Camacho, 2023; Company Company, 2002;
Albert Wall   +4 more
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Ingressive verbal periphrases in Spanish and Portuguese [PDF]

open access: yesLinguistica Pragensia, 2017
The article analyses Spanish and Portuguese verbal periphrases that express the beginning of a process (ingressive manner of action). It analyses stylistically marked and stylistically unmarked ingressive constructions in order to determine ...
Dana Kratochvílová   +1 more
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Engaging upper secondary school pupils with integrity and source criticism

open access: yesInternational Journal for Educational Integrity, 2023
The ambition of the article is to create an awareness among upper secondary school pupils on what academic integrity and source criticism mean. Instead of devoting time to a general presentation of academic studies, the claim is that a collective ...
Christophe Premat
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The test of time: experimentally recreating the reanalysis of FINISH as a recent past marker

open access: yesLanguage and Cognition
In grammaticalization studies, reanalysis is understood as the assignment of new meaning to formally unchanged elements, supported by bridging contexts compatible with the old and the reanalyzed meaning. The source determination hypothesis (SDH) predicts
Julia Heine   +2 more
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The Modeling of Social Distance on the Mat: Towards a Semiotic Study of Aikido

open access: yesArmenian Folia Anglistika, 2016
The study of language through sign systems that represent “by-products” or substitutes of language as a means of communication is a direction in linguistics that adds to the knowledge about the productivity and language-generating potential of natural ...
Grigor Ghazaryan
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