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Desiring the east: a comparative study of Middle English romance and modern popular sheikh romance [PDF]
, 2012 This thesis comparatively examines a selection of twenty-first century sheikh romances and Middle English romances from the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries that imagine an erotic relationship occurring between east and west.
Burge, Amy
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Number-neutral indefinite objects in Brazilian Portuguese as a case of semantic incorporation
Journal of Portuguese Linguistics, 2022 This paper provides empirical evidence for a verb-noun construction in Brazilian Portuguese, which has not yet been analyzed in the linguistic literature.
Albert Wall
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To break “the Black Wall”. The motif of fear in plays by Henri-René Lenormand
Acta 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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Studia Universitatis Babeş-Bolyai. Philologia, 2020 Adverbials with Adjectival Basis in Brazilian Portuguese and Their Frequency in Spoken and Written Language. The present paper focuses on the use of adverbs with an adjectival lexical base in spoken and written present-day Brazilian Portuguese.
Katharina GERHALTER, Stefan KOCH
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Questions with definite markers in (Old) Romance, with focus on Old Spanish
Isogloss, 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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, 2022 This chapter elaborates on two case studies in structural variation to illustrate how the comparison of closely related grammatical systems fuels research questions on general theoretical issues. Our first case study regards subject clitics in central Romance dialects.
Pescarini, Diego, Loporcaro, Michele
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GlossaWhile 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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Translingualism in the works of Marian Vayreda
Вестник Самарского университета: История, педагогика, филологияIntroduction. This article analyzes the work of Marian Vayreda (1853–1903), a classic of Catalan literature. His primary works were written in Catalan. He consciously integrated elements of Spanish (words, phrases, sentences, and text fragments) into his
A. A. Tereshchuk, A. D. Shirkevich
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Ingressive verbal periphrases in Spanish and Portuguese [PDF]
Linguistica 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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