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In Praise of Friendship… Among Other Things
Preview: /Review: Michał Herer, In Praise of Friendship (Alresford, UK: Zero Books, 2021), 112 pages./ In this article I will try to discuss some thoughts presented by Michał Herer in his book In Praise of Friendship.
Barbara Brzezicka
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To break “the Black Wall”. The motif of fear in plays by Henri-René Lenormand
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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Number-neutral indefinite objects in Brazilian Portuguese as a case of semantic incorporation
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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Gender Pay Gap: A Macro Perspective [PDF]
This paper examines the factors influencing the gender wage gap by using an unbalanced cross-country aggregated panel data set for a sample covering 53 economies for the period 1995–2010.
Camingue-Romance, Shiela F +2 more
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Questions with definite markers in (Old) Romance, with focus on Old Spanish
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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Laryngeal stop systems in contact: connecting present-day acquisition findings and historical contact hypotheses [PDF]
This article examines the linguistic forces at work in present-day second language and bilingual acquisition of laryngeal contrasts, and to what extent these can give us insight into the origin of laryngeal systems of Germanic voicing languages like ...
Simon, Ellen
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Color in context: psychological context moderates the influence of red on approach- and avoidance-motivated behavior. [PDF]
A basic premise of the recently proffered color-in-context model is that the influence of color on psychological functioning varies as a function of the psychological context in which color is perceived.
D'Agostino, Paul R. +4 more
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Computational Literary Genre Stylistics [PDF]
The project in a nutshell: This project will investigate the relation between literary genres (generic facets) and style (stylistic attributes). Analyses are based on large collections of literary texts and use or develop state-of-the-art methods in ...
Schöch, Christof
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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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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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