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(Negative) Polarity Items in Catalan and Other Trans-Pyrenean Romance Languages
Languages, 2022 This paper identifies the set of properties that polarity items (PI), negative polarity items (NPI) and negative concord items (NCI) satisfy in Catalan, Aragonese, Benasquese and Occitan. It shows that in Catalan, gaire ‘much, many’ is a PI, pas ‘at all’
M. Espinal, Ares Llop
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Journal 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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Tracking Semantic Change in Cognate Sets for English and Romance Languages
Workshop on Computational Approaches to Historical Language Change, 2021 Semantic divergence in related languages is a key concern of historical linguistics. We cross-linguistically investigate the semantic divergence of cognate pairs in English and Romance languages, by means of word embeddings.
Ana Sabina Uban +5 more
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, 2021 For years, linguists have noted that intonation patterns and discourse markers encode similar pragmatic meanings across languages. The present study investigates whether a functional compensatory distribution can be documented across languages by ...
P. Prieto, P. Roseano
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Topicalization in the Romance Languages
, 2021 Topic and topicalization are key notions to understand processes of syntactic and prosodic readjustments in Romance. More specifically, topicalization refers to the syntactic mechanisms and constructions available in a language to mark an expression as ...
Silvio Cruschina
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Religions, 2022 Francisco de Osuna’s Fifth Spiritual Alphabet of 1542, subtitled Consolation for the Poor and Warning for the Rich, is a Spanish text on economic inequality in Western Europe.
Dana Bultman
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Languages, 2022 This study provides a critical discussion on oral corrective feedback (CF) in the Spanish heritage language context by analyzing the language ideologies of both teachers and students relating to this everyday pedagogical practice.
Sergio Loza
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Quo Vadis: el español y el Hispanismo en Sudáfrica
Arbor: Ciencia, Pensamiento y Cultura, 2001 Nuestro objetivo en este ensayo es presentar la situación del español y del hispanismo en el complejo mundo que ha sido y sigue siendo Sudáfrica. Con el fin de entender el papel que desempeña el español en el África austral, se traza la historia socio ...
Cathy Maree, Carmen Sánchez Martín
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ROMANCE LANGUAGES: HISTORY OF FORMATION AND CLASSIFICATION PROBLEMS
Verhnevolzhski Philological Bulletin, 2020 This article deals with issues that arise when analyzing Romance languages. Firstly, the author investigates the problem of determining the number of Romance languages and their classification. In modern linguistics, these issues remain unresolved.
Anna V. Solntseva
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The life of a loanword: A case study of le coming out in the French magazine Têtu (1995–2015)
Ampersand, 2019 In this paper we investigate the sociocultural dimensions of lexical borrowing by focusing on the diachronic use of a socially charged English loanword—le coming out—in Têtu, a popular gay lifestyle magazine that was published in French from 1995 to 2015.
David Divita, William Curtis
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