This essay introduces the themed cluster of articles, ‘Towards a linguistic anthropology of AI’. The advent of artificial intelligence (AI), especially in large language models capable of producing coherent discourse mimicking conversational interaction, is exerting unprecedented pressure on prevailing concepts of language, personhood, and the human ...
Webb Keane, Constantine V. Nakassis
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Recensión / Review: PLA COLOMER, Francisco Pedro e VICENTE LLAVATA, Santiago (2020). La materia de Troya en la Edad Media hispánica. Historia textual y codificación fraseológica. Madrid: Iberoamericana. ISBN 978-84-9192-151-6, 278 pp. [PDF]
Nuria García García
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Financial and economical vocabulary borrowed from Romano-Germanic languages
The article is devoted to the study of borrowings from Romanic and Germanic languages, which occupy important place in the vocabulary of the modern Ukrainian language, connected with economic and trade activities of society.
Сімонок, В.П.
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Based on ethnographic research at Rūm Orthodox Christian monasteries in Lebanon, the article studies scenes of Islam at the monastery as they intersect with anxious public debates on, and anthropological theorizations of, sectarianism and ‘Muslim–Christian’ relations in the Mashriq.
Aaron F. Eldridge
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Reconstructing Old Chinese *‐ts Using Han‐Time Material
Abstract Baxter & Sagart (2014b) reconstruct *‐Vt‐s on the basis of Middle Chinese reflexes in ‐jH (from some OC *‐s) coupled with either etymological or graphic connections to words in Middle Chinese ‐t. This approach, while perfectly sound, can suffer from lack of etymological or graphic data, leading to missed reconstructions. Since Old Chinese *‐ts
Julien Baley
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Parameter Hierarchies and Language Contact: The Present Perfect in Ecuadorian Spanish1
Abstract This article explores the hypothesis that the ‘fine‐grained’ grammatical differences that adult grammars under contact are said to be sensitive to (e.g., Hicks et al. 2023) amount to micro/nanoparametric distinctions, in the sense of Roberts (2019).
Norma Schifano
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Recensión: IGLESIAS OVEJERO, Ángel (2022). Diccionario de los nombres de persona en el refranero español. Salamanca: Instituto de las Identidades, Diputación de Salamanca; ISBN 978-84-16419-47-0, 680 pp. / Review: IGLESIAS OVEJERO, Ángel (2022). Diccionario de los nombres de persona en el refranero español. Salamanca: Instituto de las Identidades, Diputación de Salamanca; ISBN 978-84-16419-47-0, 680 pp. [PDF]
Beatriz Pérez Mosquera
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The Romanization of Chinese Language
The Chinese writing form is not a phonetic system and the Chinese characters do not represent the phonology, which, in part, hampers the mass education in China. For a long time to transliterate Chinese sound, native Chinese as well as the westerners have produced quite a number of phonetic systems, which can be divided into two schools: one is ...
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