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Embedded imperatives in Semitic, Germanic, and other languages
, 2022 Several Semitic and Germanic languages, just as languages belonging to other language families (Slovenian, Korean), embed imperatives and thus use direct speech in syntactical context, where most other languages would use subordinate clauses.
Edzard, Lutz
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Non-Verbal Communication in Ancient Rome: Eyebrow Gestures
LanguagesThis article analyses the communicative power of eyebrows in ancient Rome within the framework of broader research into gestures from the same period. Our research uses the corpus of Latin literature to describe evidence of gestures in said texts.
M. Antonia Fornés Pallicer +1 more
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HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 1985 Professor Adrianus van Seims An eulogy in honour of the late Professor A van Seims (1906-1984), who filled the chair of Semitic Languages at the University of Pretoria from 1948 to 1971.
W. C. van Wyk
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Zanco Journal of Humanity Sciences, 2021 This study intends to focus on the vicinity between Kurdish and Syriac languages and the need for interchangeability between two different languages and peoples because of daily commerce, habits and common culture and proverbs of the surrounding areas ...
Samer Soreshow Yohanna
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Bullshitters, Liars and Bad Teachers: The Scope of Epistemic Malevolence
Analytic Philosophy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The aim of this paper is two‐fold. We argue against the received conception of epistemic malevolence and give a broader characterisation that, we argue, captures its real scope. We tackle the current notion of epistemic malevolence (EM) on three fronts. We claim that this notion fails to capture cases of EM that are (i) not knowledge directed (
Sam Dickson +2 more
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The Verb in Classical Hebrew [PDF]
The consecutive tenses are fundamental in all descriptions of Classical Hebrew grammar. They are even basic to the textbooks on Biblical Hebrew. Being fundamental in the verbal system, and part of any beginner’s grammar, they pose a serious problem to a ...
Isaksson, Bo
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Aaron Michael Butts, ed., Semitic Languages in Contact
Aethiopica, 2017 Review
Alessandro Bausi
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Sociological Forum, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper introduces transboundary spanning as a novel concept for social movement analysis. Using Extinction Rebellion (XR) in the United States as a case study, we examine the relational dynamics of social movement boundary spanning: processes wherein actors and organizations engage across symbolic boundaries.
Tobias Müller, Peter Gardner
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City &Society, Volume 38, Issue 3, December 2026.ABSTRACT This paper proposes the notion of “olfactory contact zones” to investigate the role of odors and scents and the affects they give rise to in Berlin's urban publics. Drawing on the notion of the “afterlife” of racialised violence, it shows how tropes of the “smelly immigrant,” anchored in European antisemitism and colonial history, live on ...
Claudia Liebelt
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City &Society, Volume 38, Issue 3, December 2026.ABSTRACT In this article, I draw on multi‐sited and remote ethnography in the cities of Munich in Germany and Hanoi in Vietnam to analyze how young hip hop artists transform cities as sensory contact zones through rap and dance. I show how young Vietnamese‐Germans amplify sensory contact zones in the diasporic city of Munich through the sounds, visuals,
Sandra Kurfürst
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