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Discovering Legacies: Fathers, Sons, Masculinities, and Equity Within Families
ABSTRACT In this article, I examine how personal experiences within my family and my homeplace communities have shaped 20 years of basic and applied research, as well as theorizing, on fathering and masculinities. I focus on how my practice of reflexive research has led me to discover legacies of masculinities across generations of my own family ...
Kevin Roy
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Gideon Goldenberg: Semitic languages : Features, structures, relations, processes
Review article of Gideon Goldenberg's book, Semitic languages, emphasizing its importance to the field of linguistic typology ...
Ariel Gutman, Gutman, Ariel
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Tense and Text in Classical Arabic [PDF]
In Tense and Text in Classical Arabic, Michal Marmorstein presents a discourse-oriented analysis of the indicative tense system in Classical Arabic. The study demonstrates the effect of the extended syntactic and textual context on the function of the ...
Marmorstein, Michal
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Anti-Semitism in youth language: the pejorative use of the terms for "Jew" in German and French today [PDF]
The paper analyses how the words for "Jew" are used as insults and in pejorative ways in German and French, drawing on in-depth interviews. The forms, functions and effects of this phenomenon are similar despite the different languages and different ...
Günther Jikeli
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Cross‐Linguistic Suffix Preference: Typological or Cognitive Bias?
Languages can be shaped by pre‐existing cognitive machinery that makes certain properties more processable. Such properties are more frequent across world languages. Most languages prefer suffixes to prefixes for grammatical meanings. Whether such typological bias is shaped by cognitive bias is debated.
Mikhail Ordin +2 more
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Adjective + Complement in Semitic Languages
The relationship between the two components of the construction known in Arabic as الاضافة غير الحقيقية, e.g., الحَسَنُ ٱلْوَجْهِ, Hebrewיְפֵה עֵינַיִם, and Akkadian damqam īnim ‘beautiful-faced/eyed’, is commonly held to be one of nexus: ‘His/her eyes/
Amikam Gai
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The One Lonely Little Guy Versus Thousand Lobbyists: George H. W. Bush and the American Jews
ABSTRACT This article reconsiders the strained relationship between President George H. W. Bush and the American Jewish community during the early 1990s, focusing on the controversy surrounding Israel's request for US loan guarantees and Bush's September 1991 “lonely little guy” remark.
David Tal
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The Need for a Novel Approach to Design Derivation Lexicon for Semitic Languages
International audienceMorphology knowledge is relevant in language learning, information retrieval and natural language processing. Derivation lexicons are organized and comprehensive collections of the morphological variants of a language's vocabulary ...
Ayalew, Enchalew, y +2 more
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Semitic languages at the Rand Afrikaans University?
Inaugural lecture--Department of Semitic Languages, Rand Afrikaans University, 28 May 1970The main theme of this inaugural lecture is that classical (biblical) Hebrew cannot be studied without taking due cognisance of the other Semitic languages ...
Pelser, H. S.
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