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Use of dual in standard Slovene, colloquial Slovene and Slovene dialects
The dual is a grammatical expression of number in some languages (e.g. Slovene, Sorbian or Modern Standard Arabic) that denotes two persons or objects. In modern Indo-European languages, the dual is an archaism and one that has been preserved only in a ...
Tjaša Jakop
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Word Borrowing in Slovene Dialects in the Semantic Fields ‘Human Body’, ‘Relatives’ and ‘Friends’ [PDF]
This paper examines the proportion between borrowed and non-borrowed words in Slovene dialects. The vocabulary is presented through linguistic geography, while lexical maps of Slovene dialect vocabulary from the semantic fields of 1) ‘human body’, 2 ...
Tjaša Jakop
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On the use of the gerund in –č in the Slovene dialects contiguous with friulian*
With the following observations on the use of present gerunds in Slovene, promp ted by Jan Baudouin de Courtenay's Dictionary of the Ter Dialect (BdC Mss), and by Stanko Škerlj' s Syntaxe du participe présent et du rondif en vieil italien (Škerlj 1926),
Rado L. Lencek
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The results of the analysis of dialectal inflectional patterns show the differences between dialects and standard language only in individual endings. The old forms, palatalized and non-palatalized bases are maintained, the endings generalized for all ...
Zinka Zorko
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Spory wokół języka słoweńskiego i ich wpływ na kształt literatury słoweńskiej w okresie romantyzmu
The article aims to explore the status of the Slovene language and literature, as well as Slovene culture during the Romantic period in the context of historical events which informed them as a result of the creation of the alphabet by Adam Bohorič in ...
Marlena Gruda
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Objectivising national identity: The introduction of national registers in the late Habsburg Empire
Abstract Western societies over the last few decades have seen an increased interest in questions of group belonging and group identities, including ethno‐national groups. According to essentialising or constructivist paradigms, belonging to a national group is commonly conceptualised in the range of objective versus subjective criteria, where ...
Börries Kuzmany
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Myths of Modernism: Austrian Art after 1918
The development of art in Austria after 1918 remains little explored; the main focus of research continues to be fin‐de‐siècle Vienna. Where interwar Austrian modernism is studied at all, interest is mostly limited to the municipal housing sponsored by the Social Democratic council.
Matthew Rampley
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Abstract Mountain communities face the threat of depopulation, as residents age or move to large cities in the lowland. This issue is pressing for Italy, where a large portion of the territory is mountainous and the overall population is rapidly aging. This paper analyses whether the autonomous status of a region affects the demographic dynamics of its
Nadiia Matsiuk
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Abstract Twelve historians and social scientists reflect on Miroslav Hroch's contributions to the field of nationalism studies. There are essays on his pioneering comparative historical studies of ‘small nation’ national movements and his distinction between nationalism and national movements. Other essays focus on concepts such as those of protagonist,
Elisabeth Bakke +11 more
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Brexit and multilingualism in the European Union
Abstract The European Union (EU) spends more than one billion euros per year ensuring translation and interpretation of 24 languages to preserve multilingualism. We examine how this budget should be fairly allocated, taking into account linguistic and economic realities of each member country. Our analysis tries to estimate the value of keeping English
Victor Ginsburgh +1 more
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