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'Should conditionals be emergent ...': asyndetic conditionals in English and German as a Challenge to Grammaticalization Research [PDF]
, 2010 The present article examines asyndetic or conjunctionless conditionals in German and English. According to Jespersen’s Model (1940), this construction arose diachronically from a paratactic discourse sequence with a polar interrogative, but more recently
Van den Nest, Daan
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Early Medieval Europe, Volume 33, Issue 2, Page 139-157, May 2025.Rutilius Namatianus’ poem De reditu suo was written a few years after the devastation of Rome in 410. It has been read as nostalgia for Rome’s past greatness written in a climate of senatorial escapism. This article revises this reading, instead analysing the poem as the literary expression of resilience on the part of the traditional western ...
Sophie Kultzen
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PROBLEMS OF SEMANTICS, PRAGMATICS AND COGNITIVE LINGUISTICS, 2017 The article focuses on the violation of role expectations by speakers with asymmetric statuses in the process of dialogical speech. The study is based on the materials of the English-language series ‘Suits’, specifically, on film dialogues as they are close to real communication, and film characters are representatives of various professions, so this ...
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Active employees in the future workplace: From job crafting to selfergetic job crafting
European Management Review, EarlyView.Abstract The job crafting theory implies, but does not explicitly present the relationship between the self and the job. To fill the gap, we theorize upon the holistic view of the self, and selfergy, a new concept reflecting the unique manner by which employees craft their jobs. Based on the principles of the self‐determination theory, we have advanced
Louiza Paraskevopoulou +3 more
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The relationship between different types of co-speech gestures and L2 speech performance. [PDF]
Front Psychol, 2022 Ma S, Jin G.
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DIALECT VARIATION AS A WINDOW INTO LANGUAGE CHANGE – A SYNTACTIC EXAMPLE FROM SASAK (LOMBOK) [PDF]
, 2016 Structural contrasts in language are often accompanied by corresponding morphological contrasts. When morphological contrasts are simplified or morphology is reanalyzed, what is the effect on syntactic structure?
Ahmadi, Nur, Garmager, Eli Asikin
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Ethos, EarlyView.Abstract During fieldwork among older adults in middle‐class families in the city of Bhaktapur (2018–2019), I recurrently came across comparative narratives of moral decline, depicting a stark contrast between the present time and a mythical past where ageing parents were treated “as gods.” In this paper, I analyze how, through acts of comparisons ...
Paola Tinè
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Effects of cognitive task complexity and online planning on second language learners' argumentative writing. [PDF]
Front Psychol, 2023 Xu TS, Zhang LJ.
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The roots of syntax and how they grow: Organic Grammar, the Basic Variety and Processability Theory. [PDF]
, 2005 This is a pre-publication version of Vainikka, A. and M. Young-Scholten. 2005. The roots of syntax and how they grow: Organic Grammar, the Basic Variety and Processability Theory. In S. Unsworth, T. Parodi, A. Sorace and M.
Vainikka, Anne Marjatta
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What exactly is a family man? Performing and precluding respectable fatherhood in Dominica
Ethos, EarlyView.Abstract How does a father come to be regarded as a “family man” in the Caribbean? By tracking the stories and strivings of various Dominican men who seek recognition as dedicated fathers, this essay unfolds complex answers to this seemingly simple question.
Adom Philogene Heron
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