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Fronting in Old Catalan: Asymmetries between Narration and Reported Speech1

Transactions of the Philological Society, Volume 123, Issue 1, Page 1-28, March 2025.
Abstract This article explores the distribution, syntax, and information structure of XVS clauses in the narrative text and the reported speech of a thirteenth‐century Old Catalan chronicle, the Llibre dels Fets. It is shown that XVS occurs mainly within reported speech and in embedded clauses.
Afra Pujol i Campeny
wiley   +1 more source

To model human linguistic prediction, make LLMs less superhuman. [PDF]

Trends Cogn Sci
Oh BD, Linzen T.
europepmc   +1 more source

Not Even Newton's Word: Authority and Resistance in the Royal Society Corpus1

Transactions of the Philological Society, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper investigates the historical development of Isaac Newton's proposed distinction between mass and weight in the Principia Mathematica of 1687 and traces its fate in the scientific English of the Royal Society between 1700 and 1920.
Nina Haket
wiley   +1 more source

Integrating scanned literature and online sources to build a data text collection for plant biodiversity. [PDF]

Biodivers Data J
Turenne N, Chenin E, Sklab Y, Zucker JD.
europepmc   +1 more source

Sri Lankan chronicles, Chinese pilgrims and the nineteenth‐century hierarchy of texts in the construction of early Buddhist geography

Journal of Religious History, EarlyView.
This article examines how nineteenth‐century scholars reconstructed the geography of early Buddhism through a historically contingent hierarchy of texts that privileged Chinese monastic travelogues over Sri Lankan Buddhist chronicles. Focusing on the relationship between the Pāli vaṃsa literature—especially the Dīpavaṃsa and Mahāvaṃsa—and Chinese ...
Bhadrajee Hewage
wiley   +1 more source

Linguistic diversity in machine learning training data: Content analysis of English and Finnish soundscape descriptions in audio captioning. [PDF]

PLoS One
Hekanaho L, Tuuri E, Surakka M, Hirvonen M.   +3 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Valorizing Erasure: Imperial Knowledge Production in Anglo‐American Coverage of Chad's ‘Toyota War’

The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT How does imperial knowledge production operate when Western media coverage of a Global South subject is predominantly admiring instead of hostile? This article addresses that question through critical discourse analysis of sixty‐three Anglo‐American news articles covering the Chad‐Libya conflict of the 1980s, the ‘Toyota War’.
Harmata Aboubakar
wiley   +1 more source

Cognitive linguistics approach to the representation of knowledge contents in college English textbooks. [PDF]

Front Psychol
Zhang L, Mo Z.
europepmc   +1 more source

Late Antique Allāh: Ancestral Arabian Religion and the Monotheistic Zeitgeist

Arabian Archaeology and Epigraphy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This essay addresses the ongoing scholarly tension between the monotheistic interpretations of late pre‐Islamic Arabian religion, pioneered by G. Hawting and P. Crone, and the traditional accounts of rampant Arabian polytheism found in later Islamic literary sources.
Ahmad Al‐Jallad, Hythem Sidky
wiley   +1 more source

Constructing the national image of "China" in press conference interpreting: a corpus-based critical metaphor analysis. [PDF]

Front Psychol
Zhang C.
europepmc   +1 more source