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TRAPPED BETWEEN CASE AND NUMBER. A TYPOLOGY OF ADNUMERATIVE FORMS†
In this paper, I study the nature of adnumerative or numerative forms; i.e. morphologically dedicated inflectional forms that can only be used with numerals or quantifiers (e.g. Russian dva časá ‘two o'clock’ vs. [gen sg] čása). Adnumeratives are cross‐linguistically very rare; yet they raise some interesting theoretical discussions. This work is based
Kristian Roncero
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‘Tearing Off the Bonds’: Suffrage Visual Culture in Australia, New Zealand and the USA, 1890–1920
Abstract This article will examine how transpacific suffrage visual culture imagined and reimagined an artistic tradition centred around the figure of the bound woman. White suffragists and anti‐suffragists in Australia, New Zealand and the United States used the iconography of bonds, chains and whips to mediate the possibility of women’s ...
Ana Stevenson
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Interacciones verbales entre los cashinahuas
Cashinahua kinship is renowned for its Kariera-like alternate generation system. What can then be the novel aspect of its study? A linguistic approach reveals several levels and nuances in verbal attitudes among the speakers (modes of address, greetings,
Eliane Camargo, Alberto Roque Toribio
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Abstract Silence can be a communicative act. Tanesini (2018) demonstrates how “eloquent” silences can virtuously indicate resistance and dissent; in this paper, I outline one way silence can also be used viciously to cause discursive harm, specifically by slurring victims. By distinguishing between eloquent and “signaling” silences (two kinds of what I
A. G. Holdier
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Abstract Background Dietetics, as an autonomous profession guided by evidence‐based practice, requires a dynamic and adaptable workforce to meet evolving challenges in healthcare, public health nutrition and epidemiological research. This study aimed to explore the opportunities presented by the transition to online education of preparing dietetic ...
Anne Griffin
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L’évolution des termes d’adresse à contenu social en ancien et en moyen français
Based on a corpus of texts in Old and Middle French, this research examines the behavior of vocative nominal groups in direct speech. After presenting an analysis of the currently available descriptions of vocative and appellative, we present the concept
Sabine Lehmann
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“yellow crowfoot in the pond,/not lotus, not lily”: Mapping the River, Mapping Voices [PDF]
This paper examines the prosody of Chin’s eponymous poem, The Phoenix Gone, The Terrace Empty, through an eco-critical lens. While it does not dismiss the hybrid cultural influences of the poem, it focuses on the ways the non-human agents, or the ...
Rader, Pamela J.
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The cross‐linguistic uses of proper names
Abstract A distinctive and widely recognized feature of proper names is that, unlike other words, names can be used across languages without modification. Yet, this feature of names—the prevalence and acceptability of their ‘cross‐linguistic’ uses—has been mostly overlooked within philosophy.
Nikhil Mahant
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Textual Function in the Jakarta Post Editorials [PDF]
This research deals with Theme and Rheme in Editorials texts of The Jakarta Post newspaper. The aims are to find out the optional element dominates the structure of theme in the editorials of The Jakarta Post newspaper and to describe where the optional ...
Naibaho, N. S. (Novita) +1 more
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Constituent structure of a Tagalog text [PDF]
This paper is an inductive look at the constituents found in a randomly selected Tagalog text, Bob Ong’s Alamat ng Gubat (Makati City, MM: Visual Print Enterprises, 2004). The analysis is based on the full text, but we will only be able to go through the
LaPolla, Randy J.
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