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Loanwords and native words in Old and Middle Icelandic: a study in the history and dynamics of the Icelandic medieval lexicon, from the twelfth century to 1550 Anyone familiar with the Modern Icelandic language will…
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Arabic dislocation Since the early years of generative grammar (Chomsky 1977, inter alia), the phenomenology of dislocation has proved to be a fertile area of research. This, however, has not been the case for Modern…
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Humanities Data Analysis: Case Studies With Python The use of quantitative methods in the humanities and related social sciences has increased considerably in recent years, allowing researchers to discover patterns in a vast range of…
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Superparticles: a microsemantic theory, typology, and history of logical atoms This book is all about the captivating ability that the human language has to express intricately logical (mathematical) meanings using tiny (microsemantic) morphemes as utilities.…
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Germany from the outside: rethinking German cultural history in an age of displacement The nation-state is a European invention of the 18th and 19th centuries. In the case of the German nation in particular, this…
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Global debates in the digital humanities Often conceived of as an all-inclusive “big tent,” digital humanities has in fact been troubled by a lack of perspectives beyond Westernized and Anglophone contexts and assumptions. This latest…
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Negation, expectation and ideology in written texts: a textual and communicative perspective During an election campaign in 2008, Ken Livingstone said to a newspaper reporter “this election is not a joke”. By doing so, he…
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Germanic myths in the audiovisual culture Germanic mythology is currently experiencing a significant boom in audiovisual media, especially among younger audiences. Heroes such as Thor, Odin and Siegfried populate television and comic series, films, and…
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Talk and textual production in medieval England People in medieval England talked, and yet we seldom talk or write about their talk. People conversed not within literary texts, but in the world in which those…
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Handlung als Wirkung: Perlokutionen und perlokutionäre Interaktion in der russischen Sprach- und Kommunikationsgeschichte Kommunikation hat Wirkungen: Sie kann unter anderem erfreuen, beleidigen, überzeugen oder abschrecken. Sprechhandlungen mit intendierter Wirkung werden als Perlokutionen bezeichnet. Sie sind…