ENGLISH ABSTRACT Due to their special properties, relational adjectives (in particular when serving as classifying modifiers) have been the subject of detailed investigations in many languages, including Russian, French, Spanish, Swedish, Dutch and German, but they are not mentioned in Danish reference grammars. The main goal of this article is to…[Read more]

“It’s time to…declare our opposition to this private theft of public culture,” wrote computer programmer and internet activist Aaron Swartz in his “Guerilla Open Access Manifesto” (2008). Swartz was criticizing the privatization of scholarship already in the public domain, and seeking ways to make this work accessible to everyone. This essay exami…[Read more]

On structural similarities in Azeri of Iran and Gagauz due to contact with Indo-Iranan languages

On an isogloss of the Eastern Turkish dialects

On Armenian loanwords in the Turkish dialects of Erzurum

Article on several syntactic characteristics of Gagauz complex sentences, which developed under the influence of the dominant Slavic languages.

Article on the influence of the Slavic languages Bulgarian and Russian on Gagauz, a Turkish dialect spoken in the Republic of Moldova, the Ukraine and Bulgaria.

Due to language-contact phenomena Gagauz shows significant deviations from Turkic patterns, most obvious on the syntactic level. In what follows, I will deal with a set of modal constructions expressing volition, necessity, ability and possibility. Expressions for volition and necessity are formed in Gagauz analytically using the same lexical and…[Read more]

This article aims to describe some types of adverbial clauses in the dialects of Erzurum.
For this purpose I have investigated published and unpublished material collected in the
region between 1966 and 1980. I concentrated on converb forms and clause patterns that
are unusual from the viewpoint of Standard Turkish. The converb forms are either…[Read more]

An examination of the debate over the Theory of Names between Origen and Celsus in Origen’s Contra Celsum and its implications for late antique ritual worship.

Grammaticalization of directional particle lái in Chinese.

In this paper, we present arguments for an analysis of indicating verbs, building on Liddell (2000), as a typologically unique, unimodal fusion of signs and pointing gestures used for reference tracking. This contrasts with many formalist analyses that assume that directionality in indicating verbs constitutes an agreement marking system. While…[Read more]

This study investigates the distribution of resumptive pronouns in subject-headed relative clauses in Colonial Valley Zapotec..

Analizamos en este artículo las maneras en que la escritura experimental de Beckett subvierte el uso estándar de la persona pronominal, transformando al pronombre de primera persona y sus avatares en el protagonista de una línea argumental. Se expone así de modo gráfico cómo el valor estándar de un elemento lingüístico a nivel de sistema gramatic…[Read more]

modo, a partir de outra voz ficcional.
Os contos que aqui se apresentam em forma de entradas de diário
são resultados de um trabalho didático para o ensino de Literatura
realizado com alunos dos 2os anos do Ensino Médio Integrado do
IFPE Campus Garanhuns no ano de 2016 como parte do componente
curricular Lı́ngua Portuguesa II com ênfa…[Read more]

Notes on the book Hermeneutics: Interpretation Theory in Schleiermacher, Dilthey, Heidegger, and Gadamer—a book by Richard E. Palmer (Evanston: Nortwestern UP, 1969). Part I: On the Definition, Scope, and Significance of Hermeneutics; Part II: Four Major Theorists (Schleiermacher, Dilthey, Heidegger and Gadamer); Part III: A Hermeneutical M…[Read more]

‘Narrative Theory’ is an online introduction to classical structuralist narratological analysis. The sixth section deals with the structural positioning of narrators with respect to the narrative act and the fictional world(s) contained by the narrative. Contents: 1. Author, narrator, and narrative person; 2. Kinds of narrative positions; 3.…[Read more]

Este livro foi elaborado para atender às necessidades dos profissionais em formação de diversas
áreas em relação à leitura em Língua Inglesa.
O objetivo principal deste livro é desenvolver no aluno as habilidades de leitura e compreensão
textual necessárias à formação e à prática profissionais. O livro foi pensado com base em uma
disciplina…[Read more]

Os diálogos com as poesias escolhidas surgiram de uma
vontade de responder, com uma dose de humor e sem
perder o caráter reflexivo, aos diversos temas tratados
em outros tempos. Os poemas selecionados, ainda que
universais, foram produzidos em épocas diferentes e o
que fizemos foi atualizá-los ao nosso tempo.
Estritamente: um exercício de r…[Read more]

This review of Chapter 8, “Connection at Ewiiaapaayp Mountain: Indigenous Internet Infrastructure” by Christian Sandvig is part of “crowd-sourced book review” project organized by Humanities, Arts, Science Technology Advanced Collaboratory (HASTAC).