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Cooke, Madeleine. Co-operative arrangements for the management of stock in languages other than English: Interim report of a review commissioned by the Library and Information Co-operation Council. Leicestershire Libraries andInformation Service, 1991.

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Moureau, Magdeleine. Dictionnaire du pétrole et autres sources d'énergie: Anglais-français, français-anglais = Comprehensive dictionary of petroleum and other energy sources : English-French, French-English. 4th ed. Technip, 2008.

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Cooke, Madeleine. Co-operative arrangements for the management of stock in languages other than English: The report of a review commissioned by the Library and Information Co-operation Council in 1991. Leicestershire County Council, Libraries and Information Service, 1991.

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Cooke, Madeleine. Co-operative arrangements for the management of stock in languages other than English: The report of a review commissioned by the Library and Information Co-operation Council in 1991. Leicestershire Libraries and Information Service, 1991.

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Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (36th 2006 New Brunswick, N.J.). Romance linguistics 2006: Selected papers from the 36th Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL), New Brunswick, March 31-April 2, 2006. John Benjamins, 2007.

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Brown, Sue. Le français, c'est facile!: Strategies and resources for special needs. John Murray, 1995.

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Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages. New perspectives on Romance linguistics: Morphology, syntax, semantics, and pragmatics : selected papers from the 35th Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL), Austin, Texas, February 2005. John Benjamins, 2006.

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1964-, Carruthers Janice, and Temple R. A. M, eds. Problems and perspectives: Studies in the modern French language. Longman, 2001.

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Moneglia, Massimo, and Alessandro Panunzi, eds. Bootstrapping Information from Corpora in a Cross-Linguistic Perspective. Firenze University Press, 2010. http://dx.doi.org/10.36253/978-88-8453-529-0.

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The achievements of Romance language corpus-driven studies deserve more attention from the scientific community at the world level for both their quantity and quality. This book contains papers given at the 3rd International LABLITA Workshop in Corpus Linguistics (Italian Department, University of Florence, June 4th-5th 2008 ), and it aims at integrating new ideas and results derived from Romance language corpora in the framework of the overall achievements of Corpus Linguistics. The volume contains the contribution of a leading scholar of Corpus Linguistics (Douglas Biber), and a set of artic

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Cresti, Emanuela, and Iørn Korzen, eds. Language, Cognition and Identity. Extensions of the endocentric/exocentric language typology. Firenze University Press, 2010. http://dx.doi.org/10.36253/978-88-6453-226-4.

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An endocentric language is a language whose verbs are lexically precise and concrete whereas its nouns are abstract and vague. An exocentric language has lexically precise and concrete nouns and abstract verbs. The Germanic languages prove to be endocentric and the Romance languages exocentric. The lexical differences entail differences at other levels as well, linguistic as well as extralinguistic. This multilingual volume contains a selection of papers presented at the two day Italian-Danish linguistic seminar Lingua, cognizione e identità: estensioni della tipologia delle lingue endo- ed es

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Turull i Crexells, Isabel. Carles Riba i la llengua literària durant el franquisme. Edizioni Ca' Foscari, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.30687/978-88-6969-309-0.

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Carles Riba, one of the most relevant personalities in Catalan letters, not only as a poet but also as a linguist, has been considered a difficult writer. This book aims to examine how his theoretical preparation and his ideas in linguistics influenced his work in the particular case of some early stories in which he tries “uns utilíssims exercicis de simplicitat”. Carles Riba did not present his linguistic theories in a single text in a complete and articulated way but we can evaluate them in various papers he wrote and published up until his death in 1959. The first part of this work, after

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Haar, Alisa, and Dirk Schoenaers. Francophone Literature in the Low Countries (1200-1600). Amsterdam University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.5117/9789463721080.

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In late medieval and early modern times, books, as well as the people who produced and read (or listened to) them, moved between regions, social circles, and languages with relative ease. Yet, in the multilingual Low Countries, francophone literature was both internationally mobile and firmly rooted in local soil. The five contributions collected in this volume demonstrate that while in general issues of 'otherness' were resolved without difficulty, at other times (linguistic) differences were perceived as a heartfelt reality. Texts and books in French, Latin, and Dutch were as interrelated an

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Tromp, Coyan. Wicked Philosophy. Amsterdam University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.5117/9789462988774.

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Wicked Philosophy. Philosophy of Science and Vision Development for Complex Problems provides an overview of the philosophy of the natural sciences, the social sciences and the humanities, and explores how insights from these three domains can be integrated to help find solutions for the complex, ‘wicked’ problems we are currently facing. The core of a new science-based vision is complexity thinking, offering a meta-position for navigating alternative paradigms and making informed choices of resources for projects involving complex problems. The book also brings design thinking into problem-so

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Rivett, Sarah. Imperial Millennialism and the Battle for American Indian Souls. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190492564.003.0005.

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Indigenous words offered a rich resource for rescripting national and colonial narratives in a time of intensified imperial conflict. Millennial zeal pitted Jesuit and Protestant forces against each other with renewed fervor during a purportedly secular period of diplomacy from the Glorious Revolution (1688) to the Treaty of Utrecht (1713), even as developments in natural history undermined previously accepted truths of Mosaic history. The British sought national uniformity by imposing English-language instruction on Indian proselytes, while the French continued to augment their own linguistic

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Elston, Tony, and Nicky Johns. Parlons-en! (Skills & Resources Series). Collins Educational, 1990.

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Romance languages and linguistic theory 2002: Selected papers from "Going Romance," Groningen, 28-30 November 2002. John Benjamins, 2000.

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Collins, John. Linguistic Pragmatism and Weather Reporting. Oxford University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198851134.001.0001.

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Linguistic pragmatism claims that what we literally say goes characteristically beyond what the linguistic properties themselves mandate. In this book, John Collins provides a novel defence of this doctrine, arguing that linguistic meaning alone fails to fix truth conditions. While this position is supported by a range of theorists, Collins shows that it naturally follows from a syntactic thesis concerning the relative sparseness of what language alone can provide to semantic interpretation. Language–and by extension meaning–provides constraints upon what a speaker can literally say, but does

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(Gainesville, Florida) Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages 2000, Joaquim Camps, and Caroline R. Wiltshire. Romance Phonology and Variation: Selected Papers from 30th Linguistics Symposium on Romance Languages, Gainesville, Florida, February 2000 (Amsterdam ... IV: Current Issues in Linguistic Theory). John Benjamins Publishing Co, 2002.

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Jenset, Gard B., and Barbara McGillivray. (Re)using resources for historical languages. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198718178.003.0005.

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Chapter 5 covers the topic of language resources in historical linguistics. It explains the relationship between historical corpora and language resources in a data-driven framework, and refers to valency lexicons as an example. The chapter also points to resources external to the linguistics community, and shows how these can enrich the research process in historical linguistics. We explain the basic concepts of linked data, and argue for a more extensive linking of linguistic resources with other types of resources, including gazetteers and prosopographical data. We provide a worked example

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Problems and Perspectives: Studies in the Modern French Language. Taylor & Francis Group, 2016.

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Problems and Perspectives: Studies in the Modern French Language. Routledge, 2014.

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Carruthers, Janice, Wendy Ayres-Bennett, and Rosalind Temple. Problems and Perspectives: Studies in the Modern French Language. Taylor & Francis Group, 2014.

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Carruthers, Janice, Wendy Ayres-Bennett, and Rosalind Temple. Problems and Perspectives: Studies in the Modern French Language. Taylor & Francis Group, 2014.

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Carruthers, Janice, Rosalind A. M. Temple, and Wendy Ayres-Bennett. Problems and Perspectives: Studies in the Modern French Language (Longman Linguistics Library). Longman Publishing Group, 2000.

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Desan, Philippe. Bibliographic and Research Resources on Montaigne. Edited by Philippe Desan. Oxford University Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190215330.013.46.

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The Essays have generated an entire modern library, equal in size to their author’s original library. In this concluding article, bibliographic and research tools are reviewed. These resources will help the reader to further pursue his or her own personal investigations of Montaigne’s Essays in a manner that the author himself would have wished for. To this end, a select bibliography of 120 titles proposes further readings on different topics and themes. Reasoned and analytical bibliographies on Montaigne are also presented with a list of French editions of the Essays and other writings by Mon

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Bromhead, Helen. The semantics of standing-water places in English, French, and Pitjantjatjara/Yankunytjatjara. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198736721.003.0007.

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This chapter examines the semantics of selected words for standing-water places in English, French, and the Australian Aboriginal language Pitjantjatjara/Yankunytjatjara. It uses standing-water places as a case study to argue that languages and cultures categorize the geographic environment in diverse ways, influenced by both geography and a culture’s way of life. The Natural Semantic Metalanguage (NSM) technique of linguistic analysis is used to present semantic explications of the nouns. Furthermore, the chapter investigates the semantic nature of nouns for kinds of places, and shows how to

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Farriss, Nancy. Continuity and Convergence. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190884109.003.0012.

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Continuities in written doctrinal language contrast with semantic shifts within the indigenous speech community, revealed through petitions, testaments, trial testimony, and other records, as well as modern oral evidence. As the Mesoamerican cultural matrix has itself been modified by Christian practice and visual symbols, new associations have become attached to traditional linguistic resources. At the same time the Indians have reformulated and reinterpreted the Christian message along lines consonant with traditional cosmology and moral theology. Thus cultural gaps, and along with them ling

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Crespo Miguel, Mario. Automatic corpus-based translation of a spanish framenet medical glossary. 2020th ed. Editorial Universidad de Sevilla, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.12795/9788447230051.

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Computational linguistics is the scientific study of language from a computational perspective. It aims is to provide computational models of natural language processing (NLP) and incorporate them into practical applications such as speech synthesis, speech recognition, automatic translation and many others where automatic processing of language is required. The use of good linguistic resources is crucial for the development of computational linguistics systems. Real world applications need resources which systematize the way linguistic information is structured in a certain language. There is

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Cochrane, Ethan E. Ancient Fiji. Edited by Ethan E. Cochrane and Terry L. Hunt. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199925070.013.016.

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Like the other archipelagos of Remote Oceania, Fiji was colonized by Lapita voyagers approximately 1000 b.c. Over the subsequent three millennia, Fijian populations underwent considerable change, resulting in the unique cultural, biological, and linguistic characteristics that differentiate Fiji from populations in both Polynesia to the east and Melanesia to the west. This essay summarizes the Lapita archaeology of the archipelago and later culture history including change in ceramic horizons, the spatial scale of interaction within the archipelago, and potential migrations into Fiji from othe

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Hydén, Lars-Christer. Embodied Memories. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199391578.003.0006.

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For persons with dementia, engaging in joint activities like storytelling is fraught with challenges related to the fact that fewer linguistic and cognitive resources are available, compared with before the disease. Of particular importance are challenges concerning finding words and names, constructing utterances and stories, as well as remembering events and stories—and the combined effect of these. Having fewer resources available makes it difficult to tell stories in conversations, to listen to others’ storytelling, or to identify and grab a turn in a conversation to put in a word. One alt

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Mikheev, Andrei. Text Segmentation. Edited by Ruslan Mitkov. Oxford University Press, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199276349.013.0010.

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This article discusses electronic text as essentially just a sequence of characters. Text needs to be segmented at least into linguistic units such as words, punctuation, numbers, alphanumerics, etc. This process is called tokenization. The article mentions that most natural language processing techniques require text to be segmented into sentences as well. It briefly reviews some evaluation metrics and standard resources commonly used for text segmentation tasks. This article presents substantial challenges for computational analysis since tokens are directly attached to each other using pict

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Green, Mitchell. Showing, Expressing, and Figuratively Meaning. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198791492.003.0009.

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We first correct some errors in Lepore and Stone’s discussion of speaker meaning and its relation to linguistic meaning. With a proper understanding of those notions and their relation, we may then motivate a liberalization of speaker meaning that includes overtly showing one’s psychological state. I then distinguish this notion from that of expression, which, although communicative, is less cognitively demanding than speaker meaning since it need not be overt. This perspective in turn enables us to address Lepore and Stone’s broadly Davidsonian view of figurative language, which rightly empha

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Campbell, Eric W. Commands in Zenzontepec Chatino (Otomanguean). Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198803225.003.0005.

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This chapter presents Zenzontepec Chatino (Otomanguean, Zapotecan) data from naturally occurring discourse and describes the linguistic resources that speakers draw from to express a wide range of command types. Canonical imperatives, addressee-directed commands of basic force, are morphologically complex and display many forms for one category, determined by the inflectional class of the verb. In contrast, all non-canonical directives, those targeting first or third persons or the negative second person directives, are formally simple, all being expressed with Potential Mood inflection (one c

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Aikhenvald, Alexandra Y. ‘Me’, ‘us’, and ‘others’. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198786658.003.0002.

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The Arawak language family is the largest in South America in terms of its geographical spread, with over forty extant languages. Arawak languages are spoken in at least ten locations north of the Amazon, and in at least ten south of it, and are structurally diverse. Across the family, the expression of first person is relatively consistent. This chapter starts with an overview of its marking and its meanings, with special focus on the emergence of inclusive/exclusive forms through language-internal resources and contact-induced change, followed by a case study of the means involved in the exp

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Saugera, Valérie. Conclusion. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780190625542.003.0007.

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The snapshot of the period of linguistic contact revealed in this study expands the definition of an Anglicism, for these Anglicisms, reanalyzed, take on a myriad of French characteristics, which accounts for the title, Remade in France. It is clear from the findings that the case of French Anglicisms is one of complexification: they require the creative application of complex linguistic rules and they continuously change, taking on novel characteristics. This concluding chapter underscores the capacity of global English to augment the lexicon of French (and other European languages) abundantl

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Bursztyn, Alberto M., and Carol Korn-Bursztyn, eds. Immigrant Children and Youth. ABC-CLIO,LCC, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9798400668586.

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Immigrants now comprise one-fourth of the 75 million children in the United States. The ability of today's immigrant children to become productively engaged adults hinges on their internal resources and mental health. This book ascertains their psychological challenges and their often misunderstood needs. This book is intended to inform both the general public and professionals working with immigrant children and adolescents about the importance and complexity of addressing their psychological issues and experiential challenges. The work covers the topic of immigrant children's mental health f

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Elsherif, Garda, and Joanna Sobesto, eds. Positionalities of Translation Studies. Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2025. https://doi.org/10.5040/9781350447905.

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This volume explores historical, cultural, linguistic, and anthropocentric influences on Translation Studies (TS). It brings together nuanced, individual, self-reflexive case studies and juxtaposes them in order to provoke discussion on the role of contemporary researchers in the discipline of TS. As well as reflecting on the historical and geographical dimensions of the situatedness of TS, the book builds on existing reflections on the local, political and linguistic positions of TS and examines the practical and methodological consequences of these discussions. By considering insights and pe

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Damrosch, David. Comparing the Literatures. Princeton University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.23943/princeton/9780691134994.001.0001.

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Literary studies are being transformed today by the expansive and disruptive forces of globalization. More works than ever circulate worldwide in English and in translation, and even national traditions are increasingly seen in transnational terms. To encompass this expanding literary universe, scholars and teachers need to expand their linguistic and cultural resources, rethink their methods and training, and reconceive the place of literature and criticism in the world. This book integrates comparative, postcolonial, and world-literary perspectives to offer a comprehensive overview of compar

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Chilton, Paul, and Monika Kopytowska, eds. Religion, Language, and the Human Mind. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190636647.001.0001.

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The book is divided into three Parts, all preceded by a full introductory chapter by the editors that discusses modern scientific approaches to religion and the application of modern linguistics, particularly cognitive linguistics and pragmatics. Part I surveys the development of modern studies of religious language and the diverse disciplinary strands that have emerged. Beginning with descriptive approaches to religious language, and the problem of describing religious concepts across languages, we introduce the turn to cognition in linguistics and also in theology. In new interdisciplinary r

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Crystal, David. Punch as a satirical usage guide. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198808206.003.0006.

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Punch magazine is a primary source for popular attitudes to language in the nineteenth century. This chapter presents the findings of a comprehensive search of the issues published in the Victorian era, between 1841 and 1901, to determine which linguistic topics provided the motivation for articles and cartoons. Particular attention is devoted to grammar (especially the ongoing influence of Lindley Murray) and pronunciation (especially the use and abuse of ‘letter H’), but a number of other themes also emerged, notably in relation to vocabulary, slang, orthography, and style. Languages other t

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Huang, Minyao, and Kasia M. Jaszczolt, eds. Expressing the Self. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198786658.001.0001.

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This book addresses different linguistic and philosophical aspects of referring to the self in a wide range of languages from different language families, including Amharic, English, French, Japanese, Korean, Mandarin, Newari (Sino-Tibetan), Polish, Tariana (Arawak), and Thai. In the domain of speaking about oneself, languages use a myriad of expressions that cut across grammatical and semantic categories, as well as a wide variety of constructions. Languages of Southeast and East Asia famously employ a great number of terms for first-person reference to signal honorification. The number and m

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Gillon, Carrie, and Nicole Rosen. Status of the category ‘mixed language’. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198795339.003.0007.

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This chapter highlights the fact Michif can be described straightforwardly within a generative framework. While it has some features that are the result of contact of two very different systems (two mass/count systems, two plurals, two gender systems), the language behaves nevertheless like other Algonquian languages. Michif has slotted much of the French vocabulary into Plains Cree grammar, with surprisingly few extra French features. Structurally, then, there is no need to posit an entirely new category of ‘mixed’ languages. This chapter also compares discussion on creoles by scholars such a

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Poplack, Shana. Borrowing in the speech community. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190256388.003.0004.

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This chapter reports on the first large-scale community-based study of borrowing as it transpires in the course of regular bilingual interactions. It represents an initial attempt to furnish an empirical basis for going beyond attested loanwords to characterize the borrowing process. Departing from distinctions among lone other-language items of varying frequencies, detailed structural analyses ascertain whether English-origin nonce words incorporated into French display different structural properties from established loanwords. Among the diagnostics examined are gender assignment, plural inf

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Loporcaro, Michele. Introduction. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199656547.003.0001.

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‘Gender’ is a manifold notion, at the crossroads between sociology, biology, and linguistics. The Introduction delimits the scope of linguistic (or grammatical) gender, which is an inherent morphosyntactic feature of nouns in about half of the world’s languages, introducing the definitions and notions which the present work utilizes to investigate gender. While focusing on grammar, this study has implications far beyond (e.g. for gender studies), and capitalizes on findings from other disciplines, such as cognitive neuropsychology. The chapter introduces the basic aim of the monograph, which i

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Carayon, Céline. Eloquence Embodied. University of North Carolina Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.5149/northcarolina/9781469652627.001.0001.

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Taking a fresh look at the first two centuries of French colonialism in the Americas, this book answers the long-standing question of how and how well Indigenous Americans and Europeans communicated with each other during colonial encounters. French explorers and colonists in the sixteenth century noticed that Indigenous peoples from Brazil to Canada used signs to communicate. The newcomers, in response, quickly embraced the nonverbal as a means to overcome cultural and language barriers throughout French America. Céline Carayon's close examination of French accounts, combined with her multidi

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Cassin, Barbara, ed. Dictionary of Untranslatables: A Philosophical Lexicon. Princeton University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acref/9780190681166.001.0001.

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This is an encyclopedic dictionary covering hundreds of important philosophical, literary, and political terms and concepts that defy easy--or any--translation from one language and culture to another. Drawn from more than a dozen languages, terms such as Dasein (German), pravda (Russian), saudade (Portuguese), and stato (Italian) are thoroughly examined in all their cross-linguistic and cross-cultural complexities. Spanning the classical, medieval, early modern, modern, and contemporary periods, these are terms that influence thinking across the humanities. The entries, written by more than 1

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Prévost, Stéphanie, and Bénédicte Deschamps, eds. Immigration and Exile Foreign-Language Press in the UK and in the US. Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9781350107076.

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Both Britain and the United States have had a long history of harbouring foreign political exiles, who often set up periodicals which significantly contributed to community-building and political debates. However, this varied and complex journalism has received little attention to date, particularly regarding the languages in which it was produced. This wide-ranging edited volume brings together for the first time interdisciplinary case studies of the exile foreign-language press (in French, German, Italian, Spanish, Russian, Flemish, Polish, among other languages) across Britain and the US, e

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Northcutt, Wayne. The Regions of France. Greenwood, 1997. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9798216006640.

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This is the one reference work that French teachers, students and librarians need for student assignments on the regions of France. A one-stop, easy-to-use reference guide organized by region, it offers in-depth and comprehensive coverage of the cultural life (including cuisine and recipes), customs, history, politics, and the economy of each region. There is no other reference work like it in either English or French. It makes the 22 regions of France accessible to students and others interested in modern and contemporary France, and helps them to understand the complexities of France today a

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Akbari, Suzanne Conklin, and James Simpson, eds. The Oxford Handbook of Chaucer. Oxford University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199582655.001.0001.

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This Handbook produces a stereoscopic view of Chaucer’s works. Juxtaposing chapters by Middle English scholars with chapters by specialists in other fields – Latin and vernacular literature, philosophy, theology, and history of science – it offers a new perspective that uses the works of Chaucer to look out upon the wider world. Clusters of essays that place Chaucer’s works in “the Mediterranean Frame” and “the European Frame” are bracketed by groupings on “Biography and Circumstances of Daily Life” and “The Chaucerian Afterlife,” while a cluster on “Christian Doctrine and Religious Heterodoxy

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Cruickshank, Ruth. Leftovers. Liverpool University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.3828/liverpool/9781789620672.001.0001.

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Eating and drinking are essential to survival. Yet for human animals, they are ambivalent, proliferating with ideological, historical and psychological leftovers. This study reveals and mobilizes the provisional meanings, repressed experiences and unacknowledged tensions bound up with representations of food, drink and their consumption. It creates a flexible critical framework by bringing together an unexploited convergence of post-war French thinkers who use – or whose thought is legible through – figures of eating and drinking, including Barthes, Bataille, Beauvoir, Bourdieu, Certeau, Cixou

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