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Showing 1 to 20 of 93 for “"Catalan"”.
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Word Order in Old Catalan
… dels Fets del Rey en Jacme, a 13th century Catalan chronicle widely known as El Llibre dels Fets. By exploring the position of the verb, the subject and the information structure of the Old Catalan of this text, it is concluded that Old Catalan was an SVO language that shared several …
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Which Way for Catalan and Galician?
… and alive in the language attitudes of the Catalan and Galician people. The notion that a language is a unifying symbol of regional identity around which Catalonia and Galicia can rally to determine their own futures and resist the Spanish hegemon is valid. Nationalistic fervor and a sense …
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Which Way for Catalan and Galician?
… and alive in the language attitudes of the Catalan and Galician people. The notion that a language is a unifying symbol of regional identity around which Catalonia and Galicia can rally to determine their own futures and resist the Spanish hegemon is valid. Nationalistic fervor and a sense …
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Catalan phonology and the phonological cycle.
Thesis. 1976. Ph.D.--Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Foreign Literatures and Linguistics.
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Combinatorial enumeration of weighted Catalan numbers
… devoted to the divisibility property of weighted Catalan and Motzkin numbers and its applications. In Chapter 1, the definitions and properties of weighted Catalan and Motzkin numbers are introduced. Chapter 2 studies Wilf conjecture on the complementary Bell number, the alternating sum of the …
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Harmony in Discord: An Analysis of Catalan Folk Song
… of the society that creates it. In the Catalan case it reflects not only Catalan society but also those of Valencia and the Balearic Islands, for whom forms of the Catalan language are native. This present thesis investigates the corpus of folk song in Catalan and puts it into the …
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Culture versus Commerce: New Strategies for the Internationalization of Catalan Cinema
This thesis analyses the potential of Catalan cinema to become a national cinema as the current political climate, with a significant part of the population claiming a Catalan state, indicates the relevance of this examination. Catalan cinema is currently considered a regional cinema, however …
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A constraint-based analysis of syllabification in Spanish, Catalan, and Galician
… in general and specifically in Spanish, Catalan and Galician. It is my claim that syllabification data in Spanish, Catalan, and Galician offer support for a constraint-based model of phonology and that such a model provides insights into syllabification processes not available under other …
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Catalan vaulting in advanced material : new approaches to contemporary compressive form
… of structural spans in masonry. The Catalan masonry technique, also referred to as timbrel or Guastavino vaulting, allows thin structural spans to be built without the use of supporting formwork. Once widely used in American construction, the technique is now little-known. This thesis …
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Social dynamics of Catalan-Spanish contact in the evolution of Catalonian Spanish
… in the process of linguistic influence from Catalan, and (2) to empirically uncover the sociolinguistic profile of each of [ɫ] and [z] in the respective social and linguistic ecologies of the Barcelonan bilingual community. Grounded in a speaker-based theory of language change (cf. Weinreich, …
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On the notion of theme vowel : a new approach to Catalan verbal morphology
Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Linguistics and Philosophy, 1999.
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Translation Policies of Minoritised Languages through Organised Activism: a Comparative Study of Catalan and Welsh
… organisations that advocate for the rights of Catalan and Welsh speakers. This thesis includes a cross-sectorial analysis of translation management, practices, and ideologies in both Wales and Catalonia, combining policy analysis of international, supranational, and national legislation with an …
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Rhizomes, Parasites, Folds and Trees: Systems of Thought in Medieval French and Catalan Literary Texts
… of thirteenth- and fourteenth-century French and Catalan literary texts and their manuscript witnesses. Each of the three chapters explores a separate corpus of texts, using two of four interrelated network theories: Michel Serres’ notion of parasites and hosts as the basic interconnecting units …
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Mapping the works of Manuel de Pedrolo in relation to the post-civil war Catalan landscape
… de Pedrolo stands as one of the most prolific Catalan writers in the twentieth century. Furthermore, he is a figure unquestionably associated with Catalan identity and the region’s struggle for self-determination. His corpus comprises over one hundred and twenty titles – poetry, drama, short …
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Monsters at the End of Time: Gog and Magog and Ethnic Difference in the Catalan Atlas (1375)
… of these anti-Semitic depictions. However, the Catalan Atlas (1375), which depicts Gog and Magog as Tartars, problematizes this characterization. Created by Abraham Cresques, a Jewish cartographer, for Pedro IV of Aragon, I argue that the Atlas modifies traditional Christian apocalyptic …
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Tension, transgressions, and (contested) coexistence: Linguistic landscapes of Barcelona
The contentious relationship between Catalan and Spanish within the contemporary linguistic ecology of Barcelona, Spain, simultaneously reflects modern ideologies of linguistic resistance (Catalan nationalism) as well as linguistic regimes of the past (Spanish hegemony). In this paper, I will argue …
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The effects of lexical stress, intonational pitch accent, and speech rate on vowel quality in Catalan and Spanish
… pitch accent on vowel production in Spanish and Catalan. Although closely related, these languages differ importantly in their phonology. The five Spanish vowels can appear in stressed and unstressed syllables. In Central Catalan, however, seven stressed vowels alternate with only three …
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