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The Verbal Categories in Colloquial Literary French
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Dawn dweud: A study of colloquial and idiomatic welsh
… but not exhaustive, study of the vagaries of colloquial and idiomatic Welsh. It includes proverbs, idioms, slang, set-phrases, dialect forms, varieties of pronunciation and, with many common words, colloquial varieties of meaning. In addition, the grammatical variations of colloquial and …
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Topicalisation of the noun phrase in colloquial Cairene Arabic
… the "topicalisation" of the Noun Phrase in Colloquial Cairene Arabic (CCA). The Approach is outlined by the Extended Standard Theory TG model, but relevant Functionalist views have been considered to account for Topic-comment alignment in the dialect. Part I, therefore, lays the necessary …
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Mutation and the syntactic structure of modern colloquial Welsh
… language: I will concentrate on the syntax of Colloquial rather than Literary Welsh. It transpires that mutation phenomena can frequently be cited as evidence for or against certain syntactic analyses. In chapter 1 I present a critical survey of previous treatments of mutation, and show that …
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Verbal Complementation in Egyptian Colloquial Arabic : An LFG account
… some verbal complementation patterns in Egyptian Colloquial Arabic (ECA), namely the Auxiliary /kaan/, Causative /xalla/, phasal verbs and modals. Each verb is represented by a set of sentences extracted from a 5 million word corpus of ECA online texts that was built for the purpose of the current …
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"Falling upon deaf ears" : the case of colloquial architecture
… This thesis proposes this manifestation as "colloquial" in nature and will aim at recovering it. A reconstruction of the society's cultural history - institutional intervention: physical as in architecture and urban planning; social as in mass media and social programs- of the Fifties and …
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An experimental study of consonant gemination in Iraqi colloquial Arabic
… study of the single/geminate contrasts in Iraqi Colloquial Arabic (I. C. Arabic).It falls into two major parts. Part One is the theoretical part of this study. It comprises two Chapters. Chapter One explains the linguistic significance of gemination in Arabic and sheds some light on the …
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Popularizing Egyptian Nationalism: Colloquial Culture and Media Capitalism, 1870-1919
… the literature is the almost complete neglect of colloquial Egyptian sources. Indeed, I would contend that writing a history of modern Egypt without taking into account colloquial Egyptian sources is, by default, a top-down history and will at best provide only a partial understanding of Egyptian …
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A linguistic study of forms of address in Kuwaiti colloquial Arabic
… framework of forms of address in Kuwaiti colloquial Arabic. The thesis consists of four main parts and three appendixes. Part One is devoted to an account of the social and linguistic background, methods of data collection, followed by a chapter on theoretical and methodological …
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Parataxis in Latin colloquial and poetic texts : a treebank-based analysis
Paratactic is a label applied to texts which are more informal and spontaneous in their construction. The conventional cause of this difference is that there is a natural preference for parataxis in spoken Latin which is adopted in registers similar to the spoken language in their context and …
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Terms of Status in Colloquial Cairene Arabic: A Study in Educational Linguistics
The study presented here is framed within a research area of code-switching and code-mixing approach advocated by B. Kachru.
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USING SINGAPORE COLLOQUIAL ENGLISH AS A PEDAGOGICAL MEASURE IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE CLASSROOM
… is a correlation between features of Singapore Colloquial English (SCE), students' speech and their writing. It also sets out to experiment whether the teaching of Standard English (Std E) features using SCE features (which is a more familiar register of the English Language (EL) for the …
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DOS ETAPAS EN LA POESIA DE MARIO BENEDETTI. (SPANISH TEXT) (URUGUAY)
… and his poetry has led to the use of a colloquial style in Latin America, to depict a more accurate vision of the reality of the common man. A large group of important Latin American poets began to create poetry which uses the colloquial language with the intention of bringing together …
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Contextualising critical design: towards a taxonomy of critical practice in product design
… design practice. The research challenges the colloquial understanding of ‘critical design.’ It problamatises, defines and reassesses the concept of ‘critical design’ situating it among other forms of critical design practice.
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Variasies in die verskrifteliking van Kaapse Afrikaans: ’n sosiolinguistiese ondersoek
… Afrikaans varieties are Standard Afrikaans and Colloquial Afrikaans. The former variety was initially considered as the only acceptable form for written Afrikaans; while the latter was mainly known as a spoken variety. This view began to change when Adam Small began to introduce Kaaps (as a form …
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Chemical Castration: How a Medical Therapy Became Punishment and the Bioethical Imperative to Return to a Rehabilitative Model for Sex Offenders
Chemical castration is a colloquial term used to refer to the treatment of certain sex offenders with antiandrogenic drugs in order to reduce recidivism. The use of this treatment began in the United States in 1966, at which time the nation favored a rehabilitative approach to criminal justice. In …
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The far away home
… also closely linked by their realistic style, colloquial voice, and use of outside references such as fairy tales and song lyrics. While each piece can stand on its own, these stories with complimentary themes and styles can be understood as a whole.
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