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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"Diachronic linguistics"”.
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Soft Constraints on Mapping Form to Meaning in Lexical Acquisition
Research in diachronic Linguistics has shown that homonyms are often avoided in language. This study proposes that this trend is a result of general cognitive principles at work during language acquisition. In support of this proposition, the first two experiments present findings demonstrating …
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"Sometime There is Breath": Gertrude Stein's Tender Buttons as Maternal Lexicon
… Tender Buttons instead as a portent of diachronic linguistics, I hope to extend the analysis of the collection beyond the feminist position that increasingly dominates Stein scholarship. Positing the collection as an attempt toward the nullification of gendered writing, I suggest the …
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Institutional Development, Police Practice and Gender Politics in the Colombian National Police
… multiple disciplinary traditions (history, linguistics, sociology, criminology) and employs various methodologies (historiography, discourse analysis, document analysis, diachronic linguistics, amongst others). As well as an introduction, literature review and overviews of the thesis’s …
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Die ironie in enkele gedigte in Tristia van N P van Wyk Louw
… F de Saussure's distinction of synchronic and diachronic linguistics. Some definitions of irony are evaluated. No alternative definition is provided but some assumptions are put forward on the function of irony as a form of implication. Chapter 4 comprises in-depth text analyses of selected …