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La Dévolution Des Noms Et La Structure De La Famille: L'Exemple Poitevin, George Beech Oct 1996

La Dévolution Des Noms Et La Structure De La Famille: L'Exemple Poitevin, George Beech

George T. Beech

No abstract provided.


The Question Of 'Cultural Language' And Interdialectal Norm In 16th Century Slovakia: A Phonological Analysis Of 16th Century Slovak Administrative-Legal Texts, Mark Richard Lauersdorf Jan 1996

The Question Of 'Cultural Language' And Interdialectal Norm In 16th Century Slovakia: A Phonological Analysis Of 16th Century Slovak Administrative-Legal Texts, Mark Richard Lauersdorf

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There is not general agreement among scholars on the degree or type of standardization, or better, normalization, exhibited by Slovak texts before the 18th-19th century codifying efforts of Anton Bernolák, Ľudovít Štúr and their followers. Indeed, disagreement on this issue is greater the earlier the time period under consideration. The present study focuses on the 16th century and the degree and type of standardization/normalization exhibited in a corpus of 152 administrative-legal texts (judicial and municipal records, official correspondence, account books, etc.) from all four major Slovak dialect regions – Moravian, West, Central and East Slovak. The author examines the textual …


Trees Of History In Systematics And Philology, Robert O’Hara Dec 1995

Trees Of History In Systematics And Philology, Robert O’Hara

Robert J. O’Hara

«The Natural System» is the name given to the underlying arrangement present in the diversity of life. Unlike a classification, which is made up of classes and members, a system or arrangement is an integrated whole made up of connected parts. In the pre-evolutionary period a variety of forms were proposed for the Natural System, including maps, circles, stars, and abstract multidimensional objects. The trees sketched by Darwin in the 1830s should probably be considered the first genuine evolutionary diagrams of the Natural System—the first genuine evolutionary trees. Darwin refined his image of the Natural System in the well-known evolutionary …


The History And Function Of The Yi-/Bi Alternation In Athapaskan, Chad Thompson Dec 1995

The History And Function Of The Yi-/Bi Alternation In Athapaskan, Chad Thompson

Chad L Thompson Ph.D.

No abstract provided.


Functional Categories And Object-Verb Agreement In Spanish., Joyce Bruhn De Garavito Dec 1995

Functional Categories And Object-Verb Agreement In Spanish., Joyce Bruhn De Garavito

Joyce Bruhn de Garavito

No abstract provided.


Verb Movement And Clitic Placement In French And Spanish As A Second Language., Joyce Bruhn De Garavito, S.A. Montrul Dec 1995

Verb Movement And Clitic Placement In French And Spanish As A Second Language., Joyce Bruhn De Garavito, S.A. Montrul

Joyce Bruhn de Garavito

No abstract provided.


The Nadene Middle Voice: An Impersonal Source Of The D-Element, Chad Thompson Dec 1995

The Nadene Middle Voice: An Impersonal Source Of The D-Element, Chad Thompson

Chad L Thompson Ph.D.

No abstract provided.