El estudio científico de la estructura, la adquisición, el uso y la evolución del lenguaje humano, que incluye la fonética, la sintaxis, la semántica, la pragmática, la sociolingüística y la documentación de lenguas en peligro de extinción
4 artículosThis article analyzes the use of adjectives in constitutional scholarship, arguing that they can refer to a topic, a model of government, a mode of change, or a discourse. It explores how these different uses can overlap and create conceptual confusion, especially between models and discourses, leading to utopian or abusive applications of constitutional ideas.
Active transitive impersonals (ATIs), where the verb lacks an overt nominative subject, are more common without an overt Cause phrase than with one. While ATIs are often considered an East Slavic phenomenon, they also appear in other Slavic and even some non-Slavic languages, although personal transitive constructions are often used as equivalents, especially outside of East Slavic.
This article analyzes medieval polyphony fragments found in Stockholm, revealing new insights into musical practices around 1300. The fragments show unique uses of red notation, suggesting a transitional period and a gap in existing evidence for polyphonic composition. Additionally, the fragments contain previously unknown Latin motets, hinting at a lost repertoire from this era.
In Early Old French, words with final consonants have final-syllable stress because the consonant acts as the onset to an empty-headed syllable, attracting the stress. Words without a final consonant have stress on the penultimate syllable.