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The role of deictic particles in the IE personal pronoun system
The role of deictic particles in the IE personal pronoun system [1] Millersville University Localización: Word: Journal of the International Linguistic Association, ISSN 0043-7956, ISSN-e 2373-5112, Vol. 45, Nº 3, 1994, págs. 307-315 Idioma: inglés Texto completo no disponible (Saber más ...) Resumen It is well known that deictic particles were affixed to personal pronouns in Indo-European.
Linguistic typology and reconstruction: The animacy hierarchy and its implications for the Indo-European inflectional number category
Linguistic typology and reconstruction: The animacy hierarchy and its implications for the Indo-European inflectional number category [1] Millersville University Localización: Word: Journal of the International Linguistic Association, ISSN 0043-7956, ISSN-e 2373-5112, Vol. 48, Nº 3, 1997, págs. 367-374 Idioma: inglés Texto completo no disponible (Saber más ...) Resumen Typological considerations have recently come to play an important role in the reconstruction of Proto-Indo-European.
Teaching the Purpose of College in the Era of Artificial Intelligence
Artificial Intelligence (AI) news appears to be as ubiquitous as the phenomenon itself. There are countless reports of how AI is making life better—from reducing the time healthcare professionals spend on paperwork to helping MLB scouts with recruitment—and almost as many about the potential dangers of this burgeoning branch of computer science.
How Technology Can Change the Way We Talk About Abortion
South Carolina lawmakers recently passed a bill that will restrict most abortions to 6 weeks instead of 20. But since fetuses cannot live on their own until closer to 24 weeks, such restrictions will deny women a right to decide what happens to their own bodies for months. The abortion debate can seem intractable. But sometimes a new framing can help bring things into view.
When Did the Verb “To Be” Enter the English Language?
The most commonly used verb in the English language (and indeed many other languages) has a strange history. The fact that it has so many more forms than other verbs, which are quite unlike each other (be, being, been, is, was, were, am, are) gives us a clue as to its Frankensteinian origins. It’s what some linguists have called Up until around 1500 (with the advent of the printing press), the verb “to be” was still in flux, with a lot of dialectal variation.
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