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Topic, focus, and discourse structure: Ancient Greek Word Order

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It is commonly assumed that word order in free word order languages is determined by a simple topic - focus dichotomy. Analysis of data from Ancient Greek, a language with an extreme word order flexibility, reveals that matters are more complex: the parameters of discourse structure and semantics interact with information packaging and are thus indirectly also responsible for word order variation. Furthermore, Ancient Greek displays a number of synonymous word order patterns, which points to the co-existence of pragmatic determinedness and free variation in this language.

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• Lengua y Literatura›Filología y Lingüística

Leonilson's Loss is Our Gain: Tranforming Stitched Words and Images of Deterioration into Redemption

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• Lengua y Literatura›Filología y Lingüística

Un campo semántico para la muerte desde la mirada enfermera

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La muerte, contemplada a diario en el hospital,
llega a tomar una forma que, por común, se torna en
ocasiones como un nuevo ámbito para un lenguaje
lleno de eufemismos, generando una especie de campo
semántico enfermero para pronunciar la muerte. Death seen day after day in a hospital environment
takes on a new shape, turning ordinary language
into a speech full of euphemisms, creating a
sort of special "nursing" semantic field which
avoids the pronunciation of the word "death".

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• General›Diarios y Publicaciones Periódicas (General y Popular)

El arte de curar y de cuidar desde el punto de vista terminológico

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Con el presente trabajo, hemos pretendido realizar un estudio, sobre la terminología más frecuente que utilizaba la Enfermería en la época que comprende los siglos XVI y XVII.
Cuando llevamos a cabo la clasificación y el significado de cada uno de los términos sanitarios, hay muchos de estos que nos permiten extraer conclusiones sobre las diversas artes de curar y cuidar que se practicaban, además, obtenemos de paso una buena visión de la enfermería y la medicina de la época.
Términos que nos hablan de técnicas y procedimientos, materiales, instrumentos diversos, preparación, indicación y admi

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• General›Diarios y Publicaciones Periódicas (General y Popular)

The relationship between demonstratives and interrogatives

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This paper examines two types of expressions that seem to exist in all languages, demonstratives and interrogatives. Based on a representative sample of 100 languages it is shown that demonstratives and interrogatives have some striking features in common. They cross-cut the boundaries of several word classes and encode the same semantic features: person, thing, place, direction, manner, time, and amount.

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• Lengua y Literatura›Filología y Lingüística

Processes of enlightenment : farmer initiatives in rural development in China

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  This research concerns development initiatives in rural communities. I define a farmer initiative as the impetus that sufficiently and necessarily drives a farmer (or group of farmers) to formulate a realistic strategic plan, and to implement it in an attempt to create space for manoeuvre and to pursue change through changing social conditions. Farmer initiatives emerge from farmers' experiences, knowledge, events, social networks, and from interactions among themselves, a wider network of actors and the broader socio-economic environment.

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• General