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Fugitives in transit. The Spanish Republican exile through Portugal (1936-1950)
2017
Despite scant attention from historiography, Portugal played an important role as a way station on the road to exile for many Republicans during and after the Spanish Civil War. The situation in the neighbouring country was not easy for these people, as Antonio Oliveira de Salazar’s regime —officially allied with Franco’s Spain— did not recognize them as political refugees, but as illegal immigrants to be returned to Spain, which would have catastrophic consequences for many of them. Through the analysis of abundant primary sources in archives from Spain, Portugal, Mexico and the United States, we seek to understand the details of this Portuguese stage of the exile. We discover how, despite…
Chapter 5. Perfects in Baltic and Slavic
2020
Grammaticalization in Turkic languages
2012
Abstract This article presents an overview of grammaticalisation in Turkic languages. It provides examples of typical grammaticalisation processes observed in Turkic languages and explains that the present-day members of this language family can be divided into six branches. It discusses different sources of grammaticalisation in Turkic languages including unknown sources, nonverbal sources, and verbal sources.
The Turkic Language Family
2021
Northeastern Neo-Aramaic and Language Contact
2020
The North-Eastern Neo-Aramaic dialects form one of the surviving branches of the Aramaic language family. Extremely diverse, they are or were spoken by Christian and Jewish minorities originating in Iraq, Turkey, Syria and Iran. They have been in intense contact with other languages of the region, most notably Kurdish, but also Arabic, Turkic languages and Persian. As a result, they show a great deal of contact influence, not only in lexicon and phonology but also in morphology and syntax. The precise forms of the borrowings, as well as their behavior, usually reflect the local dialects of the donor language, showing how important fine-grained dialectal data is in a study of language contac…
La poliglòssia en la predicació de Vicent Ferrer
2020
Resum: Un bon nombre dels sermons de Vicent Ferrer ens ha arribat gràcies a les còpies de les reportationes que en feien els estenògrafs que l’acompanyaven en els seus viatges missionals per diversos països de l’Europa occidental (1399-1419). No són, per tant, reproduccions fidels de l’oralitat vicentina, però en reflecteixen els trets bàsics. L’anàlisi crítica d’aquests trets i de les declaracions dels testimonis del procés de canonització de Vicent Ferrer (1453-1454) posen de manifest que el dominic valencià, que en la seua predicació sempre tractà d’aproximar-se lingüísticament als oients, adoptà les parles romànics dels països que va recórrer, ja que sabem que, a més del llatí i de la l…
Le genre des bris de machines : violence et mécanisation à l’aube de l’ère industrielle (Angleterre-France, 1750-1850)
2013
Les bris de machines constituent un type de violence recurrent en Angleterre et en France au debut de l’ere industrielle. Ce type de violence contestataire a ete peint essentiellement sous les traits d’une pratique masculine, impliquant le triomphe d’une conception virile des rapports sociaux et des conflits du travail. Loin d’etre marginales ou invisibles, les femmes sont pourtant bien presentes dans ces conflits, a la fois comme auxiliaires des hommes mais aussi comme actrices de plein droit insurgees contre les machines qui portent atteinte a la production domestique et a leur mode de vie. En examinant le genre des bris de machines, il s’agit a la fois de suivre comment les machines requ…
“From Savage to Sublime (And Partway Back): Indians and Antiquity in Early Nineteenth-Century American Literature”
2016
This article examines the comparisons made between Indians and Antiquity in early nineteenth-century American literature (notably in the works of Washington Irving and James Fenimore Cooper); to do so, it begins by reaching back to references in European and American writings of the eighteenth century. One of the main motivations behind the associations between Native Americans and the Ancient World made in the early decades of the nineteenth century was to “elevate” Indians in order to transform them into worthy symbols of the recently established United States. Such associations also rendered them suitable subjects for treatment by authors inspired to a large extent by the Romantic Moveme…
Prof. dr. philol. Pētera Ķiķaukas portrets
1930
Portrait of Pēteris Ķiķauka (1886-1967), Professor of Classical Philology at the University of Latvia, taken in 1930.