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Exploring Women’s Quandary in Buchi Emecheta’s The Joys of Motherhood and Flora Nwapa’s Efuru 探索布奇-埃梅切塔的《做母亲的乐趣》和弗洛拉-恩瓦帕的《艾福鲁》中的女性窘境

European Journal of Language and Culture Studies Pub Date : 2024-07-26 DOI: 10.24018/ejlang.2024.3.4.115

Maxime Adjavounvoun, Théophile Houndjo, Célestin Gbaguidi

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Multilingualism in Burundi: Languages and their Domains of Use 布隆迪的多语言问题：语言及其使用领域

European Journal of Language and Culture Studies Pub Date : 2024-07-23 DOI: 10.24018/ejlang.2024.3.4.132

J. Kouega, Rufine Dongpe Lontsi

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Number of Innovations in Kazakh Dictionaries of the Eighteenth Century in Comparison with Those of Other Turkic and Finno-Ugric Languages 十八世纪哈萨克语词典与其他突厥语和芬兰乌戈尔语词典的创新数量比较

European Journal of Language and Culture Studies Pub Date : 2024-07-05 DOI: 10.24018/ejlang.2024.3.4.128

Julia Normanskaja

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Globalization’s Impact on Culture: An Exploration of McDonaldization vs. Clash of Civilizations 全球化对文化的影响麦当劳化与文明冲突的探讨

European Journal of Language and Culture Studies Pub Date : 2024-03-22 DOI: 10.24018/ejlang.2024.3.2.126

Ioannis Karras

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Phonological Structure of the Babasan Language of Serang Banten, Indonesia 印度尼西亚斯朗万丹省巴巴山语的语音结构

European Journal of Language and Culture Studies Pub Date : 2024-02-19 DOI: 10.24018/ejlang.2024.3.1.112

Agus Sulaeman, Goziyah, F. Syafri

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Perceived Effects of Language and Culture Suppression in the Catalan Region of Spain 西班牙加泰罗尼亚地区对语言和文化压制影响的认识

European Journal of Language and Culture Studies Pub Date : 2024-02-16 DOI: 10.24018/ejlang.2024.3.1.113

Carla Domínguez Anguera, M. Manegre

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Game on: Notes on Language Learning Potentials Through MMORPGs’ Social and Motivational Dynamics 游戏开始通过大型多人在线游戏的社会和动机动态了解语言学习的潜力

European Journal of Language and Culture Studies Pub Date : 2023-11-20 DOI: 10.24018/ejlang.2023.2.6.110

Hélder Fanha Martins

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EFL Intermediate Students’ Attitudes towards the Impacts of Teaching Morphological Knowledge on the Degree of Lexical Complexity and the Quality of Academic Essays 英语中级学生对教学形态知识对词汇复杂程度和学术论文质量影响的态度

European Journal of Language and Culture Studies Pub Date : 2023-09-07 DOI: 10.24018/ejlang.2023.2.5.109

P. H. Yen, Thi Hoài Thanh

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Mapping the Dimensions of Linguistic Distance: A Study on Quantitative and Qualitative Geolinguistics of Banjar Sundanese Dialect 语言距离的维度映射:班杰尔巽他方言的定量和定性地理语言学研究

European Journal of Language and Culture Studies Pub Date : 2023-07-25 DOI: 10.24018/ejlang.2023.2.4.87

Wagiati, Nani Darmayanti, Yuyu Yohanarisagarniwa, Duddy Zein

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Adverbial Accusative Case in Arabic 阿拉伯语的状语宾格

European Journal of Language and Culture Studies Pub Date : 2023-07-06 DOI: 10.24018/ejlang.2023.2.4.75

Raniah Shakir Al Anssari, Haider Saad Yahya Jubran

{"title":"Adverbial Accusative Case in Arabic","authors":"Raniah Shakir Al Anssari, Haider Saad Yahya Jubran","doi":"10.24018/ejlang.2023.2.4.75","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24018/ejlang.2023.2.4.75","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000The accusative case is mainly attached the objects. It is the case that marks objects in transitive clauses however, in many languages accusative case is not only found on objects, but it is extended to mark NP adverbials. It is attached to elements outside the domain the verb. Consider the example from Arabic below. \u0000\u0000\u0000(1) ðahab-tu ʔila al-madiinat-I layl-an\u0000\u0000\u0000went- Is to the-city-gen night-acc\u0000\u0000\u0000‘I went to the city at night’\u0000\u0000\u0000In the example above, we find the word layl-an ‘at night’ is marked with accusative case though it is not an argument. It is adverb of time. The occurrence of case on adjuncts has been termed adverbial case or semantic case. It should be noted that this type of case has not received much attention in the literature of the modern linguistics. Only a few studies have been conducted to investigate this phenomenon. When discussing some examples about the adverbial case, Butt (2006, p. 7) states the following “Given has basic assumption that the primary purpose of case is to mark the arguments of a predicate this type of data remains an issuer which has not as yet received a good/standard solution within modern syntactic theories.” By this type of data, she refers to some data German and Korean where some adverbials are marked with accusative case. So, this issue has not been dealt with in some detail in modern linguistics as also stated by Butt in another context: “Very little work has been done on semantic case, primarily because it tends to be associated with adjuncts, and the theoretical concern is with licensing and constraining the appearance of core verbal arguments” (p.71).\u0000","PeriodicalId":204201,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Language and Culture Studies","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-07-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129705619","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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