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Bulletin du Cercle Linguistique de Copenhague 2018-2019 哥本哈根语言圈公报2018-2019

Acta Linguistica Hafniensia Pub Date : 2020-01-02 DOI: 10.1080/03740463.2020.1732520

引用次数: 0

Language death, modality, and functional explanations 语言死亡、语态与功能解释

Acta Linguistica Hafniensia Pub Date : 2020-01-02 DOI: 10.1080/03740463.2020.1743582

S. Gregersen

引用次数: 0

The marking of uncontroversial information in Europe: presenting the enimitive 欧洲无争议信息的标记:呈现原意

Acta Linguistica Hafniensia Pub Date : 2020-01-02 DOI: 10.1080/03740463.2020.1745618

Vladimir Panov

引用次数: 8

On languages on islands 关于岛屿上的语言

Acta Linguistica Hafniensia Pub Date : 2020-01-02 DOI: 10.1080/03740463.2020.1736747

J. Nash, P. Bakker, Kristoffer Friis Bøegh, Aymeric Daval-Markussen, H. Haberland, Dale Kedwards, John Ladhams, Carsten Levisen, Jón Símon Markússon, Joost Robbe, J. Willemsen

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引用次数: 4

Introduction: communicative dynamism 引言:交际动力

Acta Linguistica Hafniensia Pub Date : 2019-07-03 DOI: 10.1080/03740463.2019.1695242

K. Davidse, Wout Van Praet, Ngum Meyuhnsi Njende

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引用次数: 1

Focus assignment in English specificational and predicative clauses: intonation as a cue to information structure? 英语定语从句的焦点分配:语调作为信息结构的线索?

Acta Linguistica Hafniensia Pub Date : 2019-07-03 DOI: 10.1080/03740463.2019.1641318

Wout Van Praet

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引用次数: 3

Linearity and tone in the unfolding of information 信息展开中的线性和音调

Acta Linguistica Hafniensia Pub Date : 2019-07-03 DOI: 10.1080/03740463.2019.1668621

Gerard O’Grady, Tom Bartlett

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引用次数: 5

Enumerative there-clauses and there-clefts: specification and information structure 列举式there从句和there断句:说明和信息结构

Acta Linguistica Hafniensia Pub Date : 2019-07-03 DOI: 10.1080/03740463.2019.1677136

K. Davidse, Ngum Meyuhnsi Njende

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引用次数: 0

Language characterology and textual dynamics: a crosslinguistic exploration in English and Scottish Gaelic 语言特征和语篇动态:英语和苏格兰盖尔语的跨语言探索

Acta Linguistica Hafniensia Pub Date : 2019-07-03 DOI: 10.1080/03740463.2019.1650607

Tom Bartlett, Gerard O’Grady

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引用次数: 1

In defence of morphomic analyses 为形态分析辩护

Acta Linguistica Hafniensia Pub Date : 2019-01-02 DOI: 10.1080/03740463.2019.1594577

Hans-Olav Enger

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引用次数: 4