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On the object-individuation function of the East Sakhalin Ainu impersonal passive 论东萨哈林阿伊努人非人格被动的客体个性化功能

IF 0.6 2区文学

Folia Linguistica Pub Date : 2023-08-07 DOI: 10.1515/flin-2023-2025

Elia Dal Corso

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2区文学

Folia Linguistica Pub Date : 2023-08-02 DOI: 10.1515/flin-2023-frontmatter2

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Frontmatter 头版头条

2区文学

Folia Linguistica Pub Date : 2023-08-02 DOI: 10.1515/flin-2023-frontmatter3

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Vowel harmony in Rma: a diachronic perspective 从历时的角度看Rma中的元音和谐

IF 0.6 2区文学

Folia Linguistica Pub Date : 2023-07-18 DOI: 10.1515/flin-2023-2023

Nathaniel A. Sims

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The VP in language contact: on creation event lexicalization in Canadian French 语言接触中的副总裁：论加拿大法语的创造事件词汇化

IF 0.6 2区文学

Folia Linguistica Pub Date : 2023-05-15 DOI: 10.1515/flin-2023-2020

Barbara Schirakowski

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Introduction: language contact and linguistic dynamics – speakers, speaker groups, and linguistic structures 导论:语言接触和语言动态——说话者、说话者群体和语言结构

IF 0.6 2区文学

Folia Linguistica Pub Date : 2023-05-12 DOI: 10.1515/flin-2023-2019

Esme Winter-Froemel, Sandra Ellena, Stefanie Goldschmitt

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Language contact between Italian and English: a case study on nouns ending in the suffix -ing 意大利语与英语的语言接触——以后缀ing结尾的名词为例

IF 0.6 2区文学

Folia Linguistica Pub Date : 2023-05-11 DOI: 10.1515/flin-2023-2021

Judith Meinschaefer

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First language as a determinant of implicit and explicit language attitudes: Catalan/Spanish bilinguals’ general language attitudes and response to language choice in a COVID-19 vaccination advertisement 第一语言是内隐和外显语言态度的决定因素:加泰罗尼亚语/西班牙语双语者的一般语言态度和对COVID-19疫苗广告中语言选择的反应

IF 0.6 2区文学

Folia Linguistica Pub Date : 2023-05-10 DOI: 10.1515/flin-2023-2018

Andreu van Hooft, Frank van Meurs, Mylène van de Wouw, Pablo van Maren Díaz

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Attention to multilingual job ads: an eye-tracking study on the use of English in German job ads 关注多语言招聘广告:德语招聘广告中英语使用的眼动追踪研究

IF 0.6 2区文学

Folia Linguistica Pub Date : 2023-05-10 DOI: 10.1515/flin-2023-2015

U. Nederstigt, Béryl Hilberink-Schulpen

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On sisters and zussen: integrating semasiological and onomasiological perspectives on the use of English person-reference nouns in Belgian-Dutch teenage chat messages 姐妹与zussen:从符号学和象形学的角度综合分析比利时-荷兰青少年聊天信息中英语人称指称名词的使用

IF 0.6 2区文学

Folia Linguistica Pub Date : 2023-05-10 DOI: 10.1515/flin-2023-2017

E. Zenner, Lisa Hilte, A. Backus, R. Vandekerckhove

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