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The Grammaticalization of "Say" and "Do" : An Areal Phenomenon in the Horn of Africa
TL;DR: In this article, the grammaticalization of verbs in periphrastic constructions traditionnally named "descriptive compounds" allows transcategorial and intracategorial derivation, leading to more or less deep reorganizations of the verbal systems.
Jeux de mots et motivation : une approche du sentiment linguistique
TL;DR: In this article, a distinction between epilinguistique and metalinguistiques is made between the former and the latter, a distinction made by Culioli 1990 and 1999, respectively.
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Showing, the Medium Voice, and the Unity of the Tractatus
TL;DR: Conant and Diamond as discussed by the authors argue that Wittgenstein's concept of showing is not meant to make up for the impossibility of saying certain things, neither does it stand in need of being redeemed.
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Person deixis and impersonation in Iain Banks’s Complicity
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors focus on the specific use of the second person pronoun in Iain Banks's Complicity and the complex relationship it entertains with its first-person counterpart as the novel alternates between first- and second-person narratives.
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Trees and After: The Concept of Text Topology. Some Applications to Verb-Form Distributions in Language Corpora
TL;DR: The notion of lexical distribution in ‘rafales’ in a lemmatized corpus of Latin texts is refined, the purpose being to test the stability of the distributions in individual texts of selected verbs and assess whether a verb's behaviour is related to its semantic status.