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Problèmes de linguistique générale

Émile Benveniste
- 01 Mar 1968 - 
- Vol. 44, Iss: 1, pp 91
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The Father's Witness: Patriarchal Images of Boys

David Lee Miller
- 01 Apr 2000 - 
TL;DR: Purdy's puer senex as discussed by the authors parodies the impulse to cherish precocious adulthood that has governed literary and artistic representations of children since Virgil first praised Ascanius for being "thoughtful, responsible / Beyond his years." Ernst Robert Curtius gives this figure a name: he calls it the puer Senex, or elderly boy.
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El rey que fue animal: sobre la invención del otro en Calderón, Dostoievski y Coetzee

TL;DR: The authors carried out a comparison between Calderon and Dostoevsky, their semblances and differences, and analyzed two kinds of misunderstandings: a white blindness that respects the Other's difference, and the evil inside its unconcealment.

Composition néoclassique en -logue et en -logiste: les noms en-logue sont-ils encore des noms des spécialistes?

TL;DR: In this paper, a study of French nouns referring to humans, such as pneumologue or radiologiste, which contain the sequences logue or logiste was performed, and the results have led to the conclusion that nouns with logue and logiste no longer share the same semantic properties in contemporary lexicon, a fact which is reflected in their morphological formation.
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Creolist Mystification: Oral Writing in the Works of Patrick Chamoiseau and Simone Schwarz-Bart

TL;DR: In this article, the authors focus on the field of the purely literary in order to discredit Creolist mystification and its totalitarian attempt to return to the totalitarian order of the old world, fixed by the temptation of the unified and definitive.
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Processing Differences Between Person and Number: A Theoretical Interpretation.

TL;DR: It is argued that the constellation of reported results can be accounted for by adopting a theory of person and number features that has the following two core properties: pronouns are specified for both person and many number, but regular NPs are specify for number only and do not carry any person specification.