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Francisco Marcos-Marín deposited Afrorrománico, iberorrománico y orígenes del español in the group
LSL Linguistics and Literature on MLA Commons 3 weeks, 1 day ago
El área de estudio de la Filología Románica comprendía en su origen las provincias romanas de Africa, Numidia y Mauretania, como parte de una
Romania submersa, territorios donde el latín había dejado de hablarse en un cierto tiempo por diversos factores históricos, sobre todo migraciones. Entre los siglos VI y X d. C. se produce un gran cambio…[Read more] -
Francisco Marcos-Marín deposited Vascuences, vascos y euskera. Reflexiones sobre un proceso. in the group
LSL Linguistics and Literature on MLA Commons 3 weeks, 2 days ago
A concrete problem is addressed in this presentation: why vascones and vascos have been identified and why it has been assumed that the language of the seconds, Vascuence, Vasco or Euskera, would need to be the language of the first. Arguments that result from the interconnection of linguistics, archeology, history, biolinguistics and genetics are…[Read more]
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Francisco Marcos-Marín deposited El léxico latino en bereber en el marco del estudio de los romances africanos y el continuo lingüístico andalusí in the group
LSL Linguistics and Literature on MLA Commons 3 weeks, 2 days ago
Los contactos entre hablantes repercuten en las lenguas mediante los procesos de bilingüismo y conmutación de códigos, que están hoy bien estudiados. Estos procesos afectan a la gramática y al léxico. Al segundo se orienta este estudio, en el cual se considera que precisamente es el bereber el que enmarca al latín en África, lo que justifi…[Read more]
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Francisco Marcos-Marín deposited Miscelánea numeral diacrónica y tipológica con reflexiones sobre el Libro de Alexandre in the group
LSL Linguistics and Literature on MLA Commons 3 weeks, 2 days ago
This work includes a series of aspects of the study of numerals, from different perspectives and with different applications. It is particularly relevant the application of diachronic analysis to the establishment of a date for the Libro de Alexandre. some of those aspects were already treated by the author in different publications; however, they…[Read more]
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Leigh A. Neithardt started the topic Membership Suggestions for 2021 Forum Delegate Election in the discussion
LSL Linguistics and Literature on MLA Commons 4 months, 1 week ago
The next election for this forum’s Delegate Assembly representative will be held in the fall of 2021, and the forum’s executive committee will take up the matter of nominations for this election when it meets in January 2021. Though the executive committee is responsible for making nominations, it is required to nominate at least one candidate who…[Read more]
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Ellen Spolsky deposited Cognitive Poetics in the group
LSL Linguistics and Literature on MLA Commons 8 months ago
In her introduction to the Oxford Handbook of Cognitive Literary Studies, Lisa Zunshine, scholar in the field and its best historian, describes cognitive literary critics as working “not toward consilience with science but toward a richer engagement with a variety of theoretical paradigms in literary and cultural studies” (2015). Scholars from m…[Read more]
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Marisa Verna deposited Proust une langue étrangère in the group
LSL Linguistics and Literature on MLA Commons 8 months, 4 weeks ago
Proust was strongly opposed to the idea of a naturally “clear” national language whose directives would be inherent in thought itself. This book questions Proust’s style from the point of view of its theorization and the implementation of diffuse sensory rhetoric in À la recherche du temps perdu.
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Michael Hancher deposited Dictionary vs. Encyclopedia, Then and Now in the group
LSL Linguistics and Literature on MLA Commons 1 year, 3 months ago
The New English Dictionary was originally distinguished from an encyclopedia in reach and function by its proponent Richard Chenevix Trench and its principal editor James A. H. Murray as differing in responsibilities: a dictionary described the meanings of words, an encyclopedia described the nature of things. The distinction had philosophical and…[Read more]
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Billy Clark started the topic Minutes from Committee Meeting in Chicago in the discussion
LSL Linguistics and Literature on MLA Commons 2 years, 1 month ago
Dear all,
With apologies for the delay, here (pasted below) are minutes from our Committee meeting in Chicago.
Two key things are:
- nominations for committee membership need to be sent to Anja and Martin by 8th February
- Rhona and I will draft two calls for papers by the 8th of February and we will agree and submit these by the 28th of…
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Billy Clark started the topic Minutes from Committee Meeting in Chicago in the discussion
LSL Linguistics and Literature on MLA Commons 2 years, 1 month ago
Dear all,
With apologies for the delay, here (pasted below) are minutes from our Committee meeting in Chicago.
Two key things are:
- nominations for committee membership need to be sent to Anja and Martin by 8th February
- Rhona and I will draft two calls for papers by the 8th of February and we will agree and submit these by the 28th of…
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Billy Clark replied to the topic Linguistics and Literature in Chicago in the discussion
LSL Linguistics and Literature on MLA Commons 2 years, 1 month ago
Thanks to all of you who came to Lizzie McNeill’s on Friday. It was a lovely evening and we will make sure we do it again.
I’ll be in touch soon (via all of the relevant fora) with other thoughts about how those of us with interests in language, linguistics and lang-lit can keep in touch and work together in future.
Best wishes,
Billy
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Billy Clark replied to the topic Linguistics and Literature in Chicago in the discussion
LSL Linguistics and Literature on MLA Commons 2 years, 2 months ago
Hi everybody,
Looking forward to seeing some of you in Lizzie McNeill’s at 7.30.
I thought it worth letting you know that it’s really close to the Sheraton where the presidential address is from 6.45 to 7.30, so quite possible to go to both and to get from one to the other very quickly.
Best wishes,
Billy
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Billy Clark started the topic Linguistics and Literature in Chicago in the discussion
LSL Linguistics and Literature on MLA Commons 2 years, 2 months ago
Dear all,
Happy new year from London! I’m looking forward to seeing you all in Chicago!
Here is some info on our sessions and a new idea we have this year for an informal get-together for members of all forums/fora with an interest in language, linguistics or ‘lang-lit’ on Friday evening.
Theater as Communication and Where Do The Voices Com…[Read more]
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Billy Clark started the topic CFP: Women and Language in the discussion
LSL Linguistics and Literature on MLA Commons 2 years, 2 months ago
Dear all,
We are looking forward to seeing (some of) you in Chicago.
Before emailing you about the convention, here is a call for papers which I meant to pass on earlier in the year.
Best wishes,
Billy
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Call for Papers | Women & LanguageEditor: Leland G. Spencer, PhD | Miami University
Women & Language, an international,…[Read more]
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Angus Grieve-Smith deposited Annotation: U Store It in the group
LSL Linguistics and Literature on MLA Commons 3 years, 1 month ago
Document annotation is almost as old as writing. The designers of the World Wide Web envisioned a system that would allow people to publicly annotate any document. The advent of cloud computing has finally made this feasible: distributed annotation systems like Hypothes.is allow users to save annotations privately, or share them with the public.…[Read more]
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Robert Troyer posted an update in the group
LSL Linguistics and Literature on MLA Commons 3 years, 3 months ago
Dear Members of the Linguistics and Literature Forum,
If you will be at the 2018 Convention, please join us at the Hilton Saturday evening 7:15-8:30 for a cash bar organized by the Linguistics Forums of the MLA. The event is listed on page 953 of the convention program.
710. Cash Bar Arranged by the Language Studies and Linguistics…[Read more] -
Angus Grieve-Smith deposited The Spread of Change in French Negation in the group
LSL Linguistics and Literature on MLA Commons 3 years, 11 months ago
Many varieties of French have changed over the years from expressing predicate
negation (Geurts 1998) with ne alone, to the embracing construction ne … pas, and then
to postverbal pas alone (Jespersen 1917). When the increase in the frequency of
ne … pas over time is plotted on a graph, it takes the S shape of the logistic function
(Kroch 198…[Read more] -
Gerardo Augusto Lorenzino started the topic MLA 2018, CFP: “Language Change: Global (Im-)gration and Linguistic Insecurity” in the discussion
Linguistic Approaches to Literature on MLA Commons 4 years, 1 month ago
Dear colleagues,
The Executive Committee of the Forum on Language Change is seeking proposals for the session “Language Change: Global (Im-)migration and Linguistic Insecurity”. See short and long CFP below.
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Papers exploring how global and local migrations affect language practices and patterns (e.g. linguistic in…[Read more]
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Robert Troyer started the topic CFP (MLA 2018) Reading and Responding to Literary Texts in the discussion
Linguistic Approaches to Literature on MLA Commons 4 years, 2 months ago
We invite explorations of pedagogical practices addressing specific language structures in the context of a literary text, thus, uniting literature and English language studies.
Please send a 300-word abstract before 3 March 2017 to Rob Troyer, email: troyerr@wou.edu
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Robert Troyer started the topic CFP (MLA 2018) Literary and Non-literary Texts in the discussion
Linguistic Approaches to Literature on MLA Commons 4 years, 2 months ago
We invite abstracts that approach texts from a linguistic perspective in order to explore potential commonalities and differences between literary and non-literary language.
Please send a 300-word abstract before 3 March 2017 to Rob Troyer, email: troyerr@wou.edu
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