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ItemVariation in the Stress of Russian Short-form Adjectives(IJORS, 2023)This article examines the dynamics of word stress in one of the more complex and increasingly literary areas of Russian, that of short-form adjectives. By comparing the stress patterns of a normative dictionary with another contemporary source which gives stylistic evaluations of stress positions, the article traces the main accentual tendencies which are occurring in this area of morphology and aligns them with two previous surveys of short-form adjectives. Above all it is the feminine singular and the plural forms which are pivotal. The article reveals the contradictory and even circular dynamics of stress in short-form adjectives, especially in patterns a, c and c´: in stem-stressed forms (pattern a) there is a clear tendency towards mobile stress by virtue of a shift of stress from stem to ending in the feminine form, while, at the same time, a smaller group of such adjectives appears to have shifted stress from the ending to the stem at an earlier stage. The main mobile-stress pattern (pattern c) also confirms a contradictory tendency to move ending stress to the stem in feminine forms together with a weaker trend to shift stem stress to the ending in the plural forms. Taken as a whole, all these shifts in different directions are creating new complex stress patterns characterised by at least two forms with variation.
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ItemRééquilibrage? A Geo-Semiotic Analysis of Noumea’s Main City Square as Case Study(Liverpool University Press, 2023-07-14)The notions of rééquilibrage and destin commun are central to the Matignon and Noumea Accords, which aimed to achieve self-determination for New Caledonia. The preamble of the Noumea accord recognizes that colonization stripped the Kanak peoples of their languages, culture and identity. As a result, various programs were launched to reinstate their memory and cultural patrimony. These were predominantly established in the Province Nord, while in the Province Sud material representations of Kanak languages and culture remained sparse. This study centres on the geosemiotics of the main city square in Noumea—the Place des Cocotiers—by examining the way in which the various communities are represented in the square and how it has evolved over time as a kind of urban palimpsest. Through the concepts of centripetal and centrifugal forces, this article focusses particularly on the tension between representations of French colonial power and the visibility of the Kanak first nation people and their identity in the built landscape. It concludes by considering the recently erected statue of Jean-Marie Tjibaou and Jacques Lafleur in the light of self-determination and the goals of rééquilibrage and destin commun.
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ItemUncovering ergative use in Murrinhpatha: Evidence from experimental data(ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD, 2023-01-02)
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ItemConstructive Case: Evidence from Australian Languages(CSLI Publications, 1998-01-01)Australian Aboriginal languages have many interesting grammatical characteristics that challenge some of the central assumptions of current linguistic theory. These languages exhibit many unusual morphosyntactic characteristics that have not yet been adequately incorporated into current linguistic theory. This volume focuses on the complex properties of case morphology in these nonconfigurational languages, including extensive case stacking and the use of case to mark tense/aspect/mood. While problematic for many syntactic approaches, these case properties are given a natural and unified account in the lexicalist model of constructive case developed in this book, which allows case morphology to construct the larger syntactic context independently of phrase structure.
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Item[Review of the book] Concrete flowers: a novel, by Wilfried N'Sonde (translated by Karen Lindo)(Taylor and Francis Group, 2021-10-02)
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Item[Review of book At Home in Our Sounds: Music, Race, and Cultural Politics in Interwar Paris, by Rachel Anne Gillett,(H-Black-Europe, 2022-05-01)
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Item[Review of the book] Sex, Sea, and Self: Sexuality and Nationalism in French Caribbean Discourses, 1924–1948, by Jacqueline Couti(Oxford University Press (OUP), 2022-10-12)In her fascinating new monograph, Jacqueline Couti examines how black writers from Guadeloupe and Martinique, writing between 1924 and 1948, both critiqued and also tapped into a set of colonial tropes about Caribbean subjects.
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Item[Review of the book] From Menstruation to the Menopause: The Female Fertility Cycle in Contemporary Women's Writing in French, by Maria Tomlinson(Project MUSE, 2022)Maria Tomlinson's compelling new book, From Menstruation to the Menopause: The Female Fertility Cycle in Contemporary Women's Writing in French, examines how menstruation, childbirth, and the menopause are represented in a range of contemporary fictional works by women writers from France, Algeria, and Mauritius.
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ItemTransgressing Literary Norms in Véronique Tadjo’s En compagnie des hommes(Brill, 2020-07-01)
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ItemResistance and Rebellion in Gisèle Pineau’s Paroles de terre en larmes(Lexington Books, 2022-10)