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A Thousand Years Of Model Letter-Writers
Author(s) :
AUSTIN-JONES, FRANCES
Description :
Starting from letter writing as a part of rhetoric, this article seeks to trace the development of model letter-writers in England from their origins in Latin and French formularies to the present day. The first letter-writers in England appeared in the thirteenth century but it was not until the si...
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Aisberg - Archivio Istituzionale Università di Bergamo
Language(s) :
English
Contact vs. internal dynamics in the typological shift of English
Author(s) :
BERTACCA, ANTONIO
Description :
The shift of the English language from synthetic to analytic is still often attributed to contact: with Scandinavian – e.g., Poussa (1982) – or with early Brittonic – e.g., Tristram (2002); on the other hand, others – e.g., Diensberg (1998) and Mufwene (2000) – point to the Norman Conquest as the tu...
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Aisberg - Archivio Istituzionale Università di Bergamo
Language(s) :
English
Virtual Touring: The Web-Language Of Tourism
Author(s) :
MACI, STEFANIA MARIA
Description :
The World Tourism Organization defines tourism as one of the fastest growing economic sectors in the world: the business volume of tourism has surpassed that of oil export, food products and automobiles. Tourism has thus gained an ever-increasing importance and acquired a prominent position in inter...
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Aisberg - Archivio Istituzionale Università di Bergamo
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English
Lexical Aspect and Auxiliary Selection in Italian Learner Corpora
Author(s) :
RASTELLI, STEFANO
Description :
The Auxiliary Selection Hierarchy Hypothesis (henceforth ASH, Sorace, 1995a; 2000; 2004) correlates the aspectuality (meant as lexical aspect or Aktionsart) of predicates with the selection of avere or essere as auxiliary verbs. This hypothesis also predicts with which verbs the correct auxiliary wi...
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Aisberg - Archivio Istituzionale Università di Bergamo
Language(s) :
English
Competenza pragmatica e complessità sintattica in italiano L2: l’uso dei modificatori nelle richieste
Author(s) :
VEDDER, INEKE
Description :
Although there is evidence to suggest that the development of pragmatic competence is closely linked to that of grammatical competence, the exact nature of the relationship is yet unknown. In light of the well established fact that even the pragmatic competence of advanced L2 learners is mostly inco...
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Aisberg - Archivio Istituzionale Università di Bergamo
Language(s) :
Italian
Abilità descrittiva e coesione testuale in L1 e L2: lingue romanze e lingue germaniche a confronto
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The paper deals with discourse cohesion in descriptive texts focusing both on Germanic and Romance languages. Each language is investigated as L1 as well as L2 with respect to Italian on the basis of a large data base. The informants described a picture to a listener who couldn’t see it.
Our cross-...
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Aisberg - Archivio Istituzionale Università di Bergamo
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Italian
Un dimenticato problema ecdotico del Muspilli: le trascrizioni di Docen, Maßmann e Schmeller
Author(s) :
SANTORO, VERIO
Description :
The complexity of problems concerning the reconstruction of the Muspilli text arose ever since the editio princeps of Schmeller in 1832. It is a well known fact that the intricate events linked to the discovery of the text have extended the already long list of its ecdotic problems. In this paper th...
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Aisberg - Archivio Istituzionale Università di Bergamo
Language(s) :
Italian
Recensioni, schede e notizie
Author(s) :
AA.VV.
Description :
publisher's version - versione dell'editore
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Aisberg - Archivio Istituzionale Università di Bergamo
Language(s) :
Italian
Vagueness and precision in contracts: a close relationship
Author(s) :
ANESA, PATRIZIA
Description :
This paper deals with the relationship between linguistic indeterminacy and precision in legal texts (Endicott 2000, Bhatia et al. 2005, Cacciaguidi-Fahy / Wagner 2006) and, more specifically, it analyses how these aspects are conveyed in contracts, a specific type of legal document. The study offe...
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Aisberg - Archivio Istituzionale Università di Bergamo
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English
The progressive aspect in simultaneity as and while-clauses
Author(s) :
BROCCIAS, CRISTIANO
Description :
Recent research into simultaneity as and while-clauses has shown that they tend to be used differently. As-clauses usually code events with a high degree of susceptibility to change whereas while-clauses tend to evoke more stable temporal configurations. Following this insight, the present paper stu...
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Aisberg - Archivio Istituzionale Università di Bergamo
Language(s) :
English