Abstract This study examines the history of reflexes Latin fieri ‘become’ in Romance, focusing particularly on Romanian, where this verb provides subjunctive and some other forms ‘be’. Contrary to general assumptions, I offer comparative-historical evidence from Daco-Romance varieties branches Romance that, earliest Daco-Romance, had a different paradigmatic distribution that modern most (conce...

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 No ano de 1826 a escritora inglesa Mary Shelley publica o romance apocalíptico The Last Man, contando história como humanidade fora dissipada por uma peste em 2100, restando apenas um sobrevivente que, imune à pandemia, resolve deixar registrado forma diário, do fim mundo ele conhecia. Ao apresentar relato que levou escritura da narrativa, nos coloca contato com mito Sibila Cumas, ...

O texto que segue é parte de uma pesquisa pós-doutorado, intitulada “O Lugar do Romance Trinta Nordeste na Historiografia Brasileira”. objetivo principal dessa foi problematizar denominações e classificações pouco precisas obras nordestinas publicadas nas décadas 1930 1940. A investigação insere-se tendência atual buscar especificar conjuntos estilos abrigados sob a ampla definição modernistas,...

This paper deals with the Czech broadside ballad about fair Maguelonne and Peter of Provence its origins in a late mediaeval French prose romance, subsequently translated into German Czech. Some basic information romance an outline most important features, those two translations, help put literary historical context. The main focus is, course, on itself, i.e., presenting preserved copies, descr...

Esta é a tradução da “Introdução” do livro Der deutsche Künstlerroman (O Romance de Artista Alemão) Herbert Marcuse, que analisa um grande volume obras literárias alemãs — desde os poetas Sturm und Drang, no século XVIII, até Thomas Mann XX. Para estes romances têm em comum ênfase processo tomada consciência artista, compreensão sua incompatibilidade com o mundo cerca e seu amadurecimento enqua...

This essay makes a survey on contemporary university students' personality orientation combined with changes of times. The main features of contemporary university students' personality orientation are multivariate and romance, utility and prejudice. Some suggestions about cultivating healthy personality are made in this essay.

It is generally agreed that periphrastic causatives and perception verbs with infinitival complements fall into two basic construction types in Romance languages (Abeillé et al. 1997, 1998, Miller and Lowry 2003). The first is the double complement construction (1), where the causative/perception verb selects for both an NP controller (accusative) and an infinitival VP complement, as shown in t...

The small alpine district of East Tyrol (Austria) has an exceptional demographic history. It was contemporaneously inhabited by members of the Romance, the Slavic and the Germanic language groups for centuries. Since the Late Middle Ages, however, the population of the principally agrarian-oriented area is solely Germanic speaking. Historic facts about East Tyrol's colonization are rare, but sp...

We propose a method for computing the similarity of natural languages and for clustering them based on their lexical similarity. Our study provides evidence to be used in the investigation of the written intelligibility, i.e., the ability of people writing in different languages to understand one another without prior knowledge of foreign languages. We account for etymons and cognates, we quant...