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- Hammar, Isak, et al.
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The Future Is (Ancient) History : Judge Dredd and the Futuristic Legacy of the Classical World
- 2017
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Ingår i: Visions of the Future in Comics : International Perspectives - International Perspectives. - 9781476668017 ; , s. 102-117
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- The article explores how the legacy of ancient Rome served the creative vision of the future found in the british comic Judge Dredd, firstpublished in 1977. The article argues that Judge Dredd appropriated motifs from Roman history to help establish the framework of the future and that the comic’s satirical tone was aided by these allusions to the classical world. The article concludes that the interaction with the classical past in Judge Dredd was brokered by contemporary popular culture, thus engaging the comic in a multidirectional cultural dialogue with past, present, and future.
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- Huang, Aijun, 1975-, et al.
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The acquisition of the wh-pronoun duo-shao 'much-little' in child Mandarin
- 2016
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Ingår i: A Festschrift for Stephen Crain. - : John Benjamins. ; , s. 170-198
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The Mandarin Chinese wh-pronouns ji-ge ‘how many-CL’ and duo-shao ‘a lot-a little’ can be roughly translated in English as 'how-many' and 'how-much', respectively. When these two wh-pronouns interact with the negation operator mei ‘not’, there derive similar but not identical readings: while the negative ji-ge structure conveys a ‘smallness’ in number (i.e., ‘small-number’), the negative duo-shao structure conveys a ‘smallness’ in quantity (i.e., ‘small-amount’). Huang and Crain (2014a) studied Mandarin-speaking children’s acquisition of the ‘small-number’ reading of the negative ji-ge structure. It was found that children undergo three developmental stages in the acquisition of the ‘small-number’ reading of the negative ji-ge structure, exhibiting the emergence of the full range of the meanings of ji-ge in the course of language development. The present study extends the inquiry of Huang and Crain (2014a) and investigates the acquisition of the ‘small-amount’ reading of the negative duo-shao structure. The experimental data exhibit two developmental stages, which are argued to reflect the development of the semantic and pragmatic properties of the wh-pronoun duo-shao. In short, the acquisition scenario of the negative duo-shao structure is different from that of the negative ji-ge structure, but both studies suggest that the semantic and pragmatic properties of Chinese wh-pronouns determine the acquisition of Chinese wh-pronouns in negative structures.
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- Ursini, Francesco-Alessio, 1978-
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Another Look at Modification in Spatial Prepositions
- 2013
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Ingår i: IBERIA. - 1989-8525. ; 5:2, s. 38-84
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The goal of this paper is to propose a unification of two strands of research within the semantics of spatial prepositions. The first strand focuses on the so-called modification problem, which can be stated as follows. Some, but not all spatial prepositions can be modified by measure phrases, such as ten meters (e.g. ten meters in front of the car). The second strand focuses on so-called prepositional aspect, in particular the fact that some but not all spatial prepositions can occur with the temporal adverbial phrase in one hour (e.g. to). A simple unified syntactic and semantic approach of aspect properties is offered, to account the data. This unified account is shown to explain and predict why telic/non-cumulative prepositions cannot combine with measure phrases (viz. *ten meters to the park). It is discussed whether prepositions that can combine with measure phrases, such as ten meters in front of the car and ten meters towards the car, have different lexical aspect properties, such as cumulativity and/or monotonicity. The answer is offered via a standard analysis of the distribution of these complex phrases with the temporal adverbs in one hour/for one hour. The consequences of the unified analysis are discussed in detail.
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- Ursini, Francesco-Alessio, 1978-
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Another look at preposition stranding
- 2015
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Ingår i: From clerks to corpora. - Stockholm : Stockholm University Press. - 9789176350041 ; , s. 319-343
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)
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- Ursini, Francesco-Alessio, 1978-
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Another look at spatial prepositions and the modification problem
- 2013
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Ingår i: IBERIA. - 1989-8525. ; 5:2, s. 1-40
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The goal of this paper is to propose a unification of two strands of research within the semantics of spatial prepositions. The first strand focuses on the so-called modification problem, which can be stated as follows. Some, but not all spatial prepositions can be modified by measure phrases, such as ten meters (e.g. ten meters in front of the car). The second strand focuses on so-called prepositional aspect, in particular the fact that some but not all spatial prepositions can occur with the temporal adverbial phrase in one hour (e.g. to). A simple unified syntactic and semantic approach of aspect properties is offered, to account the data. This unified account is shown to explain and predict why telic/non-cumulative prepositions cannot combine with measure phrases (viz. *ten meters to the park). It is discussed whether prepositions that can combine with measure phrases, such as ten meters in front of the car and ten meters towards the car, have different lexical aspect properties, such as cumulativity and/or monotonicity. The answer is offered via a standard analysis of the distribution of these complex phrases with the temporal adverbs in one hour/for one hour. The consequences of the unified analysis are discussed in detail.
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- Ursini, Francesco-Alessio, 1978-
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Ave' and Tene' : Another look at auxiliary selection in Aquilan
- 2015
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Ingår i: Dialectologia. - 2013-2247. ; :14, s. 115-143
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This paper presents a unified approach on two poorly understood problems of auxiliary selection in the Aquilan dialect. The first problem pertains to the distribution of an auxiliary verb that denotes the notion of “possession”, tene’. The second problem pertains to the distribution of a more standard auxiliary verb, ave´, which denotes the notion of “existence” in compound tenses, in suppletive distribution with esse. A proposed solution is that the distribution of both auxiliary verbs can be accounted via a simple analysis of Aquilan’s person-driven agreement: how a verb interacts with its arguments. This analysis is based on a formal (type-logical) representation of Distributed Morphology combined with Type-Logical calculi, and shown to correctly account and predict the distribution of these auxiliary verbs.
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- Ursini, Francesco-Alessio, 1978-
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Ave' and Tene' : Another look at auxiliary selection in Aquilan
- 2014
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Ingår i: Dialectologia. - 2013-2247. ; :14, s. 115-143
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This paper presents a unified approach on two poorly understood problems of auxiliary selection in the Aquilan dialect. The first problem pertains to the distribution of an auxiliary verb that denotes the notion of “possession”, tene’. The second problem pertains to the distribution of a more standard auxiliary verb, ave´, which denotes the notion of “existence” in compound tenses, in suppletive distribution with esse. A proposed solution is that the distribution of both auxiliary verbs can be accounted via a simple analysis of Aquilan’s person-driven agreement: how a verb interacts with its arguments. This analysis is based on a formal (type-logical) representation of Distributed Morphology combined with Type-Logical calculi, and shown to correctly account and predict the distribution of these auxiliary verbs.
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- Ursini, Francesco-Alessio
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David Bowie's Influence on JoJo's Bizarre Adventure
- 2017
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Ingår i: Comics Grid. - : Open Library Humanities. - 2048-0792. ; 7
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article analyses the influence of David Bowie's work in JoJo's Bizarre Adventure, a manga known for its wealth of references to western popular culture. It is argued that David Bowie's cultural reception can be attested via the presence of three narrative themes featuring in this manga series. The first theme is the exploration of diverse genres and an innovative, genre-defying attitude. The second theme is the use of avant-garde, flamboyant and gender-ambiguous aesthetics for its fictional characters. The third theme is a self-reflexive approach to the creation of fictional characters, intended as an awareness of the temporary, transient nature of their role as reluctant heroes in their own stories.
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