This article argues that the ending of Euripides' play Ion is the result of an interaction between the plan of the god Apollo and the reactions of the human characters Creusa and Ion, and that the result is better than it ...
We investigate Vietnamese and Cambodian immigrants' acquisition of the variable (ing), which occurs in progressive tenses, participles, noun phrases, etc., and which can be pronounced [iŋ] or [In]. A VARBRUL 2 program ...
This article will focus on the acquisition of sociolinguistic competence
by second language learners during a period of study abroad.
Various aspects of sociolinguistic competence will be discussed and some
of the ...
This article discusses the 'tragic' or 'instantaneous' use of the aorist tense in ancient Greek. It argues that traditional interpretations are inadequate, since most examples are neither more 'instantaneous' nor more ...
This article examines the use made in Brian Friel's play Living Quarters (1977) of Greek tragedy, and in particular of Euripides' Hippolytus (428 B.C.). The article discusses the character Sir in detail, and examines how ...
Polarity items must, by definition, fit inside the scope of their licenser; items like any N, in addition, appear to require a c-commanding and overt licenser. It is argued that the relevant restriction refers to precedence, ...
It is true that, as is well known since Allan (1980), mass and count are best
seen as preferences rather than absolute values for lexical items; for instance,
clothes cannot be governed by a numeral, but it tolerates the ...
This article examines social interaction in Homer in the light of modern conversation analysis, especially Grice's theory of conversational implicature. Some notoriously problematic utterances are explained in terms of ...
The propaganda campaign launched in response to the assassination of the Duc and Cardinal de Guise on the orders of Henri III in December 1588 was the largest waged in the history of sixteenth-century France. Yet, it has ...
This chapter examines Sophocles' plays in the light of face-threat politeness theory. It deals with the subject under the following headings: face-threat politeness theory, positive politeness, negative politeness, off-record ...
This study addresses the landscape context of Atlantic rock art, comparing three study areas in Ireland; the Inishowen Peninsula, Donegal, the Louth/Monaghan area, and the Dingle Peninsula,Kerry. Recent dating evidence ...
After numbers above 2, nouns are singular or plural depending on the language. But in Irish and Scottish some nouns must be singular and others plural, in a variety of dialectal patterns. Once the semantic basis underlying ...