the third person singular enclitic verb /-ast/ which is equivalent to english verb “is” undergoes the highest number of  phonological processes among persian enclitic forms of the verb “boudan” (to be); it changes to [as] in one environment, to [s] in another, and to [e] in four environments. deletion of /t/ is common in all six contexts. these different pronunciations are determined by various...

Mantra sebagai bentuk puisi tradisional merupakan warisan dari kehidupan primitif zaman purba atau prasejarah yang berkembang sampai hari ini. Selain itu, mantra mengandung bahasa sugestif dan magis bagi para pengamalnya. Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mendeskripsikan penggunaan metafora manusia (human) pada Sinding Badan masyarakat Melayu Sambas. Metode dipahami dengan sudut pandang pendekatan...

In the Minimalist framework of Chomsky 1993, feature checking and the principle of Greed plays an important role: an element can only move to satisfy some featural requirements of its own. In particular, it cannot move to satisfy the requirements of some other element, nor can it move to receive some particular interpretation. The checking theory is designed to be a restricted theory of landing...

ing from these minor conceptual difficulties, however, the markedness hierarchy established so far corresponds to the ‘consensus hierarchy’ that was proposed in Sect. 2.1.4.1 as a generalization over different hierarchies of referring expressions found in linguistic literature. Correspondingly, hierarchies of referring expressions as discussed in Sect. 2.1.2 can be interpreted as markedness hie...

In recent years, pronouns have become a white-hot interface between language and social political issues. “My are he/they” signals allegiance to one side in the culture wars, as does whatever.” But there is surprisingly little philosophical work at this interface; paper aims chart main questions argue for some answers, with hope of stimulating more research.