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On the diachrony of gender in Asia Minor Greek: The development of semantic agreement in Pontic (2014)
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Alongside the syntactic agreement system that it inherited from earlier stages in its history as a Greek dialect whereby targets agree with the morphologically-assigned gender of their controllers (masculine, feminine, neuter), Pontic has developed a... Read More about On the diachrony of gender in Asia Minor Greek: The development of semantic agreement in Pontic.

Austen’s Bath and Bath’s Jane: Austen writing the city and its twenty-first-century marketing of heritage Jane (2013)
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The name of the Hwicce: A discussion (2013)
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This article presents the evidence for the Anglo-Saxon ethnic name Hwicce borne by a people of the south-west Midlands, and reviews previous unsatisfactory attempts to explain it. It appears to be probably of British Celtic origin, and an etymology i... Read More about The name of the Hwicce: A discussion.

The struggle against denationalisation: The Russian emigration in Europe and education in the 1920s (2013)
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This article examines the attempts made by Russian émigré activists in inter-war Europe to educate Russian refugee children in a network of national Russian schools. This formed an important aspect of the émigré elite's mission of saving Russian cult... Read More about The struggle against denationalisation: The Russian emigration in Europe and education in the 1920s.

Surname typology and the problem of inconsistent classification (2013)
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This paper analyzes methodological inconsistency in surname classification, and the implications this has for the comparability of different works. Many studies have organized surnames by type, based on each name's "meaning," in order to identify nat... Read More about Surname typology and the problem of inconsistent classification.

Dowagers, debs, nuns and babies: The politics of Nostalgia and the older woman in the British sunday night television serial (2013)
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The extensive commercial success of two well-made popular television drama serials screened in the UK at prime time on Sunday evenings during the winter of 2011-12, Downton Abbey (ITV, 2010-) and Call the Midwife (BBC, 2012-), has appeared to consoli... Read More about Dowagers, debs, nuns and babies: The politics of Nostalgia and the older woman in the British sunday night television serial.

Critiquing Calypso: Authorial and Academic Bias in the Reading of a Young Adult Novel (2013)
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The position of authors of fiction in relation to critical discussion of their work is an unsettled one. While recognized as having knowledge and expertise regarding their texts, they are typically regarded as unreliable sources when it comes to crit... Read More about Critiquing Calypso: Authorial and Academic Bias in the Reading of a Young Adult Novel.

Knowledge Exchange as a practice (2013)
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Knowledge Exchange has been a buzz phrase with the UK Research Councils for several years now. Initially this practice was called Knowledge Transfer until it came to be realized that that description was one-way only and that academia might in fact l... Read More about Knowledge Exchange as a practice.

Rethinking Romano-British corinium (2013)
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It is suggested that the name generally accepted as the Romano-British name of Cirencester, Corinium, the traditional spelling deriving from a Latin rendering of that in Ptolemy's Geography, is mistaken, and that for philologically sound reasons the... Read More about Rethinking Romano-British corinium.

Mind and matter in the picture of Dorian gray (2013)
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In chapter 8 of Dorian Gray, Dorian reflects on the terrifying discovery, which he has made the previous night, that the painting has been somehow altered to express his own moral state. He speculates thus on a possible explanation for the change in... Read More about Mind and matter in the picture of Dorian gray.

The name of the state of Maine: An Irish perspective (2013)
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The three current theories of the origin of the name of the American state of Maine are reviewed and rejected. The connection of the colonist Sir Ferdinando Gorges with Ireland is explored, and a possible origin is proposed in the circumstances of th... Read More about The name of the state of Maine: An Irish perspective.

The universe in the universe. German idealism and the natural history of mind (2013)
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Recent considerations of mind and world react against philosophical naturalisation strategies by maintaining that the thought of the world is normatively driven to reject reductive or bald naturalism. This paper argues that we may reject bald or‘thou... Read More about The universe in the universe. German idealism and the natural history of mind.

England's Rivera: The Lost Murals of Viscount Hastings 1931–1939 (2013)
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© 2013, Copyright Taylor & Francis Group, LLC. Beyond his work as Diego Rivera's assistant in San Francisco and Detroit, little has been written about the British mural painter Viscount ‘Jack’ Hastings, creator of the Worker of the Future Upsetting... Read More about England's Rivera: The Lost Murals of Viscount Hastings 1931–1939.

Border imaging revealing the gaps between the reality, the representation, and the experience of the border (2013)
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Over the last several decades, the boundaries of languages and national and ethnic identities have been shifting, altering the notion of borders around the world. Borderland areas, such as East and West Europe, the US/Mexican frontera, and the Middle... Read More about Border imaging revealing the gaps between the reality, the representation, and the experience of the border.

The United Kingdom and its caribbean overseas territories: Present relations and future prospects (2013)
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This paper considers the relationship between the UK and its Caribbean Overseas Territories (OTs) since the Conservative-led coalition government won power in May 2010. There is discussion of the UK government’s recent White Paper on the OTs; the bal... Read More about The United Kingdom and its caribbean overseas territories: Present relations and future prospects.

Book review: James Chapman and Nicholas J Cull, Projecting Tomorrow: Science Fiction and Popular Cinema (2013)
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‘Hello sweetie pie’: A sociolinguistic analysis of terms of endearment in a Ghanaian university (2013)
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Following Brown and Gilman's (1960) study, sociolinguists have shown an increasing interest in the use of address forms in various social milieus such as religion, politics, media and academia. Using a two-pronged conceptual framework derived from in... Read More about ‘Hello sweetie pie’: A sociolinguistic analysis of terms of endearment in a Ghanaian university.

The memorialization of southern poor white men's labor in rick bragg's memoir trilogy (2013)
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This article explores the ways that Rick Bragg memorializes poor white men's labor across his memoir trilogy, examining the tensions that arise as he attempts to bring poor whites into the center of the southern community. I consider the neo-Agrarian... Read More about The memorialization of southern poor white men's labor in rick bragg's memoir trilogy.

Kant and Kierkegaard on freedom and evil (2013)
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Editorial: The Invasion of Grenada 30 Years on-A Retrospective (2013)
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