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Within Germanic, it’s related to German ‘würgen’ and Dutch ‘wurgen’, which mean “to strangle”.
A little further down the family line, they’re related to Latin ‘urgēre’ (to press), which gave English ‘urgent’.
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Within Germanic, it’s related to German ‘würgen’ and Dutch ‘wurgen’, which mean “to strangle”.
A little further down the family line, they’re related to Latin ‘urgēre’ (to press), which gave English ‘urgent’.
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It challenges the blurred lines between semantics and pragmatics in CxG, advocating for clearer distinctions to enhance our understanding of linguistic constructions.
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It challenges the blurred lines between semantics and pragmatics in CxG, advocating for clearer distinctions to enhance our understanding of linguistic constructions.
🔗 Read it here: doi.org/10.1075/bjl....
The 18th Biennial Conference of the International Association for Forensic and Legal Linguistics (IAFLL 2027) will be held in Porto, Portugal, 12-16 July 2027 hosted by the Faculty of Arts and Humanities of the University of Porto.
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The 18th Biennial Conference of the International Association for Forensic and Legal Linguistics (IAFLL 2027) will be held in Porto, Portugal, 12-16 July 2027 hosted by the Faculty of Arts and Humanities of the University of Porto.
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"Your image never fades from my heart,
Even if valleys lie between us.
For you, I have sown the seed of love in my heart;
Harvest it each year until my death."
"Your image never fades from my heart,
Even if valleys lie between us.
For you, I have sown the seed of love in my heart;
Harvest it each year until my death."
How Sweden survives without small talk.
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How Sweden survives without small talk.
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What’s this ‘-go’ doing there?
It’s a remnant of the same Latin word that gave us ‘con’.
So etymologically, ‘contigo’ contains this word twice: “with you-with”.
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