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Of middens and markets: the phenomenology of the market place in the Bronze Age and beyond
(Oxbow Books, 2018)
It is not known when humans started using markets to exchange goods. However, we have concrete evidence of their doing so from at least the Bronze Age. While the existence of market places is often not taken into consideration ...
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The Use of Bronze Objects in the 3rd Millenium BC – a survey between Atlantic and Indus
(Oxbow, 2017)
The present article provides a survey on the appearance of bronze, an intentional alloy of copper and tin, before the end of the 3rd millennium BC, or more precisely before 2200/2100 BC. More than 140 sites have been ...
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Detecting clauses and their dependencies in signed utterances: A syntactico-semantic approach
(2018)
Investigating the syntactic structure of utterances with multiple predicates in sign languages requires a clear understanding of how many finite and infinitival clauses they contain and which syntactic dependencies exist ...
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Handling Sign Language Data: The Impact of Modality
(2019)
Natural languages come in two different modalities. The impact of modality on the grammatical structure and linguistic theory has been discussed at great length in the last 20 years. By contrast, the impact of modality on ...
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Adverbial clauses: Internally rich, externally null
(2019)
This paper suggests a novel syntactic treatment of adverbial clauses. The point of departure is the observation – in German and Slavic languages – that there exists an asymmetry in the complexity of subordinating elements ...
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Scales, weights and weight-regulated artefacts in Middle and Late Bronze Age Britain
(2019)
The identification of weights and weight-regulated artefacts is of primary importance for confirming the existence of European Bronze Age value ratios and exchange systems. Until recently, however, no such Bronze Age ...
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The third person gap in adnominal pronoun constructions
(2020)
The lack of third person adnominal pronouns in English-type languages (*they linguists) is argued to be an effect of contextually conditioned allomorphy between the exponents of the definite article and third person pronouns ...
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Lost in combat? A scrap metal find from the Bronze Age battlefield site at Tollense
(2019)
A decade ago, archaeologists discovered the site of a Bronze Age battlefield in the Tollense
Valley in north-eastern Germany. Dated to the early thirteenth century BC, the remains
of over 140 individuals have been documented, ...
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Breaking News! Making and testing Bronze Age balance scales
(2020)
This interdisciplinary paper (archaeology, macromolecular chemistry and material science) investigates theproduction and load-bearing capacities of Bronze Age balance scales.The existence of weighing equipment and practices ...