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Writing Systems: Signs, Icons, Symbols and Abstraction

Writing Systems: Signs, Icons, Symbols and Abstraction

How does abstraction help to make writing a tractable problems for the human brain?

Already / Liao as aspect marker in Singlish

Already / Liao as aspect marker in Singlish

This essay was written in the Fall 2012 semester as part of the Indo-European Syntax course at New York University, which was then numbered LING-UA 36. It has been lightly modified from the version I submitted for class. Singlish is an English-based creole language spoken in Singapore, influenced by various

Development of the Catalan periphrastic past tense construction

Development of the Catalan periphrastic past tense construction

This essay was written in the Fall 2012 semester as part of the Indo-European Syntax course at New York University [https://www.nyu.edu/], which was then numbered LING-UA 36. In the Catalan language, there are three important periphrastic constructions that can be formed with the auxiliary verb anar (“to

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