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Writing Systems: Signs, Icons, Symbols and Abstraction
Abstraction

Writing Systems: Signs, Icons, Symbols and Abstraction

In my last post, I wrote about abstraction in computer engineering. In today’s post, I want to start laying the foundation for looking at abstraction in two other fields, in visual arts and in linguistics. To do that, we’ll start in a place where the two fields overlap:

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Grace Teng Feb 4, 2018 • 12 min read
Development of the Catalan periphrastic past tense construction
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Development of the Catalan periphrastic past tense construction

This essay was written in the Fall 2012 semester as part of the Spanish Indo-European Syntax course at New York University, 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 go”). One is

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Grace Teng Oct 15, 2012 • 7 min read
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