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- Pragmatics [125] http://purl.org/dc/terms/subject http://instance.metastore.ingenta.com/content/lin-prag
- Theoretical linguistics [121] http://purl.org/dc/terms/subject http://instance.metastore.ingenta.com/content/lin-theor
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- Historical linguistics [37] http://purl.org/dc/terms/subject http://instance.metastore.ingenta.com/content/lin-hl
- Afro-Asiatic languages [36] http://purl.org/dc/terms/subject http://instance.metastore.ingenta.com/content/lin-afas
- Communication Studies [31] http://purl.org/dc/terms/subject http://instance.metastore.ingenta.com/content/comm-cgen
- Cognition and language [27] http://purl.org/dc/terms/subject http://instance.metastore.ingenta.com/content/lin-cogn
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- Phonology [27] http://purl.org/dc/terms/subject http://instance.metastore.ingenta.com/content/lin-phon
- Generative linguistics [25] http://purl.org/dc/terms/subject http://instance.metastore.ingenta.com/content/lin-gener
- Germanic linguistics [25] http://purl.org/dc/terms/subject http://instance.metastore.ingenta.com/content/lin-germ
- Philosophy [25] http://purl.org/dc/terms/subject http://instance.metastore.ingenta.com/content/phil-gen
- English linguistics [24] http://purl.org/dc/terms/subject http://instance.metastore.ingenta.com/content/lin-eng
- Romance linguistics [22] http://purl.org/dc/terms/subject http://instance.metastore.ingenta.com/content/lin-rom
- Sociolinguistics and Dialectology [22] http://purl.org/dc/terms/subject http://instance.metastore.ingenta.com/content/lin-socio
- Applied linguistics [18] http://purl.org/dc/terms/subject http://instance.metastore.ingenta.com/content/lin-appl
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- Contact Linguistics [10] http://purl.org/dc/terms/subject http://instance.metastore.ingenta.com/content/lin-cont
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- Cognitive linguistics [8] http://purl.org/dc/terms/subject http://instance.metastore.ingenta.com/content/lin-cogpsy
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- Consciousness research [6] http://purl.org/dc/terms/subject http://instance.metastore.ingenta.com/content/cons-gen
- Anthropological Linguistics [6] http://purl.org/dc/terms/subject http://instance.metastore.ingenta.com/content/lin-anthr
- Japanese linguistics [5] http://purl.org/dc/terms/subject http://instance.metastore.ingenta.com/content/lin-japanese
- Medieval philosophy [5] http://purl.org/dc/terms/subject http://instance.metastore.ingenta.com/content/phil-med
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- Evolution of language [3] http://purl.org/dc/terms/subject http://instance.metastore.ingenta.com/content/lin-evo
- Forensic linguistics [3] http://purl.org/dc/terms/subject http://instance.metastore.ingenta.com/content/lin-for
- Language disorders & speech pathology [3] http://purl.org/dc/terms/subject http://instance.metastore.ingenta.com/content/lin-ladis
- Semiotics [3] http://purl.org/dc/terms/subject http://instance.metastore.ingenta.com/content/lin-sem
- Sino-Tibetan languages [3] http://purl.org/dc/terms/subject http://instance.metastore.ingenta.com/content/lin-sitib
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- Semiotics [3] http://purl.org/dc/terms/subject http://instance.metastore.ingenta.com/content/lit-sem
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- General studies in art & art history [2] http://purl.org/dc/terms/subject http://instance.metastore.ingenta.com/content/art-gen
- Interaction Studies [2] http://purl.org/dc/terms/subject http://instance.metastore.ingenta.com/content/is-gis
- Bibliographies in linguistics [2] http://purl.org/dc/terms/subject http://instance.metastore.ingenta.com/content/lin-biblio
- Languages of North America [2] http://purl.org/dc/terms/subject http://instance.metastore.ingenta.com/content/lin-noam
- Languages of South America [2] http://purl.org/dc/terms/subject http://instance.metastore.ingenta.com/content/lin-soam
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- Industrial & organizational studies [2] http://purl.org/dc/terms/subject http://instance.metastore.ingenta.com/content/misc-indroc
- Basque linguistics [1] http://purl.org/dc/terms/subject http://instance.metastore.ingenta.com/content/lin-basque
- Classical linguistics [1] http://purl.org/dc/terms/subject http://instance.metastore.ingenta.com/content/lin-class
- Gesture Studies [1] http://purl.org/dc/terms/subject http://instance.metastore.ingenta.com/content/lin-gest
- Language documentation [1] http://purl.org/dc/terms/subject http://instance.metastore.ingenta.com/content/lin-landoc
- Medieval linguistics [1] http://purl.org/dc/terms/subject http://instance.metastore.ingenta.com/content/lin-med
- Neurolinguistics [1] http://purl.org/dc/terms/subject http://instance.metastore.ingenta.com/content/lin-neuro
- Natural language processing [1] http://purl.org/dc/terms/subject http://instance.metastore.ingenta.com/content/lin-nlp
- Other Indo-European languages [1] http://purl.org/dc/terms/subject http://instance.metastore.ingenta.com/content/lin-othie
- Other literatures [1] http://purl.org/dc/terms/subject http://instance.metastore.ingenta.com/content/lit-othlit
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Pararealities: The Nature of Our Fictions and How We Know Them
Author(s): Floyd MerrellPublication Date January 1983More LessThe objective of this study is to inquire, from a broad epistemological view, into the underlying nature of fictions, and above all, to discover how it is possible to create and process them. In Chapter One, I put forth four "postulates" in the form of though experiments. in Chapter Two I turn attention to make-believe, imaginary, and dream worlds, and how they can be conceived and perceived only with respect to the/a "real world." Chapter Three includes a discussion of the affinities and differences between one's tacit knowledge of certain aspects of the number system in arithmetic (an ordered series) and the range of all possible fictional entities (an unordered network). In Chapter Four I establish more precisely the relations between one's "real world" and one's fictional worlds in light of the conclusions from Chapter Three. And, in Chapter Five, I attempt to construct a formal model with which to account for the construction of all possible fictional sentences.
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Paremias
Author(s): Lucía Navarro-BrotonsPublication Date November 2022More LessLa importancia del estudio de la fraseología en general, y de la paremiología en particular, viene avalada tanto por el interés que han suscitado las unidades fraseológicas desde la Antigüedad como porque los investigadores del tema ponen de manifiesto que se trata de la piedra angular del lexicón y acervo cultural de toda lengua. En este marco, esta monografía presenta un breve recorrido histórico de la paremiografía y paremiología en España y Francia; comprueba si existe un vacío cuantitativo y cualitativo en el tratamiento lexicográfico de las paremias en diccionarios sintagmáticos y generales tanto monolingües como bilingües; evidencia si son similares las características sintácticas de las paremias de las estructuras a/à y quien/qui en español y francés; determina si hay un tipo de variante paremiológica que predomine sobre las demás y establece los tipos de correspondencias paremiológicas existentes aplicables al ámbito traductológico.
The importance of studying phraseology in general, and paremiology in particular, is justified by the interest that phraseological units have aroused since ancient times, but also by the fact that researchers on the subject have shown that PUs are the cornerstone of the lexicon and the cultural heritage of any language. In this context, this monograph provides a brief historical overview of paremiography and paremiology in Spain and France; it determines whether there is a quantitative and qualitative gap in the lexicographical treatment of paremias in both monolingual and bilingual syntagmatic and general dictionaries; it determines whether the syntactic characteristics of the paremias of the structures a/à and quien/qui in Spanish and French are similar; it identifies whether there is one type of paremiological variant that is predominant over the others, and it defines the types of existing paremiological equivalences applicable to the field of translation.
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Parentheticals
Editor(s): Nicole Dehé and Yordanka KavalovaPublication Date July 2007More LessThis volume offers a unique collection of articles investigating the often neglected phenomenon of parentheticals, which are commonly seen as expressions interrupting the linear structure of a host utterance, but lacking a structural relation to it. The book provides an up-to-date introduction to the subject, as well as a range of research articles addressing questions including the syntactic link between parenthetical and frame utterance, the relation between syntactic and prosodic form, the usage and interpretation of parentheticals, and many more. It embraces research findings from different European languages (English, German, Dutch, Romance) and covers an array of forms of syntactic interpolations (from one-word parentheticals to clausal) and a range of methodologies, including empirical research, corpus research, and theoretical analyses. The collection underlines the importance of an interdisciplinary approach to a multi-faceted phenomenon such as parentheticals.
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Paris School Semiotics
Editor(s): Paul Perron and Frank CollinsPublication Date January 1989More LessIt has often been claimed that the aim of semiotics is to establish a general theory of systems of signification. However, as Jean-Claude Coquet notes in a recent collection of essays, what distinguishes one school of semiotics from another is the initial definition given of sign. If, for certain semioticians, the sign is first of all an observable phenomenon, for the Paris School it is first of all a construct and this point of departure has crucial theoretical and practical consequences. The essays appearing in these two volumes are representative of recent work carried out by members of this semiotic school. Essays in Volume I study problems more closely related to theoretical issues, while Volume II focuses more specifically on various fields of application.
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Paris School Semiotics
Editor(s): Paul Perron and Frank CollinsPublication Date January 1989More LessIt has often been claimed that the aim of semiotics is to establish a general theory of systems of signification. However, as Jean-Claude Coquet notes in a recent collection of essays, what distinguishes one school of semiotics from another is the initial definition given of sign. If, for certain semioticians, the sign is first of all an observable phenomenon, for the Paris School it is first of all a construct and this point of departure has crucial theoretical and practical consequences. The essays appearing in these two volumes are representative of recent work carried out by members of this semiotic school. Essays in Volume I study problems more closely related to theoretical issues, while Volume II focuses more specifically on various fields of application.
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La Parodia en la nueva novela hispanoamericana (1960–1985)
Author(s): Elżbieta SkłodowskaPublication Date April 1991More LessIn this brilliant overview of parodic praxis in the Spanish-American novel during the years 1960-1985, Elzbieta Skłodowska examines several aspects of parody: its role in the renovation of anachronistic forms of discourse (mock-epic) and the re-writing of the canon of the historical novel; its function in transgressing literary formulas (detective novel); its subversive quality in the counter-discourse of women writers; and the relation between parody, satire, irony, humor, and metafiction. This sound analysis of some twenty-five novels, carefully illustrated by works little treated in critical discourse, takes as its theoretical basis the works of the Russian Formalists and Linda Hutcheon's theory of parody.
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Participation in Public and Social Media Interactions
Editor(s): Marta Dynel and Jan ChovanecPublication Date February 2015More LessThis book deals with participation frameworks in modern social and public media. It brings together several cutting-edge research studies that offer exciting new insights into the nature and formats of interpersonal communication in diverse technology-mediated contexts. Some papers introduce new theoretical extensions to participation formats, while others present case studies in various discourse domains spanning public and private genres. Adopting the perspective of the pragmatics of interaction, these contributions discuss data ranging from public, mass-mediated and quasi-authentic texts, fully staged and scripted textual productions, to authentic, non-scripted private messages and comments, both of a permanent and ephemeral nature. The analyses include news interviews, online sports reporting, sitcoms, comedy shows, stand-up comedies, drama series, institutional and personal blogs, tweets, follow-up YouTube video commentaries, and Facebook status updates. All the authors emphasize the role of context and pay attention to how meaning is constructed by participants in interactions in increasingly complex participation frameworks existing in traditional as well as novel technologically mediated interactions.
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Participation, Engagement and Collaboration in Newsmaking
Editor(s): Jana Declercq, Geert Jacobs, Felicitas Macgilchrist and Astrid VandendaelePublication Date November 2021More LessThis book brings together new research on the practices of newsmaking. Participation, engagement and collaboration have long been heralded as a vision, goal or emerging practice in the news. The claim in this volume is that they have now become sedimented as the common-sense baseline for everyday newsmaking routines. The issue for newsmakers is not ‘whether’ to engage with readers and users, but ‘how’ to engage with them. The contributions span a wide range of newsmaking contexts, including analytics-based online headline testing, the communication efforts of a Brussels-based free marketeer thinktank, collaborative science journalism and rapidly changing journalistic sourcing and writing routines from legacy to social media. Together they argue for a postfoundational perspective, which observes how participation, engagement and collaboration have emerged as a ‘foundation’ which is no longer questioned, but which can lead to new tensions in newsmaking. As such, the book provides inspirational reading for anyone in the social sciences and humanities who is interested in understanding how the ubiquity of participation, engagement and collaboration in the making of the news impacts on issues of power, transparency and control in the twenty-first century.
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Particle Verbs and Local Domains
Author(s): Jochen ZellerPublication Date October 2001More LessThis book offers a new account of particle verbs in German and Dutch by looking at the conditions under which a non-morphological structure may exhibit “word-like” properties. It shows that although particles are represented as phrasal complements of their verbs, they lack the functional structure which is usually associated with phrases. The author uses the concept of a “local domain”, which can be established by terminal nodes both in syntax and in morphology, to demonstrate why the impoverished syntactic structure of particle verbs shares important features of complex words derived in morphology. The analysis is substantiated through a detailed study of the syntactic, semantic, and morphological properties of particle verbs. Special attention is given to the relevance of local domains for the association of lexical information about sound and meaning with terminal nodes in morphological and syntactic structures.
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Particle Verbs in English
Author(s): Nicole DehéPublication Date November 2002More LessThis book offers a new account of the transitive particle verb construction in English. The main emphasis is on the alternation between the two word orders possible in English (continuous: hand in the manuscript vs. discontinuous: hand the manuscript in). The central aim is to show that the choice of the word order is not optional as has often been claimed in related literature on the topic and that a syntactic analysis should thus not be based on optional movement operations or optional feature selection. The author argues in some detail that the choice of the word order is determined to a great extent by the information structuring of the context in which the relevant construction is embedded. The syntactic structure she develops is based on a substantial combination of empirical facts, evidence from theoretical research and the results of two experimental studies on the intonation patterns of the construction.
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Particles in German, English, and Beyond
Editor(s): Remus Gergel, Ingo Reich and Augustin SpeyerPublication Date August 2022More LessGermanic languages have been recognized as having not only intensifying or focus particles, but also so-called modal particles. The relevant items are specialized discourse markers joined by characteristic syntactic properties. After an introductory overview of the complex field, the contributions of the current volume capitalize on, but also work much further beyond the baseline of the established insights. They offer analyses of (a) new data types within and sometimes across several Germanic languages (e.g. varieties/stages of German, Dutch, or Norwegian), encompassing different classes of particles and a variety of syntactic-semantic as well as usage-based aspects; (b) the classical dichotomy between languages like German and English when it comes to the availability of modal particles both synchronically and diachronically; (c) crucial integrated insight from non-Germanic languages such as French, Hungarian, Italian, Mandarin, or Vietnamese. A number of mostly interface-based proposals of several languages as well as further generalizations are put on the table for both expert and novice readers in the field.
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Parts of Speech
Editor(s): Umberto Ansaldo, Jan Don and Roland PfauPublication Date September 2010More LessParts of Speech are a central aspect of linguistic theory and analysis. Though a long-established tradition in Western linguistics and philosophy has assumed the validity of Parts of Speech in the study of language, there are still many questions left unanswered. For example, should Parts of Speech be treated as descriptive tools or are they to be considered universal constructs? Is it possible to come up with cross-linguistically valid formal categories, or are categories of language structure ultimately language-specific? Should they be defined semantically, syntactically, or otherwise? Do non-Indo-European languages reveal novel aspects of categorical assignment? This volume attempts to answer these and other fundamental questions for linguistic theory and its methodology by offering a range of contributions that spans diverse theoretical persuasions and contributes to our understanding of Parts of Speech with analyses of new data sets.
These articles were originally published in Studies in Language 32:3 (2008).
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Passive and Voice
Editor(s): Masayoshi ShibataniPublication Date January 1988More LessThis volume brings together 18 original papers dealing with voice-related phenomena.The languages dealt with represent both typological and geographic diversity, ranging from accusative-type languages to ergative-type and Philippine-type languages, and from Australia to Africa and Siberia. The studies presented here open up many possibilities for theorizing and offer data inviting formal treatments, but the most important contribution they make is in terms of the insights they offer for a better understanding of the fundamentals of voice phenomena.
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Passive Constructions in Lithuanian
Editor(s): Anna Kibort and Nijolė MaskaliūnienėPublication Date November 2016More LessThis unique volume comprises a monograph and a set of articles by renowned typologist Emma Geniušienė which all focus on the topic of morphologically passive constructions in Lithuanian. It is the first translation into English of the author’s original work from the 1970s. It offers a rich treasury of data, a detailed structural description of all morphologically passive constructions, and an examination of the functions which these constructions have in the discourse. The addition of modern interlinear morpheme-by-morpheme glosses to hundreds of linguistic examples and expert editorial work have turned the hard-to-access material into a timeless resource available for the first time to a broad international readership. The volume will be of value to descriptive linguists, typologists, morphologists and formal syntacticians, as well as to scholars of information structure and functional text analysis. It is an exciting addition to the linguistic literature and a fitting tribute to the author.
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The Passive in Japanese
Author(s): Tomoko IshizukaPublication Date September 2012More LessThis book describes and analyzes the passive voice system in Japanese within the framework of generative grammar. By unifying different types of passives conventionally distinguished within the literature, the book advances a simple minimalist account where various passive characteristics emerge from the lexical properties of a single passive morpheme interacting with independently-supported syntactic principles and general properties of Japanese. The book both reevaluates numerous properties previously discussed within the literature and introduces interesting new data collected through experiments. This novel analysis also benefits from considering the important issue of interspeaker variability, in terms of grammaticality judgments and context requirements, and its implications for individual grammar. The book will be of interest not only to students and scholars working on passive constructions, but more generally to scholars working on generative grammar, experimental syntax, language acquisition, and sentence processing.
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Passivization and Typology
Editor(s): Werner Abraham and Larisa LeisiöPublication Date September 2006More LessIs the passive a unified universal phenomenon? The claim derived from this volume is that the passive, if not universal, has become unified according to function. Language as a means of communication needs the passive, or passive-like constructions, and sooner or later develops them based on other voices (impersonal active, middle, reflexive), specific semantic meanings such as adversativity, or tense-aspect categories (stative,perfect, preterit). Certain contributors review the passives in various languages and language groups, including languages rarely discussed. Another group of contributors takes a novel theoretical approach toward passivization within a broad typological perspective. Among the languages discussed are Vedic, Irish, Mandarin Chinese, Thai, Lithuanian, Mordvin, and Nganasan, next to almost all European languages. Various theoretical frameworks such as Optimality Theory, Modern Structuralist Approaches, Role and Reference Grammar, Cognitive Semantics, Distributed Morphology, and Case Grammar have been applied by the different authors.
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Past Participle Agreement
Author(s): Jorge Vega VilanovaPublication Date December 2020More LessIn this book, the traditional definition of ‘grammaticalization’ is challenged in the light of current developments in grammar theory. The main innovation of this approach is the focus on the feature composition of lexical items. From this perspective, the loss of past participle agreement in Catalan is analyzed on the basis of newly collected data as a consequence of the grammaticalization of formal features. The emergence of syntactic formal features through grammaticalization is understood as a last-resort repair mechanism for pragmatically costly derivations. Further far-reaching implications of this proposal under discussion are: the interplay between (re-)parametrization, economy, cyclicity, and grammaticalization; the characterization of free variation under a modified version of the Interface Hypothesis; and the precedence of syntactic over morphological change. This book is not only of interest to specialists in Romance languages but also to anyone working on diachronic linguistics.
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Paths of Development in L1 and L2 acquisition
Editor(s): Sharon Unsworth, Teresa Parodi, Antonella Sorace and Martha Young-ScholtenPublication Date February 2006More LessThe main focus of generative language development research in recent decades has been the logical problem of language acquisition - how learners go beyond the input to acquire complex linguistic knowledge. This collection deals with the complementary issue of the developmental problem of language acquisition: How do learners move from one developmental stage to another and how and why do grammars develop in a certain fashion? Building on considerable previous research, the authors address both general and specific issues related to paths of development. These issues are tackled through considering studies of L1 and L2 children and L2 adults learning a range of languages including Dutch, English, French, German, Greek and Japanese.
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Pathways of Change
Editor(s): Olga Fischer, Anette Rosenbach and Dieter SteinPublication Date November 2000More LessThere is a continual growth of interest among linguists of all-theoretical denominations in grammaticalization, a concept central to many linguistic (change) theories. However, the discussion of grammaticalization processes has often suffered from a shortage of concrete empirical studies from one of the best-documented languages in the world, English. Pathways of Change contains discussion of new data and provides theoretical lead articles based on these data that will help sharpen the theoretical aspects involved, such as the definition and the logical connection of the component processes of grammaticalization. The volume is concentrated around a number of themes that are important or controversial in grammaticalization studies, such as the principle of unidirectionality, the relation between lexicalization and grammaticalization — and connected with these two factors the possibility of degrammaticalization — the way iconicity interweaves with grammaticalization processes, and with the phenomenon of grammaticalization on a synchronic or discourse level, also often termed subjectifization.
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Pathways of the Brain
Author(s): Sydney M. LambPublication Date February 1999More LessThe brain is the organ of knowledge and organizer of our abilities, our means of recognizing a face in a crowd, of conversing about anything we experience or imagine, of forming thoughts and developing ideas, of instantly understanding words coming rapidly in conversation. How does it manage all this? Does it represent information in symbols or in the connectivity of a vast network?Pathways of the Brain builds a theory to answer such questions. Using a top-down modeling strategy, it charts relationships among words and other products of the brain’s linguistic system to reveal properties of that system. Going beyond earlier linguistics, it sets three plausibility requirements for a valid neurocognitive theory: operational, developmental, and neurological: It must show how the linguistic system can operate for speaking and understanding, how it can be learned by children, and how it is implemented in neural structures. Unlike theories that leave linguistics isolated from science, it builds a bridge to biology.
Of interest to anthropologists, linguists, neurologists, neuroscientists, philosophers, psychologists, and any thoughtful person interested in language or the brain.
The author is Agnes Cullen Arnold Professor Emeritus of Linguistics and Cognitive Sciences.
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