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Q: What does the term "coercion" mean in the context of Cognitive Linguistics?

I recently read a question that referred to "aspectual coercion" and looked up a paper called "Aspectual coercion and the typology of change of state predicates," which we see here: http://personalpages.manchester.ac.uk/staff/andrewkg/akg-jl2007.pdf. To read this paper, I'll have to know, am...

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17:58

Q: What processes of lenition in historical phonology exemplify affrication?

Are there any lenitive processes in historical phonology that show affrication, such as that of the High German Consonant Shift where a stop becomes an affricate before becoming a fricative e.g. p > pf > f

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Gigili

19:22

It's not my fault that you look like gooril angoori, addressing me as "he" because of jealousy wouldn't solve the problem.

Sorry, I had to say it.

Magilla Gorilla

Magilla Gorilla is a fictional gorilla and the star of The Magilla Gorilla Show by Hanna-Barbera that aired from 1964 to 1967. Character description Magilla Gorilla (voiced by Allan Melvin) is a gorilla who spends his time languishing in the front display window of Melvin Peebles' pet shop, eating bananas and being a drain on the businessman's finances. Peebles (voiced by Howard Morris and later by Don Messick) marked down Magilla's price considerably, but Magilla was invariably only purchased for a short time, typically by some thieves who needed a gorilla to break into a bank or by an ...