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Aïtel, Fazia. “Women Through the Male Gaze in Amazigh Film from Algeria.” Amazigh Cinema: An Introduction to North African Indigenous Film, edited by Lucy R McNair and Yahya Laayouni. Association of Canadian University Presses, April 2025, pp. 81-108.
Abstract: In this article I interrogate how Amazigh women have been portrayed in Algerian cinema, often being reduced to symbols of cultural authenticity or domestic virtue. My article calls for a shift toward female agency in both filmmaking and representation, arguing that the male-dominated industry must give way to more inclusive narratives that reflect women’s lived experiences.
Kim, Minju. “Secondary grammaticalization and subjectification: A case study of Korean conditional, concessive, and deontic modal eya.” Journal of Pragmatics, vol. 238, March 2025, pp. 86-100.
Abstract: Using diachronic corpus data, this study investigates the developmental journey of the Korean connective eya, which denotes conditional, concessive, and deontic modal meanings. The study proposes that eya consists of the connective e ‘and (then)’, ‘after’ and the focus particle ya, which can be read as ‘only’ or ‘even’ depending on context. At first, focus ya with the meaning of ‘only’ was attached to connective e ‘after’ to emphasize the temporal meaning. Their combination eya ‘only after’, serving as temporal background for the following main clause, grammaticalized into conditional eya ‘only if’. Subsequently, conditional eya ‘only if’ developed into concessive conditional eya ‘even if’ by occurring with extreme values, and this eventually became concessive eya ‘even though’. In addition, this study offers counter-evidence to recent proposals that secondary grammaticalization does not involve subjectification or even leads to the loss of subjective or expressive meanings. As in the case of eya, concessive markers often emerge from existing grammatical markers, and their grammaticalization usually involves increased subjectivity (e.g., speaker's surprise at an event countering expectations), rather than its loss.
Kim, Minju. "Grammaticalization in Korean." Korea Foundation Field Research Grant, 2025, $16,000.