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Directions from the GET-GO. On the syntax of manner-of-motion verbs in directional constructions

Catalan Journal of Linguistics, 2010
Directional resultatives show puzzling syntactic restrictions. In Romance, broadly speaking, they do not occur at all with manner-of-motion verbs. In Dutch, directional resultatives with mannerof- motion verbs usually force postpositional order in the ...
Marcel den Dikken
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From a spatial adposition to a grammatical relations' marker: contact- and context-induced grammaticalization

Lähivõrdlusi, 2010
This paper is an investigation of grammatical relations' marking that combines the advances of monolingual analysis with cross-linguistic comparison. It examines adpositions as grammatical relations' markers and the linguistic change which leads to the ...
Leena Kolehmainen
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Place and place names: a unified model. [PDF]

Front Psychol, 2023
Ursini FA, Zhang YS.
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Patterns of grammaticalization in African languages [PDF]

, 1982
The approach outlined in the present paper is based on observations made with African languages. Although the 1000-odd African languages display a remarkable extent of structural variation, there are certain structures that do not seem to occur in Africa.
Heine, Bernd, Reh, Mechthild
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Review of Regina Pustet : Copulas: universals in the categorization of the lexicon: (Oxford University Press 2003; 262pp) [PDF]

, 2007
The renowned Grimm Dictionary (1854-1961) makes the statement that the German copula sein (to be) is “the most general and colourless of all verbal concepts” (der allgemeinste und farbloseste aller verbalbegriffe).
Maienborn, Claudia
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Demonstratives in Afaan Oromoo

Cogent Arts & Humanities
This study explores demonstratives in Afaan Oromoo, focusing on morphosyntactic, semantic classes and pragmatic aspects. It also examines that the choice of demonstratives is determined not solely by the speaker’s desired attention, but also by ...
Eba Teresa Garoma
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Locative morphemes in word-formation: comparison between English and Japanese [PDF]

, 2013
This is a preliminary examination of locative morphemes called AxPart morphemes as found in word-formation. Free AxPart morphemes that constitute lexical PPs in syntax actively participate in word-formation. Certain bound locative morphemes, on the other
Nagano, Akiko
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Lexical P or functional Mood? Grammatical categories and mechanisms of clausal adjunction

Glossa
The paper discusses mechanisms of clausal adjunction, that is, transforming a clause into a modifier with a specific interpretation (purpose, temporal, causal, etc.).
Irina Burukina
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Vanakooli

Keel ja Kirjandus
The modifying compound word vanakooli (‘old-school’), frequently used in informal speech as a variant of the phrase vana kooli, exemplifies a linguistic phenomenon where certain noun-based phrases tend to form compound words.
Maire Raadik
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Icono: a universal language that shows what it says. [PDF]

Front Psychol, 2023
Kramer P.
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