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Investigating Three Morphemes “-ænæ”, “-æwæ” and “-æɾæ” in Hawrami: Postposition or Case Marker [PDF]

مطالعات زبان‌‌ها و گویش‌های غرب ایران, 2015
In this paper we have investigated three frequent morphemes in Hawrami of Paveh, namely, “-ænæ”, “-æwæ” and “-æɾæ”. The nature of these morphemes is unknown. They are attached to nouns with a meaning like that of adpositions. We aim to explore what these
Fateme Yousefirad, بیستون عباسی   +1 more
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Founder effects identify languages of the earliest Americans

American Journal of Biological Anthropology, Volume 186, Issue 1, January 2025.
Abstract The known languages of the Americas comprise nearly half of the world's language families and a wide range of structural types, a level of diversity that required considerable time to develop. This paper proposes a model of settlement and expansion designed to integrate current linguistic analysis with other prehistoric research on the ...
Johanna Nichols
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The Silence of Heads

Studies in Chinese Linguistics, 2016
On the basis of considerations involving complementizers, sentence-final particles, need, aspect, tense, focus and topic, agreement morphemes, determiners, verbrelated particles and adpositions, I reach the conclusion that many more heads in the ...
Kayne Richard S.
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The Emergence of Axial Parts

Nordlyd: Tromsø University Working Papers on Language & Linguistics, 2007
Many languages have specialized locative words or morphemes translating roughly into words like ‘front,’ ‘back,’ ‘top,’ ‘bottom,’ ‘side,’ and so on.
Peter Svenonius
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WE…WITH ANNA: THE INCLUSORY PLURAL PRONOMINAL CONSTRUCTION IN FINNISH AND FENNO‐SWEDISH*

Studia Linguistica, Volume 78, Issue 2, Page 364-398, August 2024.
Abstract This article provides a syntactic analysis of the inclusory plural pronominal construction in Fenno‐Swedish and Finnish. In this construction, a plural pronoun has a singular reading: vi …med Anna (literally “we …with Anna”) means ‘Anna and I’. In addition to the plural pronoun, the construction includes a comitative PP.
Klaus Kurki
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Analyse sémantique des constructions locatives statiques en koyaga, langue mandé de Côte d’Ivoire [PDF]

Akofena
Résumé :Cette étude analyse non seulement les items verbaux, mais aussi les marqueurs lexicaux de localisation employés par les locuteurs koyaga dans leurs constructions locatives pour exprimer les relations spatiales statiques.
Fréjuss Yafessou KOUAME & Yassine Juliette KAMAGATE
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Syntax of Dutch [PDF]

, 2013
Part of the larger Syntax of Dutch series, this volume focuses on the internal makeup and distribution of adpositional phrases in Dutch. It covers such topics as complementation and modification of adpositional phrases, as well as their predicative, attributive, and adverbial uses.
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Rules as data

Regulation &Governance, Volume 18, Issue 3, Page 657-673, July 2024.
Abstract Rules lie at the core of many disciplines beneath regulatory studies. Such a broad interest inevitably comes with fragmented understandings and technical choices that hinder knowledge cumulation and learning. This introduction tackles these limitations through an encompassing analytical blueprint from measurement theory.
Alessia Damonte, Giulia Bazzan
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The Problem of English Spatial, Non-spatial and Idiomatic Adpositions in Iranian EFL Environment: A Prototypical Approach [PDF]

Journal of Applied Linguistics, 2010
Several studies of L2 learners’ interlanguage have addressed the complexity of the English adpositional system due to several reasons like L1 transfer, lack of knowledge in L2 and the strong collocational relations of prepositions with other elements of ...
Nassim Golaghaei, Firooz Sadighi
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Claude Vandeloise on proximity or the missing piece of a final triptych

Corela, 2017
Once recalled the close ties Claude Vandeloise had with Corela, this introduction focuses on the unpublished work the author dedicated to the expression of proximity in French and in English. This work is put in relation with two other contributions, one
Michel Aurnague, Gilles Col
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