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Gilaki reverse Ezafe: The two faces of a nominal linker
Abstract This paper examines a nominal linker (known as reverse Ezafe) in the Caspian language Gilaki. It is shown that the nominal linker in Gilaki is in fact the realization of two different morphosyntactic elements with distinct properties. In doing so, we also highlight the differences between reverse Ezafe and Ezafe, found in Persian and other ...
Arsalan Kahnemuyipour +2 more
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Adposition and Case Supersenses v2.5: Guidelines for English
This document offers a detailed linguistic description of SNACS (Semantic Network of Adposition and Case Supersenses; Schneider et al., 2018), an inventory of 50 semantic labels ("supersenses") that characterize the use of adpositions and case markers at
Abend, Omri +10 more
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Theoretical issues in the interpretation of Cappadocian, a not-so-dead Greek contact language [PDF]
Cappadocian is a mixed Greek-Turkish dialect continuum spoken in the Turkish Central Anatolia Region until the population exchange between Greece and Turkey in the 1920s. Only a few Cappadocian dialects are still spoken in present-day Greece.
Janse, Mark
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Un modèle pour l’alternance de langue sous la contrainte d’équivalence [PDF]
Comment peut-on combiner les grammaires de deux langues afin de construire un modèle du comportement des bilingues? Plus spécifiquement, est-ce possible de trouver un modèle de l’alternance de langue qui est soumise à la contrainte d’équivalence sur l ...
Mainville, Sylvie, Sankoff, David
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The Problem of English Spatial, Non-spatial and Idiomatic Adpositions in Iranian EFL Environment: A Prototypical Approach [PDF]
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
Once recalled the close ties Claude Vandeloise had with Corela, this introduction focuses on the unpublished work the author dedicated to the expression of proximity in French and in English.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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A typology of denominal verb formation strategies
Abstract This article aims to fill a gap in the typological literature by discussing the typology of overt denominal verb formation strategies, that is, morphosyntactic strategies other than conversion/zero‐derivation that are used to derive a verb from a nominal base.
Simone Mattiola, Andrea Sansò
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Oblique Serial Verbs in Creole/Pidgin Languages
Th is paper focuses on the syntax of (argument introducing/valency increasing) serial verbs in Creole/Pidgin languages, providing empirical arguments for the model of grammatical relations advanced in a series of recent works by Manzini and Savoia (2011a,
Ludovico Franco
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How do Chinese L1 learners express Estonian static spatial relations?
The aim of this research was to find out how differences in Chinese and Estonian spatial language influence the way Chinese L1 speakers acquire the Estonian system of expressing static spatial relations.
Agu Bleive
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The indigenization of Ghanaian Pidgin English
Abstract In the world Englishes literature, ‘indigenization’ is shorthand for the localization of Outer Circle Englishes in former exploitation colonies like Ghana. However, the localization of Ghanaian English has been continually reversed by ‘corrective’ realignment with world standard English through institutional regimes.
Kofi Yakpo
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