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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Corela, 2017 Once recalled the close ties Claude Vandeloise had with Corela, this introduction focuses on the unpublished work the author dedicated to the expression of proximity in French and in English.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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Adposition and Case Supersenses v2.5: Guidelines for English
, 2020 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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Problems of methodology and explanation in word order universals research [PDF]
, 2010 Ever since the publication of Greenberg 1963, word order typologists have attempted to formulate and refine implicational universals of word order so as to characterize the restricted distribution of certain word order patterns, and in some cases have ...
LaPolla, Randy J.
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Spatial orientation and grammaticalization [PDF]
, 2005 The focus of this paper is on a probably universal type of grammaticalization whereby body part terms turn into place-denoting morphemes (adverbs, postpositions or local case markers).
Sipőcz, Katalin
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Gilaki reverse Ezafe: The two faces of a nominal linker
Syntax, Volume 27, Issue 2, Page 376-392, June 2024.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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Oblique Serial Verbs in Creole/Pidgin Languages
Quaderni di Linguistica e Studi Orientali, 2020 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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Microvariation in the Languages of the Iberian Peninsula [PDF]
, 2013 This issue of the Catalan Journal of Linguistics was conceived with the idea to promote comparative studies of the languages spoken in the Iberian Peninsula.
Ordóñez, Francisco, Roca, Francesc
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A typology of denominal verb formation strategies
Language and Linguistics Compass, Volume 18, Issue 3, May/June 2024.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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Towards an Analysis of Complex Motion Event Packaging in South Eastern Huastec (Maya, Mexico)
CogniTextes, 2015 This paper presents an underdescribed way of encoding the Path component of complex motion events in South Eastern Huastec (HSF), a Mayan language spoken in Mexico.
Ana Kondic
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