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Conceptualization of the adverb in the first grammars of the Romanian language (1667-1822) [PDF]

Diversitate si Identitate Culturala in Europa
The study of the adverb in the first grammars of the Romanian language highlights its significant heterogeneous character, from a grammatical and semantic point of view.
Alina Marieta RUCĂREANU (Nun ALEXANDRA)
doaj  

It\u27s My Centennial! said Tom Swiftly [PDF]

, 2010
Starting in 1910, boys grew up devouring the adventures of Tom Swift, a sterling hero and natural scientific genius created by Edward Stratemeyer. Many of Tom\u27s inventions predated technological developments in real life -- electric cars, seacopters ...
Lederer, Richard
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Modal verbs in South Asian online Englishes: must, (have) got to, have to and need to

World Englishes, EarlyView.
Abstract This research article presents an analysis of four (semi‐)modals of necessity/obligation (must, (have) got to, have to and need to) in four CMC registers (comments, tweets, web forums and websites) originating from four South Asian countries (Bangladesh, India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka) along with the United Kingdom and United States.
Muhammad Shakir
wiley   +1 more source

Weak function word shift [PDF]

, 2004
The fact that object shift only affects weak pronouns in mainland Scandinavian is seen as an instance of a more general observation that can be made in all Germanic languages: weak function words tend to avoid the edges of larger prosodic domains.
Vogel, Ralf
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The double modal construction in English world wide

World Englishes, EarlyView.
Abstract The dual foci of the present study of double modals are their semantic characteristics and their distribution across regional varieties of English world wide. Tokens were extracted from GloWbE:Blogs, a database whose great size and informal tenor facilitated the investigation of this low‐frequency non‐standard feature. Double modals were found
Peter Collins, Adam Smith
wiley   +1 more source

A new way to lemmatize adjectives in a user-friendly Zulu-English dictionary [PDF]

, 2008
Traditionally, Zulu adjectives have been lemmatized under their stems only. In this research article, art in-depth analysis is undertaken to make a case for the lemmatization of all frequent adjectival forms with their adjective concords rather.
de Schryver, Gilles-Maurice
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The [ADJ + as] intensifier construction in Māori English/Aotearoa English

World Englishes, EarlyView.
Abstract We introduce the Waikato Māori English Conversation (MEC) corpus, which consists of 43 dyadic conversations between 49 young adults who self‐recorded informal conversations with close friends, in their own homes, with no topic of conversation specified (83 hours of dialogue; nearly 800,000 words).
Andreea S. Calude, Hēmi Whaanga
wiley   +1 more source

Adverb classes and adverb placement

, 2005
This contribution contains sections titled: (1) Introduction; (2) The categorial status of adverbs; (3) Adverb classes; (4) Issues of adverb placement; (5) Adverbs and movement; (6) Adverbs and adjunction; (7) Adverbs and the syntax/semantics mapping.
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Translation Shift in the Translated Novel of “to Kill a Mockingbird” by Femmy Syahrianni [PDF]

, 2017
The aim of this study were to find out category shift types used in thetranslation of novel To Kill A Bird and to describe of how category shift is translatedin the novel from English into Indonesian.
Zainuddin, D. S. (Dian)
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Superlative Objoid Constructions in British and American English

World Englishes, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper investigates regional variation in Superlative Objoid constructions (SOCs) and their prepositional variant (at‐SOCs). SOCs combine a possessive pronoun with a superlative adjective. These function as manner‐degree modifiers in a context where the possessive is in postverbal position and correlative with the subject, as in they tried
Tamara Bouso, Marianne Hundt
wiley   +1 more source