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Successful features: Verb raising and adverbs in L2 acquisition under an Organic Grammar approach [PDF]
, 2009 This is a pre-publication version of Vainikka, A. and M. Young-Scholten. 2009. Successful features: Verb raising and adverbs in L2 acquisition under an Organic Grammar approach. In N. Snape, I. Y-K. Leung and Mike Sharwood Smith (eds.) Representational
Vainikka, Anne Marjatta
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Ordinal Numerals as a Criterion for Subclassification: The Case of Semitic
Transactions of the Philological Society, EarlyView.Abstract This article explores how ordinal numerals (like first, second and third) can help classify languages, focusing on the Semitic language family. Ordinals are often formed according to productive derivational processes, but as a separate word class, they may retain archaic morphology that is otherwise lost from the language.
Benjamin D. Suchard
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The construction non-prefixed verb + spatial adverb in Latvian
Eesti ja Soome-ugri Keeleteaduse Ajakiri, 2017 The status of constructions of the type non-prefixed verb + adverb with regard to expressing aspectuality (iet iekšā ‘to go in’, vērt vaļā ‘to open up’ etc.) is one of the most interesting problems in Latvian aspectology.
Andra Kalnača
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What is the ‘Future’ of Greek? Towards a Pragmatic Analysis [PDF]
, 2014 The paper investigates the problems related to futurity and modality in modern Greek. The discussion of Greek temporal future expressions is conducted with reference to relevant literature from the areas of English linguistics, cognitive studies and ...
Chiou, Michael
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Vulgar Minimisers in English and Spanish1
Transactions of the Philological Society, EarlyView.Abstract In this paper, we investigated whether vulgar minimisers form a natural class in English and Spanish by evaluating (i) their similarities and differences with respect to non‐vulgar minimisers and (ii) whether vulgar minimisers are inherently negative in these languages.
Ángel L. Jiménez‐Fernández +1 more
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Guessing Verb–Adverb Collocations: Arab EFL Learners' Use of Electronic Dictionaries
Lexikos, 2017 Collocational studies have recently attracted a great deal of interest. To date, hardly any study has tackled Arab EFL learners' competency in the use of verb–adverb collocations.
Safi Eldeen Alzi'abi
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Transactions of the Philological Society, EarlyView.Abstract Based on an analysis of the Old Literary Tibetan corpus—a corpus of the oldest documented Tibetic language—the present study provides evidence that literary Tibetan v3 verb stems (commonly termed ‘future’) initially encoded passive voice. New arguments put forward in this article range from Trans‐Himalayan nominal morphology to early Tibetan ...
Joanna Bialek
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Adverbes, adverbiaux et coverbes : pour compléter une réflexion commencée avec Estelle Moline [PDF]
Studii de LingvisticaThis article aims at perceiving to which extent the Italic adverb has innovated with respect to the Proto-IndoEuropean legacy. This leads us to the issue of the adverb considered from a typological perspective and of the status of the adverb in some ...
Cyril Aslanov
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Studies in Chinese Linguistics, 2018 In modern Chinese, a new degree adverb shén 神 is emerging. Expressions such as shénhăochī 神好吃 and shényǒuqù 神有趣 are found in colloquial Chinese, and they even appear as headlines to get readers’ attention.
Liu Hsiu-Ying, Hsieh Zhen-Tong
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Translation Analysis On Adverb Of Manner In The Hunger Games Into The Hunger Games Novel By Hetih Rusli [PDF]
, 2015 The purposes of this research are to classify the translation shifts of adverbs of manner in The Hunger Games Novel by Suzanne Collins and to explain the equivalence of adverb of manner in The Hunger Games Novel by Suzanne Collins.
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