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Analysis Of Adverbial Constructions In The Selfish Giant By Oscar Wilde [PDF]
, 2015 The aims of this research are to describe the types of adverbial constructions and to describe the distributions of adverbial constructions based on structural approach especially syntactic structure of modification.
, Dra. Malikatul Laila, M.Hum. +2 more
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Fronting in Old Catalan: Asymmetries between Narration and Reported Speech1
Transactions of the Philological Society, Volume 123, Issue 1, Page 1-28, March 2025.Abstract This article explores the distribution, syntax, and information structure of XVS clauses in the narrative text and the reported speech of a thirteenth‐century Old Catalan chronicle, the Llibre dels Fets. It is shown that XVS occurs mainly within reported speech and in embedded clauses.
Afra Pujol i Campeny
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Clause chaining and the utterance phrase: Syntax–prosody mapping in Matukar Panau
Open Linguistics, 2021 Clause chaining is a form of syntactic dependency holding between a series of clauses, typically expressing temporal or causal relations between events. Prosodic hierarchy theory proposes that syntactic constituents are systematically mapped to prosodic ...
Mansfield John, Barth Danielle
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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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Degrees of clause cohesion: complementation and subordination in Chiapas Zoque
Linguistic Discovery, 2012 Zoque exhibits various degrees of interclausal cohesion or types of embedding: juxtapostion, use of conjunctions, subordination with complementizers, and synthetic subordination by head marking. These various types of subordination are used for different
Jan Terje Faarlund
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De la transcatégorisation de CE en français médiéval : une histoire de vases communicants ? [PDF]
Studii de Lingvistica, 2023 The study describes a set of configurations in which CE (translated variously « this », « that » or « it ») is absent or present in the testimonials of the ancient language and compares them to the achievements of the contemporary language in order to
Daniéla Capin
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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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Ce dans les incises en français médiéval (12e s. -16e s.) [PDF]
Studii de Lingvistica, 2020 This study explores the use of the item CE – translated variously in English by this, that or it – in medieval quotative frames. It investigates the gradual decrease in the attested occurrences of the item and proposes two hypothesis in order to ...
Daniéla Capin
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MANNER ADVERBIAL VERBS IN BALINESE [PDF]
, 2017 Recent research on Austronesian languages showed that adverbial verb is a particular feature in Formosan languages, which belongs to Western Austronesian Languages (Chang, 2010).
Artawa , Ketut, Purnawati, Ketut Widya
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Expression of purpose rhetorical relation in formal speeches and oral interviews
Calidoscópio, 2011 Besides the explicit content conveyed by the clausesof a text, there are implicit propositions called relational propositions (also labeled as rhetorical relations), which arise from the combination of parts of the text. According to Rhetorical Structure
Juliano Desiderato Antonio
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