Functional Transposition of ABOUT in the 9th–21st Centuries [PDF]
The paper exemplifies a unique attempt to trace the evolution of the preposition and the adverb ABOUT as initial and transposed categories. The study focuses on the development of both interwoven categories since 850 and up to the early 21st century ...
Yurii Kovbasko
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The Position of Adverbs in Persian according to Traditional Adjunct-based and Cinque’s Specifier-based Approaches [PDF]
The present study sought to explore adverbs in Persian according to two generative viewpoints, namely the traditional adjunct-based approach and Cinqueʼs specifier-based approach.
Um Al-banin Khazaei +1 more
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The Chronotropic Adverbs in al-khansā's poems; A Semantic Aesthetic Study [PDF]
Adverbs add to the meaning of the word and clarify its different angles in such a way that it can be said the more the verbal adverbs are, the greater its meaning will be and its implications become wider. Time and place adverbs are most commonly used in
Khodadad Bahri
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SEMANTIC GROUPS OF PREDICATIVE ADVERBSIN THE WORKS OF ALEXANDER DOVZHENKO [PDF]
The article analyzes the semantic groups of predicative adverbs in the works of O. Dovzhenko. Due to the peculiar morphological categories, adverbs attract the attention of scientists around the world.
Tetiana V. Melkumova +1 more
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A Corpus-based Analysis of Epistemic Stance Adverbs in Essays Written by Native English Speakers and Iranian EFL Learners [PDF]
Academic essays entail taking a stance on the truth value of propositions. Epistemic adverbs deal with the speaker's assessment of the truth value of propositions. Employing a corpus-based approach with descriptive statistics and qualitative description,
Amir Sabzevar +2 more
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English evidential -ly adverbs in the noun phrase from a functional perspective
This article addresses the question of how the distribution and role of English evidential -ly adverbs in the noun phrase can be accounted for using the framework of Functional Discourse Grammar (FDG).
Kemp Lois, Hengeveld Kees
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Acquisition of adverbs and pronominal adverbs in a Czech child
This article addresses the acquisition of adverbs in a Czech monolingual boy from speech onset until age 6. This study is based on an analysis of authentic material: a corpus of transcriptions of audio recordings of the child in verbal interaction with ...
Chejnová Pavla
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The l-cases in Courland Livonian
Courland Livonian is the only Finnic language where the habitive expressions of giving, taking, and having do not use the so-called l-cases, but instead the dative, the elative or a postposition. As the l-cases mostly only occur in a number of fossilised
Rogier Blokland, Nobufumi Inaba
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Entre la sintaxis y el discurso: el caso de 'a lo mejor' y 'al menos' en la conversación coloquial
This paper studies the Spanish forms a lo mejor (maybe) and al menos (at least) from a modular perspective, revisiting the categorization of a lo major and al menos according to the involved linguistic level and analyzing the relations between the ...
Adrià Pardo-Llibrer
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Modal Verbs in the Modern Chinese Language
The article presents a new view on Chinese modal verbs as a part of speech. Based on the typology of the Chinese language, the authors analyzed modal verbs according to their functional-syntactic, formal-morphological, and semantic features in order of ...
O. N. Sadovnikova, I. V. Sharavieva
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