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Prog imperfective drift in ancient Greek? Reconsidering eimi 'be' with present participle [PDF]
In this paper, I reconsider the diachrony of the Ancient Greek periphrastic construction of eimi 'be' with present participle by means of Bertinetto’s recently proposed model for the development of progressive grams (a process called ‘PROG imperfective ...
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About the 'uni- and bimodoaccional' predicates (about the relations between the valency's structure and the Aktionsart) [PDF]
This article is meant to present a new method of analysing the Aktionsart of predicates. There are a few factors which are taken into account: the valency's structure and the arguments' structure of the predicate; the nature of the subject and the direct
Pawlak, Aneta
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The article is devoted to the description of the system relations between word-building types corresponding to the aktionsart with the meaning of negative consequences of action.
Z. I. Godizova, Quian Van
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In this paper, I explore the class of English lexical items beginning with bl-. My objective is twofold: firstly, I present the hypothesis that the phonological invariance of this heuristically-formed class corresponds to a notional invariance within two
Line Argoud
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The Indonesian Verbal Suffix –Nya; Nominalization or Subordination? [PDF]
The suffix ‑nya is one of the most frequent and polysemic suffixes in Indonesian. It can provide definite determination and topicalization. The “Verb‑nya“, which often appears in a topicalized subject Noun Phrase (NP), is generally labelled as a deverbal
Grangé, P. (Philippe)
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Particles and Prefixes in English and Serbian
The paper attempts to, by means of contrastive analysis, prove that particles belonging to phrasal verbs in English are in their linguistic essence equivalent to Serbian perfective verbal prefixes.
Nataša Milivojević
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Acquisition of aspect and aktionsart by children in croatian and french [PDF]
Our results indicate some differences in the use of aspect between French and Croatian speaking children. In Croatian language children always manage to keep the appropriate aspect, unlike French children.
Andel, Maja +2 more
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On the early development of aspect in greek and russian child language, a comparative analysis [PDF]
The category of aspect is grammaticized in both Greek and Russian opposing perfective and imperfective verb forms in all inflectional categories except the nonpast (‘present’).
Stephany, Ursula, Voeikova, Maria
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Topological Modelling of Grammatical and Lexical Aspect in English [PDF]
It is assumed that aspect in both cases — as a process-profiling category — is analogous to the profiling of things and atemporal relations (in the sense of Langacker 1987, 1990, 2000), given the maximisation of the temporal domain in the ...
Skrzypczak, Waldemar
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Culmination phenomena across languages
Abstract This article examines culmination phenomena from a cross‐linguistic perspective. It provides an overview of various (non‐)culmination readings that sentences in different languages may receive in light of much prior literature on this topic, especially from the past 2 decades.
Éva Kardos
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