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Les séries verbales en Baoulé questions de morphosyntaxe et de sémantique
Studies in African Linguistics, 2000 This article demonstrates, from morphological and syntactic facts, the existence of serial verbs in Baoule. The analysis illustrates the difference between serial verb constructions, simple conjoined verbs, and auxiliary verb/nominalized verb ...
Jérémie Kouadio N'Guessan
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On the Uralic Verbal Personal (*)k-Marker; 81-89 [PDF]
Linguistica Uralica, 2007 In case of Uralic verbal personal (*)k-markers we can probably come across very little etymologically common suffix-material inherent to all the Uralic language group and at times they may prove to be of Altaic origin altogether.
Ago Künnap
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The curious case of auxiliary -manya in Lwitaxo
Studies in African Linguistics, 2009 Lwitaxo, one of the Luhya languages of Kenya, has an auxiliary verb of the form -many’a that occurs in compound constructions that express either a generic reading (“normally do V”) or a culminative reading (“ended up V-ing”).
Robert Botne
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MODAL AUXILIARIES IN SELECTED NEWSPAPER EDITORIALS ON MEDICAL BRAIN DRAIN IN NIGERIA
Filolog, 2022 This paper explores the conscious deployment of modal auxiliary verbs by the media to project stances and opinions on the topical issue of medical brain drain in Nigeria.
Olufunke O. Fagunleka +1 more
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On Auxiliary Chains: Lexical and Functional Auxiliaries at the syntax-semantics interface
Borealis: An International Journal of Hispanic Linguistics, 2015 The present paper is focused on the study of those relations that auxiliary verbs can establish among themselves when chained in a sequence. Regarding those sequences, which in Spanish can be considerably long, the literature has displayed primarily ...
Ana Bravo +2 more
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Subject Raising in Chinese Modal Auxiliary Verb Constructions: A-movement or A′-movement?
Studies in Chinese Linguistics, 2022 Subject raising in Chinese modal auxiliary verb constructions can be either A-movement or A′-movement. Modal auxiliary verbs such as hui and yao can take a nonfinite TP complement which cannot value the abstract case of the embedded subject.
Hu Bo, Chen Hong
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Aspect markings of Niesu, a dialect of Nuosu in Sichuan, China
Himalayan Linguistics, 2021 This paper describes the aspectual markings of Niesu, an understudied Tibeto-Burman language, spoken in Sichuan, Southwest China. Niesu is the dialect of Nuosu, both of which are classified as Nuosu proper.
HONGDI DING, Lama Qiu-fuyuan Ziwo
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Investigating Students' Ability in Identifying English Modals
مجلة الآداب, 2018 Modal verbs are also called auxiliary verbs, helping verbs and modal auxiliaries. They are special auxiliary verbs that express the degree /of certainty of the action in the sentence, attitude or opinion of the writer concerning the action.
ميساء رشيد عبد المجيد +1 more
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Some considerations on the semi-modal auxiliary verbs [PDF]
Journal of Social Sciences, 2019 This paper deals with the livelised cost of electricity from gaseous biofuels, such as biogas and bio-syngas, produced from biodegradable waste, using different technologies (internal combustion engines, gas turbine, fuel cells) at different capacities ...
CIUMACENCO, Valentina
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Auxiliary Verb Constructions and Decategorialization in Gĩkũyũ
Nordic Journal of African StudiesGĩkũyũ (E.51) exhibits several verbs that can be used both as lexical verbs and as auxiliary verbs. We compare the lexical and auxiliary usages of four verbs and show that all auxiliary verb usages display uniform restrictions concerning valency-related
Jens Fleischhauer +1 more
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