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Studies in Language, 2007
Dinka, a Western Nilotic language, has a class of auxiliary verbs which is remarkable in the following four respects: (i) It is unusually large, comprising some 20 members; (ii) it is grammatically homogeneous in terms of both morphology and syntax; (iii) most of the auxiliary verbs correspond to adverbs in languages like English, while the rest are ...
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Dinka, a Western Nilotic language, has a class of auxiliary verbs which is remarkable in the following four respects: (i) It is unusually large, comprising some 20 members; (ii) it is grammatically homogeneous in terms of both morphology and syntax; (iii) most of the auxiliary verbs correspond to adverbs in languages like English, while the rest are ...
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1994
This chapter discusses the following commonly occurring auxiliary verbs: poder to be able to, to be allowed to, can, could saber to know how to querer to want soler to be in the habit of deber must, ought to, should haber (que, de) to have ...
John Butt, Carmen Benjamin
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This chapter discusses the following commonly occurring auxiliary verbs: poder to be able to, to be allowed to, can, could saber to know how to querer to want soler to be in the habit of deber must, ought to, should haber (que, de) to have ...
John Butt, Carmen Benjamin
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South African Journal of African Languages, 1987
The auxiliary verbs in Xhosa are usually verbs which can also be used in most cases as normal autonomous verbs. They can therefore be termed halfway verbs. Only the deontic -ma, musa, and -kha which have a limited use in the verbal conjugation, -nga with a potential modality, and the copulative -ba ‘be or become’ can be classified as being primary ...
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The auxiliary verbs in Xhosa are usually verbs which can also be used in most cases as normal autonomous verbs. They can therefore be termed halfway verbs. Only the deontic -ma, musa, and -kha which have a limited use in the verbal conjugation, -nga with a potential modality, and the copulative -ba ‘be or become’ can be classified as being primary ...
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Auxiliary verbs as a subcategory of the verb in Tswana
2021The auxiliary verb in Tswana is the focus of this study. An overview of the research that has been done on the auxiliary verb in Zulu, Sotho and Tswana up to now indicates that there are still a number of issues regarding auxiliary verbs in Tswana that need further investigation.
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Transactions of the Philological Society, 1988
In this paper we shall investigate the syntax of auxiliary verbs in Sardinian from two principal points of view. In the first part of the paper we shall attempt to devise criteria for distinguishing auxiliary verbs from other verbs which take a non-finite complement and, at the same time, to identify the class of verbs which qualify as auxiliaries in ...
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In this paper we shall investigate the syntax of auxiliary verbs in Sardinian from two principal points of view. In the first part of the paper we shall attempt to devise criteria for distinguishing auxiliary verbs from other verbs which take a non-finite complement and, at the same time, to identify the class of verbs which qualify as auxiliaries in ...
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Intransitive Verbs and Auxiliaries
1986In Italian there are two particularly striking facts, originally brought to my attention by D. Perlmutter, which suggest that the class of verbs traditional grammar refers to as ‘intransitive’ is not homogeneous, and in particular that there exist important structural differences between sentences like (1a) and (1b).
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Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, 1929
In the Mongolian language we often find two, three, or even four verbs in succession without a single conjunction between them. When analysing a continuous chain of verbs, it is best to consider two consecutive verbs at a time, for the circumstances in which such a combination is made can be brought under the following three headings:— 1. Sequential—
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In the Mongolian language we often find two, three, or even four verbs in succession without a single conjunction between them. When analysing a continuous chain of verbs, it is best to consider two consecutive verbs at a time, for the circumstances in which such a combination is made can be brought under the following three headings:— 1. Sequential—
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Examining Auxiliary Verbs in a Salient Belief Elicitation
Health Behavior and Policy Review, 2021Wen-Juo Lo +2 more
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