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The transitivity of borrowed verbs in Basque: an outline
Anuario del Seminario de Filología Vasca "Julio de Urquijo", 2003 In this paper I will study the main patterns that Basque speakers follow when they choose the auxiliary used with verbs borrowed from neighbouring languages.
Xabier Alberdi
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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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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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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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EXPLORING THE USE OF MODAL AUXILIARY VERBS IN CORPUS OF CONTEMPORARY OF AMERISCAN ENGLISH (COCA)
Sosiohumaniora, 2019 . This paper deals with the frequent use of modal auxiliary verbs in Corpus of Contemporary of American English (COCA). The modal auxiliary modal verbs mentioned as the data are can, could, will, would, may, might, shall, should, and must.
M. L. Sujatna +2 more
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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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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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English Linguistics Research, 2018 Auxiliary verbs have an important influence in the way languages connect with the cognitive processes. In this study, we investigate the role of auxiliary verbs in the formation of the semantic picture we get from their usage.
Rajdeep Singh
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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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