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Grammatical relations in Ikalanga
Studies in African Linguistics, 2006 Although facts about grammatical relations in many Bantu languages have been established since the early 1970s, there are still languages in this family which have not benefited from such studies. One of these is Ikalanga, spoken in Botswana and Zimbabwe.
Joyce T. Mathangwane, E. Kweku Osam
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Lietuvių Kalba, 2011 The article sets out to analyse the similarities and differences of free secondary predicates (predicative adjuncts) in the Lithuanian language and secondary predicates in other languages.
Veslava Čižik-Prokaševa
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Case grammar in film “the Professor and the Madman” based on Charles J. Fillmore’s Perspective
Kembara: Jurnal Keilmuan Bahasa, Sastra, dan Pengajarannya, 2021 The sentences spoken by the actors in the dialogue contained in the film “the Professor and the Madman” consist of a variety of structures that form a grammatical construction, so that the sentences can be understood and the dialogue can run well and ...
Abdul Basid +2 more
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Developing weblog design in Indonesian creative writing material
Kembara: Jurnal Keilmuan Bahasa, Sastra, dan Pengajarannya, 2021 The sentences spoken by the actors in the dialogue contained in the film “the Professor and the Madman” consist of a variety of structures that form a grammatical construction, so that the sentences can be understood and the dialogue can run well and ...
Siti Ansoriyah
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Stance-taking: JFL Learners and Benefactive Verbs
, 2018 This study explores how JFL learners take a benefactive stance in Japanese. As Jaffe (2009) observes, stance-taking plays a complex role with respect to the naturalization of social and linguistic ideologies and the social structures they legitimate ...
Takizawa, Kumiko
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The Modern Language Journal, Volume 110, Issue 2, Page 540-567, Summer 2026.Abstract This study investigates the pedagogical impact of integrating cognitive linguistics (CL) into concept‐based language instruction (C‐BLI) for teaching English modal verbs. Eighty‐nine Mandarin‐speaking university learners were assigned to one of three instructional conditions: C‐BLI with CL‐based conceptualizations (C‐BLI‐CL), C‐BLI with non‐CL
Helen Zhao, James P. Lantolf
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Integrating ecological feedbacks across scales and levels of organization
Ecography, Volume 2026, Issue 5, May 2026.In ecosystems, species interact in various ways with other species, and with their local environment. In addition, ecosystems are coupled in space by diverse types of flows. From these links connecting different ecological entities can emerge circular pathways of indirect effects: feedback loops.
Benoît Pichon +4 more
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New Insights Into Lakota Syntax: The Encoding of Arguments and the Number of Verbal Affixes
Studia Linguistica, Volume 80, Issue 1, April 2026.ABSTRACT This paper examines the morphosyntax of transitive constructions in Lakota, with particular emphasis being placed on the encoding of arguments. The analysis of argument marking through verbal affixes in Lakota transitive constructions raises two main questions: the existence or non‐existence of the zero marker for the third person singular and
Avelino Corral Esteban
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Relativization Strategies of Sasak Ngeno Ngene Dialect in Lombok
Ethical Lingua: Journal of Language Teaching and Literature, 2020 Relative clauses (RC), in whatever the languages, are essential for investigation especially on how noun phrases as nuclear and oblique relations are workable in Keenan & Comrie’s (1977) Noun Phrase Accessibility Hierarchy.
Nurachman Hanafi +3 more
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Lability in Hittite and Indo‐European: A Diachronic Perspective
Studia Linguistica, Volume 80, Issue 1, April 2026.ABSTRACT Lability is defined as the possibility of a verb to enter a valency alternation without undergoing any change in its form. Labile verbs were common in ancient Indo‐European languages, including Hittite, which mostly features anticausative lability, with reflexive and reciprocal lability being less prominent.
Guglielmo Inglese
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