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The Dative Markers and Their Developments in Hunan Sinitic Languages

Languages
This study is based on a sample of 30 Sinitic languages spoken in the Hunan Province. Its first objective is to explore the types of dative markers, comparing the form of the dative with allative, passive, benefactive, and differential object markers in ...
Xinyi Gao
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A Syntactic Interpretation of the Applicative-Causative Syncretism

Quaderni di Linguistica e Studi Orientali, 2019
This paper deals with the applicative-causative syncretism, which is a pattern of morpheme polysemy attested in many different natural languages. We basically interpret the causative-applicative syncretism as based on a shared syntactic configuration ...
Ludovico Franco
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Deconstructing Voice. The syntax and semantics of u-syncretism in Spanish

Glossa, 2020
This paper focuses on a well-known pattern of systematic syncretism in Spanish se constructions. Detailed syntactic and semantic analyses are provided with the aim of sustaining two main theses. First, I conceive of se as a probe for A-movement.
Andrés Saab
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Variation in the syntax and semantics of predicative possession in Quechua [PDF]

, 2018
This paper employs comparative evidence from two closely-related Quechua languages to argue that predicative possession constructions do not always share a single underlying source crosslinguistically (contra Freeze 1992; and in support of Boneh ...
Myler, Neil
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‘That Profession and Habit that None Other Be of Within this Realm’: The Battel Hall Retable, Visual Culture and Intersections of Community Identity in a Late Medieval English Convent

History, Volume 111, Issue 394, Page 30-53, January 2026.
Abstract The Battel Hall Retable – created around the late fourteenth to early fifteenth century and once belonging to the Dominican nuns of Dartford Priory – offers a rare glimpse into the visual lives of late medieval English nuns, inviting an insight into the intersections of communal identities for these women religious.
ELIZABETH GOODWIN
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On the issue of the dative mark in ancient iberian

Philologia Hispalensis, 2018
Beginning with a critical review of the previously published on the proposal of attributing to the suffix -e a Dative meaning (originally proposed by Untermann 1984), the available evidence it’s revised and analyzed.
Jesús Rodríguez Ramos
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On the analysis of non-selected datives in Maltese [PDF]

, 2012
This paper provides a descriptive overview of extra-argumental or non-selected datives in Maltese, poorly described in existing grammars. We outline an LFG approach to the facts we describe building on existing LFG work and in particular on Kibort (2008)?
Camilleri, M, Sadler, L
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The founding of the Journal of the London Mathematical Society and its first volume

Journal of the London Mathematical Society, Volume 113, Issue 1, January 2026.
Abstract That the Journal of the London Mathematical Society came into existence in 1926 can be ascribed to the efforts of one man: G.H. Hardy. As one of the two Secretaries of the Society, Hardy was aware of the increasing demand for publication space in the Society's Proceedings, and the need for an outlet for shorter papers.
June Barrow‐Green
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Frame BENEFACTIVE EVENT and its representation in English

Неофилология
INTRODUCTION. The research focuses on modeling the frame of a BENEFICIAL EVENT and its representation in English. The purpose of the study is to examine the frame of a BENEFICIAL EVENT and the means of its representation in English.
K. A. Finaev
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Argument structure and agency in Bemba passives [PDF]

, 2010
Bemba employs two passive constructions: an older one with verbal extension -w- and a more recent construction involving the class 2 subject marker ba-. We argue that ba- is ambiguous between an ordinary, referential class 2 marker, and an underspecified
Kula, Nancy, Marten, Lutz
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