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Antifungal alternation can be beneficial for durability but at the cost of generalist resistance
Alternation results in slower acquisition of fungicide resistance in Zymoseptoria tritici, the causative agent of septoria leaf blotch in wheat.
Agathe Ballu +5 more
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Variation in the coding of the noncausal/causal alternation: Causative *-i in East Bantu languages
In this paper, we discuss shifts in the formal relation, i.e. “correspondence” (Haspelmath 1993; Nichols et al. 2004), between members of noncausal/causal verb pairs in eight East Bantu languages.
Sebastian Dom +3 more
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On the acquisition of potential verbs and conjugation types of verbs in Japanese
It is well-known that children whose native language is Japanese first begin vocalizing potential verbs at about the age of 2 years and continue to utter ungrammatical forms which are not used in adults’ speech as well as correct ones until approximately
Takahashi Hideya
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Alternate day corticosteroid causes alternate day hyperglycaemia [PDF]
Summary Patients taking alternate day corticosteroid treatment have greater impairment of glucose tolerance on the corticosteroid day than on the alternate day. Allowance for this must be made in the detection and management of diabetes mellitus in these patients.
M A, Greenstone, A B, Shaw
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The properties of anticausatives crosslinguistically [PDF]
The causative/anticausative alternation has been the topic of much typological and theoretical discussion in the linguistic literature. This alternation is characterized by verbs with transitive and intransitive uses, such that the transitive use of a ...
Alexiadou, Artemis +2 more
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Psych reflexive alternation in Ukrainian and Russian [PDF]
This paper investigates the psych reflexive alternation in Ukrainian and Russian with a focus on the EO/ES (Experiencer Object / Experiencer Subject) alternation.
Bożena Rozwadowska +2 more
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The Distribution and Function of Virtual Reflexive Constructions in English
This paper sheds new light on the distributional and functional properties of virtual reflexive constructions (VRCs) in English (e.g., This problem solves ITSELF).
Masaki Yasuhara
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Causative alternations in Siraiki [PDF]
AbstractSiraiki is a major but understudied Indo‐Aryan language spoken mainly in central Pakistan. Its causative system, which has never been described in detail, shows many similarities with causative systems in related modern Indo‐Aryan languages, but also differences which render it unique within this family.
Lowe, J, Birahimani, A
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Applied arguments in Spanish inchoative middle constructions
Despite displaying identical exponents (a reflexive clitic, imperfective tenses and agreement between the verb and the preverbal definite DP theme), change-of-state predicates in generic/middle contexts (inchoative middles, henceforth), can in fact have ...
Imanol Suárez-Palma
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Unlocking the verbal spine in Malayalam: Past tense is key
The focus of the paper is the internal structure of the verbal spine. Our aim is to show, using data from Malayalam, how verbal structures can be built, allowing for a new understanding of verb alternations as well as the verbal spine. The paper provides
Gayathri G Krishnan, Vaijayanthi Sarma
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