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Comparative Grammar of the Uralic Languages
Oriens, 1964Nicholas Poppe, Björn Collinder
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Investigating the Use of Grammar Learning Strategies in Hungary and Poland: A Comparative Study
Applied Linguistics, 2022Although there is consensus that second language grammar instruction is needed, some controversial issues remain. Whatever instructional options are selected, it is vital that they allow the development of not only explicit knowledge but also implicit ...
M. Pawlak, Kata Csizér
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A Comparative Grammar of Borgomanerese
Modern Language Review, 2014List of Abbreviations Chapter 1: Introduction Chapter 2: The syntax and semantics of the weak locative 0. Introduction 1. Unaccusative verb classes 2. The syntactic manifestation of the GOAL / non-GOAL distinction in Borgomanerese 3.
C. Tortora
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Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, 1878
When we consider the progress made by comparative Indo-European philology, we can only wonder that even after the discovery of Assyrian, which undoubtedly represents the Sanskrit of the Semitic languages, no attempt has been made to form a comparative ...
P. Haupt
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When we consider the progress made by comparative Indo-European philology, we can only wonder that even after the discovery of Assyrian, which undoubtedly represents the Sanskrit of the Semitic languages, no attempt has been made to form a comparative ...
P. Haupt
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A survey of general comparative grammar [PDF]
Journal of Linguistics, 1988 There have been quite a number of books on general comparative syntax in the last few years. To mention but a few, there are Comrie (I98 I), Mallinson & Blake (I98I) (cf. Lehmann, I984 a, for discussion), Givon (I984), Foley & Van Valin (I984).
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The Grammar of Russian Metalinguistic Comparatives
Scando-Slavica, 2017ABSTRACTThe paper studies Russian metalinguistic comparatives. Specifically, it argues that Russian exhibits three single meta-comparatives (skoree ‘sooner’, bol′se ‘more’, and lucse ‘better’, lit.), which are derived as a result of grammaticalisation of corresponding standard comparatives and three double meta-comparatives (skoree bol′se, bol′se ...
Anna Vishenkova +2 more
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English Language and Linguistics, 2017
Following the Uniformitarian Principle, the Performance–Grammar Correspondence Hypothesis (PGCH; Hawkins 2004) predicts a directionality in language change: if the same content can be expressed by two competing structures and one of these is easier to ...
Thomas Hoffmann
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Following the Uniformitarian Principle, the Performance–Grammar Correspondence Hypothesis (PGCH; Hawkins 2004) predicts a directionality in language change: if the same content can be expressed by two competing structures and one of these is easier to ...
Thomas Hoffmann
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Language Description and General Comparative Grammar
, 1989The following postulates are formulated with respec t to a scientific description of a language: 1. It is usable for whatever linguistic purpose. 2.
C. Lehmann
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A comparative grammar of British English dialects : agreement, gender, relative clauses
, 2005This volume offers qualitative as well as corpus-based quantitative studies on grammatical variation in the British Isles written from a typological perspective.
B. Kortmann +3 more
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Mandarin transitive comparatives and the grammar of measurement
Journal of East Asian Linguistics, 2012Mandarin Chinese has two strategies for forming comparatives of superiority: one in which the standard of comparison is introduced by the morpheme bi, and one that resembles a transitive verb construction, in which the standard of comparison directly follows a gradable adjective.
Thomas Grano, Christopher Kennedy
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