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The Spanish Verbs Estar (To Be) and Ser (To Be) in Child-Directed Speech
Psychology of Language and Communication, 2019 The verbs ser and estar have been a subject of great debate in the literature, mainly because the adjectives that are combined with each copula are not in complementary distribution.
Espinosa-Ochoa Mary Rosa
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Operations Research and Decisions, 2019 This paper deals with the performance assessment of a textile industry, namely African Textile Manufactures (ATM) Ltd., in Chalawa, Kano industrial estate, Federal Republic of Nigeria. The entire system ATM has different sections of machines for processing various assignments. The machines in the sections have diverse capabilities.
Abubakar, Muhammad Idris +1 more
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Une approche typologique de la langue des signes française
TIPA. Travaux interdisciplinaires sur la parole et le langage, 2018 What do we mean by ‘sign languages’? What are the specificities of sign languages? In what way; might sign languages contribute to general linguistics?
Nicolas Tournadre, Mélanie Hamm
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Language change and the actuation problem: grammaticalization in Vedic Sanskrit
Journal of South Asian languages and linguistics, 2023 One of the structures denoting the future in Sanskrit is the so-called -tā́-future, based on an agent noun and a present tense copula. Typologically, this grammaticalization path is unique.
G. Keydana
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The contact-based emergence of the subject-focus construction in Wolof
Linguistics in the Netherlands, 2023 In this article, we focus on the origin of the Wolof subject-focus construction (SFC) from a dynamic perspective. In Wolof, argument focus is expressed morpho-syntactically by means of copulaless cleft constructions consisting of the juxtaposition of
Corentin Bourdeau +1 more
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Influence of topic-prominent L1s on the use of L2 English copula be: a corpus-based study
International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language TeachingThis study explores the influence of first language (L1) on the acquisition of second language (L2) English, specifically examining the use of copula be as a topic marker.
Min-Chang Sung, Kitaek Kim, Bora Nam
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Malaysian Journal of Applied Linguistics (MJoAL), 2023 One of the most significant and interesting aspects of human development is language acquisition. Since English is a universal language, it is an essential language of interaction and education.
Deborah Samson Hassan, Yuthashini Ramani
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Learning to Recognize Dialect Features [PDF]
North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 2020 Building NLP systems that serve everyone requires accounting for dialect differences. But dialects are not monolithic entities: rather, distinctions between and within dialects are captured by the presence, absence, and frequency of dozens of dialect ...
Dorottya Demszky +4 more
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Copular Clauses in Malay with Distal Demonstrative Itu
ArbitrerThe limited research in Malay nonverbal predication has predominantly revolved around the two attested copulas ialah and adalah. In fact, there is another grammatical element that appears to serve as a copula to the constituents flanking it, namely itu.
Amir Rashad Mustaffa
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Copular constructions in Makhuwa‑Enahara
Linguistics in the Netherlands, 2023 This paper describes the possible predication strategies in Makhuwa-Enahara and under what circumstances each occurs. Makhuwa-Enahara (Bantu P31E) has three main copular constructions: Predicative Lowering, the invariant copulas ti (affirmative) and ...
Elizabeth Kujath, J. Van der Wal
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