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Data for 'Reassessing the third person pronominal "copula" in spoken Israeli Hebrew', published in Linguistics 58.6

, 2020
Leon Shor
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Are Arabic Verbless Sentences ‘Truly’ Verbless? The Inadequacy of the Non-null Hypothesis

International Journal of Linguistics Literature & Translation
This paper analyzes the controversial issue of Arabic null copular sentences or what is commonly referred to as ‘verbless sentences’ within a minimalist theoretical framework.
Imane Errguig, Malika Jmila
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Pieces of the be perfect in German and older English [PDF]

, 2008
This paper examines the development of periphrastic constructions involving auxiliary "have" and "be" with a past participle in the history of English, on the basis of parsed electronic corpora.
Alexiadou, Artemis, McFadden, Thomas
core  

Are main clauses really ‘main’ clauses? The case of relative clauses in spoken Estonian and Finnish

Eesti ja soome-ugri keeleteaduse ajakiri. Journal of Estonian and Finno-Ugric Linguistics
The article concerns relative clause constructions and their main clauses in Estonian and Finnish conversation. The study shows that copula clauses and existential clauses predominate in the corpus data: these two clause types accounted for more than ...
R. Laury, Renate Pajusalu, Marja-Liisa Helasvuo   +2 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

To be or not to be? About the copula system in Buli (Gur) [PDF]

, 2008
This talk concerns the copula system in Buli, a Ghanaian language which has also been attested in Bahia (Rodrigues 1935, Zwernemann 1968). Special focus will be put on the categorization of two copula-reminiscent elements for which I will propose a ...
Schwarz, Anne
core  

Events and copulas

Isogloss. Open Journal of Romance Linguistics
This paper focuses on the study of a particular phenomenon of variation related to the distribution of Spanish copulas: the (in)compatibility of event nouns with predication structures where the copula estar and an evaluative adjective are combined. Some
Gonzalo Escribano
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Predication at the interface [PDF]

, 2013
We try to show that predication plays a greater role in syntax than commonly assumed. Specifically, we wil argue that predication to a large extent determines both the phrase structure of clauses and trigger syntactic processes that take place in clauses.
Eide, Kristin M., Åfarli, Tor A.
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Complex copula systems as suppletive alomorphy [PDF]

, 2018
Languages are known to vary in the number of verbs they exhibit corresponding to English "be", in the distribution of such copular verbs, and in the presence or absence of a distinct verb for possession sentences corresponding to English "have".
Myler, Neil
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Arabic parsing using grammar transforms [PDF]

, 2010
We investigate Arabic Context Free Grammar parsing with dependency annotation comparing lexicalised and unlexicalised parsers. We study how morphosyntactic as well as function tag information percolation in the form of grammar transforms (Johnson, 1998 ...
Tounsi, Lamia, van Genabith, Josef
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Lexical-semantic properties of verbs and nouns used in conversation by people with Alzheimer's disease. [PDF]

PLoS One, 2023
Williams E, Theys C, McAuliffe M.
europepmc   +1 more source