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Cross-Linguistic Influence on L2 Before and After Extreme Reduction in Input: The Case of Japanese Returnee Children [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2020 This study investigates the choice of genitive forms (the woman’s book vs. the book of the woman) in the English of Japanese-English bilingual returnees (i.e., children who returned from a second language dominant environment to their first language ...
Maki Kubota +4 more
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Les pronoms de l’anglais : approche diachronique
Corela, 2022 The aim of this article is to give an account of the evolution of pronouns from the Old English period to the Renaissance. It starts with a description of the Old English system (personal, demonstrative, interrogative and relative pronouns) and examines ...
Catherine Delesse
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SELIMIn this article I address the question of the change in grammatical nature for the English genitive from inflectional affix to clitic. I focus on the rise of the group genitive, a construction in which the mark for possession is not attached to the head
Rodrigo Pérez Lorido
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English and Russian Genitive Alternations: A Study in Construction Typology
Russian Journal of Linguistics, 2020 There is little doubt that one of the most important areas of future research within the framework of Construction Grammar will be the comparative study of constructions in different languages of the world.
Sergei Monakhov
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The Inflection of Latin Feminine Proper Names in the Old English Martyrology
SELIM, 2023 This paper focuses on the inflections of Latin feminine names in Old English. Whereas most Latin loanwords are perfectly integrated and behave like Old English words as far as their morphology is concerned, like scientific loans, names can take ...
Esaúl Ruiz Narbona
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Mechanism of case processing in the brain: an fMRI study. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2012 In sentence comprehension research, the case system, which is one of the subsystems of the language processing system, has been assumed to play a crucial role in signifying relationships in sentences between noun phrases (NPs) and other elements, such as
Satoru Yokoyama +4 more
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Glossa, 2017 This paper builds on the observation that the animacy effects we find in English genitive variation are part of a larger cross-linguistic pattern as reflected in possession splits based on animacy (Koptjevskaja-Tamm 2001, 2002; Stolz et al.
Anette Rosenbach
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On the history of Romanian genitives: the prenominal genitive [PDF]
Bucharest Working Papers in Linguistics, 2011 In this paper we focus on the behaviour of prenominal genitives in Old Romanian in contrast with Modern Romanian. In the old language, the prenominal genitive is more widely used and occurs in three distinct configurations: (i) it is a determiner ...
Alexandra Cornilescu, Alexandru Nicolae
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Unconventional Ways of Expressing Possession in Middle Egyptian [PDF]
مجلة کلية الآثار - جامعة القاهرة, 2023 This research deals with the study of the Unconventional ways of Expressing Possession in Middle Egyptian, it also aims at clarifying the several ways that the Ancient Egyptian are used during that period to express possession, as well as How Egyptians ...
Nabil Mokhtar Ali Elfar
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THE USE OF THE GENITIVE IN ENGLISH AND ROMANIAN [PDF]
Studii de gramatică contrastivă, 2017 The paper aims at presenting the use of the genitive in English and Romanian. In English the genitive is the rule with nouns denoting persons and sometimes things and with nouns denoting time. It may also be used as a post-genitive or as a local genitive
Nicoleta Florina Mincă
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