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Processing Prescriptively Incorrect Comparative Particles: Evidence From Sentence-Matching and Eye-Tracking [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2020 Speakers of a language sometimes use particular constructions which violate prescriptive grammar rules. Despite their prescriptive ungrammaticality, they can occur rather frequently. One such example is the comparative construction in Dutch and similarly
Ferdy Hubers +5 more
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Equative Constructions in the Laki Language [PDF]
مطالعات زبانها و گویشهای غرب ایرانDifferent linguistic constructions, including comparative, superlative, similative, and equative constructions, are employed to convey the concept of comparison.
Parisa Najafi +2 more
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Similative and Equative Constructions in Japhug
Linguistic Discovery, 2018 his paper documents equative, similative, comparative and superlative constructions on the basis of a corpus of narratives. It reveals a previously unsuspected wealth of constructions: no less than three main types of superlatives, and four types of ...
Guillaume Jacques
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Similative and Equative Constructions in Lori Silakhori Dialect [PDF]
نشریه پژوهشهای زبانشناسی, 2022 The concept of comparison is expressed in the form of various linguistic constructions. Among the different types of comparative constructions, we can mention similative and equative constructions.
Farhad Moezzipour, Parisa Najafi
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Equative construction in Turkic Azarbaijani [PDF]
زبان پژوهی, 2023 INTRODUCTION Equative constructions have not been desirably studied due to their formal and semantic similarity to similitive constructions. Haspelmath (2017) proposed the six basic types of equative constructions in distinct patterns based on ...
Parisa Najafi +2 more
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Diachronic evolution of Russian standard markers kako and aky
Linguistic Typology at the Crossroads, 2021 Modern Russian uses the same marker kak ‘how’ to introduce the standard in equative and similative constructions. Historical grammars claim that the same polysemy is found in Old Russian, where three markers, kako, aky and jako, are used interchangeably.
Irina Kobozeva, Natalia Serdobolskaya
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The comparative cycle in crosslinguistic perspective
Linguistic Typology at the Crossroads, 2021 This paper traces the diachronic development of comparison constructions crosslinguistically, highlighting a recurrent pattern of change with respect to standard markers: the comparative cycle.
Agnes Jäger
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Journal of African Languages and Literatures, 2021 Berber languages display a number of characteristic asymmetries in negative utterances as compared to positive ones. This paper focuses on Kabyle, and analyzes its main typological characteristics concerning negation, namely an asymmetry at the level of ...
Amina Mettouchi
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Variasi Intensitas Kata Sifat Dalam Bahasa Madura
Lingua: Jurnal Bahasa, Sastra dan Pengajarannya, 2022 The variations of Madurese intensifying adjective were investigated in this study. This qualitative study uses questionnaire as the main instrument to know the intensifying adjectives used by the participants.
Harrifah Mardatillah +2 more
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A Typological Study of Superlative Comparison in Persian [PDF]
نشریه پژوهشهای زبانشناسی, 2021 :This study set out to conduct a typological investigation of “comparative/superlative construction” and analyze the formal and functional differences of the constructive components of this construction in Persian language. To this end, firstly, the most
Ava Imani
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