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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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Similative, equative, and comparative constructions in Beja (North-Cushitic) [PDF]
, 2017 This paper deals with the various syntactic strategies used for the expression of similarity, equality and comparison in Beja in a comparative and typological perspective. It shows that the origin of the comparative marker is related to the universal quantifier, a rare strategy crosslinguistically.
Martine Vanhove
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Equative constructions in world-wide perspective [PDF]
Similative and equative constructions A cross-linguistic perspective, 2017 In this paper, we report on a world-wide study of equative constructions (‘A is as big as B’) in a convenience sample of 119 languages. From earlier work, it has been known that European languages often have equative constructions based on adverbial ...
Martín Haspelmath
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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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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 and similative constructions in Chibchan languages [PDF]
Faits de Langues, 2019 The objective of this paper is to offer the first description of equative and similative constructions in twelve Chibchan languages focusing on two typological particularities: first, all the languages share the construction with only an equative standard marker. But, although all the Chibchan languages have SOV constituent order, the constituent order
Claudine Chamoreau
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Demonstrative words in Passamaquoddy equative constructions
Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society, 2000 n ...
Eve Ng
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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 equatives are attested, some including additional subtypes.
Guillaume Jacques
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Lughawiyah: Journal of Arabic Education and Linguistics, 2023 This study aims to reveal the form of the independent clause in the anecdote “Juha wa al-Hishan al-Gharib” by Ahmed Naguib based on the perspective of Kenneth L. Pike. This was a qualitative descriptive study. Data were collected using reading and translation techniques and note-taking techniques.
Abdul Basid +3 more
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