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Yeah, that’s it!: Verbal Reference to Visual Information in Film Texts and Film Translations [PDF]

, 2008
This article presents an account of the meaning relationship between visual and verbal information in film and the differences between the conventions of making verbal reference to visual information in English films and their German-language versions ...
Baumgarten, Nicole
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Comparison in Kambaata: Superiority, Equality and Similarity

Linguistic Discovery, 2018
This paper is an in-depth study of the expression of comparison in Kambaata, a Highland East Cushitic language of Ethiopia. It discusses not only quantitative comparison, i.e. comparison of relative and absolute inequality and comparison of equality, but
Yvonne Treis
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Comparative Constructions in Murui (Witotoan, Northwest Amazonia)

Linguistic Discovery, 2018
This paper focuses on the forms and functions of various comparative constructions found in Murui, a Witotoan language of Northwest Amazonia (Colombia, Peru). It analyses different types of comparative construction, their forms and semantics.
Katarzyna I. Wojtylak
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Aspectual variation in Lithuanian copular constructions

Lietuvių Kalba, 2015
In this article an attempt is made to pinpoint all possibilities of expressing aspectual meanings in Lithuanian copular constructions. The author departs from the tradition of distinguishing only perfective vs. imperfective aspect in Lithuanian. Instead,
Rolandas Mikulskas
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Prog imperfective drift in ancient Greek? Reconsidering eimi 'be' with present participle [PDF]

, 2013
In this paper, I reconsider the diachrony of the Ancient Greek periphrastic construction of eimi 'be' with present participle by means of Bertinetto’s recently proposed model for the development of progressive grams (a process called ‘PROG imperfective ...
Adrados, Aerts, Alexander, Amenta, Bailey, Barbelenet, Beekes, Behrens, Bentein, Bentein, Bentein, Benveniste, Bertinetto, Bertinetto, Bertinetto, Bertinetto, Bertinetto, Bertinetto, Björck, Brinton, Brugmann, Bybee, Bybee, Castelnovo, Ceglia, Chantraine, Clark, Comrie, Coseriu, Coseriu, Croft, Croft, Cutrer, Dahl, De Smet, Declerck, Dietrich, Dietrich, Dietrich, Dik, Dik, Dover, Ebert, Fanning, Fischer, Fleischman, Fleischman, Freeze, Giacalone Ramat, Givón, Gonda, Grimes, Guiraud, Hagège, Haspelmath, Haspelmath, Heine, Hopper, Huddleston, Jannaris, Johanson, Jones, Kahn, Killie, Kirk, Kühner, Lambrecht, Langacker, Lanérès, Lasso de la Vega, Leech, Lehmann, Lesher, Liddell, Longacre, Lyons, Lyons, Marchello-Nizia, Matič, Metslang, Michaelis, Michaelis, Mufwene, Nickel, Oldsjö, Payne, Pollak, Polzenhagen, Porter, Pusch, Rijksbaron, Rosenkranz, Rosén, Rosén, Rosén, Ruijgh, Rydbeck, Sihler, Stassen, Tichy, Vendler, Viti, Wackernagel, Wheeler, Wifstrand, Ziegeler   +105 more
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Quelques hypothèses sur les structures syntaxique et sémantique de Ce fripon de valet [PDF]

, 1994
Cet article fait état des structures syntaxique et sémantique de la construction Ce fripon de valet en français standard et en français québécois. L’hypothèse est faite que cette construction a un statut syntaxique analogue d’un point de référentiel à ...
Larrivée, Pierre
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Counteridenticals [PDF]

, 2018
A counteridentical is a counterfactual with an identity statement in the antecedent. While counteridenticals generally seem non-trivial, most semantic theories for counterfactuals, when combined with the necessity of identity and distinctness, attribute ...
Alexander W. Kocurek, Aloni, Arregui, Bennett, Berto, Bjerring, Brogaard, Burge, Chierchia, Cohen, Cohen, Crossley, Cumming, Dasgupta, Davies, Emery, Fara, Fox, Galles, Gazdar, Gibbard, Gillies, Glanzberg, Goodman, Hazen, Higgins, Holliday, Jeffrey, Kaplan, Kment, Kracht, Kracht, Krakauer, Kratzer, Kratzer, Kratzer, Kripke, Kripke, Lakoff, Lakoff, Lewis, Lewis, Lewis, Lewis, Lewis, Lycan, Mares, Mikkelsen, Mikkelsen, Ninan, Nolan, Percus, Pollock, Reboul, Rieppel, Rothstein, Russell, Schwarz, Schwarz, Shumener, Stalnaker, Stalnaker, Stalnaker, Stalnaker, Starr, Sæbø, van Rooij, Vander Laan, Vetter, von Fintel, Warmbrōd, Willer, Williamson, Williamson   +73 more
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Person case constraint effects in Polish copular constructions [PDF]

, 2012
The paper examines two patterns found in one type of copular constructions in Polish, i.e., those containing the verbal copula być ‘be’ and the pronominal copula to.
Bondaruk, Anna
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Sequence determinants of RNA G‐quadruplex unfolding by Arg‐rich regions

FEBS Letters, EarlyView.
We show that Arg‐rich peptides selectively unfold RNA G‐quadruplexes, but not RNA stem‐loops or DNA/RNA duplexes. This length‐dependent activity is inhibited by acidic residues and is conserved among SR and SR‐related proteins (SRSF1, SRSF3, SRSF9, U1‐70K, and U2AF1).
Naiduwadura Ivon Upekala De Silva, Puspa Kunwar, Md Ibnul Rifat Rahman, Joanna Koryo Kwao, Nathan Lehman, Zihan Zhang, Trenton Paul, Claire Cheng, Nicholas Truex, Hui‐Ting Lee, Jun Zhang   +10 more
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Approximating the limit: the interaction between 'almost' and some temporal connectives in Italian [PDF]

, 2009
International audienceThis paper focuses on the interpretation of the Italian approximative adverb 'almost' by primarily looking at cases in which it modifies temporal connectives, a domain which, to our knowledge, has been largely unexplored thus far ...
A. Zwicky, C. Kennedy, C. Kennedy, D. Beaver, D. Davidson, D. Lewis, F. Del Prete, F. Landman, F. Landman, Fabio Del Prete, I. Heim, I. Rapp, J. García-Medall, J. Hitzeman, J.M. Sadock, L.R. Horn, M. Rooth, P. Caudal, P. Lasersohn, Patrícia Amaral, R. Nouwen, S. Rothstein, T. Parsons, T. Parsons   +23 more
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