Results 1 to 10 of about 4,720 (242)
Typology of Copula Constructions in Gorani Texts and the Ergative System's Reflection in Them [PDF]
مطالعات زبانها و گویشهای غرب ایران, 2023 In this study, the copula constructions in Gorani texts are investigated, as well as how the ergative system is reflected in them. The Divan of Mawlavi (also known as Kurdish Mawlavi) is one of the most authoritative Gorani manuscripts used in this study.
Saeed Karami +2 more
doaj +1 more source
Languages, 2023 Existential sentences in Spanish are sensitive to the definiteness or quantification restriction or effect, which prevents personal pronouns, proper nouns, and definite constituents from occupying the pivot position.
Jorge Agulló
doaj +1 more source
A multivariate analysis of the structural variability of existential noun phrases
Moderna Språk, 2023 The literature on there-existential construction (e.g. ‘there are no graves, son’) is extensive, especially those showing the complexity involved in its internal structure, meaning and interpretation.
Mayowa Akinlotan
doaj +1 more source
Patterns of variation in existential constructions
Isogloss, 2015 The main goal of the present paper is twofold: on the one hand, to highlight the patterns of variation among the existential constructions found in Italo-Romance and Sardinian dialects; on the other, to examine the observed microvariation in a ...
Silvio Cruschina
doaj +3 more sources
On the Syntax of Existential Sentences in Najdi Arabic
Languages, 2022 The existential sentence is a noncanonical sentence type that is used crosslinguistically to assert the (non)existence of one or more entities. It consists of a set of syntactic items that includes an expletive, pivot, and coda.
Bader Alharbi
doaj +1 more source
Gendered Existence? Existential-There Construction in English-Polish Translation
East European Journal of Psycholinguistics, 2021 This paper analyses a possible effect of the variable of gender on semantic enrichment of existential sentences translated from English to Polish. Existential-there clauses in English typically take the form there + be + indefinite NP (+place/time ...
Andrzej Łyda
doaj +1 more source
Relational $\star$-Liftings for Differential Privacy [PDF]
Logical Methods in Computer Science, 2019 Recent developments in formal verification have identified approximate liftings (also known as approximate couplings) as a clean, compositional abstraction for proving differential privacy. This construction can be defined in two styles.
Gilles Barthe +4 more
doaj +1 more source
Lietuvių Kalba, 2019 In this article I aim to establish source constructions for the inclusive copular construction with the verb virsti ‘turn into’ and to discuss how this once locomotional verb eventually became a copula with an aspectual function in the sentences ...
Rolandas Mikulskas
doaj +1 more source
Encyclopaideia, 2022 This article discusses the hypothesis of a recovery of the phenomenological and literary paradigms of antiquity to cross the complexity of the existential, educational and relational experience in the digital contemporary world, focusing on the problems ...
Angela Arsena
doaj +1 more source
Variation and variability in L2 learning trajectories: Learning the Finnish existential construction
Journal of the European Second Language Association, 2022 Taking an onomasiological approach and a dynamic usage-based perspective, this study explores how four beginning L2 learners of Finnish develop in expressing existentiality (‘there is something somewhere’) before and after instruction.
Sirkku Lesonen +3 more
doaj +1 more source