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Patterns of variation in existential constructions [PDF]
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
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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
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A multivariate analysis of the structural variability of existential noun phrases [PDF]
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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Existential constructions in Turkish
, 2022 The purpose of this paper is to investigate existential constructions in Turkish. The focus will be on the semantic, discourse as well as structural properties of Noun Phrases (NPs henceforth) in these structures. It is well-attested that there are different types of NPs such as bare NPs, singular and plural indefinite NPs that can serve as pivots in ...
Görgülü, Emrah, Görgülü, Emrah
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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
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The syntax of existential constructions
Journal of Speech Sciences, 2022 This study, in two parts, endeavors a novel analysis of existential constructions, based on a different theoretical setting of clause structure, where the predicate is taken as a necessary and sufficient constituent of the clause. Leaning on this perception, the analyses of existential constructions developed here tries to overcome the discrepancy ...
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