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The features and factors in the acquisition of English existential constructions at the syntax–pragmatics interface by Chinese learners [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2022 This study adopted a mixed-method study design to investigate the acquisitional features of English existential constructions at the syntax-pragmatics interface by Chinese learners, and explore the factors for non-native performance from the perspective ...
Shan Jiang, Huiping Zhang
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Perfection is a sad and lonely place: A study of existential vulnerability in the life stories of persons struggling with perfectionism [PDF]
International Journal of Qualitative Studies on Health & Well-Being, 2023 Under what life conditions do individuals turn to perfectionistic striving and ideals as a solution? The present paper examines how people with perfectionism narrate their relationship to our shared existential vulnerability; that we are vulnerable as ...
Per-Einar Binder +2 more
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Verbs' unaccusativity in existential constructions
Journal of Child Language Acquisition and DevelopmentThe Unaccusative Hypothesis(UH) advocates the dominance of syntactic structure in assigning semantic values to sentence arguments. The same thematic roles should only be assigned by the same syntactic configuration.
Zhangyan Miao
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Existential structures as specialised constructions
ELAD-SILDAThis constructionist paper deals with the specialised manifestations that constructions can exhibit and considers two questions: (i) how such specialised manifestations can be linked back to the cognitive architecture of the domain, (ii) whether
Vince Liégeois, Laurent Gautier
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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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The existential in Xhosa in relation to indefiniteness
Studies in African Linguistics, 2020 Bare nouns in languages without articles can be semantically ambiguous between definite and indefinite interpretations. It is here assumed that speakers of such languages can still signal to the hearer when they refer to unique and identifiable referents.
Eva-Marie Bloom Ström
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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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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
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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
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Existentials, A-chains and reconstruction [PDF]
DELTA: Documentação de Estudos em Lingüística Teórica e Aplicada, 2000 This paper provides a new minimalist analysis of existential constructions that reconciles two salient properties: (i) the fact that the local relation between there and its associate mimics the locality involved in movement relations and (ii) the fact ...
Norbert HORNSTEIN
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