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The voice of French existential on constructions
IsoglossThe external arguments of short passives and French existential on constructions share strikingly similar properties: both display discourse and scopal inertness, both fail to provide an antecedent for a PRO subject of a passive infinitival, and neither
Marc Authier, Lisa A Reed
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Negative Indefinite Constructions in Bantu: ‘Nobody’
LanguagesThis paper presents a first typology of negative indefinites in Bantu languages. The lack of interest in expressions of ‘nobody’ in Bantu languages is connected with the idea that they merely involve a generic noun for ‘person’ and main clause negation ...
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, 2013 Existential constructions are normally defined as sentences in which some entity is associated with some location giving rise to the so-called locative paradigm which also involves the locative and the possessive construction (cf. Freeze 2001). In spite of the apparent simplicity of this approach, the assumption of an allegedly universal locative ...
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Predicate Nominals and Related Constructions in the Vakh Dialect of Khanty [PDF]
Linguistica UralicaThe paper deals with predicate nominals and related constructions in the Vakh dialect of Khanty. They include nominal predicates (which typically express proper inclusion and equation), predicate adjectives, predicate locatives, existentials, possessive,
Sergei V. Kovylin
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Frontiers in Psychology, 2018 The current study focuses on the acquisition of classifier constructions in Hong Kong Sign Language (HKSL) by a group of Deaf children of hearing parents, aided or implanted.
Gladys W. L. Tang, Jia Li
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few notes on the ‘need’ field in Romanian
Bucharest Working Papers in Linguistics, 2010 Isachenko (1974) proposed that in Russian, the absence of a (transitive) verb ‘need’ of the English type (I need a book) correlates with the absence of possessive ‘have’.
Oana Săvescu
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, 2017 Existential wh-constructions are wh-constructions that have a nominal distribution, an existential (indefinite) meaning, and the superficial appearance of a “bare” wh-clause. They come in two main subtypes—existential free relatives and modal existential wh-constructions—with opinions divided as to how these types are related to each other and whether ...
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The expression of change-of-state in the Finnic languages
Open Linguistics, 2020 The present article studies verbs that are used to convey change-of-state in the Finnic languages: “to come”, “to go”, “to remain/stay”, “to get”, “will be”, “to make/do”, and “to be born/give birth”.
Norvik Miina
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Existential Constructions in Turkish
RumeliDE Dil ve Edebiyat Araştırmaları Dergisi, 2019 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 ...
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Stellenbosch Papers in Linguistics, 2017 Whilst literature on the acquisition of passive constructions by speakers of European languages abounds, there is a dearth of grammatical descriptions of passive constructions in (especially South) African languages that may serve as a basis for ...
Potgieter, Anneke Perold
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