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De-phrases and specificity in old Romanian [PDF]

Bucharest Working Papers in Linguistics, 2014
Romanian inherited the Romance de-genitive from Latin. In the 16th century, the de-genitive had an archaic character and was used in the formal register.
Camelia Stan
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Subject case alternation in negated existential, locative, and possessive clauses in Latvian

Kalbotyra, 2018
[full article and abstract in English] The goal of this article is to analyse the alternation between the genitive and nominative cases in Latvian. As the alternation between genitive and nominative cases is possible in all clauses in which the verb ...
Andra Kalnača, Ilze Lokmane
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Demarcating the Scope of Intensional Genitive in Polish

Rasprave Instituta za Hrvatski Jezik i Jezikoslovlje
Intensional verbs display three intensionality effects in their complement, namely the avail-ability of nonspecific readings, the failure of extensional substitution and the lack of existential import.
Anna Bondaruk, Anna Prażmowska
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"The coral of your lips, the stars of your eyes" – the function of the genitive case in a particular kind of genitive metaphor compared to other semantic functions of this case (based on examples in the Polish language)

Cognitive Studies | Études cognitives, 2018
The coral of your lips, the stars of your eyes – the function of the genitive case in a particular kind of genitive metaphor compared to other semantic functions of this case (based on examples in the Polish language) This paper attempts to explicate ...
Monika Szymańska
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The Reconstruction of the Proto-Semitic Genitive Ending and a Suggestion on its Origin

Studia Orientalia Electronica, 2021
The Proto-Semitic genitive ending on triptotic nouns is commonly reconstructed as *-im (unbound state)/*-i (bound state). In Akkadian, however, this case ending is long -ī- before pronominal suffixes.
Benjamin Suchard
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Dėl asmeninių įvardžių dviskaitos kilmininko kai kurių formų kilmės

Baltistica, 2011
ON THE ORIGIN OF SOME GENITIVE DUAL FORMS OF PERSONAL PRONOUNSSummaryThe article deals with the origin of the genitive dual forms mùma and jùma, which are personal pronouns used in the southern West Aukštaitian subdialect as well as in East Prussian ...
Albertas Rosinas
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Why all John’s friends are Dutch, not German; on differences in West Germanic in the interaction between universal quantifiers and genitives [PDF]

Bucharest Working Papers in Linguistics, 2014
Unlike English and Dutch, German does not allow a genitive to follow a universal quantifier: (i) All John’s friends… (ii) Al Jans vrienden… (Dutch) (iii) *All(e) Johanns Freunde… (German) In this article I show that this discrepancy results from two ...
Robert Cirillo
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An experimental study of the adjacency constraint on the genitive subject in Japanese

Glossa, 2023
We present the results of two acceptability judgment and three self-paced reading experiments exploring the source of degradation effects on the acceptability of genitive subjects caused by having them not adjacent to the verb.
Ken Nakatani, Satoshi Nambu
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Der Müller Peter and (s) Fischers Emma

Nordisk Tidskrift för Socioonomastik
In German dialects and in rural communities, special personal names are used, in which the surname precedes the given name: der Müller Peter, Fischers Emma.
Theresa Schweden
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Kelios mintys dėl latvių senųjų raštų vienaskaitos kilmininko su -as ir daugiskaitos kilmininko su -us

Baltistica, 2011
SOME REMARKS ON THE GENITIVE SINGULAR IN -as AND THE GENITIVE PLURAL IN -us OF LATVIAN OLD MANUSCRIPTSSummaryIn the translation of Catechismvs Catholicorum, as well as in Elger’s texts, the genitive singular in -es[-as] of (i̯)o-stem nouns results from ...
Albertas Rosinas
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