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Quantity superlatives in Germanic, or, ‘Life on the fault line between adjective and determiner' [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
This paper concerns the superlative forms of the words many, much, few, and little, and their equivalents in other Germanic languages (German, Dutch, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Dalecarlian, Icelandic, and Faroese).
Coppock, Elizabeth
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Not on the edge: the syntax and pragmatics of clause-initial negation in Swedish [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
The possibility of topicalizing sentential negation is severely restricted in the Germanic V2-languages. In this paper, we show that negative preposing was more frequent and less restricted in earlier stages of Swedish: approx.
Agnes Jäger   +28 more
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The Proto-Germanic pluperfect [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
The Germanic perfect presents (Präteritopräsentien) form a past tense by adding the endings of the weak preterit to the stem of the past participle, e.g. Go. wissa ‘knew’. This is a recent formation (cf. Kortlandt 1989). We may therefore ask ourselves if
Kortlandt, Frederik H. H.
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The SCOTS Corpus: a resource for language contact study [PDF]

open access: yes, 2007
The Scottish Corpus of Texts and Speech (SCOTS) is an ongoing project in the Department of English Language, University of Glasgow. The ultimate aim of the project is to create a large electronic corpus of both written and spoken texts for the ...
Anderson, W.
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First language influence on second language performance: A study of common English grammatical errors among rural secondary school students [PDF]

open access: yes, 2007
As a second language in Malaysia, English is taught to all from the pre-school level until the fifth form of the secondary school. Even though the teaching and learning of English is carried out for several years, many students still fail to acquire the ...
Abdul Hamid, Nor Zakiah   +3 more
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A binary system of complementizers in Cimbrian relative clauses [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
The system of Cimbrian relative clauses manifests itself in a complex scenario: two different complementizers occur in this context: i) the ‘autochthonous’ (Germanic) bo, cognate of Southern German wo, and ii) the ‘allochthonous’ ke, borrowed from ...
Bidese, Ermenegildo   +2 more
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Cultural determinants of the gap between self-estimated navigation ability and wayfinding performance: evidence from 46 countries. [PDF]

open access: yesSci Rep, 2023
Walkowiak S   +9 more
europepmc   +1 more source

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