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Pro-drop in interrogatives across older Germanic and Romance languages

open access: yes, 2021
This chapter investigates the mechanisms of null subject licensing in direct interrogatives, an environment which is generally neglected in investigation into null subjects, using data from a range of early Romance and Germanic languages considered to be
Federica Cognola   +3 more
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Russian Binary Meters

open access: yesStudia Metrica et Poetica, 2020
Russian Binary Meters.
Kiril Taranovsky, Lawrence E. Feinberg
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Teaching Situational Grammar Items Effectively

open access: yesArmenian Folia Anglistika, 2015
Traditional Foreign language curricula at Armenian schools have mainly focused on the grammar, vocabulary and pronunciation of the target language. The disparity between the gained knowledge of a foreign language and university classes aimed at enhancing
Susanna Baghdasaryan
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English relative clauses in a cross-Germanic perspective

open access: yesNordlyd: Tromsø University Working Papers on Language & Linguistics, 2020
The article talk examines the distribution of relativising strategies in English in a cross-Germanic perspective, arguing that English is quite unique among Germanic languages both regarding the number of available options and their distribution.
Julia Bacskai-Atkari
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Diversity in White: An Autoethnographic Case Study of Experienced Diversity and (Un‐)Silencing

open access: yesSocial Inclusion
Drawing on Sara Ahmed’s observation that the one who files a complaint ultimately becomes perceived as the problem, this article exposes the processes of silencing that occur within academia—particularly regarding issues of diversity, racism, and ...
Faime Alpagu
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Функция характеризации в настоящем времени [Function of characterization in present tense]

open access: yesSign Systems Studies, 2003
Function of characterization in present tense. This article is devoted to a field in cognitive and semantic analysis where stylistics and grammar meet: it concerns the function of characterisation in the Present tense. In general, linguistic works, which
Michel Paladian
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A Comparative Grammar of the Early Germanic Languages

open access: yes, 2018
Fulk’s Comparative Grammar offers an overview of and bibliographical guide to the study of the phonology and the inflectional morphology of the earliest Germanic languages, with particular attention to Gothic, Old Norse / Icelandic, Old English, Old ...
R.D. Fulk
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Correlative Adverbs in Germanic Languages

open access: yesNordlyd: Tromsø University Working Papers on Language & Linguistics, 2004
Correlative words like either, both and neither have not been adequately discussed in the literature. Schwarz (1999) and Larson (1985) give an account of some of them (mainly either) in terms of reduction and movement, respectively, but their theories ...
Janne Bondi Johannessen
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Pronoun inflection in the North Sea Germanic languages: The dative-accusative levelling in the first and second person singular

open access: yesFilologia Germanica
North Sea Germanic languages were closely related in the Middle Ages, sharing many phonological, morphological and lexical features. A conspicuous grammatical parallel among these languages is found in the system of personal pronouns.
Rosella Tinaburri
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Sujets existentiels et génériques – La position du français dans une théorie des noms « nus » [PDF]

open access: yesSHS Web of Conferences
Existential and generic subjects ‒ The position of French in a theory of bare nouns. It has been shown that, semantically, noun phrases introduced by the partitive article des in French show on the one hand similarities with bare nouns in Germanic ...
Sleeman Petra
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