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THE GERUND AND GERUNDIVE IN THE WORKS OF TACITUS AND PLINY THE YOUNGER
Filolog, 2021 The gerund is a defective verbal noun and the gerundive is a passive verbal adjective in -ndus, -a, -um with necessitative meaning. This paper presents some results obtained from a comparison of the various uses gerunds and gerundives in the ...
Slobodanka S. Prtija
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Representations of Nonlocal Syntactic Dependencies Feed Verb Learning in Infancy. [PDF]
Dev SciABSTRACT The ability to represent both local and nonlocal syntactic dependencies emerges in an infant's second year of life, raising questions about how these early syntactic representations interact with language learning in other domains. Using wh‐questions as our case study, we investigate how infants’ syntactic dependency acquisition interacts with
Perkins L, Ying Y, Williams A, Lidz J.
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Sintagma, 2017 The aim of this work is to characterize the Spanish verbal periphrasis and the Italian from the point of view of both grammatical and lexical aspect, or Aktionsart. We will develop this characterization in the context of other verbal gerund periphrases
María Martínez-Atienza
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¿Salir o salir corriendo? Una aproximación a la construcción verbo + gerundio de modo en textos originales y textos traducidos al español [PDF]
Studia Romanistica, 2021 Salir or salir corriendo? An Approach to the Construction of verb + gerund of manner in Original Texts and Texts Translated into Spanish. This article deals with the gerund of manner in combination with verbs of motion.
Petr Šlechta
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Italiano LinguaDue, 2021 Il presente contributo analizza l’uso che fanno del gerundio studenti universitari che apprendono l’italiano L2 di livello intermedio-avanzato nelle loro produzioni scritte.
Elena Maria Duso
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Language and cognition behind simile construction: A Python-powered corpus research [PDF]
Training, Language and Culture, 2023 Despite the recognised role of similes in cognitive and communicative processes, there is a limited understanding of their construction and use in specific contexts, such as online food reviews.
Elizaveta G. Grishechko
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Tell-us Journal, 2018 The purpose of the study is to find out what kinds and the causes of errors are made by the students of the Fourth semester of the English department of university in using gerund. This method used descriptive qualitative method. The writer used optional
Wiwik Yully Widyawati
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Encountering the Familiarity of a Foreign Culture: Julie Dash's Novel Daughters of the Dust
Current Objectives of Postgraduate American Studies, 2012 This essay analyzes Julie Dash’s 1997 novel Daughters of the Dust “with regard to its portrayal of the Gullah culture, its strategies of familiarizing an outsider readership with a foreign culture, and the way it depicts representations of culture
Katharina Gerund
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Journal of English Education and Teaching, 2019 The objectives of this research are to find out the types of errors and the most dominant error of using gerunds (as a subject of a sentence, as an object of preposition or after pr eposition, as a direct object of certain verbs, after a special ...
Recci Nuzirwan, Imranuddin ., Arasuli .
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Digitizing Carroll D. Wright’s “Hand and Machine Labor” Study
Jahrbuch für Wirtschaftsgeschichte, 2023 We describe our digitization of a uniquely detailed study of 19th century production methods assembled by the United States Department of Labor (1899).
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