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WE…WITH ANNA: THE INCLUSORY PLURAL PRONOMINAL CONSTRUCTION IN FINNISH AND FENNO‐SWEDISH*
Studia Linguistica, Volume 78, Issue 2, Page 364-398, August 2024.Abstract This article provides a syntactic analysis of the inclusory plural pronominal construction in Fenno‐Swedish and Finnish. In this construction, a plural pronoun has a singular reading: vi …med Anna (literally “we …with Anna”) means ‘Anna and I’. In addition to the plural pronoun, the construction includes a comitative PP.
Klaus Kurki
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A typology of denominal verb formation strategies
Language and Linguistics Compass, Volume 18, Issue 3, May/June 2024.Abstract This article aims to fill a gap in the typological literature by discussing the typology of overt denominal verb formation strategies, that is, morphosyntactic strategies other than conversion/zero‐derivation that are used to derive a verb from a nominal base.
Simone Mattiola, Andrea Sansò
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Konstrukční auxiliária v hovorové arabštině — případ sloves s významem vstoupit [PDF]
Časopis pro Moderní FilologiiThe present study offers an analysis of asyndetic multiverbal constructions consisting of the verb meaning enter and a following lexical verb in a range of colloquial Arabic varieties.
Adam Pospíšil
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Transactions of the Philological Society, Volume 122, Issue 1, Page 119-150, March 2024.Abstract Degrammaticalisation is an oft‐dismissed category of language change. In this paper evidence is provided for its existence, its triggers, and its conditions. This case study details the development of an understudied Old Italo‐Romance indefinite, covelle, a polarity‐sensitive item roughly translating as ‘anything’ which originated from a Latin
Nicola D’Antuono
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The be‐ versus get‐passive alternation in world Englishes
World Englishes, Volume 43, Issue 1, Page 86-108, March 2024.Abstract Multifactorial studies of the be:get‐passive alternation are still rare. On the basis of the International Corpus of English, this is the first investigation to use mixed modelling for the passive alternation in world Englishes. Overall, our findings reveal that regional differences are far less important than language‐internal constraints ...
Marianne Hundt +2 more
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LA MODALISATION VERBALE: ÉTUDE COMPARATIVE [PDF]
Studii de gramatică contrastivă, 2016 Résumé : Notre propos est de cerner la façon dont une valeur évidentielle peut se forger en se fondant sur l’analyse des propriétés syntaxiques, sémantiques et discursives de trois expressions (faut croire, on dirait et paraît) dont la composition ...
Ala Eddine Bakhouch
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The definite article in Votic: the process of grammaticalisation
Eesti ja Soome-ugri Keeleteaduse Ajakiri, 2015 The paper is devoted to the grammaticalisation of the deictic pronoun se into a definite article in Votic. The author traces this process diachronically demonstrating the results of her studies with the examples of a folktale written down by August ...
Tatiana Agranat
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Intensifying adverbs in the English language [PDF]
Training, Language and Culture, 2019 The article provides an analysis of various aspects of intensification in the English language (colloquial and newspaper), intensifying adverbs in particular.
Evgeniya V. Zhiber, Larisa V. Korotina
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Grammaticalisation, métonymie et pertinence [PDF]
Congrès Mondial de Linguistique Française 2008, 2008 Les changements semantiques sous-jacents aux phenomenes de grammaticalisation ont ete analyses dans le passe comme des transferts metaphoriques, des glissements metonymiques ou des « conventionnalisations d’implicatures ». Dans cette breve contribution, nous nous demanderons, a l’instar de Nicolle (1998), quel pourrait etre l’apport de la theorie de la
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Speaking anxiety and task complexity effects on second language speech
International Journal of Applied Linguistics, Volume 34, Issue 1, Page 292-315, February 2024.Abstract The association between speaking anxiety and L2 speech production, including L2 pronunciation, remains largely under‐researched, especially in relation to task complexity. The present study investigates the effect of task complexity on speaking anxiety and their impact on specific dimensions of L2 speech production: speaking fluency (speed ...
Joan C. Mora +2 more
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