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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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Functional differentiation and grammatical competition in the English Jespersen Cycle [PDF]
, 2013 Wallage argues for a model of the Middle English Jespersen Cycle in which each of its diachronic stages are functionally equivalent competitors in the sense proposed by Kroch.
Wallage, Phillip
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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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Discurso referido, gramaticalización y construcción lingüística del texto
Recherches, 2017 Dans cet article, nous nous proposons, d’abord, de montrer que la syntaxe de la phrase et du discours est nécessaire, mais non suffisante, pour rendre compte du discours rapporté ; ensuite, de mettre en rapport cette construction avec les notions de ...
José Luis Girón Alconchel
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Glossa, 2017 This paper explores a connection between Romance and Greek on the one hand, and Bantu on the other. More specifically, we look at auxiliary placement in Rangi and clitic placement in Tobler Mussafia languages, with a special emphasis on Cypriot Greek ...
Hannah Gibson, Stergios Chatzikyriakidis
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Probing the interaction of language contact and internal innovation
Studies in African Linguistics, 2019 The Bantu language Rangi is spoken at the northern borderlands of Tanzania, where Bantu, Cushitic and Nilotic languages meet. In many regards, Rangi exhibits the morphosyntax typically associated with East African Bantu: SVO word order, an extensive ...
Hannah Gibson, Lutz Marten
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The grammaticalisation of a copula in vernacular Arabic
Glossa, 2019 It is standardly assumed that Arabic copula constructions with present tense interpretation involve either a null copula or a pronominal copula.
Louisa Sadler, Maris Camilleri
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En passant par : une expression en voie de grammaticalisation? [PDF]
, 2012 International audienceIn this paper, we analyse the morpho-syntactic and semantic functioning of the expression en passant par in French, in synchrony as well as in diachrony (1500-2011).
Stosic, Dejan
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