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Semantic roles of dative case in Russian and ways of expressing them in Persian [PDF]
Grammatical case in the agglutinative and inflected languages is described as a tool that has two functions: 1. determining the syntactic roles of a structure in a sentence, such as subject, direct object, indirect object, and so on. 2.
Reza-Morad Sahraei, Kristina Buiakevych
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On the basis of corpus data (9.5M words 1997–2010) we claim that North Saami is developing a grammatical distinction between alienable and inalienable possession.
Lene Antonsen, Laura Janda
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This study investigates the choice of genitive forms (the woman’s book vs. the book of the woman) in the English of Japanese-English bilingual returnees (i.e., children who returned from a second language dominant environment to their first language ...
Maki Kubota +4 more
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In this article I address the question of the change in grammatical nature for the English genitive from inflectional affix to clitic. I focus on the rise of the group genitive, a construction in which the mark for possession is not attached to the head
Rodrigo Pérez Lorido
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A Study of the Semantic Network of /-oir/ and /-atoire/ Morphemes in French: A Comparative Approach [PDF]
INTRODUCTIONIn this comparative, analytic, and descriptive study, we aimed to study and analyze the syntactic structure and the semantic network of the words focusing on two high frequency bound morphemes in French language which are /-oir/ and /-atoire/.
Nahid Djalili Marand, Sanaz Dehkharghani
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Modification of Qualia Structures Using Relative Adjectives in Lithuanian, Russian and German
Relative adjectives are immediate nominal explicators (nouns) that play a key role in meaningful structures in the Russian, Lithuanian, and German languages.
Vasiliy Glushak +2 more
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Aspects of Syntactic Ambiguity in Arabic Language and Their Impacts on the Translation of the Holy Quran [PDF]
Syntactic ambiguity is divided into linguistic and literary types. Grammatical ambiguity is a type of linguistic ambiguity which is in turn divided into group and structural types.
Yousef Nazari
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Prepositions in Modern Greek: Accusative or genitive case? [PDF]
Prepositions are indeclinable words with limited lexical meaning that cannot stand alone but can govern one or more cases. In Modern Greek, which has four cases (nominative, genitive, accusative, and vocative), prepositions are commonly used to express a
Baćić-Ćosić Maja G. +1 more
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Comparative analysis Case (Haal) in Arabic syntax and semantic equivalents role of grammar in Persian [PDF]
. Introduction Some grammarians have called the grammatical researches that take place between two languages “Comparative Grammar”, and some others have called it “Contrastive Grammar”, in a way that comparative grammar is a comparison of grammatical ...
Omid Vahdanifar +3 more
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Quirky Quotes and Needles in the Haystack: Tracing Grammatical Change in Untagged Corpora
This paper discusses pivotal theoretical and methodological problems of historical corpus linguistics. In two case studies from Swedish language history, the development of the epistemic adverb kanske and the group genitive respectively, it illustrates ...
Muriel Norde
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