(From) A to B (and back) [PDF]
‘(From) A to B (and back)’ is an article published in Printed Project (issue 13, July 2010). The issue theme was ‘Virtual Fictional’ and O’Riley’s contribution is a reflection on narrative, reading, uncertainty and de-familiarization, and how these ideas
O'Riley, Tim
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The adverbial clauses and their textual-discursive functions in the argumentative answer genre
We aim in this paper to analyze how adverbial hypotaxis can contribute to the construction of argumentativeness of genre argumentative response. We selected as the object of analysis the textual productions of candidates for the entrance summer exam UEM/
Fátima Christina Calicchio
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Parataxis, hypotaxis, and subordination in Brazilian Sign Language: a brief introduction
Clause articulation is a grammatical strategy found in all-natural languages. This phenomenon gives rise to complex constructions that manifest in a continuous gradient (parataxis – hypotaxis – embedding) from integratingsyntactic, semantic, and pragmatic levels of the language in use.
Bruno Gonçalves Carneiro +3 more
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'Should conditionals be emergent ...': asyndetic conditionals in English and German as a Challenge to Grammaticalization Research [PDF]
The present article examines asyndetic or conjunctionless conditionals in German and English. According to Jespersen’s Model (1940), this construction arose diachronically from a paratactic discourse sequence with a polar interrogative, but more recently
Van den Nest, Daan
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ἔγραψέ μοι γάρ ... τὰ νῦν οὖν γράφω σοι. οὖν and γάρ as inferential and elaborative discourse markers in Greek papyrus letters (I – IV AD) [PDF]
I analyse the use of the particles οὖν and γάρ in a corpus of documentary texts ranging from the first to the fourth century AD. I attempt to answer three main research questions: (i) with what frequency are οὖν and γάρ used; was one of these particles ...
Bentein, Klaas
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The house is coming from inside the call
Abstract You are reading the first sentence of this essay. In fact, outside of this abstract and a brief introduction, there are only first sentences in this essay, all collected from anthropology monographs and articles. Anthropology is a promiscuous discipline, but there are only about half a dozen ways to begin an anthropology essay.
Lachlan Summers
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‚Tempuskontrolle‘ im Deutschen und Polnischen
Starting from the concept of generative control, allowing for the allocation of semantic role of the subject in related infinitive groups without the possibility of syntactic realization of the role, the author postulates the introduction of the concept ...
Witold Sadziński
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Syntactic Constructions in Serial Verb Expressions in Chinese [PDF]
This paper investigates the syntactic constructions of serial verb expressions (two verbs in sequence as V1+V2) in Mandarin Chinese. At least three distinct constructions are identified: coordination, subordination and serialization.
Dai, John Xiang-ling
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The minimal compound-complex sentence hierarchy [PDF]
This article deals with the problem of the study of the subsystem of such type of the Multiple Compound-Complex Sentence as a minimal compound-complex sentence. The authors analyze the formal structure of the multiple compoundcomplex sentences and try to
Blokhina, A. O. +4 more
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“Twilight” Syntax of E. Baratynsky (Based on the “Twilight” Collection, 1842)
The article represents the results of analyze of the poem structural and semantic organization in the series of E. Bаratynsky "Twilight" collection; features of the structure, the division of the sentences are revealed, the types of the grammatical ...
Natalya Viktorovna Patroeva
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