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RUDN Journal of Language Studies, Semiotics and Semantics, 2020 The article is a study of infinitive interrogative sentences bearing meanings of potentiality and efficiency in Russian and the means to render those in Persian.
Amir Aliasghar Hoseini +1 more
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Discourse Markers and Modal Expressions in Speakers with and without Asperger Syndrome: A Pragmatic-Perceptive Approach [PDF]
, 2014 From a theoretical point of view, this paper offers a new framework for the analysis of discourse markers: a pragmatic-perceptive model that emphasizes the point of the communication process in which such particles become more relevant. Furthermore, this
Muñoz, Francisco J. Rodríguez
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Studies in Ancient Art and Civilization, 2014 Infinitives and infinitival constructions seem to be a kind of conceptualization embedded in a language with a ‘genus’ different to that of other grammatical forms. But why did human cognition invent infinitives and their associated constructions?
Mariusz Izydor Prokopowicz
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The verbal suffix *-nǫ-/-ny- in western South Slavic dialects
Hrvatski Dijalektološki Zbornik, 2022 The verbal class which is characterized by a suffix -nu- in the infinitive and -ne- in the present shows considerable dialectal diversity in Croatian and in the other western South Slavic languages.
Tijmen Pronk
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MediAzioni, 2023 This paper discusses the Polish and French infinitive operating as a predicate in a sentence and one appearing in some call-to-action speech genres. The analysis was made in three steps.
Joanna Górnikiewicz
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Language sample analysis for Spanish speakers [PDF]
, 2015 textThe purpose of this project was to develop a Spanish language sample analysis (LSA) scoring procedure for English-Spanish bilinguals used to guide clinicians in developing language goals and monitoring progress on those goals. A Spanish LSA procedure
Pool, Molly Lauren
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Infinitive fronting as a transparency effect in Old and Middle French
IsoglossIn this article, we present a novel analysis of infinitive fronting in Old and Middle French (9th-16th century). We find that in sentences with modal verbs and clitic climbing, the infinitive may either follow the main verb or precede it.
Marc Olivier +2 more
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Simulating the temporal reference of Dutch and English Root Infinitives. [PDF]
, 2004 Hoekstra & Hyams (1998) claim that the overwhelming majority of Dutch children’s Root Infinitives (RIs) are used to refer to modal (not realised) events, whereas in English speaking children, the temporal reference of RIs is free.
Freudenthal, D, Gobet, F, Pine, J M
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TESOL Quarterly, EarlyView.Abstract This study investigates internal linguistic variation in the instructional discourse of international teaching assistants (ITAs) by segmenting their mini‐lecture performances into four discourse types: introduction, lecture, conclusion, and audience interaction.
Heesun Chang, Hector Rivera
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Simulating optional infinitive errors in child speech through the omission of sentence-internal elements. [PDF]
, 2005 A new version of the MOSAIC model of syntax acquisition is presented. The modifications to the model aim to address two weaknesses in its earlier simulations of the Optional Infinitive phenomenon: an over-reliance on questions in the input as the source ...
Freudenthal, D, Gobet, F, Pine, J M
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