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Supine functioning in the Kazan Gospel of the 14th century
Ученые записки Казанского университета: Серия Гуманитарные науки, 2019 The paper analyzes the supine functioning in the Kazan Gospel, an ancient lectionary of the 14th century. The study aims to establish general patterns in the supine use, the description of its phonetic appearance, and the influence of the latter on the ...
N.G. Nikolaeva, A.V. Ermoshin
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Unclear Predication in the Construction
E-REA, 2012 This paper examines Evaluative Adjectives (in short: EAs) like brave, clever, crazy, foolish, silly, wise when followed by to + infinive as in (1) or (2):(1) C8T 2147 I suppose I'm silly to worry about that.
Christopher DESURMONT
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Transitivity of Spanish perception verbs: a gradual category?
Borealis: An International Journal of Hispanic Linguistics, 2013 This article examines to what extent perception verbs occurring in a syntactically transitive scheme are also semantically transitive. Indeed, since the perception process represents a mental rather than a physical contact between the perceiver/subject ...
Renata Enghels
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Infinitive Subjects or Subjectless Infinitives?
Suvremena lingvistika, 2000 This paper argues against the view that infinitive, or to be more precise, definitized clauses have subjects. The so-called infinitive subjects occur in three main types of construction: (i) subject of the infinitive introduced by the preposition for; (ii) either nominative or oblique (accusative) subjects of infinitives, and (iii) covert subjects of ...
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Unifying cross-linguistic and within-language patterns of finiteness marking in MOSAIC [PDF]
, 2006 MOSAIC, a model that has already simulated cross-linguistic differences in the occurrence of the Optional Infinitive phenomenon, is applied to the simulation of the pattern of finiteness marking within Dutch.
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Personal versus impersonal passive in Latin infinitival clauses: Some diachronic considerations
Pallas, 2016 This paper deals with the historical origins of the Classical Latin alternation between the personal passive NcI and the impersonal passive + AcI constructions.
Sean Gleason
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Journal of General Internal Medicine, 2010 Pressure in the vessels of his lungs-- A push, an incessant crush, a river rising. Vacuuming becomes a luxurious Pastime, past time and a moment somewhere Else, anywhere but here. I can smell him, he says. My father-- When he was sick and dying he had this scent. I smell it on me, he weeps. He feels what Approaches.
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On the Voice and Status of the Construction dati + se + Infinitive
Rasprave Instituta za Hrvatski Jezik i JezikoslovljeThis study investigates the Croatian dati + se + infinitive construction in contexts where it encodes objective possibility. The paper focuses on the relevance of this construction for the typology of voice and discusses its status.
Mia Batinić Angster
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Linguistica, 2010 This paper explains a very well-known feature of Classical Greek syntax from the perspective of Natural Syntax. Most grammars of Classical Greek state that infinitive clauses could be dependent on both verbs of speaking and thinking in Classical Greek ...
Jerneja Kavčič
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On the rapid use of verb-control information in sentence processing. [PDF]
Front Psychol, 2023 Demestre J.
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