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Diachronie de la proclise et de l'enclise avec l'infinitif en français médiéval (12e-15e siècles)
Studia Linguistica Romanica, 2022 This paper presents a diachronic study of clitic placement with infinitives in Medieval French (dating from between the 12th and the 15th century). It particularly focuses on the phenomena of proclisis and enclisis.
Olivier, Marc
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The Development of Indo‐Iranian Voiced Fricatives
Transactions of the Philological Society, Volume 123, Issue 1, Page 97-115, March 2025.Abstract The development of voiced sibilants is a long‐standing puzzle in Indo‐Iranian historical phonology. In Vedic, all voiced sibilants are lost from the system, but the details of this loss are complex and subject to debate. The most intriguing development concerns the word‐final ‐aḥ to ‐o in sandhi.
Gašper Beguš
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Journal of Portuguese Linguistics, 2012 This article investigates the hypothesis that infinitive clauses in Breton are case-filtered. This hypothesis makes a straightforward prediction for the distribution of infinitive clauses: bare infinitives appear in positions where direct case is ...
Mélanie Jouitteau
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Negative irrealis clauses in Malay/Indonesian and Sri Lankan Malay infinitives
Wacana: Journal of the Humanities of Indonesia, 2021 This article concerns establishing a plausible connection between the word jang(an) in colloquial Malay varieties and jang-, a form which negates infinitives, in the diasporic contact variety Sri Lankan Malay.
Peter Slomanson
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International Journal of Applied Linguistics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This exploratory study investigated lexicogrammatical features associated with grade‐based differences in a corpus of 304 business papers taken from an upper‐level undergraduate course at a large North American university. Using five natural language processing tools, 719 candidate linguistic variables were analyzed for their relationship with
Randy Appel +2 more
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Lexical Alternation of Subjective , objective and Infinitive Forms [PDF]
دراسات في اللغة العربيّة وآدابها, 2010   This article attempts to describe lexical alterations which occur in Arabic poetry and prose and in the Holy Qur á n and are common in Arabic language .
Malik Yahya
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Language Learning, EarlyView.Abstract Little research has explored how language dominance may affect the development and ultimate attainment of morphosyntax in a situation of widespread and social bilingualism, where exposure to both languages starts early on and can be sustained over time.
Adriana Soto‐Corominas +2 more
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Pāṇini’s Semantic Hierarchy, or How to Remove the Commentarial Dust from A 2.3.15
Cracow Indological StudiesIn the Indian grammatical tradition, the semantic values ascribed by Pāṇini to the infinitival suffix -tum (notably, ‘agent’, ‘purpose’, ‘future’) were disputed by his commentators.
Davide Mocci
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Topics in Cognitive Science, EarlyView.Abstract This study investigates the role of locality (a task/material‐related variable), demographic factors (age, education, and sex), cognitive capacities (verbal working memory [WM], verbal short‐term memory [STM], speed of processing [SOP], and inhibition), and morphosyntactic category (time reference and grammatical aspect) in verb‐related ...
Marielena Soilemezidi +3 more
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Syntactic properties of Ikalanga infinitives
Studies in African Linguistics, 2023 The infinitive has been quite topical in recent Bantu literature. The majority of Bantuists who have written on this topic sweepingly refer to all ku- forms as the ‘infinitive’ and contend that the infinitive has dual characteristics – clausal and ...
Rose Letsholo-Tafila
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