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INFINITIVOS Y GERUNDIOS: ESTUDIO DE SUS RELACIONES EN EL ÁMBITO DEL ESPAÑOL L2/LE
Revista de Lingüística y Lenguas Aplicadas, 2008 El objetivo de este trabajo consiste en demostrar que las formas no personales poseen rasgos formales que las habilitan para aparecer en contextos sintácticos concretos; tales rasgos estén sujetos a variación param& ...
Teresa María Rodríguez Ramalle
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Transactions of the Philological Society, Volume 124, Issue 2, Page 314-356, July 2026.Abstract Based on an analysis of the Old Literary Tibetan corpus—a corpus of the oldest documented Tibetic language—the present study provides evidence that literary Tibetan v3 verb stems (commonly termed ‘future’) initially encoded passive voice. New arguments put forward in this article range from Trans‐Himalayan nominal morphology to early Tibetan ...
Joanna Bialek
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Parameter Hierarchies and Language Contact: The Present Perfect in Ecuadorian Spanish1
Transactions of the Philological Society, Volume 124, Issue 2, Page 513-546, July 2026.Abstract This article explores the hypothesis that the ‘fine‐grained’ grammatical differences that adult grammars under contact are said to be sensitive to (e.g., Hicks et al. 2023) amount to micro/nanoparametric distinctions, in the sense of Roberts (2019).
Norma Schifano
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Metaethics and the Functions of Moral Language
Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, Volume 113, Issue 1, Page 74-87, July 2026.ABSTRACT Metaethics has long included debates about the function of moral discourse. Some have argued that moral statements express our attitudes, others that they serve as prescriptions for how to act, still others that they describe moral facts or properties.
Amie L. Thomasson
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Journal of Computer Assisted Learning, Volume 42, Issue 3, June 2026.ABSTRACT Background The use of recent artificial intelligence (AI) chatbots, such as chat generative pretrained transformer (ChatGPT), in second language (L2) writing may face criticism for potentially promoting plagiarism and raising ethical concerns.
Yuah V. Chon, Dongkwang Shin
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Journal of Portuguese Linguistics, 2007 Defectiveness is an important issue in syntactic theory, namely in the study of non-finite domains that lack tense and/or agreement features. In this book, Acrísio Pires investigates this topic, searching for a unified analysis of Eng-lish gerunds and ...
Anabela Gonçalves
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Structures des complétives et des infinitives du polonais et du français
Cognitive Studies | Études cognitives, 2015 Complement and infinitive clause structures in Polish and French The comparative analysis of complement clauses and infinitive clauses in Polish and French throws light on the sequence to, że(by) P / ce que P introducing complement clauses in the two ...
Lidia Miladi
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The emergence of adverbial infinitives in Swedish
, 2022 Prepositional infinitives are commonly used in present-day Swedish to express a range of adverbial notions, including purposive, abessive, substitutive, temporal, and instrumental meanings. However, only purposive infinitives are attested in Old Swedish.
Kalm, Mikael,
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, 1998 Thesis (Ph.D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Linguistics and Philosophy, 1998.Includes bibliographical references (v. 2, leaves [335]-351).This dissertation is an investigation of the structure of control infinitives, the mechanism of ...
Wurmbrand, Susanne, 1966-
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Causatives with small clause complements
IsoglossWe discuss the syntactic properties of a small subset of verbs in European Portuguese (EP) that have a causative interpretation and may also have a locative meaning, namely pôr a ‘put to / make’ and deixar a ‘make’.
Anabela Gonçalves, Ana Lúcia Santos
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