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How Non-Native Writers Realize Their Interpersonal Meaning?

open access: yesLingua Cultura, 2018
This research was aimed at describing and explaining the interpersonal meaning, types of mood system, and modality found in the thesis abstracts. The method used was descriptive qualitative and specifically designed as discourse analysis.
Adip Arifin
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Source of Errors in English Headless Relative Clauses Produced by Persian Learners/Speakers of English [PDF]

open access: yesIssues in Language Teaching, 2020
This paper focuses on errors made by Persian learners of English as a Foreign Language (EFL) when producing English headless relative clauses (RCs). Although English does not allow interrogative structure in headless RCs, Persian EFL learners tend to ...
Khadijeh Karimi Alavijeh
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On the position of subjects in Spanish

open access: yesAnuario del Seminario de Filología Vasca "Julio de Urquijo", 1998
In this paper I analyze the contrast between the pre and postverbal subject positions in Spanish under the guidelines proposed in The Minimalist Program (Chomsky 1995).
Antxon Olarrea
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Nominal and adverbial clauses in Maltese [PDF]

open access: yes, 2023
The article considers two types of subordinate sentences: nominal (complement) clauses and adverbial clauses. It touches upon the difference between a nominal clause with an explicit verb and a clause lacking an explicit verb (a predicate/copular ...
Borg, Albert
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A comprehensive corpus-based analysis of “X Auxiliary Subject” constructions in written and spoken English

open access: yesTopics in Linguistics, 2019
This paper describes a corpus-based analysis of subject-auxiliary inversion in both spoken and written English. The focus of the analysis is Chen’s (2013) X Auxiliary Subject construction (XASC), where X codes the fronting of a constituent which triggers
Prado-Alonso Carlos
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Interpersonal Realizations of Pedagogic Discourse in Indonesian EFL Classrooms

open access: yesInternational Journal of Language Teaching and Education, 2018
This paper describes the lexicogrammatical realizations of interpersonal meaning in English as a Foreign Language (EFL) classrooms in Indonesian university context.
Sunardi Sunardi   +3 more
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'What' clauses can and 'which' cannot: A Romanian puzzle [PDF]

open access: yes, 2023
: A previously unnoticed puzzle is presented concerning the distribution of wh-determiners in free relative clauses in Romanian: while care 'which' + NP can never introduce free relative clauses, ce 'what' + NP does so productively, as do all other wh ...
Fălăuș, Anamaria, Caponigro, Ivano
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La frase relativa Studio analitico linguistico [PDF]

open access: yesTranscultural Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences
on Relative ClausesRelative clauses are a fundamental structure in the Italian language and serve the function of subordinating a clause in order to add, specify, or clarify information related to an element of the main clause, known as the antecedent ...
Amel Abdelhafez hanafy
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Yes/no and Wh-Questions in Ǹjò̩-Kóo : A Unified Analysis

open access: yesCorela, 2018
Cet article, s’inscrit dans le cadre minimaliste de la syntaxe générative et étudie oui / non et wh-questions dans la langue Ǹjò̩-kóo (Benue-Congo), parlée dans l’état de Ondo au Nigeria.
Simeon Olaogun
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Perceptive evidential wie-clauses in German: a situation-based account

open access: yes, 2023
The chapter is concerned with investigating the formal properties and the semantic interpretation of non-manner wie-clauses in German. The properties of these clauses, analysed as perceptive evidential relatives, will be compared to pseudo-relatives in ...
Roland Hinterholzl
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