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'Tough'-constructions and their derivation [PDF]
, 2009 This article addresses the syntax of the notorious 'tough' (-movement) construction (TC) in English. TCs exhibit a range of apparently contradictory empirical properties suggesting that their derivation involves the application of both A-movement and A ...
Hicks, Glyn
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On the Morphology of Toponyms: What Greek Inflectional Paradigms Can Teach us
Transactions of the Philological Society, Volume 123, Issue 1, Page 77-96, March 2025.Abstract The research is a contribution to the investigation of the grammatical status of toponyms from the point of view of inflectional paradigmatic morphology. By examining data from Standard Modern Greek, as well as select data from its historical development, the analysis reveals that the inflectional morphology of toponyms shows significant ...
Michail I. Marinis
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Analyse descriptive des unités phraséologiques dans Les impatientes de Djaïli Amadou Amal [PDF]
Revue Hybrides, 2023 French language is the most dynamic language because of its multiples varieties. Users appropriate it by themselves until its syntax. Phraseologisms codify communication among people and can be identified by a more or less static syntax. In her novel Les
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Topicalization and the question of lexical passives in Chinese
, 2010 This paper is one argument for a theory of grammatical relations in Chinese in which there are no grammatical relations beyond semantic roles, and no lexical relation-changing rules.
LaPolla, Randy J.
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Vulgar Minimisers in English and Spanish1
Transactions of the Philological Society, EarlyView.Abstract In this paper, we investigated whether vulgar minimisers form a natural class in English and Spanish by evaluating (i) their similarities and differences with respect to non‐vulgar minimisers and (ii) whether vulgar minimisers are inherently negative in these languages.
Ángel L. Jiménez‐Fernández +1 more
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ADVERBS AS A WORD CATEGORY IN KINYAKYUSA [PDF]
Journal of the National Council of Less Commonly Taught Languages, 2010 Adverbs as a lexical class appear not to have received much attention in the study of African languages (Saah 2004) and Bantu languages in particular (cf. Nurse and Philippson 2003). This paper is an attempt at contributing to the knowledge of adverbs
Amani Lusekelo
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Languages, 2020 Although linguistic research has often focused on one domain (e.g., as influenced by generative prioritization of the Autonomy of Syntax), critical findings have been uncovered by exploring the interaction of multiple domains (e.g., the link between ...
Matthew Kanwit, Virginia Terán
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The syntax of depictives : subjects, modes of judgement and I-L/S-L properties
, 2013 In this work, I provide an analysis of adjectival depictive constructions which accounts for most of their fundamental properties. First, I focus on the restrictions having to do with the integration of the depictive and the verbal predicate: they are ...
Ardid-Gumiel, Ana
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Transactions of the Philological Society, EarlyView.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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