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The silent argument of broad focus: Typology and predictions

Glossa, 2018
It is a commonly held view that, in the absence of an overt locative or temporal phrase, broad focus subject inversion in Romance requires a null locative in preverbal position, thus being comparable to locative inversion (Benincà 1988 and subsequent ...
Delia Bentley, Silvio Cruschina
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Lexicography of the Verb and Cognitive Linguistics: A case study of Afshandan [PDF]

زبان پژوهی, 2019
The work of a linguist and a lexicographer in the field of lexical semantics has the largest common border. In the process of lexicography, a lexicographer faces one of the main issues in lexical semantics: polysemy.
Tina Ghanbarian
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Prantsuse modaalverbi devoir temporaalse kasutuse tõlkimisest eesti keelde

Eesti ja Soome-ugri Keeleteaduse Ajakiri, 2016
Kokkuvõte. Artiklis vaadeldakse prantsuse keeles grammatiseerunud konstruktsiooni (modaalverb devoir imparfait ajavormis + põhiverbi infinitiiv, enamasti koos ajamäärusega) tõlkimise võimalusi eesti keelde, kus võrreldav modaalverbi kasutav ...
Marri Amon
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Analyse de la composante sémantique lexicale de l’inversion locative en anglais

E-REA, 2013
This article examines the noncanonical structure known as the locative inversion, which can be described as : < Constituent1 C1 (fronted locative expression) + verb V + Constituent2 C2 (postposed subject) >.
Gérard MÉLIS
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The Nature and Structure of Reflexive Verb Constructions

Acta Linguistica Asiatica
Based on a summary of the features of reflexive verb constructions (ReVCs), this paper proposes that the internal structure of reflexive verb constructions is [VP Spec[V` V R]].
Yongzhong Yang
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Light Verb Constructions in Lithuanian: Identification and Classification

Studies About Languages, 2020
 Light verb constructions (LVCs) are verb-noun constructions in which the noun carries the semantic meaning and the verb is semantically reduced, when compared with its main meaning, for example, atlikti analizę (‘to perform an analysis’). LVCs in Lithuanian have not been addressed much so far.
Kovalevskaitė, Jolanta, Rimkutė, Erika, Vilkaitė-Lozdienė, Laura   +2 more
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The Persian light verb dādan ‘to give’: Causation and more [PDF]

نشریه پژوهش‌های زبان‌شناسی
This paper aims to investigate the light verb constructions (LVCs) formed with the light verb dādan ‘to give’ in Persian by employing the principles of cognitive lexical semantics.
Reza Soltani, Mohammad Amouzadeh, Hadaegh Rezaei   +2 more
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The reinstrumentalization of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) in psychological publications: A citation context analysis

Quantitative Science Studies, 2021
Research instruments play significant roles in the construction of scientific knowledge, even though we have only acquired very limited knowledge about their life cycles from quantitative studies.
Kai Li
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Building verbs in language mixing varieties

Zeitschrift für Sprachwissenschaft, 2017
This paper discusses two patterns of language mixing involving verbal predicates produced by bilingual speakers, the so-called light verb construction and the so-called affixal pattern.
Alexiadou Artemis
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Feature Borrowing in Language Contact

Languages, 2022
In this paper, we consider mood selection in embedded clauses by focusing on a German-based minority language, Cimbrian, which is spoken in a northern Italian enclave. Mood selection in Cimbrian relies on the presence of two different complementizers, az
Alessandra Tomaselli, Ermenegildo Bidese, Andrea Padovan   +2 more
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