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Light Verbs and Split Ergativity in the Western Cholan Languages

Kansas Working Papers in Linguistics, 2006
This paper is a discussion of a complex verbal construction in Western Cholan languages and how this construction interacts with the split ergative systems found in these languages. The Cholan languages all display split-ergative systems based on aspect.
Montgomery-Anderson, Brad
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The acquisitive -pata in Swahili

Studies in African Languages and Cultures
This study examines the usage of the Swahili verb -pata ‘get’ as an auxiliary, shedding light on its multifaceted roles. The examination of its structural variation and functional extensions is based on data from different Swahili varieties.
Rasmus Bernander
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Semantics and Pragmatics of Spanish Verb-Particle Constructions formed with para atrás ‘back(wards)’

CogniTextes
Although verb-particle constructions have been extensively studied from various theoretical perspectives, previous research has strongly focused on the particle (and possibly verb) semantics, whereas the interaction with the co(n)text has been of little ...
Evelyn Wiesinger
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Participial Perception Verb Complements in Old English

Studia Anglica Posnaniensia, 2014
In this paper, I shall examine the complements of perception verbs in Old English involving a noun phrase and a present participle. What kind of perception is described by these structures?
Lowrey Brian
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Editorial

Journal of Modern Languages, 2022
Welcome to the second issue of Volume 32, Journal of Modern Languages (JML). Here, we present six scholarly works that reflect the diversity and depth of current linguistic research.
Shin Yi Chew
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VP ellipsis and argument structure alternations: evidence from Muira Dargwa complex predicates

Glossa
In this paper, I investigate the properties of an elliptical construction in the Nakh-Daghestanian language Muira Dargwa, in which only part of a complex predicate goes missing.
Ivan Kalyakin
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A southern German use of prefield-eses: Evidence from the corpus and an experimental study

Zeitschrift für Sprachwissenschaft, 2020
There is a use of the German third person neuter pronoun eses in the prefield, known as prefield-eses, which is characterized by being neither referential, nor an argument of the verb.
Fricke Lea
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Light verb ellipsis constructions in Korean

Language and Linguistics. 語言暨語言學, 2020
AbstractDrawing on the fact that the light verbha- ‘do’ in Korean may or may not be elided in negative sentences, I offer a syntactic analysis for the light verb ellipsis in which the various types of light verbs belong to distinct heads, such asv, Appl, and Voice. Hierarchically, they occupy different syntactic positions. Thus, the light verb ellipsis
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L’acquisition du Present Perfect chez un enfant anglophone : méthodologie, codage et premiers résultats

Corela, 2013
The Present Perfect is a grammatical combination that encompasses temporal, semantic and pragmatic properties. This seems to be particularly challenging in language acquisition.
Laurent David
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The associative copulative and expression of bodily discomfort in Northern Sotho

Stellenbosch Papers in Linguistics Plus, 2019
This article discusses one of the meanings expressed by the associative copulative construction with -na le, ‘have’ in Northern Sotho, namely to ‘physically experience discomfort’, ‘suffer from’ or ‘be ill with’ something.
Mojapelo, Mampaka Lydia
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