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The Shaping of an Innocent Martyr. The Linguistic Strategies of the Remonstrant Widow Willemken van Wanray (ca. 1573-1647)

Early Modern Low Countries, 2018
After the Synod of Dort (1618-1619) forbade Remonstrant gatherings in the Dutch Republic, many Remonstrants secretly continued preaching or attending sermons and were consequently fined or imprisoned.
Cora van de Poppe
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The aspectual value of particle verbs in Romansh

Isogloss
Particle verbs or phrasal verbs, i.e., combinations of a preposition-like element and a verb, are common among the languages of Europe and best known from Germanic, but their systematic aspectual use in Romansh, a minority Romance language of ...
Rolf Hotz, Nora Julmi
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The Lexical Representation of Light Verb Constructions

Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society, 1995
Proceedings of the Twenty-First Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society: General Session and Parasession on Historical Issues in Sociolinguistics/Social Issues in Historical Linguistics (1995)
Martin Everaert, Bart Hollebrandse
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Datives, data and dialect syntax in American English

Glossa, 2018
In this paper, we present a detailed case study of a number of dative constructions that vary across speakers of American English. We show how geographical maps of acceptability judgments can be used to shed light on the syntactic structures underlying ...
Jim Wood, Raffaella Zanuttini
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FROM THE 'PHORIC' TO THE PERSPECTIVES IN ENUNCIATION. ANALYSIS OF DEFINED INTRODUCTORY CONSTRUCTION IN SPANISH

Cadernos de Letras da UFF, 2014
This article deals with the occurrence, in Spanish, of the verb "haber" with the definite article, reviewing some interpretations in light of theorizing about the enunciation that questions the uniqueness of the speaking subject. The consideration of the
Adrián Pablo Fanjul
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Complementizer drop and clitic climbing in Torlakian: Evidence from the Timok variety

Balcania et Slavia
The paper is based on a corpus study of the complementizer da drop (Comp_drop) and clitic climbing (CC) in the Timok variety of Serbian. Data are taken from the Spoken Torlak dialect corpus 1.0 (Vuković 2020) and comprise over 900 examples of ...
Miric, Mirjana
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Functional motivations behind direct object fronting in written Swedish: A corpus-distributional account

Glossa, 2018
In Swedish, grammatical functions are primarily encoded by word order. In prototypical transitive sentences, the subject precedes the direct object. However, Swedish also allows for fronting of the direct object, although such sentences are potentially ...
Thomas Hörberg
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The Use of the Focusing Modifier Only in Philippine English and American English: An Intercultural Rhetoric Study

Recoletos Multidisciplinary Research Journal
Background: A prescriptive argument holds that the focusing modifier (FM) only should be pre-adjacent to its focus. This study investigates the non-prescriptive usage of only in Philippine English (PhE).
Ivan Dolph Fabregas
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Diachronic aspects of borrowing aspect: the role of Old French in the development of the be going to + INF construction

SHS Web of Conferences, 2012
This paper sheds new light on the provenance of the be going to + infinitive (INF) construction with future time reference, and more precisely on the question of whether it was borrowed from Old (OF), during the Middle English (ME) period.
Trips Carola, Stein Achim
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French subject doubling

Isogloss
This paper revisits the status of subject clitics in Spoken French by studying subject doubling as a sociolinguistic variable. In the literature, two influential analyses have been proposed to account for French subject doubling.
Yiming Liang, Caterina Donati, Heather Burnett   +2 more
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