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Directions from the GET-GO. On the syntax of manner-of-motion verbs in directional constructions

Catalan Journal of Linguistics, 2010
Directional resultatives show puzzling syntactic restrictions. In Romance, broadly speaking, they do not occur at all with manner-of-motion verbs. In Dutch, directional resultatives with mannerof- motion verbs usually force postpositional order in the ...
Marcel den Dikken
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Tibetan -las, -nas, and -bas [PDF]

, 2012
In descriptions of Tibetan grammar it is common to treat -las and -nas together in the discussion of case marking, signalling merely that -las is capable of forming comparisons whereas -nas is not.
Hill, Nathan W.
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Building Community Amidst the Institutional Whiteness of Graduate Study: Black Joy and Maroon Moves in an Academic Marronage

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article reflects on the construction of a supportive community of Black Afro‐diasporic graduate students and their supervisors researching issues relating to race in the field of education in Australia. It draws on the concept of marronage—a term rooted in the fugitive act of becoming a maroon, where enslaved people enacted an escape in ...
Hellen Magoi, Casianus Gemoh, Denise Chapman, Edmund Hypolite, Simon Angok, Melanie Baak, Joel Windle   +6 more
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Australia's Migration Strategy: An Effective Response to Migrant Worker Exploitation?

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT A series of publicised migrant worker injuries and deaths has drawn attention to the issue of migrant worker exploitation (MWE) in Australia. In response, the Australian Government has included ‘Tackling Worker Exploitation’ as a key area of its Migration Strategy which it introduced in 2023. However, it is unclear how effective the Strategy’s
Evelyn Dowling, Alexandra Ridgway
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The Development of Negative ‘have’ Auxiliaries in the Bantu Languages of the Middle and Lower Zambezi

Nordic Journal of African Studies
This paper studies the grammaticalization of possessive predicates into negative auxiliaries expressing main clause negation in the Bantu languages of the Middle and Lower Zambezi River region.
Aron Zahran, Maud Devos, Rozenn Guérois
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Reporting verbs associated with evidentiality in research article abstracts in applied linguistics and applied psycholinguistics [PDF]

Linguistica Pragensia
The article presents a quantitative corpus-based study that aims to shed light on the frequency and distribution of reporting verbs (for instance, indicate, posit, etc.) associated with evidentiality that are found in research article abstracts (RAAs) in
Oleksandr Kapranov
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The event structure of light verbs

, 2023
127 pages ; This dissertation systematically investigates how light verbs contribute to eventstructure across three, typologically different languages: English, Hindi-Urdu, and Korean. I first show that light verbs across the three languages vary in their structural position and function.
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Building complex events: the case of Sicilian Doubly Inflected Construction [PDF]

, 2019
We examine the Doubly Inflected Construction of Sicilian (DIC; Cardinaletti and Giusti 2001, 2003, Cruschina 2013), in which a motion verb V1 from a restricted set is followed by an event verb V2 and both verbs are inflected for the same person and tense
Del Prete, Fabio, Todaro, Giuseppina
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Alzheimer's Disease Co‐Pathology and Cognitive Impairment in Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis

Annals of Neurology, EarlyView.
Objectives Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and Alzheimer's disease (AD) share neuropathological features, including tau, amyloid, and TDP‐43 pathology. This study investigated whether AD‐related pathological changes are associated with cognitive impairment ALS. Methods Cerebrospinal fluid (CSF total‐tau, phosphorylated‐tau, beta‐amyloid) and plasma
Elisabeth Kasper, Annaliis Lehto, Alexandra Jürs, Nina Nordmann, Oliver Peters, Julian Hellmann, Josef Priller, Eike Jakob Spruth, Gabor C. Petzold, Ina Voigt, Patrick Weydt, Sarah Bernsen, Elisabeth Dinter, Björn Falkenburger, René Günther, Emrah Düzel, Wenzel Glanz, Matthis Synofzik, Lukas Beichert, Annika Spottke, Michael Wagner, Frederic Brosseron, Matthias C. Schmid, Annett Halle, Jochen Herms, Anja Schneider, Stefan Teipel, Johannes Prudlo, Manuela Neumann, Andreas Hermann   +29 more
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Light Verbs and Syntactic Analyzability in the History of the Galician Language

Languages
This contribution studies the behavior of the four main general light verbs (LVs) in the history of Galician (dar, facer and haber/ter). The research is structured around the following three fundamental axes: first, we study the evolution, comparison ...
Alexandre Rodríguez Guerra
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