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Some notes on temporal adverbials in Old Russian: the case of лѣто ‘year’ in Suzdal’skaja letopis’
Poljarnyj Vestnik: Norwegian Journal of Slavic Studies, 2012 This article offers a small analysis of temporal adverbials with ‘year' in Suzdal'skaja letopis'. These data in comparison with data from Ipat'evskaja letopis' indicate that въ + locative (the construction that prevails with ‘year' in Contemporary ...
Tore Nesset
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The retreat from locative overgeneralisation errors: a novel verb grammaticality judgment study. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2014 Whilst some locative verbs alternate between the ground- and figure-locative constructions (e.g. Lisa sprayed the flowers with water/Lisa sprayed water onto the flowers), others are restricted to one construction or the other (e.g.
Amy Bidgood +3 more
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Le progressif en breton à la lumière du progressif anglais
La Bretagne Linguistique, 1986 For speakers of many of the major European languages (French, German, Scandinavian and Slavic languages, etc.), the mention of progressive brings English to mind. In fact, progressive constructions are fairly widespread throughout the world.
Steve Hewitt
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The Semantics of Locative Adpositions in Amharic
Aethiopica, 2021 This paper intends to describe the semantics of locative adpositions in Amharic, a Semitic language spoken in Ethiopia. The analysis is based on elicited data that were collected by using Bowerman and Pederson’s (1992) topological relations picture ...
Gashaw Arutie Asaye
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The expression of object location with perlative preposition PER in Lithuanian
Lietuvių Kalba, 2016 It is not unusual for a language to have one or several prepositions of originally perlative meaning that in certain pragmatic and syntactic contexts can designate location of some object (the trajector) on the other side of another, typically ...
Rolandas Mikulskas
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Linguistics, 2022 This study is based on a sample of 116 languages from the Mainland East and Southeast Asian linguistic area. Its first objective is to examine four distinct synchronic patterns of areal polysemy, created by the semantic domains of copular, locative ...
Chappell Hilary, Lü Shanshan
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Konstruksi Aplikatif Bahasa Indonesia
Diglosia, 2022 This research has the purpose of identifying and investigating the applicative constructions of Indonesian. The research conducted a descriptive qualitative method.
Nurhayati Sitorus, Mulyadi Mulyadi
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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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Predicative Possessive Constructions in Hindi
Bhasha, 2022 Hindi has more than one construction for the encoding of possessive relationships: in particular, this language lacks a nominative‑accusative construction and a ‘have’‑verb, and instead encodes possession through intransitive sentences with the ...
Carnesale, Lucrezia
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A Unified Analysis for Subject Topics in Brazilian Portuguese
Journal of Portuguese Linguistics, 2014 In this paper we discuss the phenomenon of subject topics, consisting of the movement of either a genitive or a locative constituent into subject position in Brazilian Portuguese.
Aroldo Leal de Andrade, Charlotte Galves
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