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Prog imperfective drift in ancient Greek? Reconsidering eimi 'be' with present participle [PDF]

, 2013
In this paper, I reconsider the diachrony of the Ancient Greek periphrastic construction of eimi 'be' with present participle by means of Bertinetto’s recently proposed model for the development of progressive grams (a process called ‘PROG imperfective ...
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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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A semantic typology of location, existence, possession and copular verbs: areal patterns of polysemy in Mainland East and Southeast Asia

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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Locative Constructions in Dangme

Issues in Language Studies, 2020
This paper explores locative constructions in Dangme, a language that belongs to the Kwa family of languages. The paper discusses the components of the basic locative construction in Dangme. It also examines the syntax and semantics of verbs of position and verbs of change of location that function in the basic locative constructions in Dangme.
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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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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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Event-centrality and the pragmatics-semantics interface in Kikongo : from predication focus to progressive aspect and vice versa [PDF]

, 2015
Across Bantu, several polysemic markers expressing progressive aspect and so-called predication focus have been reported (Güldemann 2003; Hyman and Watters 1984). In this article, we examine two such markers in Kikongo (Bantu, H16), i.e.
Bostoen, Koen, De Kind, Jasper, de Schryver, Gilles-Maurice, Dom, Sebastian   +3 more
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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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