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The greater the contrast, the greater the potential: On the effects of focus in syntax
Glossa, 2021 The most debated syntactic reflex that is typically associated with contrast is the movement of a contrastive constituent to a dedicated, left-peripheral position.
Silvio Cruschina
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The multifunctionality of -o in Rukiga
Nordic Journal of African Studies, 2021 This paper discusses the particle -o in Rukiga (Bantu JE14, Uganda), aiming to establish its origin and function. At first sight, the particle appears to be an independent pronoun agreeing in noun class, reported in previous studies as an emphatic ...
Allen Asiimwe, Jenneke van der Wal
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A Surprise in the Past: The Historical Origins of the Catalan go-past
Catalan Journal of Linguistics, 2022 Crosslinguistically, the development of the verb go into a future tense is a common path of grammaticalization. In contrast, the past meaning of the go-periphrasis in Catalan is unexpected.
Silvio Cruschina, Anna Kocher
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Acta Scientiarum: Language and Culture, 2011 Notions of evidentiality and mirativity are related; however there are aspects of each of them which indicate that mirativity is a distinct conceptual category. One issue is how languages encode these categories.
Marilia de Nazare Ferreira-Silva
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On the Nature of Verbal Non-Local Doubling in Patagonian Spanish
Languages, 2023 The main objective in this study is to describe and offer an account of verbal non-local doubling in Patagonian Spanish (PatSp), an understudied non-standard variety of Spanish in Argentina.
José Silva Garcés, Gonzalo Espinosa
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Patterns of evidentials use in dream narratives
Когниция, коммуникация, дискурс, 2023 The article presents a study on evidentials use in dream reports collected from online dream journals. First, I discuss the relation between the categories of stance and evidentiality.
Valeriia Nikolaienko
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Mirativity in Mandarin: The Sentence-Final Particle Le (了)
Open Linguistics, 2018 Mirativity is a distinct grammatical category. In the literature, no mirative marker has been identified so far in Mandarin Chinese. This paper aims to argue that Mandarin Chinese is a language that has grammatical means of expressing mirativity.
Fang Hongmei
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Fausses infinitives de but et mirativité
Anglophonia, 2020 This article aims to analyse complex constructions with infinitival clauses which have hardly ever been taken into account, and whose infinitives imply, contrary to most infinitives, the validation of their semantic content.
Geneviève Girard-Gillet
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Kolme (inter)subjektiivsusmarkeri lugu: ehk, äkki, järsku
Eesti ja Soome-ugri Keeleteaduse Ajakiri, 2023 Polüseemsetel sõnadel ehk, äkki ja järsku on erinevaid tähendusi ja kasutusi, kuid kõigile kolmele ühine on toimimine episteemilise modaalsuse partiklina. Ehk on eesti keeles tõenäoliselt alati partiklina toiminud. Äkki on korpuseandmete põ
Helle Metslang
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Additive Particle in Turkic Languages of the Volga-Kama Sprachbund
Oriental Studies, 2021 Introduction. The paper deals with the functions of the additive clitic =DA in three Turkic languages of the Volga-Kama Sprachbund: Chuvash, Tatar, and Bashkir.
Alina A. Russkikh, Sofia A. Oskolskaya
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