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Nominative Determinism: Classically Derived Names in the Potter Saga
The Journal of Classics Teaching, 2016 Nominative determinism occurs when a person's name reflects what that person does or is, for instance Mr Baker making bread or Ms Taylor making dresses. In the Potter saga J. K. Rowling seems to have a particular fondness for nominative determinism.
David Butler, Rebecca R. Butler
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, 2006 The nominative case particles ga and no have not appeared in sentences with conclusive form (syusi-kei) in Old Japanese. They began to appear in such sentences in Middle Japanese. Case theory predicts that an abstract case should be assigned in languages
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Comparative Models and Images in Mari Folk Songs
Polylinguality and Transcultural PracticesThe work is aimed at studying comparative (structural) models and comparative images (semantic features) of comparisons functioning in Mari folk songs. The structural comparative models in the analyzed texts of calendar-ritual and family-ritual songs are
Yulia V. Polyakova
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*ABA in stem-allomorphy and the emptiness of the nominative
Glossa, 2018 In this paper I examine patterns of irregular allomorphy in nominal stems sensitive to case in a number of nominative-accusative languages. I will argue that the data surveyed reveal a certain regularity in the distribution of irregularity across the ...
Thomas McFadden
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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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Subject case alternation in negated existential, locative, and possessive clauses in Latvian
Kalbotyra, 2018 [full article and abstract in English] The goal of this article is to analyse the alternation between the genitive and nominative cases in Latvian. As the alternation between genitive and nominative cases is possible in all clauses in which the verb ...
Andra Kalnača, Ilze Lokmane
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Clitic or Agreement Restriction in Santali: A Typological Analysis
Acta Linguistica Asiatica, 2020 This paper investigates the syntactic configuration of pronominal number marking in Santali. Syntactic, morphological and prosodic restrictions show that pronominal number markers have properties of an affix as well as a clitic. A marker is an affix due
Mayuri J. DILIP, Rajesh KUMAR
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The Typology of Case System of Nouns in Arabic [PDF]
̒Ilm-i Zabān, 2019 The issue of noun’s I’rāb has been discussed as case in linguistic theories, and its different patterns and markers have been investigated in the languages of the world. The present study aimed at investigating the systematic patterns of case-marking and
Ruhollah Mofidi
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Advanced Science, EarlyView.OAML harbors recurrent IGLL5 mutations that reinforce CD79A/CD79B‐associated BCR signaling. Mechanistic analysis of the S47G and A54G variants reveals induction of CXCL10/CXCL11, enhanced CD8+ T‐cell recruitment, and exhaustion‐associated dysfunction, supporting an immune‐tolerant niche.
Andi Zhao +12 more
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The L2 acquisition of Spanish non-nominative subjects by adult L1 English speakers [PDF]
, 2006 This study investigates the adult second language (L2) acquisition of non- nominative, non-agentive subjects, a particular feature of the Spanish language also shared by other Indo-European and South Asian languages.
Cazzoli-Goeta, Marcela A. +1 more
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