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Filologia e Linguística Portuguesa, 2013 This paper presents a study on the Cape Verdean noun phrase, undertaking a comparison with European Portuguese (EP), Brazilian Portuguese (BP) and Guinea-Bissau Creole (Kriyol).
Wânia Miranda
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That-Clauses in Noun Phrase Structure
Miscelánea: A Journal of English and American Studies, 1995 The aim of this paper is to discuss aspects of the grammar of the (non-relative) that-clauses which follow head nouns. Specifically, two aspects will be discussed here.
Juan Carlos Acuña Fariña
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Topologische Eigenschaften der Funktionsverbgefüge im heutigen Deutsch
Studia Linguistica, 2023 Light verb constructions (German Funktionsverbgefüge = FVGs) are complex predicates consisting of a semantically light verb, which has lost its lexical meaning and just has a functional role, and a noun phrase (with or without preposition).
Ireneusz Gaworski
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, 2016 Noun phrase (NP) centered structures are distinctive syntactic devices in academic discourse. The commonly employed subordination-based complexity measures cannot adequately capture the development of syntactic complexity of noun phrases expected of ...
Limin Liu, Lan Li
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INDONESIAN NOUN PHRASE=NOUN+NOUN:A SEMANTIC PERSPECTIVE [PDF]
, 2013 This paper analyzes the nature of the Indonesian noun + noun constructed noun phrase. Basically, there are two thoughts responding to the nature of Indonesia noun phrase, and compound words. First, there is no concept of compound words; it is only noun
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Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Systems and structures designed to protect and support young people, specifically (in this paper) young women, are ironically the same systems that maintain gender disparity. Consequently, this has influenced the embodied identities of young women who experience and use violence. Such systemic and structural intersectionality has impacted upon
Louise Rak +3 more
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Possessives in indefinite nominal phrases: A comparison between Italo-Romance and Daco-Romance
Moderna Språk, 2020 Southern Italian dialects exhibit a peculiar morphosyntactic device in licensing possessives in non‑definite noun phrases, i.e. the insertion of the functional element de followed by the definite article. This strategy shows striking similarities with
Giuseppina Silvestri
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Grammaticalization in the North: Noun phrase morphosyntax in Scandinavian vernaculars
, 2015 This book looks at some phenomena within the grammar of the noun phrase in a group of traditional North Germanic varieties mainly spoken in Sweden and Finland, usually seen as Swedish dialects, although the differences between them and Standard Swedish ...
Östen Dahl
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Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The Robodebt scheme issued thousand‐dollar debts to an estimated half a million people who had received social security. The debts were largely inaccurate and illegal, with the aim of improving the federal government's budget. The 2023 Royal Commission into the Robodebt Scheme found that the stigmatising political and public language about ...
Ella Kruger, Phillipa Evans
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English evidential -ly adverbs in the noun phrase from a functional perspective
Open Linguistics, 2022 This article addresses the question of how the distribution and role of English evidential -ly adverbs in the noun phrase can be accounted for using the framework of Functional Discourse Grammar (FDG).
Kemp Lois, Hengeveld Kees
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