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Linguistic Evidence Suggests that Xiōng‐nú and Huns Spoke the Same Paleo‐Siberian Language

Transactions of the Philological Society, EarlyView.
Abstract The Xiōng‐nú were a tribal confederation who dominated Inner Asia from the third century BC to the second century AD. Xiōng‐nú descendants later constituted the ethnic core of the European Huns. It has been argued that the Xiōng‐nú spoke an Iranian, Turkic, Mongolic or Yeniseian language, but the linguistic affiliation of the Xiōng‐nú and the ...
Svenja Bonmann, Simon Fries
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Relative Constructions in Classical/Epic Sanskrit

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Abstract While it is widely recognised that Sanskrit shows two major types of relative construction – one relative–correlative, the other similar to postnominal relative clauses in languages like English – it has not been established what the crucial syntactic distinctions are between these types, given the wide range of syntactic variation found in ...
John J. Lowe, Adriana Molina‐Muñoz, Antonia Ruppel   +2 more
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Neutral Forms of Be as Default Forms: The Utility of Underspecification and Blocking in a Welsh Morphosyntactic Phenomenon

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Abstract In Welsh, in certain tenses, unique forms of the verb for ‘be’ are used in positive clauses. These specialised forms of ‘be’ are incompatible with positive main‐clause declarative complementizers, despite their apparent featural compatibility. For most speakers, they are also blocked from if‐clauses; although, I report on data regarding their ...
Frances Dowle
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Словенские комитативные конструкции (в сопоставлении с другими южнославянскими и русскими)

Slovenski Jezik - Slovene Linguistic Studies, 2019
The paper focuses on Slovenian comitative constructions with two human participants who are involved in the same situation: the first participant, most frequently expressed by a nominative noun phrase, acts as a nucleus of the comitative construction ...
Младен Ухлик [Mladen Uhlik], Андрея Желе [Andreja Žele]   +1 more
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Shifters as sentence operators [PDF]

Južnoslovenski Filolog, 2017
The author presents the thesis that complementary clauses and relative clauses are de facto noun phrases founded on the shifter-tandems of the type that, which..., that, who... Mutatis mutandis, constructions constituted with causal conjunctions
Topolińska Zuzanna V.
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Vulgar Minimisers in English and Spanish1

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Abstract In this paper, we investigated whether vulgar minimisers form a natural class in English and Spanish by evaluating (i) their similarities and differences with respect to non‐vulgar minimisers and (ii) whether vulgar minimisers are inherently negative in these languages.
Ángel L. Jiménez‐Fernández, Susagna Tubau   +1 more
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The role of iw in the adverbial sentence in Middle Egyptian [PDF]

Journal of General Union of Arab Archaeologists, 2000
The ancient Arab grammarians believed that the adv.phrase on its own couldn’t be considered in Arabic as a predicate in the so-called sentence with adv. Predicate , since it needs to be related to a verb or a verbal paradigm indicative to the absolute or
Zeinab Mahrous
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From measure predicates to count nouns: Complex measure nouns in Russian

, 2021
This paper offers a semantic analysis of morphologically complex measure nouns in Russian (e.g., trexlitrovka ‘three-liter-kasuffix’). Prima facie such nouns look very much like measure predicates such as three liters that appear in pseudo-partitives as three liters of water. I show that they are not such.
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From Nominalisation to Passive in Old Tibetan: Reconstructing Grammatical Meaning in an Extinct Language1

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Abstract Based on an analysis of the Old Literary Tibetan corpus—a corpus of the oldest documented Tibetic language—the present study provides evidence that literary Tibetan v3 verb stems (commonly termed ‘future’) initially encoded passive voice. New arguments put forward in this article range from Trans‐Himalayan nominal morphology to early Tibetan ...
Joanna Bialek
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The Agreement between Conjoined Subjects and Predicate: Croatian Church Slavonic Corpus Analysis

Slovene, 2017
The abundance of grammatical categories in Slavonic and their overlap are particularly evident in the agreement between conjoined subjects and predicate.
Ana Kovačević
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