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The perfect participle and the supine in two chronolects of Danish

Globe, 2023
Modern Standard Danish distinguishes between a perfect participle and a supine. The perfect participle is an adnominal non-finite form of the verb, ascribing properties to a referent (as do the prototypical adjectives) and morpho-syntactically agreeing ...
Eva Skafte Jensen
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On Peculiarities of Realization of Verb Stems in Active Participle Formation (Based on the Novel by F.M. Dostoevsky “Crime and Punishment”)

Известия Южного федерального университета: Филологические науки, 2021
Participle is one of the most debatable part of speech categories, since it is not only differently represented in the literary language and oral speech, but for a long period of its development is characterized by a kind of structural organization and ...
Elena N. Bekasova
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The Present and Past Participles in the Medieval English Translations of St. John’s Gospel from Latin

ELOPE, 2011
The present participle and past participle, together with the infinitive, have a long history in English; this is quite contrary to finite verb forms, which mostly developed during the Middle English period.
Lidija Štrmelj, Milenko Lončar
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Linguistic Variation across Instructional Segments in International Teaching Assistants' Discourse: A Corpus‐Based Analysis

TESOL Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract This study investigates internal linguistic variation in the instructional discourse of international teaching assistants (ITAs) by segmenting their mini‐lecture performances into four discourse types: introduction, lecture, conclusion, and audience interaction.
Heesun Chang, Hector Rivera
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The Perfect Tense and the Forms of Past Participle in Old English

Вестник Волгоградского государственного университета: Серия 2. Языкознание, 2018
The paper deals with peculiarities of using the possessive verb habban + inflected participle II. On the basis of the sample of Old English prose texts we analyze the frequency distribution of instances throughout the periods (dates) which manuscripts ...
Vladimir A. Bondar
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Fronting in Old Catalan: Asymmetries between Narration and Reported Speech1

Transactions of the Philological Society, Volume 123, Issue 1, Page 1-28, March 2025.
Abstract This article explores the distribution, syntax, and information structure of XVS clauses in the narrative text and the reported speech of a thirteenth‐century Old Catalan chronicle, the Llibre dels Fets. It is shown that XVS occurs mainly within reported speech and in embedded clauses.
Afra Pujol i Campeny
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Syntactic-semantic status of constructions with verbal adjective participle and l-participle in Croatian

, 2023
Kao što je razvidno iz naslova, u radu će se razmatrati sintaktičke službe i značenja konstrukcija s glagolskim pridjevom trpnim i radnim u hrvatskome jeziku. Polazi se od kognitivnolingvističke analize nefinitnih surečenica s glagolskim pridjevom trpnim
Peškura, Nikolina
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Functional Patterns of Russian Participles: National Corpus of the Russian Language

Виртуальная коммуникация и социальные сети, 2023
The Internet is a source of quantitative information for quantitative morphological research. This article introduces the possibilities for using the National Corpus of the Russian Language to define the quantitative indicators of Russian participles ...
Anastasia I. Radchenko
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From Nominalisation to Passive in Old Tibetan: Reconstructing Grammatical Meaning in an Extinct Language1

Transactions of the Philological Society, EarlyView.
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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Parameter Hierarchies and Language Contact: The Present Perfect in Ecuadorian Spanish1

Transactions of the Philological Society, EarlyView.
Abstract This article explores the hypothesis that the ‘fine‐grained’ grammatical differences that adult grammars under contact are said to be sensitive to (e.g., Hicks et al. 2023) amount to micro/nanoparametric distinctions, in the sense of Roberts (2019).
Norma Schifano
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