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Revisiting the Latin Vocabulary of Terminologia Histologica: II. Adjectives and Participles
ABSTRACT Terminologia Histologica, the international standard nomenclature of human histology and cytology, contains 1093 Latin words that appear to be used as adjectives. Among these, we identified 56 (5%) with a variety of linguistic issues, including typographical or spelling errors, less favored spelling variants, and several unfortunate word ...
Paul E. Neumann +7 more
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Nominativus Absolutus in the History of the Russian Language
The article examines the structure, semantics, and functions of the nominativus absolutus structure, which is a predicative unit with the participial predicate having the subject of its own.
Boris V. Kunavin
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Graphical representation of ethnomedical uses, major bioactive compounds, pharmacological potential and toxicological risks of Ruta graveolens L. ABSTRACT Ruta graveolens L. is widely used in traditional European, Asian, African, and South American medicine for digestive, nervous, cardiovascular, respiratory, and reproductive disorders.
Tetiana Serhiienko +3 more
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A note on the Baltic future participle [PDF]
The lack of fit between the finite forms (Lith. 3 duõs, 1 pl. dúosime, etc.) and the participle (Lith. dúosiant-, cf. Sl. byšǫšt-) of the Baltic future (going back to two PIE desiderative types: athematic and *‑se/o‑) can be explained as follows: since ...
Miguel Villanueva Svensson +1 more
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Derivatives based on participles in Irish and Polish and the inflection–derivation distinction
Greenberg’s Universal 28 says that ‘if both the derivation and inflection follow the root, or they both precede the root, the derivation is always between the root and the inflection’ (Greenberg 1966: 93).
Maria Bloch-Trojnar
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Fronting in Old Catalan: Asymmetries between Narration and Reported Speech1
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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Bactrian in Issyk‐Kushan Script: Additional Readings and Decipherments1
Abstract This article presents additional readings of several inscriptions written in the Issyk‐Kushan script, building on the improved system of sound values recently proposed by Sims‐Williams (2025b). We propose that some further lines of Dašt‐i Nāwur inscription DN III and parts of several other inscriptions can now be read as Bactrian, add new ...
Jakob Halfmann +3 more
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Telic participle, atelic participle, and aspect
Réflexion sur les participes et la façon dont ils sont concernés par l’aspect : l’hypothèse défendue ici est que le participe présent (writing) est atélique et que le participe passé (written) est télique.L’observation montre que participe télique et participe atélique ont des points communs : leur dépendance, notamment, puisqu’ils ne sont pas porteurs
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PARTICIPLES AND ADVERBIAL PARTICIPLES IN TEACHING RUSSIAN AS A FOREIGN LANGUAGE
This article considers participles and adverbial participles, the extremely complex and specific phenomena, though scarcely highlighted in programs on teaching Russian as a foreign language (RFL). It is quite clear that an immersion in participles and adverbial participles cannot be superficial; they require non-standard approaches to their ...
Nagaitseva, N. I., Romanov, Yu. O.
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There Is no First Phase of the Jespersen Cycle1
Abstract This paper challenges the traditional conception of the Jespersen Cycle by arguing that no ‘pure’ first phase of the cycle exists where a single negator operates without reinforcement. Drawing on historical data from Northern Italian dialects (Piedmontese, Lombard, Emilian), we demonstrate that emphatic negative structures systematically co ...
Tommaso Mattiuzzi, Cecilia Poletto
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