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The double modal construction in English world wide
World Englishes, Volume 45, Issue 3, Page 485-503, September 2026.Abstract The dual foci of the present study of double modals are their semantic characteristics and their distribution across regional varieties of English world wide. Tokens were extracted from GloWbE:Blogs, a database whose great size and informal tenor facilitated the investigation of this low‐frequency non‐standard feature. Double modals were found
Peter Collins, Adam Smith
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Past participle agreement in French – one or two rules? [PDF]
, 2020 Past participle agreement in French has been taken to be conditioned (among other factors) by movement of the internal argument out of the VP, i.e. as a reflex of movement. However, drawing on data that have been neglected so far in the formal literature
Doreen Georgi +3 more
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Present participle depictive predicates.
, 2012 Fortmann, C. (accepted). Present participle depictive predicates. In C. Fortmann, W. Geuder, A. Lübbe & I. Rapp (eds.), Situationsargumente im Nominalbereich. Linguistische Arbeiten.
Fortmann, C.
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Participle-Prepended Nominals Have Lower Entropy Than Nominals Appended After the Participle [PDF]
English allows for both compounds (e.g., London-made) and phrasal paraphrases (e.g., made in London). While these constructions have roughly the same truth-conditional meaning, we hypothesize that the compound allows less freedom to express the nature of
Wechsler, Stephen +2 more
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Syntactic function of the participle in the croatian language of 15th / 16th century
Rasprave Instituta za Hrvatski Jezik i Jezikoslovlje, 2007 This article gives a detailed analysis of the syntactic function of the participle in the old Croatian language. Much attention has been given to the important linguistic change in the Croatian language of that time: transformation of inherited adjective-
Kristina Štrkalj Despot
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Participle-for-preterite variation in Tyneside English [PDF]
Variable use of the canonical participle for the canonical preterite is attested cross-dialectally in English. However, most variationist studies of this phenomenon focus on variability for one or a few verbs rather than the full set of verbs with ...
Serbicki S, Lan R, Duncan D
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Parameterizing Passive Participle Movement [PDF]
, 2003 Burzio (1986: 154–158) observes the contrast in word order between the associate DP and the participle in expletive passives in English (1) versus passives with postverbal subjects in Italian (2). (1) a. There’ve been some men arrested. b.
Caponigro, Ivano +3 more
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Subiectul expresiei καθαρίζων πάντα τὰ βρώµατα în Marcu 7:19
TheoRhēma, 2013 This article asks the question who is the antecedent of the phrase καθαρίζων πάντα τὰ βρώµατα in Mark 7:19, and looks also at the theological implications of the choices involved. There are basically two options.
Laurențiu Moț
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, 2016 Reikšminiai žodžiai: Dalyvis; Latvių kalba; Neveikiamasis būtojo laiko dalyvis; Neveikiamasis dalyvis; Neveikiamasis esamojo laiko dalyvis; Predikatas; Sintaksinis atitikmuo; Tarinys; Veikiamasis dalyvis; Active participle; Latvian language; Participle ...
Levāne-Petrova, Kristīne
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Participle as Seen in The Jakarta Post Headings [PDF]
, 2012 This paper discusses the usage of participle as seen in The Jakarta Post Headings. The Jakarta Post is considered as a representative newspaper especially for Non Native English Language Learners for it is mostly written by Indonesian journalists using ...
Arumningtyas, Dwiana Marcheni
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