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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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THE PRESENT ACTIVE PARTICIPLES IN THE BULGARIAN AND GREEK LANGUAGES – MEANINGS AND USAGE. FUNCTIONAL EQUIVALENTS OF THE BULGARIAN PRESENT PARTICIPLE IN THE GREEK LANGUAGE [PDF]

Езиков свят
This article examines the present active participles in Bulgarian and Greek, their meanings and usage in both languages, as well as the functional equivalents of the Bulgarian present active participle in Greek. From a typological point of view, we can
Desislava YORDANOVA-PETROVA
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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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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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Greek ΜΝΗΣΘΗ and Aramaic DKYR in the Near East: A Comparative Epigraphic Study

Arabian Archaeology and Epigraphy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Past studies of graffiti containing the word ΜΝΗΣΘΗ have never fully established its intrinsic meaning. However, due to the existence of the Aramaic term DKYR, which carries a seemingly identical meaning to ΜΝΗΣΘΗ, in similar contexts in the Roman Near East, a comparison between both words is possible. Four distinct sites where the coexistence
Sebastien Mazurek
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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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On the temporal values of situation-participant NP referents mapped from Bulgarian perfects with aorist and imperfect participles

East European Journal of Psycholinguistics, 2023
This paper deals with Bulgarian съм+-л (‘be’+past active participle) perfect verb forms with aorist and imperfect participles, the distinction between these two participles being a phenomenon found only in Bulgarian among the Slavic languages and ...
Krasimir Kabakčiev
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PARTICIPLES AND ADVERBIAL PARTICIPLES IN TEACHING RUSSIAN AS A FOREIGN LANGUAGE

International Humanitarian University Herald. Philology, 2020
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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The Unbecoming Ghost: Spectropolitics in the Making and Unmaking of BHU's Bhoot Vidya Ayurveda Certificate Program

Anthropology of Consciousness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This essay examines the controversy surrounding the Bhoot Vidya certificate program proposed by the Faculty of Ayurveda at Banaras Hindu University in 2019. Drawing on media coverage, curricular materials, and government policy, I analyze how the debate reveals broader tensions in the politics of contemporary Ayurveda, nationalism, and ...
Thomas Seibel
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Use of participles in the Sinodalny 1st copy of the Vast Edition of "Russkaya Pravda" in comparison with the Troitsky 1st copy

Opera slavica, 2015
The aim of this work is to examine the use of participles in the Sinodalny 1st copy of the Vast Edition of "Russkaya Pravda" in comparison with the Troitsky 1st copy.
István Pozsgai
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