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All passive participles are adjectival
This paper argues that the passive participles in eventive passives (what is commonly referred to as 'verbal passives') are adjectival in Spanish. Thus, there is no categorial difference between eventive and stative passives (the latter commonly known ...
Alfredo García-Pardo
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Greek ΜΝΗΣΘΗ and Aramaic DKYR in the Near East: A Comparative Epigraphic Study
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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English participles in the derivational paradigm [PDF]
This chapter surveys the different uses of the English participles and discusses their status with respect to the distinction between derivation and inflection. In the debate about whether participles are verbal or adjectival, or indeed a mix between the
Popova, Gergana
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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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Evidentiality in Dialects of Khanty; pp. 199-211 [PDF]
Evidentiality is marked grammatically in the northern Khanty dialects Obdorsk, Synja, and Kazym. Verbs that express evidential modality take the same form as the verbal participle (the derivational morpheme t marks the present participle, and m marks the
Márta Csepregi
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Abstract Dionysius's vision of eros as a meeting of reciprocal ecstasies – where lover and beloved each pass out of themselves and into the other – has often been read as unifying dimensions of love otherwise thought to stand in tension, such as giving and receiving.
Noah Karger
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The Perfect Tense and the Forms of Past Participle in Old English
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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Using Grammar Dimensions to Transform Multilingual Teachers From Rule Repeaters to Reason Givers
ABSTRACT This study examines a reconceptualized approach to grammar addressing fundamental gaps in multilingual teacher preparation. Traditional rule‐based training has historically prepared teachers to give prescriptive responses that shut down student inquiry rather than to reason about grammatical patterns in context.
Chris Corbel, Julie Choi, David Nunan
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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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Passive participles across languages
This paper studies passive participles in a range of languages and discusses their diachronic ...
Martin Haspelmath, Haspelmath, Martin
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