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Past participles in reduced relatives : a cross-linguistic prespective

Linguistica, 2003
This paper discusses the syntax and semantics of Active Past Participles in restrictive reduced relatives (RRs). The distribution of Active Past Participles is compared with respect to verb classes in Bulgarian, English, Italian, Slovenian and Spanish ...
Tatjana Marvin
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The Unbecoming Ghost: Spectropolitics in the Making and Unmaking of BHU's Bhoot Vidya Ayurveda Certificate Program

Anthropology of Consciousness, Volume 37, Issue 2, Fall 2026.
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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Temporal anaphora across and inside sentences: The function of participles

Semantics and Pragmatics, 2011
The paper offers a formal account of the discourse behaviour of participles, which to some extent behave like main clauses in having semantically undetermined relations to their matrix clause, but which should nevertheless be integrated into the ...
Corien Bary, Dag Trygve Truslew Haug
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What Is the Ideal Time to Provide Corrective Feedback? An Approximate Replication of Li, Zhu, and Ellis (2016)

Language Learning, Volume 76, Issue 3, Page 951-991, September 2026.
Abstract This replication study examines feedback timing in vocational language learners and verifies the hypothesis that the advantage of immediate over delayed feedback found in the original study (Li, Zhu, & Ellis, 2016) is due to practice opportunities in immediate feedback.
Shaofeng Li, Jie Li, Jiancheng Qian
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Subjektová rezultativa v češtině ve srovnání s ruštinou : Subjective Resultatives in Czech Compared with Russian [PDF]

Časopis pro Moderní Filologii, 2015
Subjective resultatives (SR) are constructed from intransitive verbs that denote a change of state. In Czech, a participle in -l- is often used. Russian is said to have only very restricted SR as mostintransitive non-reflexive verbs do not form a ...
Giger, Markus
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‘I'm Dead!’: Action, Homicide and Denied Catharsis in Early Modern Spanish Drama

Renaissance Studies, Volume 40, Issue 4, Page 570-588, September 2026.
Abstract In early modern Spanish drama, the expression ‘¡Muerto soy!’ (‘I'm dead!’) is commonly used to indicate a literal death or to figuratively express a character's extreme fear or passion. Recent studies, even one collection published under the title of ‘¡Muerto soy!’, have paid scant attention to the phrase in context, a serious omission when ...
Ted Bergman
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Being the Fullness of God in Christ by the Spirit: Ephesians 5:18 in Its Epistolary Setting

Tyndale Bulletin, 2002
The enigmatic command in Ephesians 5:18, ‘be filled by the Spirit’, is often understood in terms of the empowerment of individual believers for discipleship and ministry.
Timothy G. Gombis
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Modal verbs in South Asian online Englishes: must, (have) got to, have to and need to

World Englishes, Volume 45, Issue 3, Page 574-594, September 2026.
Abstract This research article presents an analysis of four (semi‐)modals of necessity/obligation (must, (have) got to, have to and need to) in four CMC registers (comments, tweets, web forums and websites) originating from four South Asian countries (Bangladesh, India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka) along with the United Kingdom and United States.
Muhammad Shakir
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(Non-)agreement of passive participles in South-Eastern Lithuanian / [PDF]

, 2020
The phenomenon of non-agreement of passive participles (mostly t-participles) is discussed on the basis of the TriMCo corpus of South-Eastern Lithuanian dialects.
Kozhanov, Kirill,, Arkadiev, Peter,
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Les Participes, l’Infinitif et le Gérondif, entre scalarité et rattachement [+ / - local] [PDF]

Studii de Lingvistica, 2012
Non-finite verbs, also frequently called unmarked verbs, constitute a large field for variationist studies in linguistics, for typology and furthermore for Usage-Based Grammars.
Frédéric Torterat
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