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Prefixed adjectival participles
Linguistica Brunensia, 2016 In this paper, I am concerned with prefixed adjectival participles in Czech. I show that in contrast to the most widely accepted approach to Slavic prefixes, adjectival participles can be derived by both lexical and superlexical prefixes and that ...
Petr Biskup
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Lability in Hittite and Indo‐European: A Diachronic Perspective
Studia Linguistica, Volume 80, Issue 1, April 2026.ABSTRACT Lability is defined as the possibility of a verb to enter a valency alternation without undergoing any change in its form. Labile verbs were common in ancient Indo‐European languages, including Hittite, which mostly features anticausative lability, with reflexive and reciprocal lability being less prominent.
Guglielmo Inglese
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VERBAL ADVERBS IN THE WORKS BY FATHER JERONIM VLADIĆ [PDF]
Hum, 2011 If we compare formation and syntactical role of verbal adverbs in the past and today we shall notice significant differences. For forming present participle today we use suffix –ći and for perfect participle suffix –vši.
Šimun Novaković
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Wibana: How Bobonaza Runa and Forest Animals Know and Live With Each Other
The Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology, Volume 31, Issue 1, March 2026.ABSTRACT Runa women living along the Bobonaza river in the Ecuadorian Amazon raise captured forest animals, in a practice called wibana. Runa women are attentive to the particular ways the wiba (raised) animals interface with the world, and learn the wibas’ communicative repertoires and are able to “read” what wibas sense in the forest, including ...
James Beveridge
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Innovative participles in Brazilian Portuguese
Revista Linguística, 2015 In this paper we analyze a new kind of participle formation in Brazilian Portuguese, which we have called innovative participles. This type of participle, which is getting more and more common for speakers of this language, takes place in contexts where ...
Ana Paula Scher +2 more
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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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A Guide to Build (ING) GLMM Trees in Canadian Maritime English: Part 2, Linguistic Factors
Language and Linguistics Compass, Volume 20, Issue 2, March/April 2026.ABSTRACT This second paper in a two‐part methodological guide demonstrates how Generalised Linear Mixed Model (GLMM) tree analysis can be used to explore linguistic conditioning in sociolinguistic variation. Building on Part 1, which introduced the dataset and illustrated how GLMM trees reveal social patterning in (ING) variation, Part 2 focuses on the
Matt Hunt Gardner
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The properties of perfect(ive) and (eventive) passive participles: An identity approach
Glossa, 2019 This paper sheds light on the properties of perfect(ive) and (eventive) passive participles on the basis of a discussion of the issue of past participial (non-)identity.
Dennis Wegner
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Social Policy &Administration, Volume 60, Issue 2, Page 286-297, March 2026.ABSTRACT Verbal communication between bureaucrats and citizens crucially determines the dynamics and outcomes of public encounters. However, so far, scholars have not sought to quantitively measure it, which limits our knowledge of the role language plays in shaping interactions between bureaucrats and clients.
Steffen Eckhard, Laurin Friedrich
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Pieces of the be perfect in German and older English [PDF]
, 2008 This paper examines the development of periphrastic constructions involving auxiliary "have" and "be" with a past participle in the history of English, on the basis of parsed electronic corpora.
Alexiadou, Artemis, McFadden, Thomas
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