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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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Nominalizations and participles in Swedish [PDF]

, 2009
The dissertation discusses two types of participles (present and past (passive)) and two types of nominalizations ((n)ing-nominalizations and e/a-nde-nominalizations) in Swedish.
Lundquist, Björn
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Galician Perfective Periphrases among Complex Predicates: Degrees of Grammaticalization and the Possibility of a Perfect Tense

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The so-called perífrasis perfectivas in Galician present the action as concluded or realized. This particular aspectual feature constitutes the common ground for an otherwise heterogeneous set of constructions, ranging from rematar de ‘finish ...
Natalia Jardón
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The [ADJ + as] intensifier construction in Māori English/Aotearoa English

World Englishes, Volume 45, Issue 3, Page 426-448, September 2026.
Abstract We introduce the Waikato Māori English Conversation (MEC) corpus, which consists of 43 dyadic conversations between 49 young adults who self‐recorded informal conversations with close friends, in their own homes, with no topic of conversation specified (83 hours of dialogue; nearly 800,000 words).
Andreea S. Calude, Hēmi Whaanga
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“Participles” in Shinekhen Buryat

, 2012
This paper aims to examine the function of “participles” (also known as “verbal nouns”) in Shinekhen Buryat, which belongs to the Mongolic language family. In the Altaic linguistics, verbal inflections are classified into three inflectional categories. 1)
山越, 康裕
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Athematic participles in Brazilian Portuguese: A syncretism in the making [PDF]

, 2007
Some Portuguese verbs have two different past participles, such as, e.g., aceitar ‘accept’, with participles aceitado and aceito ; and limpar ‘clean’, with limpado and limpo . The first one in each pair mentioned is thematic,
Souza, Paulo Chagas de
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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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Premodifying -ing participles in the parsed BNC

, 2012
In this article we will focus on premodifying -ing participles in English. By premodifying -ing participles we refer to NP-internal -ing forms, such as the ones found in a charming man or a barking dog.
Lijffijt, Jefrey, Vartiainen, Turo
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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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The semantics of past participles [PDF]

This dissertation proposes a new way of understanding the semantics of past participles, primarily in English. In some uses, past participles denote an event (e.g.
Denlinger, Kristin
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