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Phi-Agreement in Past Participle Constructions [PDF]
I argue in this paper that agreeing past participles are merged externally in the derivation in V endorsed with a feature [+resultative], whereas non-agreeing past participles are bound to value a feature [+perfective] against the have-auxiliary.
Castillo, Concha
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Inflectional Variation in the Old English Participle. A Corpus-based Analysis [PDF]
This article deals with the coexistence of verbal and adjectival inflection in the Old English past participle. Its aim is to assess the degree of variation in the inflection of the participle so as to determine whether or not the change starts in the ...
Ana Elvira Ojanguren López
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The participle in two corpora of Old English. Descriptive and empirical questions [PDF]
This article deals with the present and past participle of Old English. Its research method is based on the idea that the specific characteristics of a given corpus make it more suitable for certain types of analysis.
Ana Elvira Ojanguren López
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The syntax and semantics of past participle agreement in Alemannic [PDF]
This paper investigates agreement on past participles in Highest Alemannic dialects of German. We will first show that participle agreement only occurs in contexts where the participle is adjectival, viz., in stative passives and in resultative perfects,
Gerhard Schaden, Martin Salzmann
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The Syntax of the Past Participle in Marlowe
CHAPTER I. THE PERFECT FORM 1. Present Perfect 2. Past Perfect 3. Modal Past Perfect CHAPTER II. THE PAST PARTICIPLE l. As Prenominal Adjunct 2. As Postnominal Adjunct 3. As Subjective Predicative 4. As Objective Predicative 5. As Participle Construction 6. As Absolute Prarticiple Construction 7.
Ando, Sadao
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Further remarks on the deflexion and grammaticalization of the Old English past participle with habban [PDF]
This article deals with the transitive construction involving habban and the past participle in Old English, and focuses on the loss of the adjectival segment of the participial inflection.
Martin Arista, Javier +1 more
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+ past participle]in English and French [PDF]
This article presents a contrastive analysis of the English copular subschema [become + past participle] and the equivalent copular subschema [devenir + past participle] in French, based on web data.
Niek Van Wettere, Van Wettere, Niek
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Past participle agreement in French – one or two rules? [PDF]
Past participle agreement in French has been taken to be conditioned (among other factors) by movement of the internal argument out of the VP, i.e. as a reflex of movement. However, drawing on data that have been neglected so far in the formal literature
Doreen Georgi +3 more
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Competition in Frisian Past Participles [PDF]
This paper evaluates recent developments in the inflection of Frisian past participles and how to account for them with the aid of a model of morphological productivity. In Frisian, there are two alternative types of past participles which both have their origin in the South-western dialect region of Fryslân, but of which only one is spreading ...
Merkuur, A. +3 more
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A Case Study of Students’ Barriers in Passive Voice Sentences
This study was to find out the errors experienced by students in composing passive voice sentences. It also explained the factors that caused students' barriers in constructing passive voice sentences.
Zahratul Idami, Diah Ayu Pratiwi Pratiwi
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