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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 rise of ergativity in Hindi: assessing the role of grammaticalization [PDF]

, 2009
This article investigates the origins and development of the ergative patterning in Hindi. Following traditional Indo-Aryan scholarship, two evolutions are discerned: (i) the reanalysis of a passive as an ergative construction, and (ii) the development ...
De Cuypere, Ludovic, Verbeke, Saartje
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Morphology-Syntax interface for Turkish LFG [PDF]

, 2006
This paper investigates the use of sublexical units as a solution to handling the complex morphology with productive derivational processes, in the development of a lexical functional grammar for Turkish.
Cetinoglu, Ozlem, Oflazer, Kemal, Çetinoğlu, Özlem   +2 more
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Controversial Issues of Compliance with the Rules of Agreement in Complex French Tenses: Based on the Internet Forum Reddit.Com

RUDN Journal of Language Studies, Semiotics and Semantics
The purpose of the article is to attempt to provide a reasoned and generalized coverage of a particular problem of French grammar concerning the simplification of the rule of agreement of the past participle participe passé (hereinafter PP) with the ...
Tamara V. Slastnikova, Elena I. Cherkashina   +1 more
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Las construcciones pasivas en el español del siglo XV

Estudios de Lingüística, 1988
The author of this article tries to demonstrate that the superiority of the passive construction with the verb "ser" and the past participle in the 15th century Spanish is due to a stylistic use of this form in a period in which a cultivated ...
Amparo Ricós Vidal
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Need + past participle [PDF]

, 2009
This present research is a study on the syntactic construction “need + past participle”. Whereas the structure is thought by some to be ungrammatical, others use it as a normal part of their everyday speech.
Ulrey, Kathleen S.
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Fronting in Old Catalan: Asymmetries between Narration and Reported Speech1

Transactions of the Philological Society, Volume 123, Issue 1, Page 1-28, March 2025.
Abstract This article explores the distribution, syntax, and information structure of XVS clauses in the narrative text and the reported speech of a thirteenth‐century Old Catalan chronicle, the Llibre dels Fets. It is shown that XVS occurs mainly within reported speech and in embedded clauses.
Afra Pujol i Campeny
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PARTIZIP II, PAST PARTICIPLE AND RESULTATIVITY

Іноземна філологія
The article deals with Partizip II and the perfective past participle as carriers of resultative semantics in German and Ukrainian, respectively. Resultativity is closely related to the concepts of the telicity (boundedness) and perfectivity of an ...
Oksana Smerechynska
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Arguing against obligatory feature inheritance: Evidence from French transitive participle agreement [PDF]

, 2008
In this article, we accept the view that the relevant type of case/agreement features originate on phase heads, but argue against a strong view of the Percolation Hypothesis on which uninterpretable features obligatorily percolate down from a phase head ...
Radford, A, Vincent, M
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Romance Loans in Middle Dutch and Middle English: Retained or Lost? A Matter of Metre1

Transactions of the Philological Society, EarlyView.
Abstract Romance words have been borrowed into all medieval West‐Germanic languages. Modern cognates show that the metrical patterns of loans can differ although the Germanic words remain constant: loan words Dutch kolónie, English cólony, German Koloníe compared with Germanic words Dutch wéduwe, English wídow, German Wítwe.
Johanneke Sytsema, Aditi Lahiri
wiley   +1 more source