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ELOPE, 2011 The present participle and past participle, together with the infinitive, have a long history in English; this is quite contrary to finite verb forms, which mostly developed during the Middle English period.
Lidija Štrmelj, Milenko Lončar
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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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Aditz jokatugabea eta "eta" enklitikoa
Anuario del Seminario de Filología Vasca "Julio de Urquijo", 2007 In this article, an analysis and description is carried out of the non-finite verbal Basque forms compatible with the clitic eta. The description shows prosodic and semantic features together with grammatical ones (morphological and syntactic).
Karmele Rotaetxe
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Transactions of the Philological Society, EarlyView.Abstract Based on an analysis of the Old Literary Tibetan corpus—a corpus of the oldest documented Tibetic language—the present study provides evidence that literary Tibetan v3 verb stems (commonly termed ‘future’) initially encoded passive voice. New arguments put forward in this article range from Trans‐Himalayan nominal morphology to early Tibetan ...
Joanna Bialek
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Reflections on the transformation of the old east Slavic verbal system [PDF]
Južnoslovenski Filolog, 2013 This contribution treats the overall issue of the transformation of the system of past tenses that occurred in the development of Old East Slavic to modern Russian.
Bjornflaten Jan Ivar
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Parameter Hierarchies and Language Contact: The Present Perfect in Ecuadorian Spanish1
Transactions of the Philological Society, EarlyView.Abstract This article explores the hypothesis that the ‘fine‐grained’ grammatical differences that adult grammars under contact are said to be sensitive to (e.g., Hicks et al. 2023) amount to micro/nanoparametric distinctions, in the sense of Roberts (2019).
Norma Schifano
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Participles: Form, use and meaning
Glossa, 2019 This paper serves as an introduction to a special collection on the form, use and meaning of past passive participles used in perfect and passive constructions.
Berit Gehrke, Olga Borik
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Bactrian in Issyk‐Kushan Script: Additional Readings and Decipherments1
Transactions of the Philological Society, EarlyView.Abstract This article presents additional readings of several inscriptions written in the Issyk‐Kushan script, building on the improved system of sound values recently proposed by Sims‐Williams (2025b). We propose that some further lines of Dašt‐i Nāwur inscription DN III and parts of several other inscriptions can now be read as Bactrian, add new ...
Jakob Halfmann +3 more
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The problem of translating participles from German into Serbian [PDF]
Zbornik Radova Filozofskog Fakulteta u Prištini, 2023 Not only are the systemic differences of these two languages decisive, but also the ways of using language conditions in actual speech use are different.
Redžović Elma H.
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Catalan Journal of Linguistics, 2023 In this paper we discuss a change in the auxiliary selectional pattern of Brazilian Venetan, a heritage Italo-Romance variety spoken in southern Brazil.
Roberta D’Alessandro, Alberto Frasson
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