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On Grammatical Status of Participle Verb Forms / Constructions in Slavic Languages

open access: yesВестник Волгоградского государственного университета: Серия 2. Языкознание, 2016
The article is devoted to the semi-grammaticalized aspectual-temporal forms / constructions which represent a relatively poorly studied linguistic phenomenon in modern Russian language.
Doychil Petrovich Voyvodich
doaj   +1 more source

Pre‐Task Explicit Instruction, Input Modality, and Working Memory in L2 Oral Self‐Repair

open access: yesInternational Journal of Applied Linguistics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Despite the central role of tasks in language education and ensuing research documenting how task‐related variables might affect language performance and learning, it remains unclear whether pre‐task explicit instruction, input modality, and working memory (WM) influence how learners monitor and repair grammatical structures in real‐time ...
Reza Yadollahpour   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Need + past participle [PDF]

open access: yes, 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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The Evolution of Ergativity in Iranian Languages

open access: yesActa Linguistica Asiatica, 2012
This paper presents an attempt to investigate the origins of ergativity in Iranian languages, drawing upon diachronic and synchronic analyses. In so doing, I will trace the development of the ergative structure back to Old and Middle Persian where, it is
Yadgar KARIMI
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A Natural History of ‘Annoyances’: Knowing Weeds and Weeding Knowledge in the Early Royal Society and its ‘Georgicall Committee’

open access: yesRenaissance Studies, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Seventeenth‐century virtuosi often figured themselves as epistemic weeders, grubbing up rank thickets of accumulated error. In this article, I argue that these metaphors were unnerved by the shifting status of weeds—ostensibly unwanted plants from the margins of cultivated space, unploughed land or the disturbed soils between growing crops—in ...
Francis Taylor
wiley   +1 more source

Greek ΜΝΗΣΘΗ and Aramaic DKYR in the Near East: A Comparative Epigraphic Study

open access: yesArabian Archaeology and Epigraphy, Volume 37, Issue 1, Page 13-26, November 2026.
ABSTRACT Past studies of graffiti containing the word ΜΝΗΣΘΗ have never fully established its intrinsic meaning. However, due to the existence of the Aramaic term DKYR, which carries a seemingly identical meaning to ΜΝΗΣΘΗ, in similar contexts in the Roman Near East, a comparison between both words is possible. Four distinct sites where the coexistence
Sebastien Mazurek
wiley   +1 more source

Adjectives or Verbs? The Case of Deverbal Adjectives in -ED

open access: yesLexis: Journal in English Lexicology, 2020
Among the different ways an adjective can be formed, one of them is the use of the past participle of a verb, as in, for instance: The house was tucked far back from the main road.
Jean Albrespit
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Eros as the Meeting of Ecstasies in Christ: The Eucharistic Link between Divine and Human Love in Dionysius the Areopagite

open access: yesInternational Journal of Systematic Theology, Volume 28, Issue 4, Page 453-473, October 2026.
Abstract Dionysius's vision of eros as a meeting of reciprocal ecstasies – where lover and beloved each pass out of themselves and into the other – has often been read as unifying dimensions of love otherwise thought to stand in tension, such as giving and receiving.
Noah Karger
wiley   +1 more source

Using Grammar Dimensions to Transform Multilingual Teachers From Rule Repeaters to Reason Givers

open access: yesTESOL Journal, Volume 17, Issue 3, September 2026.
ABSTRACT This study examines a reconceptualized approach to grammar addressing fundamental gaps in multilingual teacher preparation. Traditional rule‐based training has historically prepared teachers to give prescriptive responses that shut down student inquiry rather than to reason about grammatical patterns in context.
Chris Corbel, Julie Choi, David Nunan
wiley   +1 more source

Linguistic Variation across Instructional Segments in International Teaching Assistants' Discourse: A Corpus‐Based Analysis

open access: yesTESOL Quarterly, Volume 60, Issue 3, Page 1650-1677, September 2026.
Abstract This study investigates internal linguistic variation in the instructional discourse of international teaching assistants (ITAs) by segmenting their mini‐lecture performances into four discourse types: introduction, lecture, conclusion, and audience interaction.
Heesun Chang, Hector Rivera
wiley   +1 more source

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