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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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The Syntax of the Past Participle in Marlowe

, 1971
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.
Ando, Sadao
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The morpho-syntactic encoding of discourse-linked topics: an agreement alternation in inversion in North-Eastern Italian varieties

Glossa, 2020
In this paper, I will argue that some languages dispose over two kinds of expletives: a purely syntactic expletive and a ‘thetic expletive’ enumerated from the lexicon and triggering a thetic interpretation of the sentence.
Silvia Schaefer
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PERIPHRASTIC CONSTRUCTIONS WITH THE VERB IMET’ (TO HAVE) AND THE PASSIVE PARTICIPLE IN PYOTR TOLSTOY’S TRANSLATION OF THE HISTORY OF THE PRESENT STATE OF THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE

Вестник Волгоградского государственного университета: Серия 2. Языкознание
The article examines the periphrastic constructions, which consist of the verb imet’ (to have) in the form of the present or past tense and the passive participle with the suffix -n- in The History of the Present State of the Ottoman Empire translated ...
Tatiana V. Pentkovskaia
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Relazioni tra il lessico e la sintassi: classi aspettuali di verbi ed il passivo spagnolo

Círculo de Lingüística Aplicada a la Comunicación, 2023
The aim of this article is to examine the different restrictions (especially those of aspectual nature) that constrain the process of passive formation in Spanish. The proposal defended here is based on the idea that verbal predicates denote events that
Elena de Miguel
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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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Counterfactuals and the loss of BE in the history of English [PDF]

, 2008
In the course of the ME period, HAVE began to encroach on territory previously held by BE. According to Rydén and Brorström (1987); Kytö (1997), this occurred especially in iterative and durational contexts, in the perfect infinitive and modal ...
McFadden, Thomas, Alexiadou, Artemis
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The french past participle

, 2022
After presenting the analysis of the past participle by the uncusative hypothesis and the aoristic hypothesis, the article develop our hypothesis : the past participle is a singular form in the TAM (tense-aspect-mood) linguistic system in French, in that it represents the internal time of the process at the end of its course. Due to this representation
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Jeszcze o aoryście w staropolszczyźnie

Annales Universitatis Paedagogicae Cracoviensis. Studia Linguistica, 2017
An analysis of examples of the past perfect tense composed of a singular and plural past tense participle and an aorist form of the ‘to be’ verb in the singular third person form used as an auxiliary word is given in the article. The author, referring to
Ewa Deptuchowa
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Lithuanian present passive participle and past passive participle as predicates and correspondences in Latvian

, 2016
Reikšminiai žodžiai: Dalyvis; Latvių kalba; Neveikiamasis būtojo laiko dalyvis; Neveikiamasis dalyvis; Neveikiamasis esamojo laiko dalyvis; Predikatas; Sintaksinis atitikmuo; Tarinys; Veikiamasis dalyvis; Active participle; Latvian language; Participle ...
Levāne-Petrova, Kristīne
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