Results 21 to 30 of about 3,750,308 (159)

Further remarks on the deflexion and grammaticalization of the Old English past participle with habban [PDF]

, 2020
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, Martín Arista, Francisco Javier [0000-0001-9900-0104]   +1 more
core   +1 more source

Lo sviluppo della flessione di genere nel verbo iranico

Atti del Sodalizio Glottologico Milanese, 2014
This study illustrates the development of the gender agreement in verb conjugation, which can be reconstructed in some linguistic varieties of West Iranian family, from Old Persian to Modern Central Dialects and Southern Tāti.
Giancarlo Schirru
doaj   +1 more source

Agreement of the Past Participle with the Auxiliary avoir Preceded by the Pronoun que: Analysis of Difficulties Among Ghanaian Learners of French as a Foreign Language [PDF]

Uirtus
This study explores the morphosyntactic challenges faced by learners of French as a Foreign Language (FFL) in using the past participle agreement with the auxiliary avoir, particularly when preceded by the relative pronoun que. Grounded in a quantitative
Allan Kwashivi Hettey
doaj   +1 more source

+ past participle]in English and French [PDF]

, 2020
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
core   +1 more source

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
doaj   +1 more source

A Critical Analysis of Microsoft's Rhetoric and Reality of Sustainability Engagement

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study critically examines Microsoft's environmental, social and governance (ESG) rhetoric and operational reality, to offer insights that extend beyond conventional greenwashing or bluewashing. Drawing on over 20 years of Microsoft's sustainability reports (2003–2024), third‐party ESG evaluations and media investigations, it employs ...
Omaima A. G. Hassan, Iqbal Khadaroo
wiley   +1 more source

Majorcan Catalan

Isogloss
The use of past participle agreement (PPA) in Majorcan Catalan has decreased over the last hundred years when the object remains in situ (PPAOIS), but PPA keeps clearly stronger when the object is preposed – in clitic, wh-, and other fronted ...
Sebastià Salvà
doaj   +1 more source

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
wiley   +1 more source

The (Un)Reality of the Perfect Infinitive, Reconsidered from a Constructional Perspective

Rhesis, 2013
Due to great diachronic as well as synchronic variation and change, the perfect aspect has been studied to a great extent. In English, its infinitival form (have + past participle) has been largely neglected, however.
Elisabeth Senft
doaj   +1 more source

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, Simon Fries, Bobomullo Bobomulloev, Muhsin Bobomulloev   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source