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The double modal construction in English world wide
World Englishes, Volume 45, Issue 3, Page 485-503, September 2026.Abstract The dual foci of the present study of double modals are their semantic characteristics and their distribution across regional varieties of English world wide. Tokens were extracted from GloWbE:Blogs, a database whose great size and informal tenor facilitated the investigation of this low‐frequency non‐standard feature. Double modals were found
Peter Collins, Adam Smith
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German participle II constructions as adjuncts [PDF]
, 2013 The present investigation is concerned with German participles II (past participles) as lexical heads of adjuncts. Within a minimalist framework of sound-meaning correlation, the analysis presupposes a lexicalist conception of morphology and the ...
Zimmermann, Ilse
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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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Past Participle in Contemporary Spanish [PDF]
, 2013 v anglickém jazyce: The topic of this dissertation is the past participle and its use in the contemporary Spanish language system. The character of the thesis is both theoretical and empirical.
Mrkvová, Jana
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Transactions of the Philological Society, Volume 124, Issue 2, Page 314-356, July 2026.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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Agreement of past participle with direct object in Italian, in comparison with French
, 2015 This thesis deals with the past participle agreement with the direct object in Italian. The thesis itself is divided into two parts. The first, theoretical part, describes in detail the individual rules of functioning of the past participle ...
PLCHOVÁ, Sylva
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L’ACQUISIZIONE DEI VERBI DI MOVIMENTO IN APPRENDENTI CECOFONI, SLOVACCOFONI E ANGLOFONI
Italiano LinguaDueQuesto articolo contribuisce alla fiorente ricerca sull’acquisizione della codifica degli eventi di movimento presentando ed esaminando una porzione dei risultati ottenuti da uno studio comparativo a cui hanno partecipato studenti universitari di ...
Egle Mocciaro +4 more
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Reform of past participle agreement in French in the context of czech high schools
, 2023 The bachelor's thesis "Reform of past participle agreement in French in the context of czech high schools" analyzes a specific grammatical rule in French in the context of its reform.
Floriánová, Saša
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Past Participle Agreement in Five Romance Varieties (1993)
, 2010 Italian morphosyntax is an area where formal syntactic theories can claim some major successes. Perlmutter’s key insights on Italian auxiliaries (1978) led to further research that extends to much wider zones of the language (in GB Burzio 1981, 1986, in RG Davies and Rosen 1988, La Fauci 1988, 1989, 1991, Rosen 1988 [1981], 1990).
LA FAUCI, Nunzio, Rosen, C.
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, 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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