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Perífrasis verbales: Una mirada desde los universales lingüísticos [PDF]
The main goal of this paper is to show that the different verbal periphrasis in Spanish keep a non fortuitous order, which can be derived from the one proposed by the universal hierarchy of categories (Foley and Van Valin 1984; Bybee 1985; Hengeveld 1989
Mabel Giammatteo +1 more
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La perífrasi verbal conativa [ser + a + infinitiu]: descripció i gènesi [PDF]
In Catalan the verbal periphrasis [ser `to be' + a `to' + infinitive] expresses the conative sense (also called futured past). Catalan grammars do not report this construction, probably because it is unusual. In fact, this verbal periphrasis is defective:
Xavier Rull
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Specifics of periphrase implementation in maritime English [PDF]
The purpose of the study is the use of periphrasis in maritime English. Considering this, the following main tasks were formulated: to analyze periphrastic expressions, with their subsequent systematization of this material; to consider the existing ...
Avanesova Tatiana +4 more
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Progressivity in German can be expressed not only by lexical means but also by various periphrastic structures, e. g. the am-periphrasis, the prepositions bei and in combined with nominalized infinitives or the periphrastic infinitival construction with
Birgit Füreder +2 more
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Desubjectivizing discourse through the use of the periphrasis haber que + infinitive in Spanish
The present investigation analyzes the use of a construction traditionally described as impersonal: the periphrasis haber que + infinitive. This is a variable phenomenon in Spanish grammar studied as a meaningful choice based on the cognitive ...
María José Serrano
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Defining ‘periphrasis’: key notions [PDF]
We examine the notion of ‘(inflectional) periphrasis’ within the framework of Canonical Typology, and argue that the canonical approach allows us to define a logically coherent notion of periphrasis. We propose a set of canonical criteria for inflectional morphology and a set of canonical criteria for functional syntax, that is, syntactic constructions
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Celestial objects periphrastic naming and synonym correlation
We consider the ability of language to express identical content by periphrastic means that reflects in the periphrase and synonym ratio. We prove that in the narrow sense periphrastic names cannot be considered as a simple synonymous replacement of the ...
Chunyang Du
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Volitional Mood in South Slavic with a Focus on Bulgarian
In this paper, we survey some of the inflected and periphrastic volitional mood paradigms in South Slavic with a focus on Bulgarian data. Our review confirms typological observations in the literature that volitional mood paradigms tend to ‘fracture ...
Gergana Popova, Andrew Spencer
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Grammaticalization of auxiliary verb constructions: The case of Italo-Romance mixed perfective auxiliation systems and the ‘MIXPAR’ project [PDF]
This paper deals with auxiliary verb constructions in Romance, in particular with those that exhibit two auxiliary verbs ‘have’ and ‘be’ which alternate, in many Italo-Romance varieties, within one and the same paradigm.
Pavel Štichauer
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A Surprise in the Past: The Historical Origins of the Catalan go-past
Crosslinguistically, the development of the verb go into a future tense is a common path of grammaticalization. In contrast, the past meaning of the go-periphrasis in Catalan is unexpected.
Silvio Cruschina, Anna Kocher
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