The scope of language contact as a constraint factor in language change: The periphrasis haber de plus infinitive in a corpus of language immediacy in modern Spanish [PDF]
In this work an empirical study grounded in the principles and methods of the comparative variationist framework is conducted to measure the scope of language contact as a factor constraining some potentially diverging uses of a Spanish verbal ...
Academia de la Llingua Asturiana +57 more
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Two passages in pseudo-Xenophon [PDF]
This paper discusses textual problems in [Xenophon] Athenian Constitution 2.9 and 3 ...
Brock, R., Heath, M.
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The main aim of this paper is to describe the Spanish construction parar de + inf, an aspectual verbal periphrasis which expresses the interruption of the event referred to by the infinitive in affirmative clauses, and the continuity and repetition of ...
Mar Garachana
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Veillée de langues endeuillées. Circonfession (1991) de Jacques Derrida
This study aims to enter into the flesh of a text written by Jacques Derrida, Circumfession (1991), dealing with the decay of his aging mother. How do the confusing formal choices adopted by Derrida in this text, which is also part of an autobiographical
Jérémie Majorel
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Proactive Description for Useful Applications: Researching Language Options for Better Translation Practice? [PDF]
The initial assumption for this inquiry is that producing useful applications is part of the research process, and that it is the duty of the researcher to ‘transfer’ the knowledge gained in basic, descriptive research to ‘know-how’ packages to be used ...
Rabadán, Rosa
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Urbanonyms-periphrases of the city of Smolensk in the semantic field “war”
In modern domestic linguistics, there are many works dedicated to the study of the figurative meaning of the word. However, periphrases more functioning in oral speech are not sufficiently studied. Of particular interest are proper names that reflect the
N. A. Rodina
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The refuge of a dying variant within the grammar: Patterns of change and continuity in the Spanish verbal periphrasis haber de + infinitive over the past two centuries [PDF]
Based on a corpus of ego-documents (private letters, diaries, memoirs) from the 19th and the first half of the 20th centuries, this paper presents a variationist comparative study to determine the fate of the modal periphrasis haber de + infinitive in ...
BLAS-ARROYO, JOSE LUIS +1 more
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Ancient Greek and the category of verbal periphrasis [PDF]
This paper discusses which constructions in Ancient Greek consisting of a finite verb and a participle belong to the category of „verbal periphrasis‟.
Bentein, Klaas
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Abstract This study investigates the lexicographical potential of Medieval Latin documentation from the Venetian area of the Italo‐Romance domain, highlighting the need for a systematic approach to bridge Latin and vernacular linguistic developments. The project MEDITA – Medieval Latin Documentation and Digital Italo‐Romance Lexicography.
Jacopo Gesiot
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Phraseological characteristics of the sport's column of the daily newspapers Jedinstvo [PDF]
The author defines as her research field a widely comprehended concept of phraseology, exacerbated in the corpus of daily newspapers Jedinstvo from November 1998.
Vučetić Jasmina
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