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Lability in Hittite and Indo‐European: A Diachronic Perspective

Studia Linguistica, Volume 80, Issue 1, April 2026.
ABSTRACT Lability is defined as the possibility of a verb to enter a valency alternation without undergoing any change in its form. Labile verbs were common in ancient Indo‐European languages, including Hittite, which mostly features anticausative lability, with reflexive and reciprocal lability being less prominent.
Guglielmo Inglese
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Ways to Transpose into Romanian Fixed Constructions from the Novel Crime and Punishment, by Fyodor Dostoevsky

Philologia
In literary translation, one of the greatest difficulties in transposing from the source language to the target language concerns fixed constructions.
Inga DRUȚĂ
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The Venetian Vernacular Lexicon in Eleventh‐ and Twelfth‐Century Latin Documents: Insights from the Codice Diplomatico Veneziano

Transactions of the Philological Society, Volume 124, Issue 1, Page 168-199, March 2026.
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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THIS COMMODITIZING PLURAL (personal periphrasis with the meaning of different groups of Ukraine doers in Russian-language Ukrainian press)

Неофилология, 2016
It is devoted to structural analysis of personal periphrasis denoting different groups of Ukrain doers and functioning in Russian-language Ukrainian press.
Antonina Mikhaylovna Grigorash
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The expression of diminutivity in Central Ring Grassfields Bantu

Afrika und Übersee, 2020
Studies on the expression of diminutivity in Bantoid languages of the Cameroonian Grassfields have tended to focus on the role that noun class derivation plays within the familiar Bantu paradigm. A closer look at individual branches of Bantoid, however,
Pius W. Akumbu, Roland Kießling
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Inflectional periphrasis in Persian

Proceedings of the International Conference on Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar, 2009
Modern Persian conjugation makes use of five periphrastic constructions. We contrast the properties of these five constructions and argue that they call for different analyses. We propose contrasting analyses relying on the combination of an HPSG approach to feature geometry and syntactic combination, and an approach to paradigm organization and ...
Olivier Bonami, Pollet Samvelian
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The use of input‐based tasks to initiate adult learners to the expression of temporality in French literacy and language instruction

The Modern Language Journal, Volume 109, Issue 4, Page 846-867, Winter 2025.
Abstract Input‐based tasks have shown promising outcomes for teaching concrete notions (i.e., vocabulary items and number marking) to beginner students in varied educational contexts, including with second language (L2) adults with little to no schooling experience.
Véronique Fortier, Suzie Beaulieu
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THE NOTION AND CHARACTERISTICS OF MODAL ‘PERIPHRASIS’ IN SPANISH (BASED ON THE EXAMPLE OF BELLES-LETTRES)

Вестник Кемеровского государственного университета, 2013
The article deals with periphrastic constructions verbalized in Spanish belles-lettres. The definitions of verbal periphrasis that are considered basic are provided.
О. О. Panteleeva
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La perífrasi verbal conativa [ser + a + infinitiu]: descripció i gènesi [PDF]

Sintagma, 2011
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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Perifrasi zaharra mendebalde eta erdialdeko euskara zaharrean: azterketa kuantifikatiboa eta proposamen berria

Anuario del Seminario de Filología Vasca "Julio de Urquijo", 2007
In the history of the occidental and central dialects of Basque, the verbal periphrases composed by the verbal stem / or the participle and the auxiliaries *edin, *ezan, egin have undergone a change in the form of their principal verb. Up to now, the
Céline Mounole
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