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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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Functional Macrofield of Likening in Modern English. Structural Types of its Constituents [PDF]

, 2004
Comparison (likening) is one of the main ways of cognizing the objective reality. On different language levels comparison (likening) as an operation of thinking, acquires a broad variety of material forms the totality of which makes up the functional ...
Сасіна, В. П.
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The Rise and Fall of a Change from Below in early modern Spanish: the Periphrasis Deber De + Infinitive in Texts of Linguistic Immediacy [PDF]

, 2016
This paper deals with the patterns of variation and change undergone by a syntactic variable in early modern Spanish grammar, namely the alternation between deber ‘have to, must/should’ and deber de + infinitive ‘have to, must/should’ as a modal ...
Ahumada Batlle, Alarcos, Arbelo García, Archivo General de Andalucía, Balasch, Balasch, Baranda, Blas Arroyo, Borregan, Bouza, Cano, Carreira, Castillo, Castillo Gómez, Company, Conde-Silvestre, Cortijo, Cortijo, Davies, Demonte, Dossena, Eberenz, Elliott, Fernández Alcaide, Fernández Alcalde, Fernández de Castro, Fernández Álvarez, Fontanella de Weinberg, Frago, García Mouton, González, Guzmán Riverón, Gómez Manzano, Gómez Molina, Gómez Seibane, Hidalgo Nuchera, Labov, Labov, Levisi, Lohmann Villena, Lorenzo Pinar, López Benito, Martínez Martínez, Martínez Martínez, Martínez Martínez, Navarro Bonilla, Nevalainen, Nevalainen, Oesterreicher, Otte, Pahta, Pérez Villanueva, Rojas, Schmidt-Riese, Stoll, Szmolka Clares, Sánchez Rubio, Tagliamonte, Toral, Torres, Włodarczyk, Yllera, Zudaire   +62 more
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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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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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Predicative Possession in Ukrainian and Intra‐Slavonic Language Contact1

Transactions of the Philological Society, Volume 123, Issue 3, Page 428-459, November 2025.
Abstract Ukrainian has two inherited syntactic forms for possessive have: a transitive one with a lexical have‐verb, and an intransitive, originally locative be‐construction. On the basis of four corpus studies, the article establishes their relative frequency in Middle Ukrainian writing (17th and 18th c.), Modern Ukrainian dialects (20th c.), and ...
Jan Fellerer
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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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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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La evolución de las perífrasis verbales causativa e incoativa con poner en español : cambios de construcción y extensiones metafóricas [PDF]

, 2017
This paper deals with the historical evolution of the causative and inchoative periphrases with poner in Spanish. In these constructions, poner functions as an auxiliary verb, combining with a subordinate infinitive to which it adds a causative (poner a ...
Comer, Marie, Enghels, Renata
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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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