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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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Lexis, 2012 Resumen El tema de las perífrasis verbales es uno de los más complejos y debatidos en la tradición gramatical. Las descripciones propuestas en las gramáticas y estudios dedicados al tema de las perífrasis verbales explican principalmente tres valores ...
Adriana Ávila-Figueroa
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The subjunctive alternation in Indian English
World Englishes, Volume 44, Issue 3, Page 439-455, September 2025.Abstract The study at hand is an exploration of the alternation between the mandative subjunctive and its equivalent modal construction with the verb should in Indian English. The study complements the growing body of research on the morphosyntax of the variety and it enhances our understanding of the relatively under‐researched alternation.
Karola Schmidt
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A note on the periphrastic past in Afrikaans
Stellenbosch Papers in Linguistics, 2018 The periphrastic past tense of Afrikaans, involving the auxiliary het, is compared with its ancestor construction in Dutch. I argue that the situation in Afrikaans provides support for the analysis of Germanic verb clusters in Zwart (2017), where ...
Jan-Wouter Zwart
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Mood Selection in the Old Northumbrian Gloss to Durham MS A.iv.19
Transactions of the Philological Society, Volume 123, Issue 2, Page 189-212, July 2025.Abstract The aim of this article is to examine the use of the subjunctive in the 10th‐century Old Northumbrian gloss to Durham MS A.iv.19. We assess whether there is evidence for a weakening of the indicative/subjunctive opposition, as has been argued for the earlier gloss to the Lindisfarne Gospels, which was the work of the same glossator, Aldred of ...
Julia Fernández Cuesta +1 more
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TRAPPED BETWEEN CASE AND NUMBER. A TYPOLOGY OF ADNUMERATIVE FORMS†
Studia Linguistica, Volume 79, Issue 1, Page 215-257, April 2025.In this paper, I study the nature of adnumerative or numerative forms; i.e. morphologically dedicated inflectional forms that can only be used with numerals or quantifiers (e.g. Russian dva časá ‘two o'clock’ vs. [gen sg] čása). Adnumeratives are cross‐linguistically very rare; yet they raise some interesting theoretical discussions. This work is based
Kristian Roncero
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The cross-linguistic function of obligatory 'do'-periphrasis [PDF]
, 2005 The aim of this paper is to give a descriptive account of the range of functions that can be associated with obligatory ‘do’-periphrasis cross-linguistically based on a sample of 80 languages.
Jäger, Andreas, Jager, A.
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Mixed‐Effects Modeling with a Multinomial Dependent Variable
Language Learning, Volume 75, Issue 1, Page 212-249, March 2025.Abstract In this Methods Showcase Article, we illustrate mixed‐effects modeling with a multinomial dependent variable as a means of explaining complexities in language. We model data on future‐time reference in second language Spanish, which consists of a nominal dependent variable that has three levels, measured over 73 participants.
Aarnes Gudmestad, Thomas A. Metzger
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ÖZLİ ÎCÂZ VE İTNÂB ARASINDAKİ DELİLLERİN KARŞILAŞTIRILMASI [91-103]
Fırat Üniversitesi İlahiyat Fakültesi Dergisi, 2014 Belâğat ilminin meânî tabirlerinden olan îcâz lügatte, az sözle çok şey anlatmak veya sözü kısa kesmek manalarına gelir. Belâğat ilminde ise, kelimelerin manayı ifade edecek ölçüden az olmasıdır.
Muzaffer Özli
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Exploration of the mandative subjunctive in Pakistani English
World Englishes, Volume 44, Issue 1-2, Page 202-217, March-June 2025.Abstract The study at hand explores the alternation between the mandative subjunctive and its equivalent construction with the modal verb should in Pakistani English. The study enhances understanding of the alternation both by focusing on Pakistani English as a relatively under‐researched postcolonial variety of English and by complementing the ...
Karola Schmidt, Nina Funke
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