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Emphatic affirmative verb reduplication in Spanish
IsoglossIn this article, I present a type of verb reduplication observed in Rioplatense Spanish that has not yet been discussed in the literature. This type of construction, which I will call emphatic affirmative verb reduplication, is similar to a type of ...
María Florencia Silva
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European Journal of Philosophy, Volume 32, Issue 3, Page 644-658, September 2024.Abstract The paper defends a version of the view that agency is a causal power, the “causing view.” After sketching the view, and explaining how it differs from its rivals, various challenges are assessed. A family of objections says that causing change is neither necessary nor sufficient for acting.
Maria Alvarez
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Notes on Verbal Aspect in Three Vedic Prose Narratives
Transactions of the Philological Society, Volume 122, Issue 2, Page 223-253, July 2024.Abstract This article summarises the synchronic system of verbal aspect manifest in three Middle Vedic prose narrative texts, investigating the use of various morphological categories with past reference (especially the imperfect, perfect and aorist). I show that the imperfect and perfect are both compatible with multiple aspectual readings (perfective,
Anahita Gwenllian Hoose
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Italiano LinguaDue, 2018 L’articolo si focalizza sull’insegnamento della perifrasi progressiva stare + gerundio agli studenti di italiano come seconda lingua. La prima parte fornisce una panoramica degli studi di linguistica italiana che mette in luce alcune caratteristiche ...
Michele Daloiso
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Obsolescence and abortive innovations in variationist approaches to language change
Language and Linguistics Compass, Volume 18, Issue 4, July/August 2024.Abstract The focus of most variationist studies of linguistic change to date has been the emergence and increase of new forms. The opposing process—obsolescence, or the decline and loss of older variants—is less well understood. Addressing several calls for more attention to be paid to obsolescence and its properties, this article surveys case studies ...
Marisa Brook
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Catalan Journal of Linguistics, 2015 Today’s Catalan knows the phrases vol ploure and vol caure, literally ‘[it] wants to rain’ and ‘[it] wants to fall,’ with the meaning of ‘showing signs that [something] has to [happen]’ (DDLC, s.v. voler).
Jordi M. Antolí Martínez
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Periphrasis and morphosyntatic mismatch in Czech
, 2021 This paper presents an HPSG analysis of the Czech periphrastic past and conditional at the morphology-syntax interface. After clarifying the status of Czech auxiliaries as words rather than affixes, we discuss the fact that the past tense exemplifies the phenomenon of zero periphrasis, where a form of the main verb normally combined with an auxiliary ...
Bonami, Olivier, Webelhuth, Gert
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Structural Ambiguity and the Architecture of Language1
Studia Linguistica, Volume 78, Issue 1, Page 35-63, April 2024.Abstract This article investigates what structural ambiguity reveals about the architecture of language. It analyzes two basic types of structural ambiguity, constituent ambiguity and chain formation ambiguity, and illustrates with a small class of selected case studies how they interweave.
Jordi Fortuny
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Sobre las periphrasis verbales en Español
Linguistica, 1990 La idea de estudiar las perífrasis verbales tiene origen en la práctica docente (enseñanza del español a estudiantes extranjeros, concretamente eslovenos) yen la actividad de traductor e intérprete del español al esloveno y vice versa.
Jasmina Markič
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Актуальні питання суспільних наук та історії медицини, 2014 Rusnak Yulia, Rusnak Natalia. The names of the main members in the wedding Bukovinian dialect Slavic language kontitnuum gives ground to the analysis of the Bukovinian wedding terminology The article deals with the names of the main members of ...
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