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Paroemias “wolf’s sun” and “sun of wolves”

Неофилология, 2019
We consider the combinations of the periphrastic nature of “wolf’s sun”, “wolf’s sunshine”, “sun of wolves”, “sun of wolf”, which are used to name the night time image in the titles of the television shows and poetic texts.
Chunyang Du
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Partner of Choice: Australian National Interest in Infrastructure Development Programs in Papua New Guinea

Asia &the Pacific Policy Studies, Volume 12, Issue 1, January 2025.
ABSTRACT Australian‐funded development programs aim to support the needs of partner governments but ultimately advance Australiaʼs national interests. This research unpacks this discourse on the major Australian‐funded infrastructure development programs in Papua New Guinea.
Lucy Pennington
wiley   +1 more source

Conventional periphrases of anthroponyms from a contrastive perspective (on the example of Polish periphrastic expressions and their Croatian equivalents)

Poznańskie Studia Slawistyczne, 2018
The focal issue of the present paper is the conventional periphrasis as an object of contrastive research. Such expressions may have different cross-linguistic equivalents, including full, partial, parallel and zero counterparts.
Joanna Szerszunowicz, Ivana Vidović Bolt   +1 more
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Acting as causing change

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
wiley   +1 more source

The meaning of periphrases in the expression of semantics

Неофилология
INTRODUCTION. Periphrasis, which belongs to the linguistic universal that initially interested rhetoricians, is noted in many languages, including Russian and Uzbek. The attention of scientists to the study of periphrastic units, as a rule, is focused on
B. K. Mardiyev
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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
wiley   +1 more source

Periphrasis and possible lexemes

, 2017
When examining Periphrasis we naturally analyse the state of the contributing elements and the interplay of syntactic and morphological factors. But if periphrastic forms are part of paradigms, we should also ask how periphrasis affects the notion ...
Corbett, GG
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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
wiley   +1 more source

Emphatic affirmative verb reduplication in Spanish

Isogloss
In 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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LA SPIEGAZIONE DELLA PERIFRASI PROGRESSIVA NELLE GRAMMATICHE D’ITALIANO PER STRANIERI: ANALISI DI ALCUNI TESTI E PROPOSTE GLOTTODIDATTICHE ISPIRATE ALLA LINGUISTICA COGNITIVA

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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