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The periphrastic perfect in Ancient Greek: a diachronic mental space analysis [PDF]
, 2012 In the present article, I apply Fauconniers mental spaces theory to the diachronic analysis of the Ancient Greek periphrastic perfect. I argue that the periphrastic construction started out as a resultative perfect, with FOCUS and EVENT located in the ...
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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
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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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Comparative variationism for the study of language change: five centuries of competition amongst spanish deontic periphrases [PDF]
, 2018 Based on a corpus composed entirely of texts close to the pole of communicative immediacy, mainly private letters from the sixteenth, eighteenth and twentieth centuries (c.
BLAS-ARROYO, JOSE LUIS
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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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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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From explicit prohibition to ambiguity in prohibiting [PDF]
, 2015 El trabajo fue presentado en la sección monográfica sobre lenguaje tabú en el mencionado congreso.This contribution will deal with two topics closely related and intermingled.
Chamizo-Dominguez, Pedro Jose
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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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Syntax as an exponent of morphological features [PDF]
, 2000 In this paper we investigate a selection of issues in the morphology-syntax interface. This has been the locus of intense research activity in recent years particularly within lexicalist theories of grammar such as Lexical Functional Grammar (LFG).
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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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