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Structural Ambiguity and the Architecture of Language1
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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Periphrasis has a striking role in the Australian (non-Pama-Nyungan) language Dalabon, where it helps to maintain the paradigm structure, and at the same time reshapes the paradigm by adding new categories.
Evans, Nicholas
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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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Short vs Long Stem Alternations in Romance Verbal Inflection: The S‐Morphome
Abstract Some verbs in Romance (e.g. the reflexes of faciō ‘do’, dīcō ‘say’, habeō ‘have’, sapiō ‘know’, possum ‘be able’, and volō ‘want’) display alternations between a short (e.g. It. f‐are, f‐a, d‐ire) and a long (e.g. It. fac‐evo, dic‐e, dic‐evo) stem.
Borja Herce, Chundra A. Cathcart
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Sobre las periphrasis verbales en Español
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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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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Periphrases in Spanish: properties, diagnostics and research questions
This article provides an overview of the main facts and analytical problems that relate to verbal periphrases. The article is structured as follows. In §1 I provide an overview of the main criteria for being a periphrasis, and the constructions that it ...
Antonio Fábregas
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The ingressive verbal periphrasis in Spanish and their equivalents in Czech language [PDF]
Cyril Navrátil Abstract The ingressive verbal periphrasis in Spanish and their equivalents in Czech language This work deals the ingressive verbal periphrasis in Spanish and their equivalents in Czech language.
Navrátil, Cyril
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PORTUGUESE VERBAL PERIPHRASIS WITH DEVER AS A TEACHING PROBLEM This article attempts to highlight the problems in teaching and learning of two Portuguese periphrastic modal constructions.
Joanna Drzazgowska
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The development of the English BE + V-ende/V-ing periphrasis : from emphatic to progressive marker?
Author's version of an article in the journal: English Language and Linguistics. Also available from the publisher at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S1360674314000148The article discusses the grammaticalization of the be + V-ende/V-ing periphrasis as a ...
Killie, Kristin
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