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Why it should be "Alzheimer disease" rather than "Alzheimer's disease" [PDF]
The terms "Alzheimer's disease" and "Alzheimer disease" are often used interchangeably in the biomedical literature. Yet this seemingly minor grammatical difference carries implications that extend beyond style: the possessive form, marked by the 's ...
Cinthya Agüero +2 more
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Possessive Adjectives in the Late Egyptian grammar and Its popularity In the "D'Orbiney" Papyrus EA.10183 [PDF]
Possessive Adjectives were very common and widespread in the Egyptian language in its late linguistic phase, as it was used and appeared abundantly in many texts and papyri dating back to that late linguistic period.
Mahmoud Hamid Farraj Elhosary
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The submerged genitive in Old Prussian
This paper is devoted to the Old Prussian phrase ʃwaiāʃmu ʃupʃei buttan ‘to his own house’ (Enchiridion, III 876). Far from being simply the result of a syntactic error, the genitive ʃupʃei ‘of oneself’ can be recognized as the reflex of an archaic ...
Daniel Petit
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Head and dependent marking and dependency length in possessive noun phrases: a typological study of morphological and syntactic complexity [PDF]
Kaius Sinnemäki
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On the basis of corpus data (9.5M words 1997–2010) we claim that North Saami is developing a grammatical distinction between alienable and inalienable possession.
Lene Antonsen, Laura Janda
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Patterns of variation in existential constructions
The main goal of the present paper is twofold: on the one hand, to highlight the patterns of variation among the existential constructions found in Italo-Romance and Sardinian dialects; on the other, to examine the observed microvariation in a ...
Silvio Cruschina
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Possessive Constructions in the Obdorsk Dialect of the Khanty Language; pp. 129-150 [PDF]
The paper presents an analysis of the structural types of possessive constructions in the Obdorsk dialect of Khanty. It is shown that in this dialect the concept of possession is encoded by means of adnominal and predicative possessive constructions of ...
Victoria Vorobeva, Irina Novitskaya
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NPs in German: Locality, theta roles, possessives, and genitive arguments
Since Abney (1987), the DP-analysis has been the standard analysis for nominal complexes, but in the last decade, the NP analysis has experienced a revival. In this spirit, we provide an NP analysis for German nominal complexes in HPSG.
Antonio Machicao y Priemer +1 more
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Exponence, allomorphy and haplology in the number and State morphology of Modern Hebrew
This paper provides an account of the regularities of plural exponence in Modern Hebrew. There are two genders in Modern Hebrew, each with its specific plural marker.
Noam Faust
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Inflected and uninflected possessives and Lithuanian kienõ
It is argued that the uninflected possessive adjective Lithuanian kienõ ‘whose’ replaces an earlier form *kienè which arose from the addition of stressed -nè to monosyllabic *kie. As the source of the latter form, an innovation *kwo-iʔ ‘whose’ is posited,
Michiel de Vaan
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