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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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Possessions and memories [PDF]
People often acquire souvenirs and photographs to facilitate remembering, but possessions and memories can relate to each other in a variety of ways. This review paper presents four different connection types found between meaningful things in our everyday lives and our personal memories.
Van den Hoven, Elise +2 more
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Nominal Determination in Niaboua [PDF]
Nouns can function as the subject or object of a verbal statement. In languages, nouns can be grouped into two main categories: proper nouns and common nouns. Proper nouns do not take determiners.
Vélérou Adelin Fallé +1 more
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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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Postmemory and Possession [PDF]
This paper examines the phenomena of ‘postmemory’ as a mode of possession that responds to experiences of suffering. As such, the hyper-connectivity it is concerned with is not that of the digitalisation of contemporary life but is rather ‘vertical’ hyper-connectivity indicating the disturbance of past injustices that have neither been mourned nor ...
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