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Transactions of the Philological Society, EarlyView.Abstract This paper investigates the role of semantic features of noun and adjective bases in determining the grammatical behaviour of Ancient Greek denominal and deadjectival verbs in *‐ye/o‐. The paper adopts a lexicalist framework (Rappaport Hovav & Levin 1998) and examines how the event schema, actionality, telicity and voice of derived verbs are ...
Carolina Marescotti
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Frontiers in Language SciencesAdult language learners frequently struggle with possessive pronouns, and classroom evidence confirms these difficulties for learners of German. This study examines the acquisition of possessive agreement in L3 German by L1 Polish-L2 English speakers ...
Kamil Długosz, Megan Brown-Bousfield
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Possessive Pronouns in European Portuguese and Old French
Journal of Portuguese Linguistics, 2002 The aim of this paper is to bring European Portuguese (EP) data into light, showing that, in spite of the lack of morphological evidence, the syntactic behaviour of possessives, across EP dialects, shows evidences for a tripartite possessive system ...
Matilde Miguel
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Transactions of the Philological Society, EarlyView.Abstract Few have asked what happens to gender when a noun is heteroclitic – when its inflection draws on more than one inflection class. While heteroclisis has moved from being treated as a marginal irregularity to a theoretically revealing phenomenon, its implications for gender assignment remain largely unexplored.
Greville G. Corbett
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Algumas observações sobre os possessivos em português
Studia Romanica Posnaniensia, 2013 The linguistic description of possessives is controversial. In traditional grammar they are defined as carriers of the meaning of possession or belonging; however, this paper intends to prove that in many cases such a meaning does not appear, and ...
Małgorzata Wielgosz
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Tone in the pronominal system in Bissa Barka
Mandenkan, 2016 This paper presents an introductory overview of the pronominal system in Bissa Barka, an Eastern Mande language spoken in south-east Burkina Faso and northern Ghana. Primary focus is placed on the tonal behaviour of the pronouns.
Pamela Morris
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Journal of Medical Imaging and Radiation Oncology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Background Changes in legislation and social attitudes towards transgender and gender diverse (TGD) people have prompted clinical and ethical questions about the experiences, care, and health outcomes of TGD patients in medical imaging. Aim The aim of this scoping review is to identify the main themes surrounding TGD patient care in medical ...
Kirralee Jane Davies, Ricky Lam
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A comparative study of pronoun as an independent part of speech in Russian and Pashto languages
Polylinguality and Transcultural Practices, 2013 The author analyzes the pronouns in the Russian language and in the Pashto language. Pronouns are used differently in both languages because of the cases system: Russian has six cases while Pashto has three ones.
- Kochai Mir Sahib Jan
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Reflexives and reflexive constructions in Afrikaans
Stellenbosch Papers in Linguistics Plus, 2015 This article provides a non-formalistic description of the various reflexive pronouns in Afrikaans. In addition to the traditional class of reflexive pronouns, it is shown that possessive pronouns can also be used reflexively. The facts about (obligatory)
Oosthuizen, Johan
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Accounting Perspectives, Volume 24, Issue 1, Page 251-274, March 2025.ABSTRACT The Canadian Accounting Hall of Fame (CAHF) has inducted 31 members during its first three years of operation, with the stated intent of establishing a critical mass of inductees “who have made significant contributions to the development of the Canadian accounting profession” and of creating “a curated biographical history of accounting in ...
Alan J. Richardson
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