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A Minimalist analysis of Uyghur genitives
Kansas Working Papers in Linguistics, 2011 This paper investigates the syntactic structure of so-called genitive-possessive DPs in Uyghur, a Turkic language. Uyghur genitive-possessives bear suffixes on both the “possessing” entity (comparable to the Saxon genitive ’s in English) and the ...
Politzer-Ahles, Stephen
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Some Linguistic Aspects of the Standard Arabic Noun Phrase [PDF]
Journal of Languages and Translation, 2007 This paper deals with the structure of aspects of the Standard Arab noun phrase. It looks in particular at the relationship between the noun and a) the indefinite article (tanween), b) the definite article الـ (al), c) possessive pronoun suffixes, and d)
Abdullah Ben Saad ben Mohamed Al-Sahli
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Agreeing possessors and the theory of case [PDF]
Bucharest Working Papers in Linguistics, 2011 I argue that the so-called “possessive adjectives” are not really adjectives, but pronouns (D-projections). Agreement features on possessors do not compete with genitive-marking, as it seems at first sight: they never attach directly to DP, but rather to
Ion Giurgea
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On the 3rd Person Verbal Marker *-sV and the Definite Conjugation in Uralic Languages; pp. 178-197 [PDF]
Linguistica Uralica, 2008 There may be three conjugations in Uralic languages: indefinite, definite and reflexive. The primary determinator of the choice between the indefinite or definite conjugations in Uralic was intransitivity/transitivity - intransitive verbs were used ...
Ago Künnap
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Suomen monitahoinen possessiivisuffiksi ja suomenoppija
Lähivõrdlusi, 2010 The article is concerned with the Finnish possessive suffix from the point of view of teaching and learning. First, this suffix and its present-day use are shortly studied. Then, it will be clarifi ed how this suffix is taught in the textbooks of Finnish
Kirsti Siitonen, Manami Mizuno
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The Historical-comparative Classification of Colombian Inga (Quechua)
Kansas Working Papers in Linguistics, 1990 Colombian Inga is of particular interest to the Quechuanist because it is the northernmost member of the Quechuan language family spoken in modern times.
Parks, Roger
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Türkiyat Mecmuası, 2023 In the Old Turkish period, the words göz [eye] and tegil- [to be blinded] (with the suffix -Il- passive) form the collocations of gözi tegilmek [to be blinded].
Bekir Sarıkaya
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Predicate Nominals and Related Constructions in the Vakh Dialect of Khanty [PDF]
Linguistica UralicaThe paper deals with predicate nominals and related constructions in the Vakh dialect of Khanty. They include nominal predicates (which typically express proper inclusion and equation), predicate adjectives, predicate locatives, existentials, possessive,
Sergei V. Kovylin
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, 2016 North Saami is replacing the use of possessive suffixes on nouns with a morphologically simpler analytic construction. Our data (>2K examples culled from >.5M words) track this change through three generations and parameters of semantics, syntax, and ...
Antonsen, Lene, Janda, Laura A.
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The Anatomical Record, EarlyView.Abstract The middle Permian represents a critical interval in therapsid evolution, when gorgonopsians emerged as some of the first specialized apex predators within terrestrial ecosystems. Despite their significance, the early diversification of Gorgonopsia in Gondwana remains poorly understood due to scarcity and fragmentary material.
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