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Investigating Three Morphemes “-ænæ”, “-æwæ” and “-æɾæ” in Hawrami: Postposition or Case Marker [PDF]
In this paper we have investigated three frequent morphemes in Hawrami of Paveh, namely, “-ænæ”, “-æwæ” and “-æɾæ”. The nature of these morphemes is unknown. They are attached to nouns with a meaning like that of adpositions. We aim to explore what these
Fateme Yousefirad +1 more
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Gesturing While Writing: An Alternate Perspective on Mimetic Prosody
Critical Quarterly, EarlyView.
Paul Magee
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Hybrid Clause Combining Strategies in Turkish Language Contacts
Abstract The Turkic contact varieties of the Balkans use two main diametrically opposed subordination strategies: (i) the Turkic template, where typical subordinate clauses are prepositive, nonfinite, contain clause‐final subordinators, etc. and (ii) the Indo‐European (IE) template, where typical subordinate clauses are postpositive, finite, contain ...
Cem Keskin +3 more
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عوارض التركيب في زائية الشماخ بن ضرار الذبياني " التقديم والتأخير " نموذجًا دراسة نحوية دلالية [PDF]
عوارض التركيب في زائية الشماخ بن ضرار الذبياني " التقديم والتأخير " نموذجًا دراسة نحوية دلاليةالملخص : يندرج هذا البحث في إطاره العام تحت الدراسات اللغوية التركيبية، ويتخصص في مجاله التطبيقي بدراسة مظهر من مظاهر عوارض التركيب التي تعرض للبنية اللغوية ...
حسام محمد عبد الرحيم محمد
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Three Nganasan-Evenki/Dolgan Morphosyntactic Parallels and Their Implications; pp. 258-277 [PDF]
The following study discusses three morphosyntactic features of Nganasan, the negative verb ânot wantâ, the distribution of the copula in predicative noun/adjective constructions, and the grammaticalization of a directional postposition into an ...
Florian Siegl
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Comitative and Terminative in Votic and Lower Luga Ingrian; pp. 241-257 [PDF]
The paper addresses the status of the comitative and terminative in contemporary Votic and Lower Luga Ingrian. In published sources on Votic, both markers were qualified in the same way: either as case markers or as postpositions.
Elena Markus, Fedor Rozhanskiy
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Mood Selection in the Old Northumbrian Gloss to Durham MS A.iv.19
Abstract The aim of this article is to examine the use of the subjunctive in the 10th‐century Old Northumbrian gloss to Durham MS A.iv.19. We assess whether there is evidence for a weakening of the indicative/subjunctive opposition, as has been argued for the earlier gloss to the Lindisfarne Gospels, which was the work of the same glossator, Aldred of ...
Julia Fernández Cuesta +1 more
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The main aim of this writing is to formulate the theory of universal grammar. The formulation made is taken form discussion on a close look at the universal grammar which of summary proposed by Greenberg and Hawkins.
Soepomo Peodjosoedarmo
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Conjoined Comparison and Variation in Degree Semantics
ABSTRACT Conjoined comparisons, consisting of two clauses containing antonymous or positive‐negative predicate pairs, are among the most common comparison construction types in the world's languages. As research on degree constructions from a cross‐linguistic perspective has increased, so too has the number of studies focused on conjoined comparisons ...
M. Ryan Bochnak
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Syntactic and phraseological complexity in Chinese as a second language adapted teaching materials
Graphical abstract: Abstract The adjustment of syntactic and phraseological complexity is a key consideration in text adaptation. However, research on this topic in the context of Chinese as a second language (CSL) remains limited. Using 700 CSL reading texts graded following the newly issued Chinese Proficiency Grading Standards for International ...
Jifeng Wu +4 more
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