Gilaki reverse Ezafe: The two faces of a nominal linker
Abstract This paper examines a nominal linker (known as reverse Ezafe) in the Caspian language Gilaki. It is shown that the nominal linker in Gilaki is in fact the realization of two different morphosyntactic elements with distinct properties. In doing so, we also highlight the differences between reverse Ezafe and Ezafe, found in Persian and other ...
Arsalan Kahnemuyipour +2 more
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Déclinaison nominale en dan-gwèètaa (groupe mandé-sud, Côte-d'Ivoire) [PDF]
National audienceExceptionally for the Mande languages (and also for the Niger-Congo macrofamily in general), a system of nominal declension has emerged in Dan-Gweetaa, one of the languages of the South Mande group.
Vydrin, Valentin
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Diagnostic accuracy of clinical signs to detect erosive tooth wear in its early phase
This cross‐sectional study determined the accuracy of clinical signs for diagnosing erosive tooth wear in a young adult general population. The signs ‘flattened convex area’, ‘dull surface’ and ‘preservation of the enamel cuff in the gingival crevice’ are the most relevant clinical signs of dental erosion process in the initial phase of tooth wear ...
Ona Rius‐Bonet +4 more
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Lexical pragmatics and types of linguistic encoding: evidence from pre- and postpositions in Behdini-Kurdish [PDF]
Lexical pragmatics starts from the assumption that the meaning communicated by a word is underdetermined by its semantics, and lexical pragmatists usually study the processes involved in bridging the gap between the encoded and the communicated meaning ...
Unger, Christoph
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Accounts of perspective taking in narrative
Abstract This paper gives an overview over two different kinds of protagonists' perspective taking in narrative texts, Free Indirect Discourse (FID) and Protagonist Projection (PP)/Viewpoint Shifting (VS), and the most important analyses of these phenomena that have been proposed within the framework of formal semantics and pragmatics.
Stefan Hinterwimmer
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Problems of methodology and explanation in word order universals research [PDF]
Ever since the publication of Greenberg 1963, word order typologists have attempted to formulate and refine implicational universals of word order so as to characterize the restricted distribution of certain word order patterns, and in some cases have ...
LaPolla, Randy J.
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The behavior of marriage and fertility in Cuban young people: a socio-demographic analysis [PDF]
The aim of this article is to synthesize the behavior of marriage and fertility variables in Cuba for the group 15-34 years in the period 2008-2013. The dynamics of the overall level indicators are analyzed, and then is compared the behavior of the ...
Mariam Trilce Martinto Gálvez
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Comparison in Bambara an infinitival verb phrase
An infinitival verb phrase is generated to express comparison in Bambara. In particular, the comparative verb INFINITIVE MARKER + INTRANSITIVE phrase has the structure: VERB + NP + POSTPOSITION.
Jan Charles-Luce
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Adverbes, adverbiaux et coverbes : pour compléter une réflexion commencée avec Estelle Moline [PDF]
This article aims at perceiving to which extent the Italic adverb has innovated with respect to the Proto-IndoEuropean legacy. This leads us to the issue of the adverb considered from a typological perspective and of the status of the adverb in some ...
Cyril Aslanov
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Od comitativu do spójnika. O pochodzeniu słowiańskiego spójnika i oraz litewskiego ir ‘i; też’
From Comitative to Conjunction. On the Origin of the Slavic Conjunction i and Lithuanian ir ‘and; also’ The paper aims to describe the origin of the Slavic conjunction i ‘and’ and its Baltic counterpart ir ‘and; also’ (Old Prussian ir ‘also’, Lithuanian ‘
Norbert Ostrowski
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