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Inari Saami does not have a strong written tradition. The current orthography was adopted as recently as the 1990s, and the revitalization process is beginning only now to shift its focus from increasing the number of speakers to strengthening the ...
Petter Morottaja +2 more
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The Use of Locative Nouns Li, Shang, and Zhong as Mandarin Language Adposition
The purpose of this study was to analyze locative nouns (li, shang, and zhong) that may function as postpositions and therefore Mandarin language considered to have circumposition. The collected data were sentences taken from Chinese short stories by Lu
Ayu Trihardini
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Disyllabic post-nominal locatives in Mandarin Chinese
In this paper, I focus on disyllabic post-nominal locatives in Mandarin Chinese. In the literature, disyllabic post-nominal locatives have traditionally been considered nouns. Recent proposals, however, have offered different analyses.
Pei-Jung Kuo
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Hungarian spatial adpositional phrases exhibit very similar properties to those in other languages in that they can denote places and paths, and their structural ordering is such that path-denoting postpositions are outside place-denoting ones.
Veronika Hegedüs
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Introduction. The article discusses some ways of grammaticalization of the verb bolokh / bolokho / bolha / bolh ‘become, make; be’ in Mongolic languages (Mongolian, Buryat, Oirat and Kalmyk).
Liudmila A. Lidzhieva +2 more
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Spatial Support Relations by Chinese Learners of Estonian and Polish
This study aimed to understand how explicit instruction to Chinese learners of Estonian on how to use the Estonian postpositions küljes ‘attached to’ and otsas ‘at the tip, attached to the tip’, which do not have conceptual counterparts in Chinese ...
Agu Bleive
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Directions from the GET-GO. On the syntax of manner-of-motion verbs in directional constructions
Directional resultatives show puzzling syntactic restrictions. In Romance, broadly speaking, they do not occur at all with manner-of-motion verbs. In Dutch, directional resultatives with mannerof- motion verbs usually force postpositional order in the ...
Marcel den Dikken
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The pronouns play an important role in making verbal mechanisms of verbal cohesion in the real linguistic context; because they refer to antecedents or postpositions and this text consists of names or sentences that form a syntactic structure that ...
مشتاق كاظم جمعة +2 more
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Postpositions in Munduruku (Tupi): Formal and Functional Features
The Munduruku people live in the states of Pará and Amazonas, including a handful of residents in Mato Grosso, in Brazil. My research about the language takes place within the Munduruku population of Pará. It is a language of the Tupi stock, that belongs
Dioney M. Gomes
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Деривационные отношения инессивной словоформы в коми-пермяцком языке. Derivational Relations of the Inessive Word Form in the Komi-Permyak Language; pp. 111-119 [PDF]
The inessive word form participation in derivational processes is revealed in the article, derivational potential of its derivatives is examined. It is stated that among the derivatives (adverbs, postpositions, adjectives) adjectives possess the largest ...
Galina Nekrasova
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