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Comparison of Complement Clauses in Persian and Russian Languages with Focus on the Words that Need Complement [PDF]

̒Ilm-i Zabān, 2023
In Persian, the complement subordinate clause is known as one of the direct dependents of the verb, but in Russian, it can also be dependent on the verb, noun, short adjective, or predicative adverbs.
mahnush eskandari, Ali Saeidi
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L’adjectif appréciatif nice : observations sur la nature variable de la prédication

Corela, 2016
This article is an analysis of the various uses of the qualifying adjective nice : as an attributive adjective standing alone in front of the head noun, or completed by a PP : [with NP] or [of NP] ; as a predicative adjective, and it is then compared ...
Christopher Desurmont
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Composite colour strings in English: adjectival or nominal?

Lexis: Journal in English Lexicology, 2020
This paper looks into the category membership of colour words that enter into combination with modifiers like bright, dark, light, or pale. The English grammatical literature usually assumes that these ‘composite colour strings’, used attributively or ...
Philippe De Brabanter, Saghie Sharifzadeh   +1 more
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Anthropocentric language theory and Serbian case systems [PDF]

Južnoslovenski Filolog, 2002
The author understands case as a relationship of syntactic dependence between a subordinated noun phrase and the governing syntactic construction (predicative expression and/or another noun phrase).
Topolinjska Zuzana
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Predicate nouns in Russian

Russian Linguistics, 2008
В статье рассматривается изменение в падежном маркировании предикативных существительных со связочным глаголом быть в русском языке девятнадцатого и двадцатого веков. Известно, что такие существительные могут иметь форму как именительного, так и творительного падежа.
Krasovitsky, A, Long, A, Baerman, M, Brown, D, Corbett, GG   +4 more
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Determiner spreading as DP-predication [PDF]

, 2011
Determiner Spreading (DS) occurs in adjectivally modified nominal phrases comprising more than one definite article, a phenomenon that has received considerable attention and has been extensively described in Greek.
Marinis, Theodore, Panagiotidis, E. Phoevos   +1 more
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Semantic and Structural Characteristics of Impersonal Sentences with Introductory “it”

Armenian Folia Anglistika, 2006
The article aims to reveal the nature of sentences with introductory it where the predicative is expressed by an adjective (it is…). The introductory it is followed by a compound nominal predicate with a predicative expressed by an adjective while the ...
Anahit Hovhannisian
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Between anaphora and deixis...the resolution of the demonstrative noun-phrase ‘that N’ [PDF]

, 2011
Three experiments examined the hypothesis that the demonstrative noun phrase (NP) that N, as an anadeictic expression, preferentially refers to the less salient referent in a discourse representation when used anaphorically, whereas the anaphoric pronoun
Cowles, H Wind, Fossard, Marion, Garnham, Alan   +2 more
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Gender assignment and gender agreement in advanced French interlanguage: a cross-sectional study [PDF]

, 2001
An analysis of 519 gender errors (out of 9,378 modifiers) in the advanced French interlanguage of 27 Dutch L1 speakers confirms earlier findings that gender assignment and/or agreement remain problematic for learners at all levels.
Dewaele, Jean-Marc, Véronique, D.
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Developmental stages challenging cross-linguistic transfer: L2 acquisition of Norwegian adjectival agreement in attributive and predicative contexts

Journal of the European Second Language Association, 2021
This study presents cross-sectional data on adjectival agreement in second-language (L2) learners of Norwegian with four different first languages (L1s).
Gisela Håkansson, Ragnar Arntzen
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