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TESOL Quarterly, EarlyView.Abstract This study investigates internal linguistic variation in the instructional discourse of international teaching assistants (ITAs) by segmenting their mini‐lecture performances into four discourse types: introduction, lecture, conclusion, and audience interaction.
Heesun Chang, Hector Rivera
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Predicativul suplimentar în ipostaze prepoziționale. O analiză a construcțiilor introduse prin cu și fără [PDF]
Journal of Humanistic and Social Studies, 2019 Being a secondary part of sentence richly expressed in written texts and occurring in a wide range of contexts, the Predicative Adjunct has long been in the linguists’attention.
Alina-Paula Neamțu
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Финно-угорский мир, 2021 Introduction. In the Udmurt language, bisubjective sentences with absolute polypredicative constructions are very productive. The main components of such constructions are expressed by the noun in the nominative case and the gerundium adverbial or ...
Nadezhda N. Timerkhanova
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Linguistic Evidence Suggests that Xiōng‐nú and Huns Spoke the Same Paleo‐Siberian Language
Transactions of the Philological Society, EarlyView.Abstract The Xiōng‐nú were a tribal confederation who dominated Inner Asia from the third century BC to the second century AD. Xiōng‐nú descendants later constituted the ethnic core of the European Huns. It has been argued that the Xiōng‐nú spoke an Iranian, Turkic, Mongolic or Yeniseian language, but the linguistic affiliation of the Xiōng‐nú and the ...
Svenja Bonmann, Simon Fries
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Of good thieves and old friends: An analysis of Croatian adjectival forms
Poljarnyj Vestnik: Norwegian Journal of Slavic Studies, 2015 Croatian adjectives have two forms in the masculine gender: the Long (L) form and the Short (S) form. The main distributional difference is that the Short adjective can be in predicative position and the Long one cannot, while both can be in attributive ...
Marta Velnic
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L’accord de proximité en genre : quelques considérations diachroniques
Discours, 2022 According to Moreau (2019), masculine agreement was dominant in middle French, in case of mixed gender coordinated nouns. According to Abeillé et al. (2018), An and Abeillé (2021a), feminine agreement is dominant for determiners and prenominal adjectives
Anne Abeillé, Aixiu An, Yingqin Hu
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Boring as hell: a corpus study of intensifying post-modification of predicative adjectives in the ‘ADJ as NOUN’ frame [PDF]
Linguistica Pragensia, 2020 This paper presents a phenomenon that has attracted little attention despite being relatively frequent and very productive in spoken language. The aim of this study is to prove that the ‘ADJ as NOUN’ frame, which is commonly used to form comparative ...
Jaroslav Emmer
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Relative Constructions in Classical/Epic Sanskrit
Transactions of the Philological Society, EarlyView.Abstract While it is widely recognised that Sanskrit shows two major types of relative construction – one relative–correlative, the other similar to postnominal relative clauses in languages like English – it has not been established what the crucial syntactic distinctions are between these types, given the wide range of syntactic variation found in ...
John J. Lowe +2 more
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Acquisition of Agreement Structures by Ghanaian Arabic Learners
مجلة الآداب, 2021 The study investigated acquisition of agreement structures by Arabic as Foreign Language (AFL) learners in Ghana from the Processability Theory (PT) perspective.
Alhassan Abdur-Rahim Husein
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Noun Preverbs in Complex Predicates
Nordlyd, 2008 In this paper, I propose a syntax-based analysis of Persian complex predicates (a predicate consisting of a so called preverb and a light verb). I adopt the framework of the verbal First Phase Syntax developed by Ramchand (2008). I use complex predicates with the light verb <em>zædæn</em> `hit' to illustrate how this approach sheds light on
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