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Adjectival modification and multiple determiners [PDF]
, 2008 The present paper deals with the distribution of the definite determiner and certain related aspects of adjectival modification in Greek DPs. As (1) shows, determiners in Greek DPs precede adjectives and adjectives precede nouns.
Alexiadou, Artemis, Wilder, Chris
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Transactions of the Philological Society, EarlyView.Abstract In Welsh, in certain tenses, unique forms of the verb for ‘be’ are used in positive clauses. These specialised forms of ‘be’ are incompatible with positive main‐clause declarative complementizers, despite their apparent featural compatibility. For most speakers, they are also blocked from if‐clauses; although, I report on data regarding their ...
Frances Dowle
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Studia Romanica Posnaniensia, 2022 In this paper, we present the problems encountered during our research in the field of nominal predication in Polish, in particular concerning nouns referring to properties and character traits.
Grażyna Vetulani
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Vulgar Minimisers in English and Spanish1
Transactions of the Philological Society, EarlyView.Abstract In this paper, we investigated whether vulgar minimisers form a natural class in English and Spanish by evaluating (i) their similarities and differences with respect to non‐vulgar minimisers and (ii) whether vulgar minimisers are inherently negative in these languages.
Ángel L. Jiménez‐Fernández +1 more
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Revisit the Syntax of Nominal-Internal Phrases in Mandarin Chinese
SAGE OpenThe article revisits the canonical (Dem>Num>A>N) and non-canonical (A>Dem>Num>N & Dem>A>Num>N) prenominal patterns in Mandarin Chinese, from the perspective of the Labeling Algorithm.
Yanxiao Ma
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From measure predicates to count nouns: Complex measure nouns in Russian
, 2021 This paper offers a semantic analysis of morphologically complex measure nouns in Russian (e.g., trexlitrovka ‘three-liter-kasuffix’). Prima facie such nouns look very much like measure predicates such as three liters that appear in pseudo-partitives as three liters of water. I show that they are not such.
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Dative by genitive replacement in the Greek language of the papyri: a diachronic account of case semantics [PDF]
, 2015 Semantic analysis of the prenominal first person singular genitive pronoun (μου) in the Greek of the documentary papyri shows that the pronoun is typically found in the position between a verbal form and an alienable possessum which functions as the ...
Stolk, Joanne Vera
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Transactions of the Philological Society, EarlyView.Abstract Based on an analysis of the Old Literary Tibetan corpus—a corpus of the oldest documented Tibetic language—the present study provides evidence that literary Tibetan v3 verb stems (commonly termed ‘future’) initially encoded passive voice. New arguments put forward in this article range from Trans‐Himalayan nominal morphology to early Tibetan ...
Joanna Bialek
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SEMANTIC TRANSFORMATION OF THE «BLISS» LEXEME IN RUSSIAN SPEECH
Гуманитарные и юридические исследования, 2021 The article studies the dictionary meanings of the lexeme "bliss" on the material taken from the explanatory dictionaries of Vladimir Dal, Dmitry Ushakov, the Great Academic Dictionary and the Small Academic Dictionary, as well as the Russian Semantic ...
Asiyat Mamedova
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Revue des études slaves, 2022 The aim of the present study, which is situated in the perspective of French-Polish contrastive research, is to examine the exclamatory nominal utterance Quelle galère! and its Polish functional equivalents: Co za koszmar! and Ale koszmar!.
Anna Krzyżanowska +2 more
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