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A Bird's Eye View of English Grammar: Connecting the Dots in Two Dimensions
TESOL Quarterly, EarlyView.Abstract Over the past few decades, discussions on grammar instruction have primarily focused on teaching methodologies, such as whether grammar should be taught explicitly or implicitly, and whether the focus should be on form or forms. This paper, however, shifts the focus to grammar itself, aiming to provide a “shape” for pedagogical grammar.
Akira Tajino, Yoshitaka Kato
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Spatial meanings of na and semantically related prepositions in Macedonian
Journal of Contemporary Philology, 2019 The paper presents а contrastive analysis of the spatial meanings of the preposition na and its semantic counterparts in Macedonian. Reviewed here are the contexts in which na assumes similarity of meaning to another preposition.
Aleksandar Pavlov
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‘I got into the room by means of a picklock key and found him’ Complex Prepositions in Early Modern English [PDF]
, 2016 English complex prepositions can be subdivided into two-word and three-word sequences, the former containing an adverb, adjective or conjunction together with a simple preposition (i.e.
Calle-Martin, Javier +1 more
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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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Научный диалог, 2017 The article is devoted to the description of derived prepositions soobrazno ( s ) ‘in accordance (with)’ within a system of means of expression the relations of comparison.
E. S. Sheremetyeva, T. Chuyeakayev
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On the development of relativization in the English language [PDF]
, 2019 The discussion is about relative clauses in Old English and the transition to the Middle English period. More specifically, it deals with the phenomenon of preposition stranding in one type of relative clauses but not in the two other types.
Castillo, Concha
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Fronting in Old Catalan: Asymmetries between Narration and Reported Speech1
Transactions of the Philological Society, Volume 123, Issue 1, Page 1-28, March 2025.Abstract This article explores the distribution, syntax, and information structure of XVS clauses in the narrative text and the reported speech of a thirteenth‐century Old Catalan chronicle, the Llibre dels Fets. It is shown that XVS occurs mainly within reported speech and in embedded clauses.
Afra Pujol i Campeny
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Frequency and Variability in Errors in the Use of English Prepositions
Miscelánea: A Journal of English and American Studies, 1996 The purpose of this study is: a) to determine the frequency of preposition errors in a descriptive composition written by Spanish secondary students; b) to prove the systematicity of these errors in students from different state secondary schools; c) to
Rosa María Jiménez Catalán
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Diglosia, 2023 The use of social media gave rise to internet variety language. This language variety includes low variety language because it is used in informal situations.
Faradhiba Salsabila +2 more
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Grammar of Location and Motion in Zande [PDF]
, 2007 In Zande expressions of position and motion are arranged on a gamut in correlation with increasing syntactic complexity. Topological relations, expressed by basic locative construction are at the left end, directed motion at the right end.
Pasch, Helma
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