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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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'Mits': oud en stout : een nieuw leven voor voorwaardelijk 'mits'
Brünner Beiträge zur Germanistik und Nordistik, 2016 The old and rather neglected, archaic, formal Dutch word 'mits' (English: 'if and only if') started of as a preposition, evolved in current Dutch to a conjunction, whereas the use as a conditional preposition (quite normal in Belgium) is frowned upon. In
Gert Loosen
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On an alternative to long A´-movement in German and Dutch [PDF]
, 2008 This paper provides an analysis of an alternative strategy to A´-movement in both German and Dutch where the extracted constituent is preceded by a preposition and a coreferential pronoun appears in the extraction site. The construction has properties of
Salzmann, Martin
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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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PREPOSITIONS DO, OD AND Z IN SLOVAK AND THEIR EQUIVALENTS IN SERBIAN
Истраживања, 2013 The paper analyzed primary prepositions od, do and z in Slovak and their equivalents in Ser-bian. These prepositions are used with the genitive case. In both languages prepositions od and do are formally the same.
Аna Makišová, Jana Kováčová
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Nominalizations and temporal prepositions [PDF]
, 2013 In this paper, we deal with the semantic interaction between ung-nominalizations of different event types and temporal prepositions like wiihrend 'during', vor 'before', nach 'after', bis 'until' and seit 'since'.
Ehrich, Veronika, Rapp, Irene
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Remnant Case Forms and Patterns of Syncretism in Early West Germanic
Transactions of the Philological Society, EarlyView.Abstract Early stages of the Old West Germanic languages differ from the other two branches, Gothic and Norse, by showing remnants of a fifth case in a‐ and ō‐stem nouns. The forms in question, which have the ending ‐i or ‐u, are conventionally labelled ‘instrumental’ and cover a range of functions, such as instrument, means, comitative and locative ...
Will Thurlwell
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An Inventory of Preposition Relations [PDF]
, 2013 We describe an inventory of semantic relations that are expressed by prepositions. We define these relations by building on the word sense disambiguation task for prepositions and propose a mapping from preposition senses to the relation labels by ...
Roth, Dan, Srikumar, Vivek
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Genetic engineering for SIT application: a fruit fly‐focused review
Insect Science, EarlyView.Abstract Sterile insect technique (SIT) has become a key component of efficient pest control. Fruit fly pests from the Drosophilidae and Tephritidae families pose a substantial and overwhelmingly increasing threat to the agricultural industry, aggravated by climate change and globalization among other contributors.
Serafima Davydova +2 more
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Contrastive Analysis of Relative Pronouns Between English and Karonese [PDF]
, 2016 This study deals with contrastive analysis of relative pronouns between English and Karonese. The objective of this study is analyzed the differences and the similarities of relative pronouns in English and Karonese.
MasaGintings, B. E. (Bonifacia)
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