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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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'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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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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Bactrian in Issyk‐Kushan Script: Additional Readings and Decipherments1
Transactions of the Philological Society, EarlyView.Abstract This article presents additional readings of several inscriptions written in the Issyk‐Kushan script, building on the improved system of sound values recently proposed by Sims‐Williams (2025b). We propose that some further lines of Dašt‐i Nāwur inscription DN III and parts of several other inscriptions can now be read as Bactrian, add new ...
Jakob Halfmann +3 more
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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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There Is no First Phase of the Jespersen Cycle1
Transactions of the Philological Society, EarlyView.Abstract This paper challenges the traditional conception of the Jespersen Cycle by arguing that no ‘pure’ first phase of the cycle exists where a single negator operates without reinforcement. Drawing on historical data from Northern Italian dialects (Piedmontese, Lombard, Emilian), we demonstrate that emphatic negative structures systematically co ...
Tommaso Mattiuzzi, Cecilia Poletto
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Transactions of the Philological Society, EarlyView.Abstract Few have asked what happens to gender when a noun is heteroclitic – when its inflection draws on more than one inflection class. While heteroclisis has moved from being treated as a marginal irregularity to a theoretically revealing phenomenon, its implications for gender assignment remain largely unexplored.
Greville G. Corbett
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Preposition-Pronoun Contraction in Polish [PDF]
, 2017 This paper provides a lexicalist formal description of preposition-pronoun contraction (PPC) in Polish, using the theoretical framework of HPSG. Considering the behaviour of PPC with respect to the prosodic, categorial, syntactic and semantic properties,
Trawiński, Beata
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LA REMEDIATION DE L’ECRIT : EMPLOI DES PREPOSITIONS FRANÇAISES DANS LES PRODUCTIONS ECRITES DES APPRENANTS DU FLE EN ALGERIE / REMEDIATION OF THE WRITTEN WORD: THE USE OF FRENCH PREPOSITIONS IN THE WRITTEN PRODUCTIONS OF FLE LEARNERS IN ALGERIA [PDF]
Studii si Cercetari Filologice: Seria Limbi Straine Aplicate, 2021 Native language (Arabic language) is the first language (L1) that the Algerian child learns from his parents and at school. The feeling of mastery and ease of this language leads to a certain feeling of linguistic and emotional security in the learners ...
Taieb BELBAHI +1 more
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