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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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'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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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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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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Reconstructing Old Chinese *‐ts Using Han‐Time Material
Transactions of the Philological Society, EarlyView.Abstract Baxter & Sagart (2014b) reconstruct *‐Vt‐s on the basis of Middle Chinese reflexes in ‐jH (from some OC *‐s) coupled with either etymological or graphic connections to words in Middle Chinese ‐t. This approach, while perfectly sound, can suffer from lack of etymological or graphic data, leading to missed reconstructions. Since Old Chinese *‐ts
Julien Baley
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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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À propos de la préposition « chez » en français actuel [PDF]
Echo des Etudes Romanes, 2015 The paper is devoted to the French preposition chez. After having presented its main morphosyntactic features, the text deals with the various uses of the preposition in contemporary French, including the Adj de chez Adj construction.
Dedková Iva
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Nordlyd: Tromsø University Working Papers on Language & Linguistics, 2007 In this paper I present the prepositional system in Persian. I show that Persian prepositions can be divided into three classes (Class 1, Class 2a and Class 2b) which exhibit distinct syntactic behavior.
Marina Pantcheva
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CoRR, 2017 Prepositions are highly polysemous, and their variegated senses encode significant semantic information. In this paper we match each preposition's complement and attachment and their interplay crucially to the geometry of the word vectors to the left and right of the preposition.
Hongyu Gong +3 more
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