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South Estonian Written Standard and Actual Spoken Language: Variation of the Past Participle Markers; 161-172 [PDF]
Linguistica Uralica, 2007 The present article gives an overview of the past participle markers in spoken Võru; the variation of these markers exemplifies the (dis)similarities of the written standard and local spoken varieties.
Mari Mets
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A Case Study of Students’ Barriers in Passive Voice Sentences
JL3T (Journal of Linguistics, Literature and Language Teaching), 2021 This study was to find out the errors experienced by students in composing passive voice sentences. It also explained the factors that caused students' barriers in constructing passive voice sentences.
Zahratul Idami, Diah Ayu Pratiwi Pratiwi
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The present participle and gender assignment in Swedish [PDF]
Folia Scandinavica Posnaniensia, 2021 Abstract The paper considers gender assignment of deverbal nouns, originally present participles, in Swedish. The perspective is diachronic. The corpus consists of a choice of Swedish texts from 1225-1732. The results show that nouns denoting entities ranking higher in the Animacy hierarchy show tendencies to be placed in the utrum ...
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The problem of translating participles from German into Serbian [PDF]
Zbornik Radova Filozofskog Fakulteta u Prištini, 2023 Not only are the systemic differences of these two languages decisive, but also the ways of using language conditions in actual speech use are different.
Redžović Elma H.
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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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RUDN Journal of Language Studies, Semiotics and Semantics, 2021 Actively developing mass media field generates high demand for specialists who are able to translate texts of social and political topics from Russian into a foreign language and vice versa quickly and efficiently.
Elena A. Oganova, Olga A. Alekseeva
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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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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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Parameter Hierarchies and Language Contact: The Present Perfect in Ecuadorian Spanish1
Transactions of the Philological Society, EarlyView.Abstract This article explores the hypothesis that the ‘fine‐grained’ grammatical differences that adult grammars under contact are said to be sensitive to (e.g., Hicks et al. 2023) amount to micro/nanoparametric distinctions, in the sense of Roberts (2019).
Norma Schifano
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Μὴ ἐκλυόμενοι in Galatians 6:9
Tyndale Bulletin, 2018 The final phrase of Galatians 6:9, μὴ ἐκλυόμενοι, is today almost universally understood as a conditional participle, placing a strong warning on the end of Paul’s encouragement to persist in doing good.
Aaron Michael Jensen
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