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The present participle and past participle, together with the infinitive, have a long history in English; this is quite contrary to finite verb forms, which mostly developed during the Middle English period.
Lidija Štrmelj, Milenko Lončar
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South Estonian Written Standard and Actual Spoken Language: Variation of the Past Participle Markers; 161-172 [PDF]
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
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]
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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In Latin, the gerund and the present participle often function as the predicate of an adjunct clause. In Late Latin, the frequency of such clauses is hypothesized to increase with the ablative of the gerund and to decrease with the nominative of the ...
Vangaever, Jasper +3 more
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Revisiting the Latin Vocabulary of Terminologia Histologica: II. Adjectives and Participles
ABSTRACT Terminologia Histologica, the international standard nomenclature of human histology and cytology, contains 1093 Latin words that appear to be used as adjectives. Among these, we identified 56 (5%) with a variety of linguistic issues, including typographical or spelling errors, less favored spelling variants, and several unfortunate word ...
Paul E. Neumann +7 more
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The problem of translating participles from German into Serbian [PDF]
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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Graphical representation of ethnomedical uses, major bioactive compounds, pharmacological potential and toxicological risks of Ruta graveolens L. ABSTRACT Ruta graveolens L. is widely used in traditional European, Asian, African, and South American medicine for digestive, nervous, cardiovascular, respiratory, and reproductive disorders.
Tetiana Serhiienko +3 more
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German participle II constructions as adjuncts [PDF]
The present investigation is concerned with German participles II (past participles) as lexical heads of adjuncts. Within a minimalist framework of sound-meaning correlation, the analysis presupposes a lexicalist conception of morphology and the ...
Zimmermann, Ilse
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Fronting in Old Catalan: Asymmetries between Narration and Reported Speech1
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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