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The Pronoun sobi Used as an Intensifier in Spoken Ukrainian. A Comparison with Russian and Italian
Studi Slavistici, 2020 Starting from the idea that intensification does not modify the notional meaning of an utterance, and that a morphological item can express more than just intensification, this article aims to present the peculiarities of the Ukrainian reflexive pronoun ...
Francesca Fici
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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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Nivkh as a Uralo-Siberian language [PDF]
, 2010 In his magnificent book on the language relations across Bering Strait (1998), Michael Fortescue does not consider Nivkh (Gilyak) to be a Uralo-Siberian language.
Kortlandt, Frederik H. H.
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The Development of Indo‐Iranian Voiced Fricatives
Transactions of the Philological Society, Volume 123, Issue 1, Page 97-115, March 2025.Abstract The development of voiced sibilants is a long‐standing puzzle in Indo‐Iranian historical phonology. In Vedic, all voiced sibilants are lost from the system, but the details of this loss are complex and subject to debate. The most intriguing development concerns the word‐final ‐aḥ to ‐o in sandhi.
Gašper Beguš
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"Pero se escondíamos como las ratas": syncretism in the reflexive paradigm in Spanish and Catalan
Isogloss, 2015 In this paper I provide a description of the reflexive syncretism found in some Spanish and Catalan neighbouring varieties. In these varieties, the 3rd person reflexive pronoun se can also appear with 1st person plural and 2nd person plural verbs.
Carlota de Benito Moreno
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International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.Abstract Census data are foundational to democracy, research and equitable urban policy. In addition to supporting political reapportionment and redistricting, census data serve as the backbone of the federal statistical data system and are often considered the highest quality data—the ‘gold standard'—for scholarly and policy research.
Jason R. Jurjevich
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The passive of reflexive verbs in Icelandic
Nordlyd: Tromsø University Working Papers on Language & Linguistics, 2011 The Reflexive Passive in Icelandic is reminiscent of the so-called New Passive (or New Impersonal) in that the oblique case of a passivized object NP is preserved.
Hlíf Árnadóttir +2 more
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Child and Adolescent Mental Health, EarlyView.Background Some gender diverse young people (GDYP) socially transition—a process of changing from living as the gender that they were assigned at birth to another gender, through social means. Whilst the role of the whole family in the social transitions of GDYP has been indicated, there is a lack of applicable theory and research on the processes of ...
Sophie Razzel +2 more
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Reflexive Pronoun Deviations in Contemporary English Social Media
Armenian Folia Anglistika, 2017 The paper discusses reflexive pronoun deviations in modern English in the domain of social media. The mentioned deviations are the result of intensive contact of English with other languages.
Gevorg Grigoryan
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On how 'middle' plus 'associative/reciprocal' became 'passive' in the Bantu A70 languages [PDF]
, 2010 In this paper we show that the Bantu A70 languages did not preserve the passive morpheme inherited from Proto-Bantu (PB), but developed a new suffix. It is a morpheme that is compound in origin, consisting of two verbal derivation suffixes which still ...
Bostoen, Koen, Nzang-Bie, Yolande
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