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Number-neutral indefinite objects in Brazilian Portuguese as a case of semantic incorporation
Journal of Portuguese Linguistics, 2022 This paper provides empirical evidence for a verb-noun construction in Brazilian Portuguese, which has not yet been analyzed in the linguistic literature.
Albert Wall
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To break “the Black Wall”. The motif of fear in plays by Henri-René Lenormand
Acta Universitatis Lodziensis. Folia Litteraria Polonica, 2020 Henri-René Lenormand refreshed theatre, defining a new domain for it: the mysteries of the human soul. In all of his plays, he strived to explain the secret of internal life, as well as to solve the mystery that people are to themselves.
Tomasz Kaczmarek
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, 2020 The Romance of the Forest (1791) heralded an enormous surge in the popularity of Gothic novels, in a decade that included Ann Radcliffe's later works, The Mysteries of Udolpho and The Italian.
A. Radcliffe
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Studia Universitatis Babeş-Bolyai. Philologia, 2020 Adverbials with Adjectival Basis in Brazilian Portuguese and Their Frequency in Spoken and Written Language. The present paper focuses on the use of adverbs with an adjectival lexical base in spoken and written present-day Brazilian Portuguese.
Katharina GERHALTER, Stefan KOCH
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Questions with definite markers in (Old) Romance, with focus on Old Spanish
Isogloss, 2019 We will depart from the observation that Romance languages can be subdivided into two groups with respect to free relatives under question-embedding predicates (Kellert 2017). One group has grammaticalized the definite element (e.g. Pt.[1] o, Fl. i’ ‘the’
Olga Kellert
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, 2022 This chapter elaborates on two case studies in structural variation to illustrate how the comparison of closely related grammatical systems fuels research questions on general theoretical issues. Our first case study regards subject clitics in central Romance dialects.
Pescarini, Diego, Loporcaro, Michele
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GlossaWhile animacy is considered to be one of the decisive factors for Differential Object Marking (DOM) in Spanish, many authors have capitalized on the fact that inanimate objects also can be marked to a certain degree (Camacho, 2023; Company Company, 2002;
Albert Wall +4 more
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Journal of Portuguese Linguistics, 2023 European Portuguese (EP) generally manifests a systematic use of the definite article with anthroponyms in communicative immediacy (in the sense of Koch & Oesterreicher, 1986). In Brazilian Portuguese (BP), there is a well-documented variation in the
Yoselin Henriques Pestana
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Deviant BehaviorThis qualitative research examines the phenomenon of online romance fraud, exploring it from contrasting perspectives. The study engaged two distinct groups of participants: (1) fraudsters actively involved in online romance scams (commonly referred to ...
S. Lazarus +3 more
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