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The origins of the Romance analytic passive : evidence from word order [PDF]
, 2017 This chapter argues that despite formal resemblances, Latin perfect tense BE-periphrases of the type amatus sum ‘I was loved’ are not the historical source of Romance present tense passives like Italian sono amato and French je suis aimé (both meaning ‘I
Danckaert, Lieven
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Zagadnienia Rodzajów Literackich, 2023 In this paper two of Rouaud's texts - L’Invention de l’auteur and La Désincarnation — are mainly being discussed. Our aim is to demonstrate that the story of filiation appears very symptomatic of a new historical situation at the beginning of the twenty-
Petr Dytrt
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You\u27re Likely To Be Clipped [PDF]
, 1995 In Hamlet, Polonius tells King Claudius that brevity is the soul of wit . If we can believe that the results of a biblical study, it is also the soul of English.
Richler, Howard
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Making English a New Latin [PDF]
, 2010 The paper looks at various aspects of the so-called Latin-English analogy and particularly at the ways in which English may share the fate of Latin in ultimately becoming a victim of its own success.
Scheuer, Sylwia
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Animacy restrictions without animacy features: The case of strong pronouns in French and Spanish
GlossaWhen used as complements in prepositional phrases, French (and to a certain extent also Spanish) strong and null pronouns seem to differ in animacy: Typically, strong pronouns have human antecedents and null pronouns inanimate ones.
Steffen Heidinger, Yanis Da Cunha
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The Case Of Subjects In The Romance Causative
Kansas Working Papers in Linguistics, 1992 This paper addresses the problem of the realization of the subject embedded under the Romance causative verb. There is ample evidence that the subject appears inside the embedded VP complement of the causative, and is Case marked by the embedded verb. It
Rosen, Sara Thomas
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Adjective Syntax and (the absence of) noun raising in the DP [PDF]
, 2008 The paper is structured as follows. Section 2.1 introduces the basic classes of adjectives that constitute the factual core of the paper. Section 2.2 summarizes in greater detail the X° and the XP movement approaches to word order variation within the DP.
Alexiadou, Artemis
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Функция характеризации в настоящем времени [Function of characterization in present tense]
Sign Systems Studies, 2003 Function of characterization in present tense. This article is devoted to a field in cognitive and semantic analysis where stylistics and grammar meet: it concerns the function of characterisation in the Present tense. In general, linguistic works, which
Michel Paladian
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Collaborative Multimodal Writing via Google Docs: Perceptions of French FL Learners
Languages, 2021 In spite of the growing integration of computer-mediated collaborative writing and multimodal composition in second language (L2) classrooms, research on collaborative multimodal writing, as an innovative writing pedagogy, is still underway and largely ...
Miriam Akoto
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On triple auxiliation in Romance [PDF]
, 2017 Romance languages divide into three classes, as far as perfective auxiliation is concerned: as well as languages showing a binary contrast (e.g., French) and languages showing no contrast (e.g., Spanish), several varieties exist in which auxiliation ...
Loporcaro, Michele
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