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Revista Brasileira de Linguística AplicadaThis paper aims to present how a metaphor acts in the grammaticalization process of the verb DANAR, from Brazilian Portuguese, ranging from the full lexical verb to the grammatical, auxiliary verb in constructions like: "The kid danou(-se) to cry ...
Thaís Franco de Paula +1 more
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Reflexiones acerca de construcciones verbo-nominales/cvn [PDF]
Linguística, 2006 This contribution deals with the great variety of phenomena which may be covered by the term “verbonominal constructions” (for instance collocations, phraseological units) and suggests a subdivision for the lexicalized and not yet lexicalized ...
Gerd Wotjak
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Frontiers in Psychology, 2018 This paper investigates the acquisition of residual verb second (V2) in three corpora consisting of data from Norwegian-English bilinguals (Emma, Emily and Sunniva) in order to determine to what extent these structures are affected by cross-linguistic ...
Merete Anderssen, Kristine Bentzen
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Datives, data and dialect syntax in American English
Glossa, 2018 In this paper, we present a detailed case study of a number of dative constructions that vary across speakers of American English. We show how geographical maps of acceptability judgments can be used to shed light on the syntactic structures underlying ...
Jim Wood, Raffaella Zanuttini
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Frontiers in Psychology, 2020 Here, we used event-related potentials to test the predictions of two prominent accounts of code-switching in bilinguals: The Matrix Language Framework (MLF; Myers-Scotton, 1993) and an application of the Minimalist Programme (MP; Cantone and MacSwan ...
Awel Vaughan-Evans +8 more
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ON THE MODAL VERB TREBATI IN THE LANGUAGE OF DAILY NEWSPAPERS IN THE REPUBLIC OF SRPSKA
FilologThis paper examines the syntactic and semantic behaviour of the modal verb trebati (‘to need’) in contemporary standard Serbian on the basis of a corpus drawn from the daily newspapers Glas Srpske and Nezavisne novine published in the first week of June
Goran B. Milašin
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The grammaticalisation of a copula in vernacular Arabic
Glossa, 2019 It is standardly assumed that Arabic copula constructions with present tense interpretation involve either a null copula or a pronominal copula.
Louisa Sadler, Maris Camilleri
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Constructions adjectivales, substantifs appropriés et verbes supports
Linx, 1996 Some adjectival sentences with a human subject (Léa est frisée) are in relation with sentences in which an appropriate noun is retablished (Les cheveux de Léa sont frisés) without altearing the meaning of the sentence. The study of these constructions have been done in two steps. First, the nouns considered as "appropriate" have been studied in regards
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Formal Logical Modeling of Impersonal Sentences in the English Language
ДискурсIntroduction. The main feature of a sentence is the predicative connection. The two main units – substantive and verbal – are represented in the sentence either through separate words – subject and predicate – or synthetically in one of the parts of the ...
V. N. Malysheva +2 more
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Lingue e Linguaggi, 2016 – The present paper aims at analysing the deep pragmatic equilavence relation existing between the so called Spanish support verb constructions formed by a verb + noun (hacer+sugerencia; dar+permiso).
Rossana Sidoti
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