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Support‐Verb Constructions with Objects: Greek‐Coptic Interference in the Documentary Papyri?1
Transactions of the Philological Society, Volume 121, Issue 3, Page 382-403, November 2023., 2023 Abstract Support‐verb constructions are combinations of a verb and a noun that fill the predicate slot, for example, to make a suggestion in I made the suggestion yesterday. The article examines direct‐object structures with support‐verb constructions in Greek documentary papyri from fourth‐ to mid‐seventh‐century Egypt.
Victoria Beatrix Fendel
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An Agent‐First Preference in a Patient‐First Language During Sentence Comprehension
Cognitive Science, Volume 47, Issue 9, September 2023., 2023 Abstract The language comprehension system preferentially assumes that agents come first during incremental processing. While this might reflect a biologically fixed bias, shared with other domains and other species, the evidence is limited to languages that place agents first, and so the bias could also be learned from usage frequency.
Sebastian Sauppe +5 more
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Parameters of variation between verb-subject and subject-verb order in late Middle English [PDF]
, 2007 This article sets out to clarify the contribution of syntactic properties and subject weight for variation between verb-subject and subject-verb order in a database of fourteenth and fifteenth-century prose. It sets out the syntactic structures which are
Warner, Anthony
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Agree and the subjects of specificational clauses
Syntax, Volume 26, Issue 3, Page 251-279, September 2023., 2023 Abstract This article investigates agreement in Persian sentences with a specificational copular clause embedded under the epistemic modal tavānestan ‘can’. We argue that this structure is a raising structure. It exhibits agreement on both the embedded and modal verbs.
Susana Bejar, Arsalan Kahnemuyipour
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Languages, 2023 Existential sentences in Spanish are sensitive to the definiteness or quantification restriction or effect, which prevents personal pronouns, proper nouns, and definite constituents from occupying the pivot position.
Jorge Agulló
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Cognitive Science, Volume 47, Issue 8, August 2023., 2023 Abstract Silent gesture is not considered to be linguistic, on par with spoken and sign languages. It is claimed that silent gestures, unlike language, represent events holistically, without compositional structure. However, recent research has demonstrated that gesturers use consistent strategies when representing objects and events, and that there ...
Chuck Bradley, Ronnie Wilbur
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Transactions of the Philological Society, Volume 121, Issue 2, Page 169-202, July 2023., 2023 Abstract In this paper, we examine the behaviour of so‐called passive and middle aorist forms in the Greek reflected in the Genesis of the Septuagint. The Septuagint, and Biblical Greek more generally, displays a considerable aberration with respect to other varieties of Ancient Greek regarding the relative frequency of passive vis‐à‐vis middle aorist ...
Eystein Dahl, Liana Tronci
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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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Prepositions in Brazilian Portuguese: on the rise of a novel system
Revista Linguística, 2023 The study examines the prepositional system of Brazilian Portuguese, considering the loss of the dative preposition a (to) in constructions with dative arguments and differential object marking (DOM), as well as in unaccusatives predicates with ...
Heloisa Maria Moreira Lima Salles
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The properties of anticausatives crosslinguistically [PDF]
, 2008 The causative/anticausative alternation has been the topic of much typological and theoretical discussion in the linguistic literature. This alternation is characterized by verbs with transitive and intransitive uses, such that the transitive use of a ...
Alexiadou, Artemis +2 more
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