The origins of the Romance analytic passive : evidence from word order [PDF]
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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In the history of the occidental and central dialects of Basque, the verbal periphrases composed by the verbal stem / or the participle and the auxiliaries *edin, *ezan, egin have undergone a change in the form of their principal verb. Up to now, the
Céline Mounole
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METHODOLOGICAL PRINCIPLES OF DEVELOPING THE STRUCTURE OF A DICTIONARY ENTRY FOR A “DICTIONARY OF THE LANGUAGE OF ORAL FOLKLORE” (STABLE AND TEXTUAL AND FIGURATIVE UNITS) [PDF]
In Ukrainian linguistics, there is a need to develop methodological foundations and principles of lexicography of various linguistic facts present in the language of oral folk art. Folklore has always played an important role in preserving the identity
Ruslan L. Serdeha
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PORTUGUESE VERBAL PERIPHRASIS WITH DEVER AS A TEACHING PROBLEM This article attempts to highlight the problems in teaching and learning of two Portuguese periphrastic modal constructions.
Joanna Drzazgowska
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Prog imperfective drift in ancient Greek? Reconsidering eimi 'be' with present participle [PDF]
In this paper, I reconsider the diachrony of the Ancient Greek periphrastic construction of eimi 'be' with present participle by means of Bertinetto’s recently proposed model for the development of progressive grams (a process called ‘PROG imperfective ...
Adrados +105 more
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Verbal periphrasis in Ancient Greek: a state of the art [PDF]
The term 'verbal periphrasis' is commonly used to denote constructions consisting of a finite and a non-finite verb. This state of the art focuses on Ancient Greek periphrastic constructions, more specifically those formed with a participle.
Bentein, Klaas
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The scope of language contact as a constraint factor in language change: The periphrasis haber de plus infinitive in a corpus of language immediacy in modern Spanish [PDF]
In this work an empirical study grounded in the principles and methods of the comparative variationist framework is conducted to measure the scope of language contact as a factor constraining some potentially diverging uses of a Spanish verbal ...
Academia de la Llingua Asturiana +57 more
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The refuge of a dying variant within the grammar: Patterns of change and continuity in the Spanish verbal periphrasis haber de + infinitive over the past two centuries [PDF]
Based on a corpus of ego-documents (private letters, diaries, memoirs) from the 19th and the first half of the 20th centuries, this paper presents a variationist comparative study to determine the fate of the modal periphrasis haber de + infinitive in ...
BLAS-ARROYO, JOSE LUIS +1 more
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Identifying/qualifying and action mechanisms in the humor construction
The purpose of this article is to describe, in headlines of the popular newspaper Meia Hora, effects of sense generated by the connection between referential and verbal forms.
Rafael Guimarães Nogueira +2 more
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Proactive Description for Useful Applications: Researching Language Options for Better Translation Practice? [PDF]
The initial assumption for this inquiry is that producing useful applications is part of the research process, and that it is the duty of the researcher to ‘transfer’ the knowledge gained in basic, descriptive research to ‘know-how’ packages to be used ...
Rabadán, Rosa
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