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Verbal Periphrases in the medical discourse of current Spanish [PDF]
, 2023 Esta tesis tiene por objeto examinar la incidencia de la situación comunicativa en el comportamiento de la categoría perífrasis verbal, de modo que demostremos que las propiedades del lenguaje médico motivan, por un lado, el empleo de unas formaciones
Ruiz Granados, Beatriz
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Algunas perífrasis incoativas con a + infinitivo
Estudios de Lingüística, 2001 In this presentation I intend to study some Spanish verbal compounds which refer to the initial phase of an event or to a change of state, the so-called aspectual periphrases, from the perspective of cognitive linguistics.
Lene Fogsgaard
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The double modal construction in English world wide
World Englishes, Volume 45, Issue 3, Page 485-503, September 2026.Abstract The dual foci of the present study of double modals are their semantic characteristics and their distribution across regional varieties of English world wide. Tokens were extracted from GloWbE:Blogs, a database whose great size and informal tenor facilitated the investigation of this low‐frequency non‐standard feature. Double modals were found
Peter Collins, Adam Smith
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Italian and corsican verbal periphrases [PDF]
, 2011 This thesis will shed light on the system of verbal periphrases in the Italian and Corsican languages. First, both the theoretical and actual functioning of verbal periphrases in an array of global languages will be delineated. Italian verbal periphrases
Svojtková, Tereza
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Etymology and entomology: The semiotics and ethics of multispecies gene nomenclatures
Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, Volume 36, Issue 2, August 2026.Abstract This article examines controversies surrounding gene names that are perceived as humorous in the context of fruit flies but are considered rude in the clinical context of human medicine. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork in insect laboratories, interviews with entomologists and geneticists, and an analysis of scientific and clinical ...
Colin M. E. Halverson
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Durational Verbal Periphrases in Spanish [PDF]
, 2018 In my bachelor thesis, I focused on description and explanation of Spanish verbal durational periphrases and also on the analysis of possible equivalents in Czech.
Šandová, Dana
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INTERPOLATION IN SPANISH VERBAL PERIPHRASES. REVISITING ITS RELEVANCE AS A CLASSIFICATORY CRITERION [PDF]
, 2023 This paper is based on the idea that the study of peripheral phenomena or marginalia in language can shed new light on the interpretation of other, less marginal linguistic data.
Nieuwenhuijsen, Dorien
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Transactions of the Philological Society, Volume 124, Issue 2, Page 314-356, July 2026.Abstract Based on an analysis of the Old Literary Tibetan corpus—a corpus of the oldest documented Tibetic language—the present study provides evidence that literary Tibetan v3 verb stems (commonly termed ‘future’) initially encoded passive voice. New arguments put forward in this article range from Trans‐Himalayan nominal morphology to early Tibetan ...
Joanna Bialek
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Lidil, 2013 The goal of this article is to demonstrate that the concept of grammatical aspect deserves a place of its own in the study of linguistic phenomena in the classroom. More specifically, the concept of aspect has scope over different areas of grammar.
Céline Corteel, Cécile Avezard-Roger
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Event Segmentation in Language and Cognition
Cognitive Science, Volume 50, Issue 7, July 2026.Abstract A hallmark of human cognition is the ability to segment streams of dynamic stimuli into discrete event units. Currently, most of the evidence about event segmentation comes from English speakers. Could cross‐linguistic differences in how events are encoded affect how speakers of different languages form cognitive event units?
Sarah Hye‐Yeon Lee +2 more
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