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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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This study is comparing causative verbal periphrases in French, faire Vinf, laisser Vinf, donner à Vinf, and mettre à VInf. (as in example 1. faire penser, laisser penser, donner à penser, *mettre à penser or in example 2. Faire chauffer, laisser chauffer, mettre à chauffer, *donner à chauffer).
Bouveret, Myriam +2 more
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Abstract This study investigates the lexicographical potential of Medieval Latin documentation from the Venetian area of the Italo‐Romance domain, highlighting the need for a systematic approach to bridge Latin and vernacular linguistic developments. The project MEDITA – Medieval Latin Documentation and Digital Italo‐Romance Lexicography.
Jacopo Gesiot
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La traducción de las perífrasis de infinitivo del español al italiano [PDF]
Verbal periphrases with the infinitive often behave differently in Spanish and Italian. In this paper, through a contrastive analysis between the two languages I analyze some aspects of the use of such periphrases, such as the way in which a non ...
Luque, Rocío
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Italian Event Detection Goes Deep Learning [PDF]
This paper reports on a set of experiments with different word embeddings to initialize a state-of-the-art Bi-LSTM-CRF network for event detection and classification in Italian, following the EVENTI evaluation exercise.
Caselli, Tommaso
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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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The double modal construction in English world wide
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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Sul presente neoindoario a doppio verbo finito
The present paper deals with the problem of the origin of a type of “double-finite” periphrasis having the structure, e. g., IS WALKS = ‘walks’ – i.e., formed by a finite form of the ‘be’ auxiliary plus a finite form of the main verb – which is used to ...
Paolo Milizia
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Principles of ‘Newspeak’ in Polish Translations of British and American Press Articles under Communist Rule [PDF]
The paper analyses selected Polish translations of British and American press articles published in the magazine Forum in the years 1965 - 1989. In communist Poland, all such texts were censored before publication, which forced the translators to avoid ...
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Motivated causal judgments and responsibility for civilian casualties in military conflicts
Abstract Causal judgments are ubiquitous in politics and crucial for assigning responsibility and blame. Cognitive science has demonstrated that people are more likely to pick factors as “causal” when they make a difference for the outcome across a range of counterfactual scenarios, with the scenarios sampled based on statistical and prescriptive ...
Dimiter Toshkov, Honorata Mazepus
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