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Interlinguistic and Translemic Equivalence of Inchoative Verbal Periphrases. A Contrastive Analysis Spanish-Romanian

Colindancias: Revista de la Red de Hispanistas de Europa Central
This article investigates Spanish verbal periphrases and their Romanian equivalence based on a translation-oriented corpus. In addition to examining the resources employed by the Romanian language, the analysis aims to revisit the concept of ‘verbal ...
Răzvan Bran
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Motivated causal judgments and responsibility for civilian casualties in military conflicts

Political Psychology, Volume 47, Issue 2, April 2026.
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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Verbal periphrases in Spanish and their Czech equivalents [PDF]

, 2011
Verbal periphrases in the Spanish language and their Czech equivalents As the title suggests, the object of the thesis is verbal periphrases. In the theoretic part, we dealt with the function of verbal periphrases as a means to convey the nature of ...
Škopková, Pavla
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Lability in Hittite and Indo‐European: A Diachronic Perspective

Studia Linguistica, Volume 80, Issue 1, April 2026.
ABSTRACT Lability is defined as the possibility of a verb to enter a valency alternation without undergoing any change in its form. Labile verbs were common in ancient Indo‐European languages, including Hittite, which mostly features anticausative lability, with reflexive and reciprocal lability being less prominent.
Guglielmo Inglese
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The Venetian Vernacular Lexicon in Eleventh‐ and Twelfth‐Century Latin Documents: Insights from the Codice Diplomatico Veneziano

Transactions of the Philological Society, Volume 124, Issue 1, Page 168-199, March 2026.
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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Élargissement de la valence verbale — Les verbes causatifs et semi-causatifs et le problème de la pronominalisation des compléments argumentaux // The widering of the verbal valence — the causative and semi-causative verbs and the problem of argument pronominalization [PDF]

Svět Literatury, 2015
The causative and semi-causative periphrases represent a syntactic context in the framework of which the valence of a predicate is modified. Its redefinition generates new stematics by fusionning two autonomous argumental structures. For each causative
Jiří Jančík
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Nicht-analoge französische und italienische Übersetzungen von restriktiven Partikeln im Roman Die Mittagsfrau von Julia Franck

Linguistik Online, 2015
The present paper discusses the translation of German nur and some synonymous restrictive particles into French and Italian in authorized literary translations. Only non-analogous translations of the restrictive particles have been considered, such as It.
Martina Nicklaus
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The use of input‐based tasks to initiate adult learners to the expression of temporality in French literacy and language instruction

The Modern Language Journal, Volume 109, Issue 4, Page 846-867, Winter 2025.
Abstract Input‐based tasks have shown promising outcomes for teaching concrete notions (i.e., vocabulary items and number marking) to beginner students in varied educational contexts, including with second language (L2) adults with little to no schooling experience.
Véronique Fortier, Suzie Beaulieu
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“¿Cabe decir algo más?” An Inquiry into the Historical Development of a Modal and Discursive Verbal Periphrasis in Spanish

Catalan Journal of Linguistics
The main objective of this article is to reassess the pivotal role of semantic change within the framework of grammaticalisation and its intricate relationship with both textual and sentence syntax.
Mar Garachana
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Sul presente neoindoario a doppio verbo finito

Atti del Sodalizio Glottologico Milanese, 2019
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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