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Mixed‐Effects Modeling with a Multinomial Dependent Variable

Language Learning, Volume 75, Issue 1, Page 212-249, March 2025.
Abstract In this Methods Showcase Article, we illustrate mixed‐effects modeling with a multinomial dependent variable as a means of explaining complexities in language. We model data on future‐time reference in second language Spanish, which consists of a nominal dependent variable that has three levels, measured over 73 participants.
Aarnes Gudmestad, Thomas A. Metzger
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Exploration of the mandative subjunctive in Pakistani English

World Englishes, Volume 44, Issue 1-2, Page 202-217, March-June 2025.
Abstract The study at hand explores the alternation between the mandative subjunctive and its equivalent construction with the modal verb should in Pakistani English. The study enhances understanding of the alternation both by focusing on Pakistani English as a relatively under‐researched postcolonial variety of English and by complementing the ...
Karola Schmidt, Nina Funke
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Acting as causing change

European Journal of Philosophy, Volume 32, Issue 3, Page 644-658, September 2024.
Abstract The paper defends a version of the view that agency is a causal power, the “causing view.” After sketching the view, and explaining how it differs from its rivals, various challenges are assessed. A family of objections says that causing change is neither necessary nor sufficient for acting.
Maria Alvarez
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Notes on Verbal Aspect in Three Vedic Prose Narratives

Transactions of the Philological Society, Volume 122, Issue 2, Page 223-253, July 2024.
Abstract This article summarises the synchronic system of verbal aspect manifest in three Middle Vedic prose narrative texts, investigating the use of various morphological categories with past reference (especially the imperfect, perfect and aorist). I show that the imperfect and perfect are both compatible with multiple aspectual readings (perfective,
Anahita Gwenllian Hoose
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El morfema de anterioridad en el sistema verbal del antiguo leonés

Estudios Humanísticos. Filología, 1994
El objetivo fundamental de este trabajo consiste en determinar qué formas verbales expresan el contenido de 'anterioridad' en el romance medieval leonés.
María Cristina Egido Fernández
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Obsolescence and abortive innovations in variationist approaches to language change

Language and Linguistics Compass, Volume 18, Issue 4, July/August 2024.
Abstract The focus of most variationist studies of linguistic change to date has been the emergence and increase of new forms. The opposing process—obsolescence, or the decline and loss of older variants—is less well understood. Addressing several calls for more attention to be paid to obsolescence and its properties, this article surveys case studies ...
Marisa Brook
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Structural Ambiguity and the Architecture of Language1

Studia Linguistica, Volume 78, Issue 1, Page 35-63, April 2024.
Abstract This article investigates what structural ambiguity reveals about the architecture of language. It analyzes two basic types of structural ambiguity, constituent ambiguity and chain formation ambiguity, and illustrates with a small class of selected case studies how they interweave.
Jordi Fortuny
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Short vs Long Stem Alternations in Romance Verbal Inflection: The S‐Morphome

Transactions of the Philological Society, Volume 122, Issue 1, Page 49-78, March 2024.
Abstract Some verbs in Romance (e.g. the reflexes of faciō ‘do’, dīcō ‘say’, habeō ‘have’, sapiō ‘know’, possum ‘be able’, and volō ‘want’) display alternations between a short (e.g. It. f‐are, f‐a, d‐ire) and a long (e.g. It. fac‐evo, dic‐e, dic‐evo) stem.
Borja Herce, Chundra A. Cathcart
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Again on the Existence of Causative Periphrases in Spanish: The Case of “enviar/mandar a + Infinitive”

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The concept of verbal periphrasis has historically been a controversial one in Romance linguistics, especially in the Hispanic context, where there has been disagreement as to what multiverbal constructions should be considered periphrastic.
Carlos I. Echeverría
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Criterios identificadores de las perífrasis verbales del español [PDF]

Sintagma, 2005
Identifying Criteria for periphrastic forms of the verb in Spanish. Among the criteria used for the identification of periphrastic forms of the verb (VP), only a few help to identify the VP from the non-periphrastical construction (NPC).
Mihaela Topor
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