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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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The syntax of the periphrastic progressive in the Septuagint and the New Testament [PDF]

, 2013
In this article, I discuss the use of the periphrastic progressive construction of εἰμί "be" with present participle in the Septuagint and the New Testament. I argue that a broad distinction can be made between two main uses, called ‘durative progressive’
Bentein, Klaas
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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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“¿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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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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Ancient Greek and the category of verbal periphrasis [PDF]

, 2011
This paper discusses which constructions in Ancient Greek consisting of a finite verb and a participle belong to the category of „verbal periphrasis‟.
Bentein, Klaas
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Predicative Possession in Ukrainian and Intra‐Slavonic Language Contact1

Transactions of the Philological Society, Volume 123, Issue 3, Page 428-459, November 2025.
Abstract Ukrainian has two inherited syntactic forms for possessive have: a transitive one with a lexical have‐verb, and an intransitive, originally locative be‐construction. On the basis of four corpus studies, the article establishes their relative frequency in Middle Ukrainian writing (17th and 18th c.), Modern Ukrainian dialects (20th c.), and ...
Jan Fellerer
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The subjunctive alternation in Indian English

World Englishes, Volume 44, Issue 3, Page 439-455, September 2025.
Abstract The study at hand is an exploration of the alternation between the mandative subjunctive and its equivalent modal construction with the verb should in Indian English. The study complements the growing body of research on the morphosyntax of the variety and it enhances our understanding of the relatively under‐researched alternation.
Karola Schmidt
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The variable expression of future tense in Peninsular Spanish: The present (and future) of inflectional forms in the Spanish spoken in a bilingual region [PDF]

, 2008
In line with trends observed in other Spanish and Romance-speaking regions, the morphological future tense MF (cantaré) is declining in the Castellón speech community (Spain) in favor of the periphrastic variant PF (voy a cantar) for the expression of ...
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Mood Selection in the Old Northumbrian Gloss to Durham MS A.iv.19

Transactions of the Philological Society, Volume 123, Issue 2, Page 189-212, July 2025.
Abstract The aim of this article is to examine the use of the subjunctive in the 10th‐century Old Northumbrian gloss to Durham MS A.iv.19. We assess whether there is evidence for a weakening of the indicative/subjunctive opposition, as has been argued for the earlier gloss to the Lindisfarne Gospels, which was the work of the same glossator, Aldred of ...
Julia Fernández Cuesta, Christopher Langmuir   +1 more
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