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Gli equivalenti russi della perifrasi verbale imminenziale italiana stare per
The aim of this paper is to analyse the expression of imminentiality in Russian by collecting equivalents of the Italian periphrasis stare per using the Italian-Russian parallel corpus of the Russian National Corpus.
Francesca Biagini
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The Semantic and Aesthetic Function of Music in Hujwiri's Kashf al-Mahjub [PDF]
In the definitions of poetry, three elements of emotion, imagination, and music are mentioned. Persian prose texts have used more or less poetic elements in different periods.
Zahra Pakzad +2 more
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BIBLICAL METAPHORS IN LETTERS OF LEV OF OPTINA [PDF]
This article presents the first analysis of tropes in the letters of the first Elder Lev (Nagolkin) of Optina Pustyn Monastery (Opta’s hermitage) – i. e. proverbs, allusions, allegories periphrasis and metaphors.
Svetlana Olegovna Zakharchenko
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PORTUGUESE VERBAL PERIPHRASIS WITH DEVER AS A TEACHING PROBLEM This article attempts to highlight the problems in teaching and learning of two Portuguese periphrastic modal constructions.
Joanna Drzazgowska
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To be or not to be an auxiliary verb. The case of Spanish
This paper studies two Spanish constructions with the verb poner (‘to put’) and an infinitive. The first one, , has traditionally been considered an inchoative periphrasis; however, we will show that its grammaticalisation is only complete with ...
Margot Vivanco
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Sobre el origen del valor frecuentativo de saber + infinitivo
On the Origin of the Frequentative Meaning of The main purpose of this paper is to offer a new proposal about the origin of the frequentative meaning of the verbal periphrasis , different from Vázquez’s (1980) hypothesis of a loan-translation from ...
Andrzej Zieliński
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The refuge of a dying variant within the grammar: Patterns of change and continuity in the Spanish verbal periphrasishaber de + infinitive over the past two centuries [PDF]
AbstractBased on a corpus of ego-documents (private letters, diaries, memoirs) from the 19th and the first half of the 20th centuries, this paper presents a variationist comparative study to determine the fate of the modal periphrasishaber de + infinitive in the history of modern Spanish.
BLAS-ARROYO, JOSE LUIS +1 more
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La perífrasi verbal conativa [ser + a + infinitiu]: descripció i gènesi [PDF]
In Catalan the verbal periphrasis [ser `to be' + a `to' + infinitive] expresses the conative sense (also called futured past). Catalan grammars do not report this construction, probably because it is unusual. In fact, this verbal periphrasis is defective:
Xavier Rull
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Transitivity, Ecology, and the Emergence of Verbal Periphrasis in Ancient Greek [PDF]
In this article, I discuss the emergence of verbal periphrasis with eἰμί “I am” and ἔχω “I have” and a perfect, present or aorist participle in Archaic and Classical Greek. Adopting a so-called ‘ecological’ perspective, I argue for the importance of looking at the interrelationship between the periphrastic constructions in terms of their origins and ...
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Periphrases in Spanish: properties, diagnostics and research questions
This article provides an overview of the main facts and analytical problems that relate to verbal periphrases. The article is structured as follows. In §1 I provide an overview of the main criteria for being a periphrasis, and the constructions that it ...
Antonio Fábregas
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