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Perífrasis verbales: Una mirada desde los universales lingüísticos [PDF]
Sintagma, 2009 The main goal of this paper is to show that the different verbal periphrasis in Spanish keep a non fortuitous order, which can be derived from the one proposed by the universal hierarchy of categories (Foley and Van Valin 1984; Bybee 1985; Hengeveld 1989
Mabel Giammatteo +1 more
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A Note on the Present Tenses in some Southern Tanzanian Bantu Languages
Linguistique et Langues Africaines, 2018 In this article we discuss the shape of the present tense prefixes in a dozen Bantu languages that are spoken in a contingent area in southwestern Tanzania. All of these feature a high front vowel /i/ in at least one of their allomorphs.
Bastian Persohn, Rasmus Bernander
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Las construcciones pasivas en el español del siglo XV
Estudios de Lingüística, 1988 The author of this article tries to demonstrate that the superiority of the passive construction with the verb "ser" and the past participle in the 15th century Spanish is due to a stylistic use of this form in a period in which a cultivated ...
Amparo Ricós Vidal
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Mieux comprendre l’émergence de nouvelles langues
TIPA. Travaux interdisciplinaires sur la parole et le langage, 2021 This contribution aims at a better understanding of the emergence of creole languages by examining the role of convergence in the evolution of the perfect marker (f)in/’n in Mauritian and Seychelles Creoles.
Sibylle Kriegel
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Enfoque pragmático de las perífrasis verbales de obligación en enseñanza de español para extranjeros [PDF]
marcoELE. Revista de Didáctica Español Lengua Extranjera, 2020 MONOGRAFÍA: FOMENTO Y ENSEÑANZA DE LA COMPETENCIA PRAGMÁTICA EN ELE/EL2: ANÁLISIS DE CASOS Y PROPUESTAS DIDÁCTICAS En este artículo, se reflexiona sobre la enseñanza de las perífrasis verbales de obligación en las clases de español para extranjeros ...
Ridao Rodrigo, Susana
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On pseudo-coordination in Spanish
Borealis: An International Journal of Hispanic Linguistics, 2020 . Pseudo-coordination, that is, sequences of a least two verbs of the form raise a number of problems that stem from the fact that they share properties with a wide range of different syntactic phenomena. As regards Sp.
Ana Bravo
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Italiano LinguaDue, 2021 Il presente contributo analizza l’uso che fanno del gerundio studenti universitari che apprendono l’italiano L2 di livello intermedio-avanzato nelle loro produzioni scritte.
Elena Maria Duso
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Transactions of the Philological Society, EarlyView.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
World Englishes, EarlyView.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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Etymology and entomology: The semiotics and ethics of multispecies gene nomenclatures
Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, Volume 36, Issue 2, August 2026.Abstract This article examines controversies surrounding gene names that are perceived as humorous in the context of fruit flies but are considered rude in the clinical context of human medicine. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork in insect laboratories, interviews with entomologists and geneticists, and an analysis of scientific and clinical ...
Colin M. E. Halverson
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