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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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Sobre las periphrasis verbales en Español

Linguistica, 1990
La idea de estudiar las perífrasis verbales tiene origen en la práctica docente (enseñanza del español a estudiantes extranjeros, concretamente eslovenos) yen la actividad de traductor e intérprete del español al esloveno y vice versa. Ya que este tipo de construcciones no existe en Ia lengua eslovena y que Ia mayoría de las gramáticas y manuales ...
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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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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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La articulación retórico-estilística de las perífrasis verbales de infinitivo y gerundio en "Pedro Páramo"

Lexis, 2012
Resumen El tema de las perífrasis verbales es uno de los más complejos y debatidos en la tradición gramatical. Las descripciones propuestas en las gramáticas y estudios dedicados al tema de las perífrasis verbales explican principalmente tres valores ...
Adriana Ávila-Figueroa
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Ingressive verbal periphrases in Spanish and Portuguese [PDF]

Linguistica Pragensia, 2017
The article analyses Spanish and Portuguese verbal periphrases that express the beginning of a process (ingressive manner of action). It analyses stylistically marked and stylistically unmarked ingressive constructions in order to determine ...
Dana Kratochvílová, Jaroslava Jindrová   +1 more
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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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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 NOTION AND CHARACTERISTICS OF MODAL ‘PERIPHRASIS’ IN SPANISH (BASED ON THE EXAMPLE OF BELLES-LETTRES)

Вестник Кемеровского государственного университета, 2013
The article deals with periphrastic constructions verbalized in Spanish belles-lettres. The definitions of verbal periphrasis that are considered basic are provided.
О. О. Panteleeva
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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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