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A gramaticalização de «danar a», «destampar a» e «garrar a» + infinitivo e a expressão cumulativa de aspecto

Caligrama: Revista de Estudos Românicos, 2012
Resumo: Neste artigo, analisa-se o processo de inovação linguística por que vêm passando os verbos danar, destampar e garrar que, ao passarem por um processo de abstração semântica e ampliarem seus usos lexicais, estão, simultaneamente, passando por um ...
Lorenzo Teixeira Vitral, Sueli Maria Coelho   +1 more
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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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Auxiliary selection in Italian restructuring: An insight into the size of the clause

Syntax, Volume 27, Issue 1, Page 85-122, March 2024.
Abstract In Standard Italian, restructuring clauses are characterized by apparently optional transparency effects in the choice of the clausal perfect auxiliary. In the perfect periphrasis, the auxiliary associated with the modal verb can be either HAVE or the one corresponding to the lexical verb (BE or HAVE).
Irene Amato
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A case study in underspecification of UG: External Pair Merge of v and T

Syntax, Volume 27, Issue 1, Page 123-147, March 2024.
Abstract Previous works have explored the options of Pair Merging R and v as well as T and C, respectively, yielding R‐v and T‐C with various consequences. This paper proposes that v and T can yield the complex head v‐T, an amalgam formed by external Pair Merge.
Andreas Blümel
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Categorization and Pathology of Persian Stylistic Researches [PDF]

Literary Arts, 2014
 Abstract In following article, surveys and researches about Persian style were categorized in two branches of historical and formalistic styles Mohammad Taghi Bahar founded stylistics as an autonomous knowledge by publishing his book, History of the ...
Maryam Dorpar
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The Russian Counterparts of Italian Periphrases with Aspectual Value

Studi Slavistici
This contribution focuses on the realization in Russian of certain Italian aspectual periphrases – (in)cominciare/iniziare a, continuare a, cercare/tentare di using data from the Russian-Italian parallel corpus of the National Corpus of the Russian ...
Francesca Biagini, Lucyna Gebert
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A cross-linguistic comparison of clausal embedding with causatives

Isogloss
In Italian, causatives are expressed through a periphrasis make + infinitival V. When the embedded verb is transitive, the embedded subject is generally introduced by a to/by preposition.
Paolo Lorusso, Linda Badan
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Change in Portuguese verbal system: the variants of conditional and the issue of grammaticalization

Gragoatá, 2006
Recent studies have focused the grammaticalization of the verb of movement ir (to go) into an auxiliary verb. This paper shows that in Brazilian Portuguese this auxiliary occurs not only in the expression of the future (time) but also in variation with ...
Ana Lúcia dos Prazeres Costa
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