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Notes on Verbal Aspect in Three Vedic Prose Narratives

Transactions of the Philological Society, Volume 122, Issue 2, Page 223-253, July 2024.
Abstract This article summarises the synchronic system of verbal aspect manifest in three Middle Vedic prose narrative texts, investigating the use of various morphological categories with past reference (especially the imperfect, perfect and aorist). I show that the imperfect and perfect are both compatible with multiple aspectual readings (perfective,
Anahita Gwenllian Hoose
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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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Between vocabulary and grammar : verbal periphrasis of French

, 2011
Verbal circumlocutions hesitate between lexicon and grammar. We analyze those construct on the verbs "aller" "venir" and "être en train de" under the angle diachronic, from its origins to the Present day. So, diverse themes will be approach : question of grammaticalization, choice between auxiliary and semi-auxiliary, semantic weakening, question of ...
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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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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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Again on the Existence of Causative Periphrases in Spanish: The Case of “enviar/mandar a + Infinitive”

Languages
The concept of verbal periphrasis has historically been a controversial one in Romance linguistics, especially in the Hispanic context, where there has been disagreement as to what multiverbal constructions should be considered periphrastic.
Carlos I. Echeverría
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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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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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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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