Predicative Possession in Ukrainian and Intra‐Slavonic Language Contact1
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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Ancient Greek and the category of verbal periphrasis [PDF]
This paper discusses which constructions in Ancient Greek consisting of a finite verb and a participle belong to the category of „verbal periphrasis‟.
Bentein, Klaas
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A INFLUÊNCIA DA COMUNICAÇÃO NÃO VERBAL NA INTERAÇÃO HUMANA [PDF]
A comunicação é um dos principais meios de interação na qual se compartilha ideias, mensagens, sentimentos e é uma ferramenta importantíssima de trabalho.
Ribeiro, Maria Celina da Piedade +1 more
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The subjunctive alternation in Indian English
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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Un uso escasamente documentado de 'haber de + infinitivo' en la historia del español
Haber de + infinitivo se considera tradicionalmente una perífrasis modal de necesidad deóntica, obligación atenuada y epistémica, además de temporal prospectiva.
Anton Granvik, Begoña Sanromán Vilas
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Mood Selection in the Old Northumbrian Gloss to Durham MS A.iv.19
Abstract The aim of this article is to examine the use of the subjunctive in the 10th‐century Old Northumbrian gloss to Durham MS A.iv.19. We assess whether there is evidence for a weakening of the indicative/subjunctive opposition, as has been argued for the earlier gloss to the Lindisfarne Gospels, which was the work of the same glossator, Aldred of ...
Julia Fernández Cuesta +1 more
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Sobre las periphrasis verbales en Español
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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TRAPPED BETWEEN CASE AND NUMBER. A TYPOLOGY OF ADNUMERATIVE FORMS†
In this paper, I study the nature of adnumerative or numerative forms; i.e. morphologically dedicated inflectional forms that can only be used with numerals or quantifiers (e.g. Russian dva časá ‘two o'clock’ vs. [gen sg] čása). Adnumeratives are cross‐linguistically very rare; yet they raise some interesting theoretical discussions. This work is based
Kristian Roncero
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Mixed‐Effects Modeling with a Multinomial Dependent Variable
Abstract In this Methods Showcase Article, we illustrate mixed‐effects modeling with a multinomial dependent variable as a means of explaining complexities in language. We model data on future‐time reference in second language Spanish, which consists of a nominal dependent variable that has three levels, measured over 73 participants.
Aarnes Gudmestad, Thomas A. Metzger
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Implicaturas de futuridade em usos de querer + infinitivo em PB: interpretação temporal do ato de fala a partir do aspecto e da modalidade / Futurity Implicatures in the Uses of the Verbal Periphrasis Querer + Infinitive in Brazilian Portuguese: Temporal Interpretation of Speech Acts Stemming from Aspect and Modality [PDF]
Resumo: Com base em estudos sobre as categorias tempo, aspecto e modalidade (PALMER, 1986; BYBEE; PAGLIUCA; PERKINS, 1991; 1994; GIVÓN, 2001a; SWEETSER, 2001), destacamos o processo de gramaticalização de marcadores de futuro em línguas como inglês, dinamarquês e grego, envolvendo implicaturas (CHIERCHIA, 2003; LEVINSON, 2007) e atos de fala (SEARLE ...
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