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Exploration of the mandative subjunctive in Pakistani English

World Englishes, Volume 44, Issue 1-2, Page 202-217, March-June 2025.
Abstract The study at hand explores the alternation between the mandative subjunctive and its equivalent construction with the modal verb should in Pakistani English. The study enhances understanding of the alternation both by focusing on Pakistani English as a relatively under‐researched postcolonial variety of English and by complementing the ...
Karola Schmidt, Nina Funke
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On Pseudo-Coordination in the province of Catania

Isogloss
This paper discusses the preliminary results of an exploratory study based on acceptability judgments about Pseudo-Coordination (PseCo) as found in the province of Catania (Sicily). PseCo is a monoclausal verbal periphrasis where an inflected verb (V1),
Vincenzo Nicolò Di Caro, Salvatore Menza   +1 more
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Acting as causing change

European Journal of Philosophy, Volume 32, Issue 3, Page 644-658, September 2024.
Abstract The paper defends a version of the view that agency is a causal power, the “causing view.” After sketching the view, and explaining how it differs from its rivals, various challenges are assessed. A family of objections says that causing change is neither necessary nor sufficient for acting.
Maria Alvarez
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Le mot et l’image dans la sémiotique lithuanienne

Signata, 2019
This paper gives an overview of major publications of the Lithuanian semioticians who analyze the relationship between the word and the image within the framework of Algirdas Greimas’ general theory of meaning.
Kęstutis Nastopka
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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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Periphrasis and possible lexemes

, 2017
When examining Periphrasis we naturally analyse the state of the contributing elements and the interplay of syntactic and morphological factors. But if periphrastic forms are part of paradigms, we should also ask how periphrasis affects the notion ...
Corbett, GG
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Periphrasis and morphosyntatic mismatch in Czech

, 2021
This paper presents an HPSG analysis of the Czech periphrastic past and conditional at the morphology-syntax interface. After clarifying the status of Czech auxiliaries as words rather than affixes, we discuss the fact that the past tense exemplifies the
Gert Webelhuth, Olivier Bonami
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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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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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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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