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LEE, LESLIE, and FARRELL ACKERMAN. "Word-based morphology–syntax interdependencies: Thai passives." Journal of Linguistics 53, no. 2 (2015): 359–406. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0022226715000456.

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In this article, we argue that insights concerning the word-based nature of morphology, especially the hypothesis that periphrastic expressions are cross-linguistically common exponents of lexical relations, permit a novel lexical constructional analysis of periphrastic predicates that preserves the restriction of morphosyntactic mapping operations, such as passive, to the lexicon. We do this in the context of the periphrastic Thaithuukpassive, justifying in detail the monoclausal status of the construction, its flat phrase structure, the semantics of affectedness associated with it, and its p
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Zahn, Molly M. "When Linguistics and Literarkritik Meet." Dead Sea Discoveries 27, no. 3 (2020): 426–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/15685179-bja10009.

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Abstract This paper will revisit the frequent use of the periphrastic construction of a form of the verb ‮היה‬‎ + participle in the Temple Scroll (TS). As others have noted, TS preserves by far the largest number of cases of this construction in the Qumran corpus, and these cases overwhelmingly involve the yiqṭol of ‮היה‬‎. The use of the construction has also been given compositional weight, serving as a source-critical indicator in prominent theories of the diachronic development of TS. This essay provides a detailed analysis of how the periphrastic construction functions in TS, compares tha
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Gzella, Holger. "Zum periphrastischen Infinitiv in Genesis viii 5." Vetus Testamentum 58, no. 4 (2008): 469–79. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/156853308x312717.

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AbstractThe astonishing use of the double infinitive absolute with the verb, attested only in Gen. viii 5, has not yet been explained satisfactorily. The present paper argues that this construction is neither a variant form of the periphrastic participle, nor that serves as a pluperfect. Instead, the two infinitives provide an adverbial modification for the main verb by specifically marking durativity and/or iterativity. However, precisely the combination with appears to be special. The past tense indicator, itself being semantically void here, has been employed instead of a full verb, even th
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Wall, Joanna. "Have-doubling constructions in historical and modern Dutch." Linguistics in the Netherlands 35 (December 3, 2018): 155–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/avt.00011.wal.

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Abstract Have-doubling constructions closely resemble periphrastic perfect tense constructions but have an additional, seemingly superfluous form of the verb have. Whilst these constructions are only found in a small number of modern Dutch dialects, they appear much more broadly in historical varieties of Dutch. In this article, I present new data from a corpus study of have-doubling constructions in Early Modern Dutch (ca. 1500-1700) which reveals both similarities and an important difference with the modern dialectal phenomenon. I argue that there are two structurally distinct types of have-
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Pen’kova, Yana A. "On a Marginal Use of the Imperative in East Slavic Monuments of the 11th–15th Centuries." Slovene 4, no. 2 (2015): 147–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.31168/2305-6754.2015.4.2.7.

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The paper is devoted to the marginal construction that appears to be a kind of hybrid of an imperative and the future perfect: the auxiliary verb has the form of the imperative mood and is used with an l-participle. The construction is semantically and structurally similar to the Slavic perfect and the Slavic future perfect, however it is attested only in some archaic translated Church Slavonic monuments represented by East Slavic copies from the 11th through the 15th centuries of South Slavic translations (these include the Catechetical Lectures of Cyril of Jerusalem and the Homily to the Ent
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Bondarenko, Valeria, and Andrew Botsman. "EVOLUTION OF THE OBLIQUE MOOD IN THE DUTCH LANGUAGE." Studia Linguistica, no. 14 (2019): 50–69. http://dx.doi.org/10.17721/studling2019.14.50-69.

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The article is connected with evolution investigation of the grammatical category which is recognized as the Oblique Mood in the Dutch language. The evolution of that grammatical phenomenon is reconstructed involving authentic texts of different periods, starting with very restricted material of early middle Dutch period and finishing with numerous and different texts of modern Dutch period. The transformation of morphological structure of the Dutch Oblique Mood moves into the direction of growing analytical structures with the parallel degradation of synthetical forms with traditional flexion
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Persohn, Bastian. "A description of the Xhosa construction ya ‘go’ plus subordinate imperfective." Journal of African Languages and Linguistics 41, no. 1 (2020): 57–98. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/jall-2020-2004.

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AbstractThis paper offers a descriptive analysis of an aspectual periphrasis in Xhosa (Bantu S41). The construction in question consists of a form of ya ‘go’ plus a verb in the subordinate imperfective paradigm. It is argued that this construction works at the level of actionality (“lexical aspect” or “aktionsart”), rather than constituting an aspectual operator sensu stricto. The overall actional profile of this verbal unit is that of a degree achievement (Dowty 1979) or directed activity (Croft 2012), i.e. a process of change along a property scale. This change is construed as involving a pl
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Gołąbek, Rafał. "Causative get-constructions in the dialogued passages in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novels The Beautiful and Damned and Tender Is the Night as gender-conditioned structures." Journal of Language and Cultural Education 3, no. 2 (2015): 39–54. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/jolace-2015-0013.

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Abstract It goes without saying that in modern sociolinguistics there is a consensus with regard to the fact that the language of males and females differs. The initial sections of the article briefly address the peculiarities of gendered speech as to provide a theoretical background for checking whether the causative get is used similarly or differently by men and women in the two of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novels: The Beautiful and Damned and Tender Is the Night. The basic expectation formed is that the motifs for triggering the use of causative get are of social rather than structural nature.
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Bavant, Marc. "Basque Resultatives and Related Issues." Lingua Posnaniensis 54, no. 2 (2012): 7–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/v10122-012-0011-3.

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ABSTRACT Marc Bavant. Basque Resultatives and Related Issues. Lingua Posnaniensis, vol. LIV (2)/2012. The Poznań Society for the Advancement of the Arts and Sciences. PL ISSN 0079-4740, ISBN 978-83-7654-252-2, pp. 7-22. Basque has an impressive number of resultative constructions for transitive verbs, not to mention dialectal variants. The purpose of this paper is to classify them according to Nedjalkov’s typology and compare Basque resultatives with similar periphrastic constructions in Classical Armenian. On the way, we meet the questions of Basque diatheses, of voice ambiguity of past parti
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Slabakova, Roumyana. "THE COMPOUNDING PARAMETER IN SECOND LANGUAGE ACQUISITION." Studies in Second Language Acquisition 24, no. 4 (2002): 507–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0272263102004011.

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This article presents an experimental study investigating the compounding parameter in the L2 Spanish interlanguage of English and French NSs in light of the Subset Principle and its predictions for the process of L2 development. The compounding parameter (Snyder, 1995, 2001) argues that languages permit complex predicate constructions like verb particles, resultatives, and double objects if and only if they can productively form N-N compounds. English exhibits the plus value of the parameter, allowing N-N compounds and the related constructions, whereas in Spanish and French these compounds a
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Hoekstra, Jarich. "Beyond Do-Support and Tun-Periphrasis: The Case of Finite Verb Doubling in Karrharde North Frisian." Journal of Germanic Linguistics 28, no. 4 (2016): 317–48. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1470542716000155.

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All West Germanic languages possess periphrastic verb constructions in which a finite dummy auxiliary ‘do’ combines with an infinitival thematic verb (compare do-support in English and tun-periphrasis in German). In Frisian, periphrastic verb constructions are not very common. It is all the more surprising, therefore, to find a general periphrastic verb construction in Karrharde North Frisian that seems to go beyond the typology of these constructions in West Germanic to some extent: The construction is rather unconstrained, it features a mysterious dummy auxiliary wer- and, most strikingly, b
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Jaeyong Kwak. "Spanish Double Periphrastic Passive Construction with Aspectual Auxiliary Verb." Korean Journal of Hispanic Studies 8, no. 1 (2015): 1–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.18217/kjhs.8.1.201505.1.

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Mikulskas, Rolandas. "Aspectual variation in Lithuanian copular constructions." Lietuvių kalba, no. 9 (December 18, 2015): 1–49. http://dx.doi.org/10.15388/lk.2015.22627.

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In this article an attempt is made to pinpoint all possibilities of expressing aspectual meanings in Lithuanian copular constructions. The author departs from the tradition of distinguishing only perfective vs. imperfective aspect in Lithuanian. Instead, in testing various possibilities of expressing aspect in the constructions under discussion, the relevant meanings are chosen from a wider range of aspectual grams established in recent typological work on aspect.Until now the aspect of copular constructions had remained an understudied and underdescribed topic not only in Lithuanian. This is
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Balukh, Jermy Imanuel. "THREE STRATEGIES OF PROFILING EVENTS IN CAUSATIVE CONSTRUCTION WITH PREFIX PA- IN DHAO." Linguistik Indonesia 37, no. 1 (2019): 33–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.26499/li.v37i1.88.

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This paper investigates causative constructions in Dhao, which involves the prefix pa-. Dhao is a language spoken by about 3000 people on Ndao Island, Eastern Indonesia. The use of pa- results in three different constructions. First, a construction with a single verbal predicate in which pa- is fused with the base verb expressing the cause and caused events. Second, the pa-derived verb requires a lexical verb to precede it resulting in an SVC. Thus, the events profiled are arranged into separate components. Third, the construction is periphrastic, where the pa-derived verb appears in the subor
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Ziegeler, Debra. "Grammaticalisation through constructions." Annual Review of Cognitive Linguistics 2 (December 31, 2004): 159–95. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/arcl.2.06zie.

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Recent arguments by Langacker (2003) on the nature of verb meanings in constructions claim that such meanings are created by entrenchment and frequency of use, and only with repeated use can they become conventionalised and acceptable. Such a position raises the need for a diachronic perspective on Construction Grammar. The present paper investigates the evolution of constructions through the example of thehave-causative in English, which appears to have had its origins as a transfer verb in telic argument structure constructions. When the construction contains a transfer verb, construction me
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Schaller, Gaëtan. "Le datif et le génitif prépositionnels dans le latin mérovingien à travers l’étude des chartes des 7ème et 8ème siècles." Acta Antiqua Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae 59, no. 1-4 (2020): 267–79. http://dx.doi.org/10.1556/068.2019.59.1-4.24.

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Abstract:This paper intends to investigate the development of the periphrastic form for the dative and genitive in the Merovingian charters. The periphrastic forms are reserved in Classical Latin to some special uses: the indirect object after a verb that has the prefix ad- and the partitive function of the genitive they replace. These forms extend to new uses in the Late Latin and are the new majoritarian form for the indirect object, but remain a minoritarian variant for the functions of the classical genitive. The genitival functions adapt to new forms of expression: the periphrastic form a
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KARIMI, Yadgar. "The Evolution of Ergativity in Iranian Languages." Acta Linguistica Asiatica 2, no. 1 (2012): 23–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.4312/ala.2.1.23-44.

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This paper presents an attempt to investigate the origins of ergativity in Iranian languages, drawing upon diachronic and synchronic analyses. In so doing, I will trace the development of the ergative structure back to Old and Middle Persian where, it is argued, the roots of ergativity lie. I will specifically show that the ergative pattern as currently obtained in the grammatical structure of some Iranian languages has evolved from a periphrastic past participle construction, the analogue of which is attested in Old Persian. It will further be argued that the predecessor past participle const
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Snedec, Andrej. "The progress of a syntactic change English do-support*." Linguistica 30, no. 1 (1990): 47–68. http://dx.doi.org/10.4312/linguistica.30.1.47-68.

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The English construction with do-support in the affirmative form, in the interrogative form, in the declarative-negative form, and in the interrogative­-negative form is a periphrastic construction. It satisfied the definition of a strengthened construction as long as it was an optional replacement of the corresponding non-strengthened construction, i.e. of forms without do-support.
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Nurhayati, Nurhayati. "English Verb ‘Deliver’ and Wolio Verb ‘Bawa’." ELS Journal on Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities 1, no. 2 (2018): 191–98. http://dx.doi.org/10.34050/els-jish.v1i2.4389.

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Construction type is a theory proposed by Dixon to analyze sentences based on its semantic type. This study aimed to compare the construction type of ‘deliver’ verb of English compared to ‘bawa’ verbof Wolio language proposed by Dixon and to elaborate the form of ‘bawa’ when it applied in different type of sentences. Generally, for Giving semantic type, there are four types of construction to cover it. There are some words includes in this Giving type and one of the words is ‘deliver’. Descriptive qualitative method is used to analyze this study. To do this study, the writer collects the data
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Al Zumor, Abdulwahid Qasem. "Exploring Intricacies in English Passive Construction Translation in Research Articles’ Abstracts by Arab Author-Translators." SAGE Open 11, no. 3 (2021): 215824402110475. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/21582440211047556.

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Self-translation of academic texts has received little attention thus far in literature, particularly in terms of how cross-linguistic features are rendered into target language. This study undertakes to examine the various linguistic strategies of rendering English passive structures by Arab academics when they translate their research articles’ abstracts (RAAs) into Arabic. Fifty-one English abstracts with their Arabic translations were collected from Languages, Humanities and Social Sciences journals published in different Arab universities. To analyze the collected data, #LancsBox 4.5 Lanc
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Pallottino, Margherita. "“feš taqra?” What are You Reading?" Brill’s Journal of Afroasiatic Languages and Linguistics 8, no. 2 (2016): 286–312. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/18776930-00802004.

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This paper describes the distribution and the selectional properties of perfective and imperfective verb forms in Tunisian Arabic. While perfective predicates are finite forms and always undergo movement out of the VP domain, imperfective predicates acts less consistently as a unified class and, in some contexts, do not undergo movement to negation showing a behavior that reminds this of non-finite forms. Moreover, when the imperfective verb does not undergo movement, an additional structural layer headed by the preposition “fi” is introduced above the direct object. I propose that in this con
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Prabaskoro, Moch Panji, and Prayudha Prayudha. "The construction of English verb “send”: A cognitive linguistics study." UAD TEFL International Conference 2 (January 18, 2021): 119. http://dx.doi.org/10.12928/utic.v2.5746.2019.

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This research is entitled “The Construction of English Verb “SEND”: A Cognitive Linguistic Study”. It is based on cognitive linguistic, because with cognitive linguistic it could be seen how exactly the construction of English verb “send” and how the construction could have that construction. The aims of the research are; 1) to analyze the construction of English verb “SEND” as a single verb; and 2) to analyze the Construction of English verb "SEND" as a phrasal verb. The data will be collected by using observation method and noting technique. Then, it will be analyzed by using distributional
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Bjerre, Anne, and Tavs Bjerre. "Perfect and periphrastic passive constructions in Danish." Nordic Journal of Linguistics 30, no. 1 (2007): 5–53. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0332586507001643.

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This paper gives an account of the event and argument structure of past participles, and the linking between argument structure and valence structure. It further accounts for how participles form perfect and passive constructions with auxiliaries. We assume that the same participle form is used in both types of construction. Our claim is that the valence structure of a past participle is predictable from its semantic type, and that the valence structure predicts which auxiliary a past participle combines with in perfect constructions and whether the past participle may occur in passive constru
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Ghomeshi, Jila. "Control and Thematic Agreement." Canadian Journal of Linguistics/Revue canadienne de linguistique 46, no. 1-2 (2001): 9–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0008413100017928.

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AbstractIn this article it is shown that Persian has core control constructions in which the obligatorily empty subject of an embedded clause takes its reference from an antecedent in the next higher clause. Evidence is provided that these embedded clauses are relatively transparent for scrambling and lack independent tense. It is therefore argued that core control verbs in Persian take complements that lack CP, TP, and a Case position for their subjects. Control complements do manifest subject agreement, however, suggesting that agreement checking takes place within vP. The implications of th
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Edmonds, Amanda, and Aarnes Gudmestad. "What the present can tell us about the future." Morphological Expression of Temporality on the Verb in French as a Second Language / L’expression morphologique de la temporalité sur le verbe en français langue seconde 6, no. 1 (2015): 15–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/lia.6.1.01edm.

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This investigation studies the second language (L2) development of variable future-time expression in French. One hundred and eighteen nonnative speakers at four proficiency levels and 30 native speakers completed a written-contextualized task (WCT), a language-proficiency test and a background questionnaire. The verb form (inflectional future, periphrastic future, and present) selected for each item on the WCT was coded for three independent linguistic factors: presence of a lexical temporal indicator, temporal distance and (un)certainty. Multinomial logistic regression tests and a follow-up
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Bres, Jacques, and Christel Le Bellec. "The past participle and the periphrastic passive construction in French." Lingvisticæ Investigationes. International Journal of Linguistics and Language Resources 44, no. 1 (2021): 37–65. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/li.00056.bre.

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Abstract Our hypothesis is that the past participle is a singular form in the TAM (tense-aspect-mood) linguistic system in French, in that it represents the internal time of the process on its terminal point ([R = Et]). Due to this representation of internal time, the p.p. can be related to the second argument – the patientive argument – of a direct transitive process: it is the essential element of the passive construction. Contrary to what is often written, the copula être ‘be’, is an optional element: it may serve to develop the construction in its periphrastic dimension, but it is not nece
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DYE, CRISTINA D. "Reduced auxiliaries in early child language: Converging observational and experimental evidence from French." Journal of Linguistics 47, no. 2 (2010): 301–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s002222671000037x.

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Since early studies in language development, scholars have noticed that function words, in particular auxiliaries, often appear to be missing in early speech, with the result that child utterances sometimes exhibit verbs with non-finite morphology in seemingly matrix clauses. This has led to the idea of a ‘deficit’ in the child's syntactic representations. In contrast with previous studies, this article explores the possibility that the child's phonology may considerably impact her overt realization of auxiliaries. Specifically, it examines the hypothesis that non-finite verbs in early speech
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Huang, C. T. James, and Na Liu. "A new passive form in Mandarin." International Journal of Chinese Linguistics 1, no. 1 (2014): 1–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/ijchl.1.1.01hua.

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This paper discusses the syntax, semantics and historical source of the new bèi XX construction in Mandarin from a cross-linguistic perspective. We argue that bèi XX is not a special construction that involves the passivization of intransitive verbs. What is passivized in it is not XX itself but a null light verb with the elementary semantics of a causative, putative or activity predicate that takes XX as its complement or adjunct. Such null light verb constructions are abundant in Old Chinese and English, though often not in passive form. Different from them, the bèi XX construction does not
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Ahland, Michael. "Subject marking interrupted: Perturbations from the development of Northern Mao’s future tense suffix." Studies in African Linguistics 43, no. 2 (2014): 58–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.32473/sal.v43i2.107264.

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Northern Mao, an Omotic-Mao language of Ethiopia, exhibits three partially overlapping but distinct subject-marking paradigms in its verbal system: subject prefixes on realis verbs which correspond closely to free pronouns, subject suffixes on irrealis negative non-future verbs which exhibit regular changes from the realis prefixes, and a third, more divergent, subject suffix system on irrealis future verbs which exhibits an [m] form not attested as a person marker elsewhere in the language or extended family. It is argued (from internal evidence) that the irrealis future verbs developed from
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Dewi, Astri Arni Murdasari. "Grammatical Construction of Verb-Particle “off” in English." Notion: Journal of Linguistics, Literature and Culture 1, no. 1 (2019): 8. http://dx.doi.org/10.12928/notion.v1i1.710.

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This research investigates language phenomenon of verb-particle construction with particle off in English. This attempts to describe grammatical construction of verb-particle off. This research was conducted by descriptive-qualitative research method. The implementation of this method was through a number of stage: data gathering, analyzing data, and presenting the result of the data analysis. The stage of analyzing the data was performed by using distributional and identification method with a number of techniques. This study found that verb-particle construction can be distinguished from ver
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Pradeep Kumar Das. "The Form and Function of Conjunct Verb Construction in Hindi." Journal of South Asian Studies 15, no. 1 (2009): 191–207. http://dx.doi.org/10.21587/jsas.2009.15.1.009.

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Bernander, Rasmus. "On the “Atypical” Imperative Verb Form in Manda." Studia Orientalia Electronica 8, no. 3 (2020): 22–42. http://dx.doi.org/10.23993/store.69737.

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This paper accounts for the atypical Imperative verb form found in Manda, a Bantu language spoken along the shores of Lake Nyasa in southern Tanzania. Unlike the vast majority of Bantu languages, Manda lacks a reflex of the so called “morphologically specialized” imperative. Instead, Imperatives (as well as other directives) are expressed with the suffixation of a marker of the form -ayi. Based on the form-meaning variation found both language-internally and in comparative data, this study reconstructs the functional and formal pathways of change leading to the highly unusual situation encount
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Beuls, Katrien. "An open-ended computational construction grammar for Spanish verb conjugation." Constructions and Frames 9, no. 2 (2017): 278–301. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/cf.00005.beu.

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Abstract The Spanish verb phrase can take on many forms, depending on the temporal, aspectual and modal interpretation that a speaker wants to convey. At least half a dozen constructions work together to build or analyze even the simplest verb form such as hablo ‘I speak’. This paper documents how the complete Spanish verb conjugation system can be operationalized in a computational construction grammar formalism, namely Fluid Construction Grammar. Moreover, it shows how starting from a seed grammar that handles regular morphology and grammar one can create a productive grammar that captures s
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Durnford, Stephen P. B. "Did Lycian adopt a new clause structure in place of inherited -r-passives?" Kadmos 58, no. 1-2 (2019): 157–84. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/kadmos-2019-0008.

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Abstract The corpora of the IE Anatolian languages vary widely in script, legibility, size, date, subject matter, and in the extent to which we understand them. Four syntactic features which they appear to have inherited are: a S(ubject)- O(bject)-V(erb) clause structure; declined anaphoric pronouns attached enclitically to a clause’s first accented element; the ability to move the object or verb to the start of a clause for emphasis (“fronting”); the option not to enforce case and number agreement among more than two coordinated elements. The discovery of the Lycian languages and our current
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Kikilo, Natalia I. "On the elusive grammatical status of da-construction in Macedonian and Serbian (independent type)." NSU Vestnik. Series: Linguistics and Intercultural Communication 18, no. 2 (2020): 62–78. http://dx.doi.org/10.25205/1818-7935-2020-18-2-62-78.

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The da-construction in Macedonian and Serbian languages combines the modal conjunctive particle da with the finite form of the verb to express a wide range of modal meanings. Being a Balkan Sprachbund novelty, the da-constructions in dependent clauses take on the functions of the infinitive in a complex predicate (in all cases in Macedonian, partly in Serbian). The da-construction in independent simple sentences has a complete conjugation paradigm with the imperative meaning and competes with the synthetic imperative forms in both languages, expressing also optative meanings. The article offer
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Chen, Chen, and Feng-hsi Liu. "L2 acquisition of the bei passive in Mandarin Chinese: A constructionist approach." Chinese as a Second Language Research 9, no. 2 (2020): 169–98. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/caslar-2020-0007.

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Abstract A major claim in the constructionist approach to language acquisition is that grammar is learned by pairings of form and function. In this study we test this claim by examining how L2 learners of Mandarin Chinese acquire the bei passive construction, a construction that is associated with the meaning of adversity. Our goal is to find out whether L2 learners make the association between the passive and adversity. Participants performed a sentence choice task under four conditions: an adversative context with an adversative verb, an adversative context with a neutral verb, a neutral con
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Li, Moying, and Lian Zhang. "The Linearity of Verb Copying Cleft Construction in Chinese: Semantic Underspecification and Pragmatic Enrichment." Journal of Language Teaching and Research 12, no. 3 (2021): 429–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.17507/jltr.1203.13.

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In Standard Chinese, verb doubling cleft construction (henceforth VDCC) has received little attention in the linguistic literature. Recently, Cheng and Vicente (2013) claim that VDCC has the same internal syntax as regular clefts, and two verbs stand in A-bar movement relation based on the lexical identity effect. In this paper, we argue that (1) VDCC is derived in line with the principle of linearity; (2) the first verb is a reduced minimal form acting as a topic which is pragmatically enriched via contextual information; (3) the second verb is interpretively dependent on the first verb.
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Schadeberg, Thilo C. "Tmesis in Ebang (Heiban, Kordofanian)." Faits de Langues 51, no. 1 (2020): 79–98. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/19589514-05101006.

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Abstract This paper describes an intricate pattern of subject placement in Ebang, a Kordofanian language spoken in the Nuba Mountains (Sudan). In this construction, a lexical subject appears within a complex verb form. The lexical subject may consist of a bare noun or a whole noun phrase. The insertion point is immediately before the verb stem but after all inflectional morphology. The initial part of the discontinuous verb form is shown to be not a word but a bound form, suggesting that the notions of morphological word and syntactic atom need not coincide.
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GOLDBERG, ADELE E., DEVIN M. CASENHISER, and NITYA SETHURAMAN. "The role of prediction in construction-learning." Journal of Child Language 32, no. 2 (2005): 407–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0305000904006798.

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It is well-established that (non-linguistic) categorization is driven by a functional demand of prediction. We suggest that prediction likewise may well play a role in motivating the learning of semantic generalizations about argument structure constructions. We report corpora statistics that indicate that the argument frame or construction has roughly equivalent cue validity as a predictor of overall sentence meaning as the morphological form of the verb, and has greater category validity. That is, the construction is at least as reliable and more available than the verb. Moreover, given the
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Zhang, Min. "Revisiting the alignment typology of ditransitive constructions in Chinese dialects." Bulletin of Chinese Linguistics 4, no. 2 (2011): 87–259. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/2405478x-90000063.

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With data from over a thousand regional varieties of Chinese, the paper presents a comprehensive survey of ditransitive constructions in Chinese dialects and their alignment types, focusing in particular on delving in system-internal and external factors correlating with the observed typological distinctions. It starts with questioning the validity of one of Hashimoto’s (1976) well-known parameters for North-South typological classification of Chinese – i.e., the double object construction (DOC) takes the form of V-OR-OT in Northern Chinese and V-OT-OR in Southern Chinese, the latter also know
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Nau, Nicole. "The Latvian continuative construction runāt vienā runāšanā ‘talk in one talking’ = ‘keep talking’." Baltic Linguistics 10 (December 31, 2019): 21–63. http://dx.doi.org/10.32798/bl.360.

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Latvian may express continuative aspect by means of a complex construction which consists of a verb and a locative phrase headed by an action noun from the same verb. The construction is productive and attested with a variety of durative verbs. Salient exemplars are some verbs of talking and crying. In a clause the construction most often is treated in the same way as simple verb forms. Formally and functionally the construction is related to three other cognate constructions in Latvian as well as to iteration of the type talk and talk. However, in these other constructions continuative meanin
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Juge, Matthew L. "Morphological factors in the grammaticalization of the Catalan “go” past." Diachronica 23, no. 2 (2006): 313–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/dia.23.2.05jug.

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The Catalan periphrastic perfective past is a so-called “go” past: Vaig cantar, lit. “I-go to-sing”, “I sang” vs. Vaig allà, lit. “I-go there”, “I go there”. Its semantic development has been much discussed, but it presents morphological issues as well. Previous analyses ignore key morphological factors, especially the shift from the early mix of preterit and present auxiliary forms to exclusive use of the present and the development of several variant auxiliary forms. The auxiliary-plus-infinitive construction shares some but not all forms with the lexical verb anar “to go”. Early examples us
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Gudmestad, Aarnes, Amanda Edmonds, Bryan Donaldson, and Katie Carmichael. "On the role of the present indicative in variable future-time reference in Hexagonal French." Canadian Journal of Linguistics/Revue canadienne de linguistique 63, no. 1 (2017): 42–69. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/cnj.2017.41.

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AbstractThis article investigates variable future-time expression among native speakers of Hexagonal French who participated in informal conversations. The quantitative analysis is the first to examine the inflectional future, periphrastic future, and present indicative as separate forms within a single statistical model of French oral production. Results indicate that temporal distance and presence/absence of a temporal expression predict use of these verb forms. The second phase of the analysis focused on the use of the present indicative in future-time contexts. The examination of each inst
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Assendelft, Brenda. "Hoe meer je erop let, hoe vaker kom je ze tegen*." Nederlandse Taalkunde 24, no. 2 (2019): 137–55. http://dx.doi.org/10.5117/nedtaa2019.2.001.asse.

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Abstract The present paper presents a corpus-based analysis of a construction that has not been studied thoroughly yet, viz. the Dutch comparative correlative (e.g. hoe eerder, hoe beter het is; hoe eerder, des te beter het is ‘the sooner, the better it is’). Contrary to previous literature, this paper gives a more comprehensive description of the form and use of the comparative correlative. It shows, for instance, that there is a notable preference for verb-final word order in the second part of the hoe… hoe… construction, while hoe… des te… seems compatible with both verb-second and verb-fin
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Temaja, I. Gede Bagus Wisnu Bayu. "Intransitive Verb Markers in Balinese." JURNAL ARBITRER 5, no. 2 (2018): 60. http://dx.doi.org/10.25077/ar.5.2.60-66.2018.

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This research investigated intransitive verb markers in Balinese. The objectives of the research were: 1) to identify various markers of intransitive verb construction, and 2) to identify the syntactic behaviours of the markers in marking the intransitive verb. The research was conducted in three stages: data collection, data analysis, and data display. The data were collected by applying interview method. The data were obtained from Balinese speakers, Balinese literature, as well as the researcher as a native speaker of Balinese. The data were analyzed by using the distributional method. The
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Hatav, Galia. "Verb phrase secondary predication: Biblical Hebrew as a case study." Linguistics 58, no. 2 (2020): 363–78. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/ling-2020-0044.

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AbstractIn this article, I discuss secondary predication in Biblical Hebrew, showing that contrary to what linguists such as Rothstein (2004. Structuring events. Malden, MA & Oxford: Blackwell) suggest, there are languages with verb phrases as secondary predicates.In particular, I deal with a construction in Biblical Hebrew I refer to as the double infinitive-absolute construction, where in addition to a finite verb, the sentence contains two conjoined occurrences of an infinitive absolute, where the first is of the same root and binyan (pattern) as the finite verb but deprived of temporal
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Mikulskas, Rolandas. "Paths of grammaticalization of the Lithuanian copula VIRSTI ‘turn into’: The case of the inclusive copular constructions." Lietuvių kalba, no. 13 (December 20, 2019): 1–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.15388/lk.2019.22491.

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In this article I aim to establish source constructions for the inclusive copular construction with the verb virsti ‘turn into’ and to discuss how this once locomotional verb eventually became a copula with an aspectual function in the sentences profiling change events. The research is conducted on the base of data provided by the Dictionary of the Lithuanian Language. As I argued in Mikulskas (2018), the copular construction with this verb along with other copular constructions featuring verbs with similar meaning, such as tapti ‘become’, darytis/pasidaryti ‘become’ (lit. ‘make oneself’) and,
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Kuppusamy, C. "Verb Phrase in Tamil." Shanlax International Journal of Arts, Science and Humanities 7, no. 4 (2020): 76–79. http://dx.doi.org/10.34293/sijash.v7i4.1921.

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The verb phrase is built up of a verb, which is the head of the construction. Verb occurs as predicate in the rightmost position of a clause. As a predicate it selects arguments (Ex. Subject, Direct object, Indirect object and Locative NPs) and assigns case to its arguments and adverbial adjuncts. Another syntactic property of verbs in Tamil is that they can govern subordinate verb forms. Verb occurring as finite verbs in clause final position can be complemented by non-finite verbs proceeding them. The latter with respect to the interpretation of tense or subject governs these non-finite form
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Ellis, Nick C., and Fernando Ferreira-Junior. "Constructions and their acquisition." Annual Review of Cognitive Linguistics 7 (November 16, 2009): 188–221. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/arcl.7.08ell.

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This paper presents a psycholinguistic analysis of constructions and their acquisition. It investigates effects upon naturalistic second language acquisition of type/token distributions in the islands comprising the linguistic form of English verb-argument constructions (VACs: VL verb locative, VOL verb object locative, VOO ditransitive) in the ESF corpus (Perdue, 1993). Goldberg (2006) argued that Zipfian type/token frequency distribution of verbs in natural language might optimize construction learning by providing one very high frequency exemplar that is also prototypical in meaning. Ellis
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King, Ruth. "Subject-verb agreement in Newfoundland French." Language Variation and Change 6, no. 3 (1994): 239–53. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0954394500001678.

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ABSTRACTIn Newfoundland French the verb does not agree in number with a plural subject in one particular construction–subject relative clauses–but rather displays default singular marking. Agreement is made with the subject relative pronoun, which does not have a morphological feature for number associated with it. This absence of a number feature results in a form consistently spelled out as homophonous with the third-person singular. Gender agreement transmitted in subject relatives containing a predicate adjective is evidence that number marking is at issue, not agreement in general. An exc
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