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Showing 1 to 20 of 21 for “"participles"”.
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Towards a typology of participles
The dissertation is a typological study of participles based on the concept of participle specifically designed for cross-linguistic comparison. In a few words, participles are defined as non-finite verb forms that can be employed for adnominal modification, e.g. the form written in the book …
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Morphological processing in children : an experimental study of German past participles
… behaviour towards three participle types (-t participles, e.g. getanzt ‘danced’ vs. -n participles with stem change, e.g. gebrochen ‘broken’ vs.-n participles without stem change, e.g. geschlafen ‘slept’). For the central level, results indicate that -t participles but not -n participles have …
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The morphosemantics and morphosyntax of the Malayalam verb
… uses of the -uka marker are progressive participles, that Conjunctive Participles are best analyzed as Stump (1985)-style absolutives and that -athu gerunds involve nominalization above the TP-level (cf. Borsley & Kornfilt 2000, Baker 2011).
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A descriptive study of perceived and assessed business letter writing problems of bankers in branch locations
… of pronouns; wordiness (excessive); dangling participles; and preposition usage. The bankers answered a survey concerning their access to training and instruction in business letter writing. Each banker submitted four recently originated business letters. Composition aspect deficiencies within …
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Case, agreement and word order : issues in the syntax and acquisition of Taml
… subjects, imperatives) and non-finite (verbal participles, infinitivals) sentences, and the theoretical processes necessary for the assignment of case and the determining of verb agreement are established. Evidence is given for the TP-internal positions of the various argument DPs, including …
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Endophoric and evidential metadiscourse markers in literary studies: english vs lithuanian /
… more complex in Lithuanian due to the use of participles and specific moods (modus relativus and modus indicativus). These differences underscore the importance of understanding cultural and linguistic nuances in academic writing practices. Recognizing and adapting to these distinct rhetorical …
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'Ze willen grieven eten'-- teorie en praktyk van die vertaling van 'n Nederlandse kinderboek
… Dutch text. Approximately half of the present participles in the source text were translated by present participles in the target text. The rest were translated by means of other syntactic structures, 13 different types of which were used. These are classified according to the grammatical …
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On reduced relatives with genitive subjects
… pronouns and complementizers. Both employ participles, i.e., verbs that lack tense but exhibit nominal properties. Both prohibit nominative subjects. Therefore, it will be argued that relative clauses with genitive subjects are reduced relatives. There exists, however, one difference …
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Evaluation of sentence construction in English essays: A case study of Grade 10 learners of Malamulele Northeast Circuit
… concord error, vague expression, dangling participles as well as incorrect ad overuse of connective devices.
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Motivaties voor volgordevariatie : een diachrone studie van werkwoordvolgorde in het Nederlands
… zijn (to be) or worden (to become) and a past participles both allow the word order auxiliary – past participle and past participle – auxiliary, without any clear difference in meaning or function: (1) Het is normaal dat hij ooit fouten heeft gemaakt / gemaakt heeft. It is normal that he …
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The Syntax of the Nominal Forms of the Verb in Livy Book XXX
… the infinitives, gerundives, gerunds, supines, participles contained in Livy, Book 30, aims to point out how the author has made use of these constructions in this part of his history. In order to illustrate more clearly Livy's employment of these nominal forms of the verb, numerous examples …
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The Syntactic Structures of Relativisation
… including their restrictions on auxiliaries and participles, the interpretation of the present/progressive participle and the subject restriction, whilst evidence from high adverbs indicates close similarities between the clausal and clause-medial left peripheries (Chapter 6). This thesis thus …
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A Diachronic Analysis of Western Armenian Verbal Morphology
… marker shifts, the development of particles and participles, and the interplay between synthetic and analytical forms. The historical development of WA dialects is framed in the context of the two Sprachbünde (Byzantine and Ottoman) and their typological realignment of the verbal structure …
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Temporal and Aspectual auxiliaries in Maltese
… with one another and with lexical verbs and participles in periphrastic structures. The bleached semantics displayed by the forms to be discussed will be taken to be our primary identifier of an auxiliary status. Only one auxiliary expresses tense in the language, however a number of …
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Prepositions and prepositional verbs in classical Arabic
… associating with the active and the passive participles deriving from transitive verbs. The second part on the other hand is interested in Verb-Preposition-Noun combinations: it tries to differentiate between those whose verbal elements are in close construction with the Preposition-Noun …
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A grammar of Chukchi
… attention to deverbal noun subtypes, such as participles and action nouns. Chapter 9 is concerned with complex nouns, including complex noun phrases (which can only occur in the absolutive case) and nouns with incorporation. A discussion of verbs takes up the next five chapters. Chapter 10 …
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A grammar of Chukchi
… attention to deverbal noun subtypes, such as participles and action nouns. Chapter 9 is concerned with complex nouns, including complex noun phrases (which can only occur in the absolutive case) and nouns with incorporation. A discussion of verbs takes up the next five chapters. Chapter 10 …
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The Syntax of the Dialect of Bari
… limited to a small number of ‘strong’ participles which mark agreement exclusively through metaphonetic alternation. The final chapter is concerned with Barese progressive and andative periphrases which variously show inflected forms of the lexical verb in the 2SG-3SG of the present in …
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Comprehension of Spanish relative and passive clauses by early bilinguals and second language learners
… To comprehend adjectival/stative passives with participles, learners had to realize that a description of a state or final result followed the copula estar. To comprehend verbal passive clauses, learners had to know that the first noun phrase was not the agent, but the object. The reanalysis is …
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