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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"possessives"”.
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The possessive in Zulu
… and a complement- e.g. ya-umfana ' (of the boy) Possessives that are direct in manner have been distinguished by inter alia Dotee- These possessives are semantically and morphologically regular. e.g. ibhola lomfana (the ball of the boy) Some structures do not include the possessive particle and …
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The Syntax of the Dialect of Bari
… focusing on the interaction between adjectives, possessives and demonstratives. Barese nominals nearly systematically precede adjectives and possessives, except for a small class of rudimentary evaluative adjectives which may occur prenominally. These orders, derived via the phrasal movement of …
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Nominal phrases in English and Japanese speakers' L2 Mandarin grammars
… phrase with the plural marker, adjectival possessives and the co-occurrence of determinative elements, all of which differentiate these two languages from English. T.h is study involves 80 Japanese learners and 80 . English learners (placed at four proficiency levels) and 20 Mandarin native …
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Eolian morphosyntax: A comparative Romance perspective
… tend to differ –, which include (a) the use of possessives with kinship terms, (b) the distribution of past tense forms, (c) finite and non-finite complementation, and (d) pseudocoordination. Each section consists of a description of data obtained through fieldwork and offers an analysis rooted …
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The Sinitic Nominal Phrase Structure: A Minimalist Perspective
… lexical elements, such as numerals, classifiers, possessives, adjectives, and nouns, and functional elements, such as plural/collective markers, force particles, and modification markers. It is argued that the syntactic structure of the nominal phrase is universal regardless of the presence of …
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A grammatical sketch of Kunda Language
… includes pronouns, adjectives, demonstratives possessives and quantifiers. The study observes that the verbal structure of Kunda contains numerous prefixes and suffixes and that the basic verbal root for Kunda is CVC. It has also been established that Kunda uses a series of suffixes in verbal …
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Determination and modification in English and Tonga: a contrastive account
… but also in the feature inanimate/animate; (iii) possessives in Tonga especially those that denote consanguinity show instances of incorporation; (iv) Tonga shows an instance of an adherence to the parametric choice between head-first and head-last parameters when it comes to demonstratives. …
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Determination and modification in English and Tonga: a contrastive account
… but also in the feature inanimate/animate; (iii) possessives in Tonga especially those that denote consanguinity show instances of incorporation; (iv) Tonga shows an instance of an adherence to the parametric choice between head-first and head-last parameters when it comes to demonstratives. …
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Working memory and prediction in human sentence parsing
… reading) on German reflexives and Swedish possessives were designed to tease apart cue-based retrieval interference from encoding interference. The results of all three experiments suggest that there is no evidence that encoding interference affects the retrieval of a reflexive's …