Constraints on Reflexivization in Mandarin Chinese more books like this

by Haihua Pan

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The Grammar of Identity: Intensifiers and Reflexives in Germanic Languages more books like this

by Volker Gast

All major Germanic languages, except Yiddish, have intensifiers that have developed from the reconstructed Proto-Germanic form selba. For example, in English we have "herself", in Icelandic there is "sjA'alfur "and in Gothic - "silba." This book deals with the question of why intensifiers and reflexives are formally indistinguishable in so many ...

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Metadiscourse in L1 and L2 English more books like this

by Annelie Adel

The pervasive phenomenon of metadiscourse--commentary on the ongoing discourse--is beginning to take its rightful place among the major topics of discourse studies. This book makes simultaneous contributions to the theory of metadiscourse, corpus-based methods of studying such phenomena, and our knowledge of metadiscourse use in written English. ...

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On Interpreting Morphological Change: The Greek Reflexive Pronoun more books like this

by Roger D Woodard

In classical Attic Greek of the fifth century B.C., there are found six distinct forms of the reflexive pronoun: one form for each of the three persons of the singular and of the plural. This morphologically elaborate system is eventually replaced, however, by one in which there is only a single reflexive pronominal stem (-auto- or its variant ...

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The Acquisition of Intensifiers: Emphatic Reflexives in English and German Child Language more books like this

by Insa Gulzow, Insa G]lzow

In this volume, the acquisition of intensifiers by children acquiring German or English as their first language is analyzed. Based on a comparative analysis of intensifiers and related expressions in the two languages, the longitudinal production data of six German-speaking and six English-speaking children is examined with regard to when and in ...

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Russian Reflexive Verbs: In Search of Unity in Diversity more books like this

by Nelleke Gerritsen

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Reciprocals and Reflexives: Theoretical and Typological Explorations more books like this

by Ekkehard Konig (Editor), Volker Gast (Editor), Ekkehard Kanig (Editor)

This collection of original papers presents a survey of recent theoretical and cross-linguistic work on reciprocity and reflexivity, as well as the relationship between these two domains of grammar. It combines formal approaches, case studies on individual languages and broad typological surveys in one volume, showing that the interaction of ...

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A History of English Reflexive Pronouns: Person, Self, and Interpretability more books like this

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Reflexives: Forms and Functions more books like this

by Zygmunt Frajzyngier

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Reciprocals: Forms and Functions more books like this

by Zygmunt Frajzyngier

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The Grammar of English Reflexives more books like this

by Jorge Hankamer (Editor), Michael Helke

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Knowledge of Reflexives in a Second Language more books like this

by Margaret Thomas

This study addresses the debate about whether adult language learners have access to the principles and parameters of universal grammar in constructing the grammar of a second language. The data are based on two related experiments. The first examines the interpretation of English reflexive pronouns by native speakers of Japanese and of Spanish. ...

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Strategies of Reflexivisation and the Meaning of Predicates: A Contrastive Analysis of English, German, and French more books like this

by Andreas Fruhwirth, Ludwig Deringer (Editor), Rudiger Schreyer (Editor)

Reflexive situations play a vital role in people's lives and are consequently often encoded by specific grammatical devices. Many languages have more than one such strategy of reflexivisation at their disposal. The present study provides substantial evidence for its major claim that the preference for a particular strategy is motivated by that ...

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Viewpoint, reflexives, and the nature of noun phrases more books like this

by William R. Cantrall

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Marathi syntax : a study of reflexives. more books like this

by Kashi Wali

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The grammar of English reflexives more books like this

by Michael Helke

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Sprache und Interpretation : Semantik und Syntax reflexiver Strukturen im Französischen more books like this

by Jens Lüdtke

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