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Das lettische Verbum: aufs neue dargestellt von dem Verfasser der Formenlehre der lettischen Sprache
1843
STRATEGIE DI CODIFICA LINGUISTICA DEGLI EVENTI DI MOVIMENTO NEL GRECO OMERICO
INHERENT TELICITY AND PROTO- INDO-EUROPEAN VERBAL PARADIGMS
2016
In recent aspectual classi}cations telicity is described as a compositional syntactic property, and verbs are analyzed as complex structures made up of completely neutral roots. However, semantic changes due to both derivational processes and dierent syntactic contexts could have obscured the relationship between root lexical aspect and verb morphological paradigms. The purpose of this paper is to show that telicity can be considered as an inherent lexical property: the co-occurrence in a sentence with arguments, adverbials or speci}c pragmatic contexts which can (de)telicize the event described by a verb has consequences at syntactic level, whereas the prototypical aspect of the root is p…
Bene : Adverb or noun?
2013
International audience; When Italian bene ‘good / well’ occurs with fare ‘do / make’, several constructs with remarkably different argument frames are involved. This paper deals with three of them: (a) Il latte fa bene ai bambini ‘Milk is good for children’; (b) Fa bene il suo lavoro ‘She does her job well’, and (c) Faresti bene a non dire niente ‘You would do well to say nothing about it’. We discuss dictionary discrepancies concerning the lexical category of 'bene' in (a), which we take to be a noun predicate, and draw a distinction between the adverbial uses in (b) and (c).
Expresiones proverbiales y comedia en la Declamación XXVI de Libanio
2016
Publicado en el monográfico dedicado a: ΕΥΠΟΙΚΙΛΟΝ ΑΝΘΟΣ. Estudios sobre teatro griego en homenaje a Antonio Melero [ES] La Declamación XXVI de Libanio muestra a un misántropo que no soporta los ruidos y se ha casado con una charlatana. El tema de la excesiva locuacidad tiene un amplio reflejo en los proverbios –presentes también en la comedia–, que el autor utiliza para dar vida a su discurso y para caracterizar a sus personajes. [EN] The Declamation XXVI by Libanius shows a misanthrope who does not support noises and is married with a talkative woman. The topic of the excessive talkativeness has a broad reflection in proverbs –also present in the comedy–, which the author uses to breathe …
Literacy skills and online research and comprehension: struggling readers face difficulties online
2019
The present study evaluated the extent to which literacy skills (reading fluency, written spelling, and reading comprehension), together with nonverbal reasoning, prior knowledge, and gender, are related to students’ online research and comprehension (ORC) performance. The ORC skills of 426 sixth graders were measured using a Finnish adaptation of the Online Research and Comprehension Assessment. Results of a structural equation model showed that these ORC skills were divided into six highly correlated factors, and that they formed a common factor in ORC. Altogether, these predictor variables explained 57% of the variance in ORC. Reading comprehension, along with gender, was the strongest p…
Spanish spatial deictic adverbs: interpretation and discourse functioning with depersonalizing constructions
2018
En el presente articulo, analizamos las diferentes funciones de los adverbios deicticos espaciales del espanol. Mas concretamente, el analisis de los adverbios deicticos espaciales en construcciones despersonalizadoras muestra que, si se produce una ausencia de formas deicticas personales, la interpretacion de los adverbios deicticos espaciales no solo depende de los factores fisicos, sino tambien de los factores contextuales del discurso. Ademas, se muestra como los adverbios deicticos espaciales en construcciones despersonalizadoras cumplen funciones diferentes que si se utilizan junto con los deicticos de persona o con referencias concretas de tercera persona. En efecto, en ausencia de l…
D’Achille, P., 2010. L’italiano contemporaneo. Bologne : Il Mulino
2014
We make here the review of Paolo D’Achille’s L’italiano contemporaneo. The author deals with a lot of themes concerning contemporary Italian in this book: the situation of Italian language today (the fact that it is spoken along with dialects, its main characteristics, the italiano standard and the italiano dell’uso medio or neostandard); the onomastics (the first names, the ergonyms…); the lexicon (the basic Italian, the loan words…); the phonetics and the phonology (the Italian phonemes and the question of the consonant’s length, the structure of the syllable…); the inflected morphology (the system of the pronouns and the system of the verb and their innovations…); the lexical morphology …
Uso y funciones de los «hashtags» evidenciales en Twitter
2021
This paper examines evidential hashtags on Twitter. The analyzed hashtags contain constructions of the verb decir (‘to say’) that are preceded by the hash symbol (e.g., #dicen, #sedice, #esodicen, #dicenporahí), which have not been analyzed from the perspective of evidentiality. An exploratory and qualitative study was performed using a sample of 94 tweets that were published over six months. The analysis addresses structural and semantic-pragmatic parameters. According to the results of the analysis, evidential hashtags can transmit reportative, quotative and folklore evidentiality. Furthermore, the evidential meaning of the hashtags is accompanied by pragmatic functions such as attenuatio…
Discourse markers and modality in spoken Catalan: The case of (és) clar
2012
Abstract The present paper illustrates the fuzzy limits between modality markers and discourse markers by analysing the different uses based on the word clar ‘clear’ in oral Catalan. Clar is lexically described as an adjective, but it has developed different functions in various syntactic and pragmatic contexts. In the adverbial and the interjective uses, (es) clar (que) ‘it is clear that’ is a modality marker indicating certainty and shared knowledge. As a conjunction, clar que has developed a concessive meaning (‘but, nevertheless’). When (es) clar acts as a discourse marker (i.e. introducing an utterance) it can be an effective mitigation device used to soften a potentially face-threaten…