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Cebuano passives revisited.(Report)
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Oceanic Linguistics
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December 1, 2007
- Author:
- Tanangkingsing, Michael; Huang, Shuanfan
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The view that the gi-clauses and/or their equivalents in other Philippine-type languages, specifically in Cebuano and closely related Bisayan languages, are active constructions has been widely accepted by a number of Austronesian linguists. In a recent study on the gi-verb clauses in Cebuano, however, another linguist reinterprets those with Verb-Patient-Agent (VPA) word order as passive. In this paper, we argue against such an interpretation, based on analyses of the semantics and discourse pragmatics of the gi- and naclauses in spoken data. A gi- attached to a verb implies a deliberate intention of an Agent; a na-clause directs attention to the often accidental effect of an ...
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phrase order
The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Linguistics;
P. H. MATTHEWS;
4 words
...phrase order. See word order .
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word order
The Oxford Dictionary of English Grammar;
SYLVIA CHALKER and EDMUND WEINER;
62 words
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order of words
The Oxford Dictionary of English Grammar;
SYLVIA CHALKER and EDMUND WEINER;
4 words
...order of words See WORD ORDER .
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‘word order’
The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Linguistics;
P. H. MATTHEWS;
74 words
...‘word order’. Used widely of the order of...commonly, phrases. E.g. the ‘basic word order’ in English is ‘SVO’...many, follows it. Hence ‘free word order’ often means, more strictly...
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hyperbaton
The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Linguistics;
P. H. MATTHEWS;
20 words
...hyperbaton [hʌɪˈpəːbətən]. The ancient term for any departure from normal word order.
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The Word Order of the Gospel of Luke: Its Foregrounded Messages
The Catholic Biblical Quarterly;
April 1, 2007 ;
Danove, Paul L;
787 words
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fixed
The Oxford Dictionary of English Grammar;
SYLVIA CHALKER and EDMUND WEINER;
255 words
......either of an individual word or of the word order is likely. Examples of fixed phrases...Theatre) with the OldˈVic . fixed word order: a characteristic of some languages, whereby a change in the word order can change the meaning of (a part...
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You say assurance, I say insurance: if it were only that...
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Cardillo, Louis M.;
787 words
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Focus and Structure in Biblical Hebrew: A Study of Word Order and...
The Catholic Biblical Quarterly;
October 1, 2003 ;
Cook, John A;
697 words
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Word Order in Arabic. (Reviews of Books).
The Journal of the American Oriental Society;
January 1, 2002 ;
Carter, M.G.;
787 words
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Task sensitivity of animacy effects: evidence from German picture...
Linguistics: an interdisciplinary journal of the language sciences;
September 1, 2003 ;
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787 words
......conceptual property of referents, affects word order. It is commonly assumed that animacy...are conceptualized can directly affect word order. That is, animates tend to surface in...referent processing and, consequently, word order in sentence production. We begin with...
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Topic-worthiness in German and English *.
Linguistics: an interdisciplinary journal of the language sciences;
January 1, 2005 ;
Doherty, Monika;
787 words
......many cases, the differences concern word order (as well as perspective and structural...verb phrase and more or less free word order as opposed to a language with a head initial verb phrase and rigid word order. 1. The beginning How do we begin...
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Word-Order Variation in Biblical Hebrew Poetry: Differentiating Pragmatics...
The Catholic Biblical Quarterly;
April 1, 2008 ;
Kirk, James C;
787 words
...NICHOLAS P. LUNN, Word-Order Variation in Biblical Hebrew Poetry...latest additions to the literature on word order in Biblical Hebrew. It is distinguished...begins by identifying the problem of word order variation in Biblical Hebrew poetry...
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Sign Order in Argentine Sign Language
Sign Language Studies;
October 1, 2004 ;
Massone, María Ignacia; Curiel, Mónica;
787 words
...Word order is the way in which languages establish...linguistic constraints and pragmatic purposes. WORD ORDER-the order of constituents in the sentence-...have been classified into three, major word-order types: SVO, VSO, and SOV. Greenberg's...
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THE RED PENCIL
The Washington Post;
August 12, 1998 ;
102 words
......Middle English? A: This one is easy. Word order started dominating; inflections started...like Modern English, relies heavily on word order for meaning. "The dog bites the man...only their order is different. Thus, word order determines meaning. In Old English, the...
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