The paper argues that developments and changes in relative-clause formation in Ukrainian since the end of the 18th c. are due to lexical variation between a relative particle, typically ščo ‘that’, with or without a resumptive pronoun, and the relative pronouns jakyj and kotryj ‘which’. This repertory of relativisers is the result of previous syntactic changes, without any further ones in the modern period. The paper provides evidence that there are no grammaticalised constraints attached to them in modern Standard Ukrainian or the dialects. Due to its lexical nature, relativiser selection is subject to substantial diatopic, diachronic and diaphasic variability, as well as to language contact and linguistic standardisation. The paper shows, with reference to contemporary Standard Ukrainian corpus data, that selection preferences may still correlate with extralinguistic and linguistic factors, such as jakyj as the standardised choice and ščo almost exclusively in subject position.
This paper investigates two roughly synonymous constructions, be obliged to V and be required to V, in British English in terms of which infinitival complements are attracted to the respective constructions. Taking the viewpoint of Construction Grammar, that constructions are form-meaning pairings of varying degrees of...
This article returns to the much-debated notion of equivalence and examines it through one
specific language pair, French and Turkish. The argument is straightforward enough to state but
harder to honour in practice: equivalence cannot be reduced to the hunt for matching words. It is
closer to a series of judgements, m...
This article uses frame semantics, the concept of a communicative frame, us-age-based construction grammar theory, and a corpus-based quantitative methodology to examine the characteristics of constructions in Polish that contain adverbial complements (ACs), the noun rzecz ‘thing’, and the quasi-participle ujmując ‘exp...
Prefixation is a morphological process which studies how morphemes are affixed in the beginning of their host words for either grammatical functions or for lexical expansion and derivation. This paper investigates aspects of the grammar of prefixation in English and Igbo Languages. It adopts a comparative theoretical f...
Okolo N Patrick, Florence Nne Agwu· World Journal of Advanced Re...· 0 citations
This study was motivated by the frequent use of sentences with the verb ada that require structural analysis, with the focus of the study directed toward the syntactic function of these sentences The data, consisting of 194 sentences composed by students in an academic context, were selected purposively and analyzed us...
Encep Kusumah, Nunung Sitaresmi, Rudi Adi Nugroho M.Pd. et al.· Tabasa Jurnal Bahasa Sastra...· 1 citation
Slavic numeral phrases (numerically quantified expressions) have been a constant target of inquiry because of tangled agreement relations of a twofold nature. First, the agreement of the cardinal with the complement noun varies for paucal cardinals and higher cardinals five and above. Second, higher numerals exhibit ‘o...
Yehor Duma, Yoshiki Mori· Theoria et Historia Scientia...· 0 citations
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