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Lindsey, Traci Speed – ProQuest LLC, 2011
This study examines the motion verb system of Bulgarian, focusing both on the structure of the Bulgarian motion verb itself, and on the information typically encoded in the Bulgarian verb of motion. It then compares the Bulgarian motion verb system with the motion verb systems of two other Slavic languages, Russian and Bosnian-Croatian-Serbian…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Picture Books, Verbs, Motion
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Ueda, M. – Language Sciences, 1996
Discusses the fact that the conditional mood has wider distribution in Czech than in Russian as far as its meaning and use are concerned. An analysis of this phenomenon is proposed that makes use of many aspects and dimensions such as the relation between two propositions in an "if...then" construction, the "alternative…
Descriptors: Contrastive Linguistics, Czech, Discourse Analysis, Epistemology
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Jacobsson, Gunnar – 1963
A revival of interest in the Slavic participles "-nt-" and "-us-," particularly in their development into gerunds, prompts the author to question whether the forms are to be regarded as nominal or verbal forms in their linguistic classification. The historical problem of linguistic interference in the evolution of the Slavic "-nt-" and "-us-"…
Descriptors: Adjectives, Contrastive Linguistics, Diachronic Linguistics, Form Classes (Languages)
Alliere, Jacques – Linguistique, 1979
Examines verbal "multipersonal" inflections in Basque and other languages. (AM)
Descriptors: Basque, Caucasian Languages, Comparative Analysis, Czech