Trends in the Study of Languages & Linguistics in Nigeria: A Festschrift for Philip Akụjụọobi NwachukwuOzo-mekuri Ndimele |
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... construction to translate past time meaning . Some linguists refer to such a construction as factative , but stative when it refers to non - past time meaning . Welmers ( 1973 : 141 ) affirms that ' a factative construction includes a ...
... construction to translate past time meaning . Some linguists refer to such a construction as factative , but stative when it refers to non - past time meaning . Welmers ( 1973 : 141 ) affirms that ' a factative construction includes a ...
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... construction in Ngwa . It argues , based on evidence from topicalization , clefting and subject pronominal clitic strategies , that the analytical causative construction consists of two clauses : a main clause and an embedded one . The ...
... construction in Ngwa . It argues , based on evidence from topicalization , clefting and subject pronominal clitic strategies , that the analytical causative construction consists of two clauses : a main clause and an embedded one . The ...
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... construction in each instance has one more NP argument . Comrie ( 1985b ) contrasts a causative construction with an anti - causative one ( a valency decreasing mechanism ) which is an intransitive construction related to a transitive ...
... construction in each instance has one more NP argument . Comrie ( 1985b ) contrasts a causative construction with an anti - causative one ( a valency decreasing mechanism ) which is an intransitive construction related to a transitive ...
Contents
Nwachukwu as a Celebrity | 1 |
The Poets Corner | 15 |
Applied Linguistics Sociolinguistics | 21 |
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