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The Swedish Verb "Lata" "Let" from a Synchronic and Diachronic Perspective
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Rawoens, Gudrun – Language Sciences, 2013
This paper aims at highlighting the syntactic and semantic variation of the Swedish verb "lata" "let" from both a synchronic and diachronic point of view. On the basis of corpus data containing Old and Modern Swedish texts from the 13th to the 19th centuries, the syntactic and semantic development of the verb is investigated within the framework…
Descriptors: Profiles, Semantics, Language Patterns, Verbs
From Noun to Intensifier: Massa and Massa's in Flemish Varieties of Dutch
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De Clerck, Bernard; Colleman, Timothy – Language Sciences, 2013
In this paper a case of synchronic layering is examined in which Dutch "massa" ("mass") and plural "massa's" ("masses") are attested with lexical uses as a collective noun, quantifying uses ("a large quantity of") and intensifying uses ("very")--with plural "massa's" only--in some Flemish varieties of Dutch. Against the background of…
Descriptors: Indo European Languages, Morphology (Languages), Nouns, Language Variation