10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SIMILATIVE»
Discover the use of
similative in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
similative and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Adverbial Constructions in the Languages of Europe
The three types of exceptions share the common feature that in these cases the
similative marker is stronger than the equative standard marker: (a) by
reinforcement through the correlate, (b) by not being weakened to a general
subordinator, ...
Johan van der Auwera, Dónall Ó Baoill, 1998
2
Reported Discourse: A Meeting Ground for Different ...
The data provides an interesting counter-point to the data on se discussed in §2,
and deep and striking parallels with the data on Shona ti (Giildemann, this
volume). 3.1 Similative preposition or predicate As noted earlier, olsem derives
from ...
Tom Güldemann, Manfred von Roncador, 2002
3
Clusivity: Typology and Case Studies of Inclusive-exclusive ...
'you.pl' associative, associative, associative, similative similative, similative
dyadic (associative?) similative classes of nouns. This distribution is shown on
Table 3.13 Deep gray marks areas in which the relevant reading is always
available to ...
4
Denominal Verb Formation in English
Therefore, a decision was made to use existing -ize and conversion denominal
verbs whose meanings indicate contexts other than the four used for the test
items, namely SIMILATIVE (ACT AS/LIKE N), PERFORMATIVE (DO/PERFORM N
), ...
Carolyn A. Gottfurcht, 2007
5
Early English in the Computer Age: Explorations Through the ...
The basic unit in all similes is a variable syntagma here called the similative
phrase. The structure of the similative phrase is ground + comparative element +
Y (e. g., as dead as a door-nail). The ground may be overt or covert in Middle
English ...
Matti Rissanen, Merja Kytö, Minna Palander-Collin, 1993
6.6.2 Gender distinction There is some gender distinction in similative modifiers,
especially when the modifier makes reference to livestock – -ya marks masculine,
and -i marks feminine. The source of the distinction is undoubtedly Nepali:5 ...
11.3.3.4. Ambient similative SVCs The similative construction is very common in
the text corpus. Two verbs occur in this construction. The first is gang 'be like that'.
This similative verb is anaphoric, pointing to something previously introduced in ...
8
Quotatives: Cross-linguistic and Cross-disciplinary Perspectives
Van with similative meaning in the context of iets 'something': From the beginning
of the 19th century onwards, existential iets 'something' occurs with van and
genitive adjectives and nouns; the construction usually has similative meaning
and ...
Isabelle Buchstaller, Ingrid van Alphen, 2012
9
Evidentials: Turkic, Iranian and Neighbouring Languages
Similative-evidential forms More pertinent for the current topic are similative-
evidential forms, such as the Even form in -mdAs. This form is used to hedge the
truth of the proposition, indicating that the speaker is not certain in identification (
of ...
Lars Johanson, Bo Utas, 2000
10
Haspelmath, Martin; König, Ekkehard; Oesterreicher, Wulf; ...
Among others, this domain includes equative sentences such as (18a), similative
sentences such as (18b), and sentences which contain role phrases, such as (
18c): (18) English: (Indo-European, Germanic) (a) Robert is as tall as Maria (b) ...
