The present paper aims to describe both synchronic and diachronic distributions of the habitual aspectual periphrasis ‘saber + infinitive’ in varieties Spanish spoken South American continent. data used for analysis come from Corpus de Referencia del Español Actual Siglo XXI.

Progressivity in German can be expressed not only by lexical means but also various periphrastic structures, e. g. the am-periphrasis, prepositions bei and combined with nominalized infinitives or infinitival construction auxiliary verb tun. However, use of these structures vary considerably from region to region, especially oral communication, often connection significant diastratic, diaphasic...

Motivated by the development of an information system based on Description Logics (DL), which provides efficient support for searching mathematical models in chemical process engineering, an n-ary existential quantifier for Description Logics is proposed. We show that the quantifier can be paraphrased using concept conjunctions and disjunctions and qualified number restrictions. Due to its high...

In recent years there has been renewed discussion in the linguistic literature of periphrases, that is syntactic constructions that express information similar to that realised by inflection and thus seem to straddle the syntax–morphology divide. Structures like the English perfect or progressive are without doubt composed of more than one syntactic element, but at the same time the information...

trope, the use of words in a non-literal sense, is among the topics found in the language and literature of all nations. however, all methods of using words considered as tropes in a language, are not necessarily regarded as such in another language and literature; and occasionally there are similarities and differences among known tropes. in german language and literature 10 types of tropes ar...

This paper argues for a renewed attempt at morphology in dependency grammar. The proposal made here is based on the concept of the “catena” proposed by Authors (in press). The predecessor to this notion was the “chain” introduced by O‟Grady (1998), and employed by Osborne (2005) and Groß and Osborne (2009). In morphology and morphosyntax, a morph catena is A MORPH OR A COMBINATION OF MORPHS THA...

The aim of this paper is to investigate the occurrences [ querer + verb in infinitive] Portuguese and its implications comparison ir infinitive], two constructions that express futurity. Based on notion exposed by Bybee Pagliuca (1987) concept desire one most common lexical sources future markers, we propose there an association between volition futurity made speakers Portuguese. study draws th...