Concessive Clauses
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This article presents the history of the Latvian disjunctive conjunction jeb ‘or’ and analyzes its relationship with OLith. jeib ‘if’. Jeb as a disjunctive conjunction is a result of strictly Latvian development and originates from the... more
Холодилова М. А. Условные и уступительные предложения в ингерманландском финском // Acta Linguistica Petropolitana. Труды Института лингвистических исследований РАН VIII, 1, 2012. С. 341–370.
It is well known that Judeo-Spanish has been formed and has developed outside the Iberian Peninsula in the so-called Sephardic diaspora. It was disconnected from the evolution of peninsular Spanish for several centuries and was beyond the... more
Since the beginning of the Sephardic diaspora in the Ottoman Empire, Judeo-Spanish has been in contact with different languages, both romance and others. The lexical borrowings from these languages are a characteristic element of... more
Le proposizioni concessive occupano un posto particolare rispetto ad altre frasi avverbiali, in quanto comportano una maggiore elaborazione logica: non a caso appaiono tardi nel corso dell'apprendimento linguistico, sono poco adoperate... more
This contribution presents a comparative, corpus-based study of three concessive subordinators from English, German and Spanish, i.e., 'although', 'obwohl' and 'aunque'. It investigates differences in the distribution of these operators... more
Language, Cognition and Logic, Viewed from the Polysemy of a Japanese Formal Noun tokoro (location) The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate an approach to language as it relates to cognition and thought processes by looking into the... more
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2007 « Continuity and discontinuity in discourse. Notes on yet and still. » in CELLE, A. et HUART, R. (ed.) Connectives as Discourse Landmarks John Benjamins. (177-194) yet and still each have three clearly differentiated uses relating... more
1998 « Notes on Wh- ever Concessive Constructions (Whatever they are) », Anglophonia, 4. Toulouse : Presses Universitaires du Mirail. (7-31) This paper aims to study the paradigm of concessive constructions involving WH -EVER markers.... more
El tema del presente estudio es la expresión de la condicionalidad y de la concesividad en judeoespañol moderno escrito (1880-1930). En la primera parte, se expone el contexto histórico-político y sociocultural que permitió la formación... more
Se lo studio della sintassi può apparire ai non appassionati arida materia, il presente volume è volto a sfatare questa communis opinio. Vi sono raccolti sette saggi che mettono in luce svariati aspetti della frase complessa: dalla... more
1997 « An Enunciative Study of the Rectifying Concessive Constructions : Not that, Except and Only », Anglophonia, 2. Toulouse : Presses Universitaires du Mirail. (107-128) The concessive signification can be constructed by an... more
This article offers a diachronic view on the conditional and concessive clauses in Judeo-Spanish. The main research material is a corpus of Sephardic texts published in the Eastern Mediterranean between 1880 and 1930. The paper describes... more
This paper provides a basic description of the formal and functional features of the concessive conditional clauses marked by -təri in Marathi and by -temo in Japanese through a contrastive analysis. The major findings of the study are as... more
In what follows I propose to study various combinations of the marker ALTHOUGH with the auxiliary DO in affirmative forms as illustrated by (1) below, for example: (1) ALTHOUGH an unhappy liaison with Rodin consumed much of her attention... more
O objetivo deste trabalho é investigar como a relação retórica de concessão é expressa por meio de orações hipotáticas adverbiais concessivas em um corpus constituído por elocuções formais (aulas) e entrevistas. A perspectiva teórica... more