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10:06 Jun 29, 2007 |
Portuguese to English translations [PRO] Science - Linguistics / Verbs | |||||||
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| Selected response from: Muriel Vasconcellos United States Local time: 23:24 | ||||||
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4 | promotes inclusion |
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4 | triggers this incorporation |
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promotes inclusion Explanation: promover verbo transitivo 1. to promote, to advance, to further, to forward, to assist (in starting); 2. to foster, to foment, to encourage; 3. to upgrade, to give higher rank to, to advance (in station); 4. to elevate, to honour, to raise; promover a agricultura to promote the interest in agriculture; promover a venda to push the sale; promover desordem to promote disorder; promover o desenvolvimento to promote the development; promover um capitão ao posto de major to raise (to promote) a captain to the rank of major; incorporação substantivo feminino 1. incorporation, embodiment, inclusion; 2. grouping, joining; I believe this is it. Mike :) |
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triggers this incorporation Explanation: "In constructions containing either stative-adjectival or number verbs with incorporated classifiers in which the nominal antecedent that triggers this incorporation is present, there is a type of sentence-level classification which Allan (1977) has called ‘agreemental’." |
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