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predicados nominais equativos

English translation: predicative and equative nominal constructions


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16:15 Mar 17, 2011
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Social Sciences - Linguistics
Portuguese term or phrase: predicados nominais equativos
Observa-se que a ordem dos constituintes nas sintagmas nominais estabelece a distinção entre predicados nominais equativos
Matt Coler
Local time: 13:10
English translation:predicative and equative nominal constructions
Explanation:
This is the only thing that makes sense to me. (Sorry, I'm rushing to the airport - don't have time to look into this.)

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Predicative and equative nominal and copular constructions are closely ...
dspace.mit.edu/bitstream/handle/1721.1/14635/18147811.pdf?.

This dissertation is a study of structures of verbless predication in Israeli Hebrew and English. Predicative and equative nominal and copular constructions ...
mitwpl.mit.edu/catalog/rapo01
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Muriel Vasconcellos
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4Equative nominal predicate
Adriana Maciel
4equative and nominal predicates
Marlene Curtis
2predicative and equative nominal constructions
Muriel Vasconcellos


  

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Equative nominal predicate


Explanation:
"...in Chemehuevi The most basic kind of a nominal predicate is the equative nominal predicate such as the ones below. (c) if the causative is passivized. ..." (http://www.scribd.com/doc/25113678/Topics-in-Chemehuevi-morp...

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Or 'predicates', in the plural

Adriana Maciel
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equative and nominal predicates


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Copular, Nominal, and Small Clauses: A Study of Israeli Hebrew ...
Predicative and equative nominal and copular constructions are closely examined, as are embedded subject-predicate constructions ('small' clauses). ...
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[PDF] Copular, nominal, and small clauses : a study of Israeli Hebrew
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Juha Janhunen - 2003 - Foreign Language Study - 433 pages
The negation of nominal predicates takes place by the particle beshe. Clauses with nominal predicates can be divided into equative, ascriptive, locational, ...
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Marlene Curtis
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predicative and equative nominal constructions


Explanation:
This is the only thing that makes sense to me. (Sorry, I'm rushing to the airport - don't have time to look into this.)

Examples:

Predicative and equative nominal and copular constructions are closely ...
dspace.mit.edu/bitstream/handle/1721.1/14635/18147811.pdf?.

This dissertation is a study of structures of verbless predication in Israeli Hebrew and English. Predicative and equative nominal and copular constructions ...
mitwpl.mit.edu/catalog/rapo01

Muriel Vasconcellos
United States
Local time: 04:10
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 2450
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