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Competing ditransitive constructions in Enets Enets中的竞争性及物结构

IF 0.5 3区文学

Functions of Language Pub Date : 2020-11-06 DOI: 10.1075/fol.17061.kha

O. Khanina, A. Shluinsky

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引用次数: 1

On the formation of a conjecturing clause-taking predicate in Modern Chinese 论现代汉语臆测式接句谓语的形成

IF 0.5 3区文学

Functions of Language Pub Date : 2020-11-04 DOI: 10.1075/fol.19029.lon

Haiping Long, Fang Wu, F. Ursini, Zhijun Qin

引用次数: 3

On the status of wh-exclamatives in English 试论英语中wh-感叹词的地位

IF 0.5 3区文学

Functions of Language Pub Date : 2020-08-28 DOI: 10.1075/fol.17028.hei

B. Heine, Gunther Kaltenböck, Tania Kuteva

引用次数: 1

Nominalisations in scientific English 科技英语中的名词化

IF 0.5 3区文学

Functions of Language Pub Date : 2020-08-28 DOI: 10.1075/fol.16055.hao

Jing Hao

引用次数: 6

Presupposed evaluation in environmental argumentative discourse 环境议论文中的预设评价

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Functions of Language Pub Date : 2020-07-06 DOI: 10.1075/FOL.18055.POU

Gabrina Pounds

引用次数: 0

Interpersonal functions of interjections 感叹词的人际功能

IF 0.5 3区文学

Functions of Language Pub Date : 2020-07-06 DOI: 10.1075/fol.19008.jin

Yi Jing

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引用次数: 5

A systemic functional study of modal verbs in the Chinese clause 汉语从句语气动词的系统功能研究

IF 0.5 3区文学

Functions of Language Pub Date : 2020-07-06 DOI: 10.1075/fol.17020.shu

Shu Yang

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引用次数: 1

Negation in complement clauses of fear-verbs 恐惧动词补语从句中的否定

IF 0.5 3区文学

Functions of Language Pub Date : 2020-06-30 DOI: 10.1075/fol.18056.dob

N. Dobrushina

引用次数: 5

Review of Ciardelli, Groenendijk & Roelofsen (2019): Inquisitive semantics Ciardelli, Groenendijk & Roelofsen(2019)综述:好奇语义

IF 0.5 3区文学

Functions of Language Pub Date : 2020-06-30 DOI: 10.1075/fol.00033.pun

V. Punčochář

引用次数: 1

Practices of indexing discrepant assumptions with German ich dachte (‘I thought’) in talk-in-interaction 用德语ich dachte(“我认为”)在对话-互动中对不同假设进行索引的实践

IF 0.5 3区文学

Functions of Language Pub Date : 2020-06-16 DOI: 10.1075/fol.00031.dep

Arnulf Deppermann, Silke Reineke

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引用次数: 3