Clitics, those “funny little words” like English contracted future tense and pluperfect tense/conditional mood markers (’ll and ’d) or French pronominal objects (le ‘him’, la ‘her’, lui ‘to him/her’, etc.), have long been a source of fascination for linguists. Lacking an inherent stress that… read more
The paper proposes a lexicographic description of the polysemous word keuz ‘≈ regret’, from the Vannetais dialect of Breton. Our description is based both on written and oral usage, the latter being mostly that of the Pontivy region, in the North of the Department of Morbihan. Some of the… read more
The paper discusses impersonal constructions in Serbian within the Meaning-Text framework. It provides a definition and a typology of impersonal constructions, based on the notions of semantically full/empty and phonetically non-zero/zero subject lexemes, and describes the interaction of impersonal… read more
