Based on novels written in Modern Standard Arabic published between 1963 and 2005 and from the entire Arab world, this article suggests how the hypothetical systems of this variety of language no longer correspond to the established "classical" model. Specifically, it demonstrates that the so called...

The verbs of speech – first considered a distinct category in the classifications of Latin grammars – have been very little studied over time, as scientific works focused mainly on their functions, as revealed in discursive techniques. The class of verba dicendi is usually discussed together with th...

<p>L’articolo riflette brevemente sul percorso di acquisizione di modi e tempi verbali della lingua italiana da parte di apprendenti sinofoni. Molte ricerche hanno messo in evidenza un ordine ricorrente nelle sequenze di acquisizione del sistema verbale che costituisce, come è noto, una delle maggio...

Con el convencimiento de que la literatura posee un potencial didáctico que la convierte en un material idóneo para ser llevado al aula de ELE, proponemos una secuencia didáctica articulada en torno a una selección del cómic Arrugas (2007) de Paco Roca. Las actividades, pensadas para un nivel B2, es...

The present paper aims at defining the preferred usage in constructing sentences with subordinate clauses of time in Russian and Italian. The research is based on about 400 examples from over seventy texts and their translations in both languages. The major difference between the languages lies in t...

International audience Building on previous findings on tense construals and on constraints on modal-temporal configurations, this paper presents a semantic analysis of subjunctive tenses in Spanish which departs from the defective-tense hypothesis. The subjunctive tense system is analysed in a para...

This thesis investigates embedded constituent interrogatives at the syntax/semantic interface.Three areas are analysed: interrogative terms; embedding predicates; moods and tenses. Theinterrogative terms belong to three paradigms: ὅς (relative), τίς (direct interrogative) and ὅστις (socalledindefini...

Abstract Feriba Vafi is a hard working novelist of our time. Her first novel was ‘My bird’ has been worried to alleviate the plight of women in the society. In her last novel by the name of ‘bad az payan’ she deals with women issue continuously. But to intensify the effective ness of the story in th...

This paper intends to present an analysis of classes in Elementary Brazilian Schools. At first, these classes were video-recorded with the purpose of evaluating how the school knowledge is taken as an object in specific spaces and time. There were analyzed fragments of the classroom discourse in...