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'Oliver Twist': The narrator's tale (Dickens)

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This article uses a close textual analysis of Dickens' novel Oliver Twist to argue two key points: first, that the narrator of the novel is not so much an instrument in and for the novel--as has been argued by other critics--but that the novel is a tool

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The many ways of saying 'pattern' in French medical texts

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'Pattern' occurs in French as an anglicism; however, its meaning and scope of application are more restricted than those of the English term. With few exceptions, there is no one word that could be used as a French equivalent (the'missing word'). As a

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Predication, verb movement and the distribution of expletives

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This paper argues that predication theory is instrumental in capturing the distribution of expletives. (i) In interaction with well-known verb movement parameters, predication theory explains why not all languages have transitive expletive constructions.

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The mirative and evidentiality

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Evidentiality refers to the grammatical marking of the source of evidence for a proposition; mirativity refers to the marking of a proposition as representing information which is new to the speaker. Mirativity has sometimes been thought of as part of the

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On the grammaticalization of evidentiality

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This paper discusses the conditions for the grammaticalization of evidentiality in different languages, with special attention to the languages of South Eastern Europe and the Middle East. In these languages, evidentially marked discourse is opposed to ne