The Icelandic preposition hjá ‘at’: Its role in canonical intransitive sentences
This paper seeks to explain the roles that the preposition hjá plays in canonical intransitive sentences in Icelandic. According to Hopper and Thompson’s (1980) transitivity hypothesis, this type of intransitive sentence is characterised by the expression of an event that contains a participant aff...
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| Main Author: | Toshiko Yamaguchi |
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Universiti Malaya
2017-06-01
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| Series: | Journal of Modern Languages |
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| Online Access: | http://jummec.um.edu.my/index.php/JML/article/view/3327 |
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