Use Of Verbal Forms Research Articles

К вопросу о жанровой системе англоязычного массмедийного нутриционального дискурса

The article is devoted to the analysis of the genre system of the mass media nutritional discourse with a special emphasis on texts dealing with the problem of healthy nutrition. The relevance of this study is due, on the one hand, to the significant growth and development of information technology and the significant role of modern media that influence all areas of society life, and on the other hand, the popularity of ideas and principles of proper nutrition. The purpose of this article is to consider the specifics of the genre space of the English mass media nutritional discourse, as well as to analyze the linguistic features of texts on healthy nutrition. The research material is texts on healthy nutrition published in English journals and posted on the Internet. Based on the results of the analysis of 1,500 mass media texts, and taking into account the subject of discussion, the pragmatics of messages, as well as the way information is represented, the author speaks about the existence of analytical and imperative genres within the mass media nutritional discourse. Analytical genres, which include reviews (food and dishes, cooking methods, etc.) and reports (results of scientific research, experiments, etc.) make up 43.5% of the sample material, they contain an analysis of a phenomenon, its justification and commentary. In turn, imperative genres represented by instructions, primarily culinary recipes, which account for 56.5% of the sample material, are characterized by a special nature and contain a clear algorithm of certain actions necessary for implementation. According to the results obtained, complex sentences, nominal forms and specialized vocabulary (terms, professionalisms, etc.) are common in analytical genres of mass media nutritional discourse, in turn, imperative genres are characterized by the frequency of use of verbal forms, emotional-evaluative vocabulary and expressive language means.

Pogostnost in raznolikost podrednih skladenjskih vzorcev v književnih delih Seta in La luna e i falò

Skladenjsko kompleksne povedi so pogosto vitalni del književnega jezika. Namen tega prispevka je predstaviti skladenjsko raznolikost dveh italijanskih daljših književnih besedil, primernih tudi za obravnavanje v srednješolskem okolju, in nakazati morebitne jezikovne težave, ki bi jih lahko imeli slovenski učenci zaradi skladenjske raznolikosti. Analiza se osredotoča na podredne stavke, ki jih uvajajo vezniki se, anche se in come se in ki lahko uvajajo različne odvisnike: večina je takih, ki slovenskemu in drugim slovanskim učencem italijanščine povzroča težave zaradi interferenc pri izboru ustrezne glagolske paradigme v odvisniku. Pokazalo se je, da se vsi obravnavani tipi odvisnikov pojavljajo v obeh italijanskih romanih Seta (slov. Svila) in La luna e i falò (slov. Luna in kresovi) z določeno stalnostjo, vendar jih ne moremo opredeliti kot zelo pogoste. Zaradi svojega sorazmerno sporadičnega pojavljanja, toda visoke raznolikosti, ne morejo tvoriti stabilnega vnosa za učence: uspešnost nezavednega usvajanja ni zelo verjetna. Potrebno je zavestno učenje zaradi drugačnih zakonitosti pri izbiri jezikovnih sredstev v obeh jezikih. Izsledki analize predstavljajo dodaten razlog, da naj bi bili v zavestno poučevanje in učenje italijanščine kot tujega jezika vključeni vsaj najpogostejši in prototipični tipi odvisnikov.

Pogostnost in raznolikost večstavčnih povedi v italijanskih neknjiževnih besedilih

Če prisluhnemo italijanskim telenovelam, nič bolj ali manj črno-belo dolgočasnim (ali za marsikoga zanimivim) kot so španske, mehiške in druge, tudi v italijanščini lahko slišimo skladenjske vzorce in rabe glagolskih časov, ki bi si jih spričo lahkotnosti žanra morda ne zamišljali.

The Prefixed Perfective and the Dating of Early Hebrew Poetry—A Re-Evaluation

AbstractThis article takes issue with the theory that those Biblical Hebrew poems, which show an extensive use of verbal forms belonging to the short prefix-conjugation (Northwest Semitic yaqtul) to signify complete situations in the past without the conjunction w-, were composed at an early date (c. 13th-10th centuries B.C.E.). The article takes as its starting point the fundamental discussion by David A. Robertson (1972) and argues that Robertson's neglect of the Masoretic spelling and vocalization, which often help to distinguish between the short and long prefix-conjugations in Biblical Hebrew, is unjustified. Then, it is shown that although in those biblical poems, which are commonly identified as early, short prefixed verbal forms are used to signify complete situations in the past more frequently without the conjunction w- than with it, the use of such forms with the conjunction w- (in the wayyiqtol construction) is also attested in those poems. And on the other hand, a similar pattern of use of short prefixed verbal forms to signify complete situations in the past—more frequently without the conjunction w- than with it—appears also in two poetic texts that are commonly dated to the 6th century B.C.E.: Isa. 41:1-5 and Ps. 44.

Events in Space

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Temporalidad, aspecto, modo de acción y contexto en el verbo hebreo bíblico

The concepts of tense, aspect and Aktionsart are subject to revision in this article from the point of view of general linguistics and, more specifically, as they are applied and interpreted in the biblical Hebrew verbal system. The novelty of this analysis stands in the fact that these grammatical concepts are not studied in isolated verbal forms, but in the particular context in which they appear. As a matter of fact, the use of verbal forms in general, and of biblical Hebrew verbal forms in particular, is highly related to the context and to the linguistic conventions of a language, from which textual coherence derives. The expression of tense, aspect and Aktionsart is therefore performed either by their grammaticalization in particular forms, or by using specific syntactic and/or lexical structures. Context will prove to be the essential factor for the correct understanding of the above mentioned concepts.