in many countries English is not commonly spoken and you will find yourself literally lost for words when vainly attempting to communicate with locals. Japan, Brazil, China and even Spain or Portugal have large percentages of citizens unable to understand a few simple words...
Tungusic languages refer to a language family spoken in Eastern and Central Siberia, as well as in northeast and northwest China. These languages, including Jurchen and Manchu, have played a significant historical role in China and adjacent regions, but are currently endangered and in need of docu...
Givón 1976), we consider it useful to check whether French has ever admitted subject omission of some kind in the past. Before turning to a corpus analysis of contemporary spoken data, this section is therefore dedicated to a brief preliminary excursus of the relevant literature concerning Old ...
However, the grammaticality of structures such as these is still a matter of debate in the literature and is probably subject to regional variation: examples like (3c) and (3d) seem to be more acceptable in central and southern varieties of Italian, and in an informal spoken register. Except...