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EURYSEMY AS THE PROPERTY OF ABSTRACT NOUNS WITH THE DEIXIS VALUE ACTUALLY
The article discusses semantic peculiarities of abstract nouns with the deixis value actually characterised by both group eurysemy tokens. On the example of the groups of nouns analyses the main criteria of eurysemy: limiting the generality of values ...
Irina N. Korsunova
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THE PROBLEM OF DISTINGUISHING ABSTRACT NOUNS
The article discusses various classifications of nouns. The traditional division of nouns does not always represent a coherent scheme that would cover the entire class of substantive units. However, it is indisputable that in the vast majority of works that consider the classification of nouns, the authors distinguish a subgroup of abstract ...
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This paper seeks to contribute to the study of the vernacularisation process in late Middle English by measuring up to what an extent concrete and abstract noun suffixes (in line with Dalton-Puffer 1996) attach to either Germanic or Romance bases in the ...
Begoña Crespo
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Les noms de sons et d’odeurs en russe. Valeurs et emplois
The present paper examines in detail the predicative nouns of smell and of sound in contemporary Russian. It more specifically focuses on the structures ‘Noun of smell or odor + specifiers (“noun” in the genitive)’.
Irina Thomières
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This paper presents the results of an eyetracking study that uses the Visual World Paradigm to determine whether heritage speakers of Polish can use grammatical gender cues to facilitate lexical retrieval of the subsequent noun during real time ...
Zuzanna Fuchs
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Clustering, hierarchical organization, and the topography of abstract and concrete nouns [PDF]
The empirical study of language has historically relied heavily upon concrete word stimuli. By definition, concrete words evoke salient perceptual associations that fit well within feature-based, sensorimotor models of word meaning. In contrast, many theorists argue that abstract words are "disembodied" in that their meaning is mediated through ...
Troche, J, Crutch, S, Reilly, J
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Abstract Few studies have examined birth order effects on personality in countries that are not Western, educated, industrialized, rich, and democratic (WEIRD). However, theories have generally suggested that interculturally universal family dynamics are the mechanism behind birth order effects, and prominent theories such as resource dilution would ...
Laura J. Botzet +2 more
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Description of the meaning of polysemous abstract nouns remains one of the most difficult challenges in contemporary cognitive lexicography. This study aims to develop a methodology for constructing a dictionary entry for abstract nouns in contemporary ...
Elena L. Boyarskaya, Mikhail V. Metelev
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Building machine‐readable vocabularies for materials science is slow, expert‐driven work. This study benchmarks 13 large language models on two of its first steps: finding candidate terms in engineering articles and deciding where they belong in a class hierarchy.
Thomas Bjarsch +3 more
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This paper presents an analysis of the expression of evidentiality with the English nouns evidence, indication, proof and sign and their Spanish equivalents evidencia, indicación, prueba and señal.
Marta Carretero
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