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Qualities, objects, sorts, and other treasures : gold digging in English and Arabic [PDF]
, 1999 In the present monograph, we will deal with questions of lexical typology in the nominal domain. By the term "lexical typology in the nominal domain", we refer to crosslinguistic regularities in the interaction between (a) those areas of the lexicon ...
Behrens, Leila, Sasse, Hans-Jürgen
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Systems of reciprocity in human–ocean relationships: Across time, place, language and culture
People and Nature, EarlyView.Abstract In the face of large‐scale marine environmental challenges, solutions that meaningfully capture the complexity of socio‐cultural and economic factors contributing to such issues—and their solutions—are urgently needed. This scoping review explores examples of reciprocity in human–ocean relationships to inform the conceptual underpinning and ...
Kianna M. Gallagher +3 more
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Children &Society, EarlyView., 2023 Abstract As a primary source for the early ages, picture books guide preschool children's gender perception through stories and illustrations. However, previous studies have criticised an overall gender inequality in children's picture books. Compared to the increasing attention on gender diversity in the UK picture book industry, there has been little
Yi Li, Melissa Terras, Yongning Li
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Silent semi-lexical classifiers in Romanian
Bucharest Working Papers in Linguistics, 2007 This paper addresses the question of classifiers in Romanian, i.e. a language with plural morphology. I will propose that pseudo-partitive constructions consist of a classifier-noun sequence, where the classifier is a semi-lexical or functional noun. The
Mihaela Tănase-Dogaru
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Ambiguous adjectives in French: the case of “gros” when combined with deverbal nouns
Linguistica, 2016 In this paper, I analysed the interaction between the French adjective “gros” and -eur deverbal nouns. This adjective gives rise to a preferred non-intersective reading when it is in a prenominal position, but only an intersective reading when it appears
Lucas Tual
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The Adjectival construct in Arabic [PDF]
, 2009 We propose an analysis of the adjectival construct in Arabic in LFG, building on previous work in LFG on a Welsh construction which shows several similarities to the Arabic (Mittendorf and Sadler, 2008) and work on the MSA and cognate Hebrew ...
Al-Sharifi, B, Sadler, L
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Token-based typology and word order entropy: A study based on universal dependencies
, 2019 The present paper discusses the benefits and challenges of token-based typology, which takes into account the frequencies of words and constructions in language use.
Levshina, N.
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Licensing by modification Licensing by modification
Ilha do Desterro, 2008 : This paper looks at the phenomena of licensing by modification, whereby an unacceptable noun phrase is redeemed by the presence of a modifier or an unavailable reading for a noun phrase is made available with the addition of a modifier.
Veneeta Dayal
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Simple autonomous agents can enhance creative semantic discovery by human groups
Nature CommunicationsInnovation is challenging, and theory and experiments indicate that groups may be better able to identify and preserve innovations than individuals. But innovation within groups faces its own challenges, including groupthink and truncated diffusion.
Atsushi Ueshima +2 more
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Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 2013 Although it is widely accepted that nouns and verbs are functionally independent linguistic entities, it is less clear whether their processing recruits different brain areas.
Davide eCrepaldi +5 more
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