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Brain Sciences, 2023 In this study, we investigated whether there were differences between the processing of Chinese proper nouns and common nouns in the left and that in the right hemispheres of the brain by using a visual half-field technique.
Zijia Lu, Xuejun Bai
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Rapid learning of an abstract language-specific category: Polish children's acquisition of the instrumental construction [PDF]
, 2008 Rapid acquisition of linguistic categories or constructions is sometimes regarded as evidence of innate knowledge. In this paper, we examine Polish children's early understanding of an idiosyncratic, language-specific construction involving the ...
Bańko +15 more
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Countability shifts and abstract nouns [PDF]
, 2020 Abstract The paper examines the mass-count distinction in abstract nouns, starting from the corpus-derived observation that most of the nouns that can be used in count or mass syntactic contexts (“elastic nouns”) are (arguably) abstract.
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Semantic categories underlying the meaning of ‘place’ [PDF]
, 2007 This paper analyses the semantics of natural language expressions that are associated with the intuitive notion of ‘place’. We note that the nature of such terms is highly contested, and suggest that this arises from two main considerations: 1) there are
B. Bennett +18 more
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ABSTRACT NOUNS IN THE SPEECH OF THE EMGLISHMEN (BASED ON FICTION WORKS AND BRITISH NATIONAL CORPUS)
Sovremennye Issledovaniâ Socialʹnyh Problem, 2015 The research aimed at studying the use of abstract nouns in the Englishmen’s speech from the standpoint of sociolinguistics. The article introduces a new, sociolinguistic, approach to research of abstract nouns; it is also the first time they are studied
Natalia Veniaminovna Khokhlova
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An Analysis of Pluralized Abstract Nouns: With Special Reference to Richardson's Epistolary Novels [PDF]
, 2008 Unlike Japanese, English makes a clear distinction between 'singular' and 'plural' by grammatical nleans. Although the concept of plural should logically be applied to countable nouns, there are quite a few examples found in actual use of the language ...
Wakimoto, Kyoko
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SEMANTIC FEATURES OF NOUNS REFERRED TO VARIOUS LEXICAL-AND-GRAMMATICAL CATEGORIES
Вестник Волгоградского государственного университета: Серия 2. Языкознание, 2020 The paper focuses on semantic properties of concrete and abstract nouns in the aspect of their cognitive categorization. The research is based on the results of two psycholinguistic experiments carried out by the author: synonym selection and word ...
Vadim A. Belov
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Verbs as linguistic markers of agency: The social side of grammar [PDF]
, 2018 open4Basic grammatical categories may carry social meanings irrespective of their semantic content. In a set of four studies, we demonstrate that verbs—a basic linguistic category present and distinguishable in most languages—are related to the ...
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Kalbotyra, 2017 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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Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 2015 Metaphorical expressions very often involve words referring to physical entities and experiences. Yet, figures of speech such as metaphors are not intended to be understood literally, word-by-word.
Bálint eForgács +5 more
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