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The derivation of diminutives from abstract noun bases in Bulgarian [PDF]
The paper reviews the formal and semantic characteristics of the formation of diminutives in Bulgarian, where the process affects nouns, adjectives, numerals, adverbs, verbs and pronouns.
Nicolova Ruselina L.
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Distinction between nouns and verbs in Guató
Even though the distinction between nouns and verbs is generally considered to be universal, it has been argued for some languages of Northern North America that they lack this distinction.
Kristina Balykova
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The syntactic and semantic processing of mass and count nouns: an ERP study. [PDF]
The present study addressed the question of whether count and mass nouns are differentially processed in the brain. In two different ERP (Event-Related Potentials) tasks we explored the semantic and syntactic levels of such distinction.
Valentina Chiarelli +4 more
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Children’s preference for HAS and LOCATED relations: A word learning bias for noun–noun compounds [PDF]
The present study investigates children’s bias when interpreting novel noun–noun compounds (e.g. kig donka) that refer to combinations of novel objects (kig and donka).
ANDREA KROTT +13 more
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Sygnalizowanie miejsc spornych w dyskursie sądowym. Analiza korpusowa wybranych rzeczowników występujących w orzeczeniach Sądu Najwyższego Stanów Zjednoczonych oraz Trybunału Konstytucyjnego w Polsce [PDF]
This paper adopts a comparative, corpus-based perspective to examine the language of judicial justification. Based on substantial corpus data, the study explores one of the linguistics resources, i.e. head nouns (e.g.
GOŹDŹ-ROSZKOWSKI, Stanisław
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Interpretative Potential of Abstract and Concrete Common Nouns
The article describes the interpretative potential of abstract and concrete common nouns. In interpretational linguistics, any word may become part of dialogue, which means that its semantics is not static.
E Yu. Pozdnyakova, N. N. Shpilnaya
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Gender agreement hierarchy in common gender and epicene nouns in Spanish
Gender is a grammatical category defined as an abstract morphosyntactic feature of nouns reflected in characteristics of associated words (i.e. agreement) (Hockett, 1958; Corbett, 1991).
Anastasiia Ogneva
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The issue of morphonology status and units of its description remains relevant in modern linguistics. The purpose of study is to describe the morphonological rules for choosing suffix -ost’ (-est’), to investigate the hierarchies of morphonological units
S. B. Im
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Conceptual Abstractness: from Nouns to Verbs [PDF]
Investigating lexical access, representation and processing involves dealing with conceptual abstractness: abstract concepts are known to be more quickly and easily delivered in human communications than abstract meanings (Binder et al., 2005). Although these aspects have long been left unexplored, they are relevant: abstract terms are widespread in ...
COLLA, DAVIDE +3 more
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ABSTRACT The origin of a product, if associated with good quality, can contribute to building a positive collective reputation, leading to a potential price premium. However, it is conceivable that a producer markets a product by evoking symbols, images, words, and values typical of places other than where it was designed or produced, creating a ...
Annalisa Caloffi +2 more
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