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Strength and Weakness of the Old English Adjective
Studia Anglica Posnaniensia, 2021 As regards Old English, the inflectional strength and weakness are characterised by a kind of inconsistency. In the case of Old English adjectives these two inflectional properties appear to be different from those associated with nouns and verbs. In the
Malak Janusz
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Long-standing issues in adjective order and corpus evidence for a multifactorial approach
Linguistics, 2019 In this paper, we introduce the issue of adjective order and show that different approaches vary in their answers to the question of how fine-grained the semantic categories determining adjective order are.
Andreas Trotzke, E. Wittenberg
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The role of explicit contrast in adjective acquisition: a cross-linguistic longitudinal study of adjective production in spontaneous child speech and parental input [PDF]
, 2013 Experimental studies demonstrate that contrast helps toddlers to extend the meanings of novel adjectives. This study explores whether antonym co-occurrence in spontaneous speech also has an effect on adjective use by the child.
Aksu-Koç, A. +8 more
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Adjectival 'cuco / cuqui' as "cute" and "astute"
Borealis: An International Journal of Hispanic Linguistics, 2015 In this squib, we present an analysis of the nowadays commonly used adjective cuco/cuqui in Spanish. We hypothesize that its two adjectival meanings, as “cute” and as “astute”, are metonymically derived from the meanings of cuco as “carrycot” and “bird ...
José Antonio Jódar Sánchez
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, 2019 Objectives: Spanish and English contrast in adjective–noun word order: for example, brown dress (English) vs. vestido marrón (‘dress brown’, Spanish). According to the Matrix Language model ( MLF) word order in code-switched sentences must be compatible ...
Hans Stadthagen-González +3 more
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On the role of conjunction in adjective ordering preferences
Proceedings of the Linguistic Society of America, 2019 Adjective ordering preferences are robustly attested in English and many unrelated languages. In nominals with multi-adjective strings (e.g., big blue box), chances are the order of the adjectives is non-arbitrary.
C. Rosales, Gregory Scontras
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A Review of Adjectival and Adverbial Cases in Characterization of Akhavan Saless’ Poetic Style [PDF]
نثرپژوهی ادب فارسی, 2017 The distinctive use of language to influence the reader is an essential aspect of a writer’s style. Specific structure, selectivity, genre, and opting for certain words and compound terms are key factors in stylistics, from which writers and poets ...
Hamid Jafari Gharyeh Ali +1 more
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Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 2016 We examine adjective-noun (AN) composition in the task of recognizing textual entailment (RTE). We analyze behavior of ANs in large corpora and show that, despite conventional wisdom, adjectives do not always restrict the denotation of the nouns they ...
Ellie Pavlick, Chris Callison-Burch
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External versus internal possessor structures and inalienability in Russian [PDF]
, 2003 This study deals with the choice between two external possessor structures in Russian: the possessive dative and the U + genitive PP. Is shows that this choice is primarily related to the thematic role of the possessor adjunct, which can vary with the ...
Paykin, Katia, Van Peteghem, Marleen
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Adjective Derivational Affixation in English
Jurnal Kependidikan, 2016 Penelitian ini berjudul Afiksasi Derivasional Pembentukan Kata sifat dalam Bahasa Inggris, bertujuan untuk memberikan gambaran mengenai jenis-jenis afiks derivasional pembentukan kata sifat beserta proses pembentukannya, makna afiksafiks derivasional ...
Baiq Zuhrotun Nafisah
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