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Adjectives and adjectivialization processes in Edo
Studies in African Linguistics, 1986 Real adjectives are few in Niger-Congo languages. Welmers [1973] warns that we should be suspicious of what is traditionally called adjectives in these languages: In this article, an attempt is made to describe the processes of expressing adjectival ...
Thomas O. Omoruyi
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Compound adjectives in the Erzya language
Финно-угорский мир, 2019 Introduction. The changes occurring in the modern world have an impact on the language, in particular, this results in an increased appearance of complex word forms.
Tatiana P. Ariskina
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Adjectives meaning ‘curly’ in the Serbian language: On the material of the common Slavic linguistic atlas [PDF]
Južnoslovenski Filolog, 2016 This paper draws on etymological analysis of Serbian adjectives meaning ‘curly’, registered in the material of the Common Slavic Linguistic Atlas (the Personal Characteristics of Man volume).
Bjeletić Marta Ž.
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Lexical acquisition in elementary science classes [PDF]
, 2006 The purpose of this study was to further researchers' understanding of lexical acquisition in the beginning primary schoolchild by investigating word learning in small-group elementary science classes.
Best, R, Braisby, N, Dockrell, Julie
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Function, Semantics And Pragmatics Of Evaluative Adjectives In Fictional Discourse [PDF]
, 2017 We constantly assess other people, objects, phenomena, and events around us. The process of evaluation is based on a set of values pertaining to an individual and on certain norms and traditions of the society.
Nikitochkina, I. (Iryna)
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Монголоведение, 2019 The paper examines adjectives denoting horizontal and vertical size (‘long’ and ‘short’) in the Buryat language and Russian-Buryat dictionaries. The analysis shows that adjectives to define objects in horizontal orientation are fewer than those dealing
Babasan D. Tsyrenov, Anna T. Abayeva
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Survival processing versus self-reference : a memory advantage following descriptive self-referential encoding [PDF]
, 2017 Previous research has shown that rating words for their relevance to a survival scenario leads to better retention of the words than rating them for self-reference. Past studies have, however, relied exclusively on an autobiographical self-reference task
Anderson, Rachel J. +3 more
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Igbo adjectives as morphophonologized relatives
Studies in African Linguistics, 1990 Igbo adjectives are semantically, syntactically and morphophonologically derived. Underlyingly, they are relatives that are phonologized into a suppietive form. For this reason they cannot occur in predicative position, unlike adjectives in English. They
Omen N. Maduka-Durunze
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Revisiting gradability in American Sign Language (ASL)
Glossa, 2023 This paper addresses gradability in American Sign Language (ASL). The literature has argued that languages may or may not introduce degree variables, i.e., there is cross-linguistic variation as to whether languages should be analyzed as degree- or ...
Christopher Kurz +3 more
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Quantifying over hidden (parts of) events
Glossa, 2022 In this paper, I investigate certain intriguing properties of two types of quantificational adjectives exemplified by the English two-time and double and their interactions with event semantics.
Marcin Wągiel
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