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, 2021 This paper demarcates a theoretically interesting class of "evaluational adjectives." This class includes predicates expressing various kinds of normative and epistemic evaluation, such as predicates of personal taste, aesthetic adjectives, moral ...
Alex Silk +28 more
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Possessive Adjectives Formed from Personal Names in Polish Translations of the New Testament [PDF]
, 2013 The study focused on possessive adjectives derived by means of the suffixes -ow(y), -in, -sk- formed from proper personal names in old and contemporary translations of the New Testament.
Zarębski, Rafał
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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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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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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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The role of historical and dialectal data in interpreting the modern word-formation phenomena [PDF]
Известия Саратовского университета. Новая серия: Серия Филология, Журналистика, 2022 The author proposes the idea that it is necessary to draw on historical and dialectal data in the analysis of the modern word-formation phenomena. The comparison of the modern Russian literary language facts with those of the written language history and
Kryuchkova, Olga Yuryevna
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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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