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The syntax and semantics of degree expressions in Spanish
Borealis: An International Journal of Hispanic Linguistics, 2020 This article provides an overview of the syntax and semantics of degree in Spanish, eventually suggesting that degree structure should be viewed as equivalent to aspect in the verbal domain.
Antonio Fábregas
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Tense and modality in the nominal domain
Linguistica, 2016 It is well discussed in the literature that epistemic modals (Mod epis) are base-generated higher than Tense (T), while non-epistemic/root modals (Mod root) are base-generated lower than T, and that high modals are evaluated in the context of the speech ...
Negin Ilkhanipour
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Unsupervised Learning of Semantic Orientation from a Hundred-Billion-Word Corpus [PDF]
, 2002 The evaluative character of a word is called its semantic orientation. A positive semantic orientation implies desirability (e.g., "honest", "intrepid") and a negative semantic orientation implies undesirability (e.g., "disturbing", "superfluous").
Littman, Michael L., Turney, Peter D.
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On the distribution of adjectives in Romanian : the cel construction [PDF]
, 2008 This paper deals with the variable position of adjectives in the Romanian DP. As all other Romance languages, Romanian allows for adjectives to appear in both prenominal and post-nominal position.
Alexiadou, Artemis, Marchis, Mihaela
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To agree or not to agree? English adjectives in Estonian-English bilingual blogs and vlogs
Eesti ja Soome-ugri Keeleteaduse Ajakiri, 2019 The article focuses on the agreement (in case and number) of English adjectives used with Estonian nouns in noun phrases (Eng ADJ + EST N) in Estonian blogs and vlogs. According to the Matrix Language Frame model (MLF), one would expect English adjective
Helin Kask
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DELTA: Documentação de Estudos em Lingüística Teórica e Aplicada, 2007 This paper examines free small clauses, which, unlike dependent small clauses, exhibit peculiar properties: (a) they are restricted to occur with individual level and event adjectives, (b) they have to appear with the subject postposed. After considering
Mary Aizawa Kato
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Restrictions on ordering of adjectives in Spanish
Borealis: An International Journal of Hispanic Linguistics, 2020 . Sequences of multiple modifying adjectives are subject to poorly understood lexical ordering restrictions. There are certain commonalities to these restrictions across languages, as well as substantive language variation.
Ana Pérez-Leroux +3 more
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Linguistik Online, 2023 In this article, written descriptions by students in the third to sixth grade (N = 288) are examined with regard to the use of syntactically differently integrated and differently complex adjectives.
Katharina Kellermann, Lukas Schmitt
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Color terms and lexical classes in Krahn Wobe
Studies in African Linguistics, 1991 Many West African languages lack a separate category of adjectives; Krahn and Wore are also said to lack this lexical class. However, an examination of color terms in the Gborbo dialect of Liberian Krahn reveals a class of words which are neither nouns ...
Janet Mueller Bing
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Possession and nominalization in Dan: Evidence for a general theory of categories
Glossa, 2020 Dan, a Mandean language of the Ivory Coast, marks the alienable possessors of simple nonrelational nouns differently from the inalienable possessors of relational nouns: only the former occur with the particle ɓa.
Bleu Gildas Gondo, Mark C Baker
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