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Figure–Ground Spatial Relationships in Finnish Sign Language Discourse

Open Linguistics, 2020
This study is about expressing spatial relationships between Figure and Ground in Finnish Sign Language discourse and shows that the variation in this expression is primarily discourse dependent.
De Weerdt Danny
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Development and classification accuracy of an automated cognitive screening tool combining working memory and connected speech tasks for early detection of cognitive impairment in primary care

Alzheimer's &Dementia: Translational Research &Clinical Interventions, Volume 11, Issue 3, July-September 2025.
Abstract INTRODUCTION Cognitive screening to detect mild cognitive impairment (MCI) and dementia in primary care settings has proven to be a challenging task. The ideal solution would be a brief, yet sensitive, tool appropriate for use with individuals from diverse educational and cultural backgrounds that requires limited time and expertise from ...
Robin C. Hilsabeck, Jeffrey N. Keller, Maya L. Henry, Junyi Jessy Li, Lokesh Pugalenthi, Paul Toprac, Patrick Chang, Joshua Chang, Suzanne Schmitz, Avery Largent, Heather Foil, Robert Brouillette, Rosemary A. Lester‐Smith, Paul J. Rathouz   +13 more
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Gesture Reduces Mapping Difficulties in the Development of Spatial Language Depending on the Complexity of Spatial Relations

Cognitive Science, Volume 49, Issue 2, February 2025.
Abstract In spoken languages, children acquire locative terms in a cross‐linguistically stable order. Terms similar in meaning to in and on emerge earlier than those similar to front and behind, followed by left and right. This order has been attributed to the complexity of the relations expressed by different locative terms.
Ercenur Ünal, Kevser Kırbaşoğlu, Dilay Z. Karadöller, Beyza Sümer, Aslı Özyürek   +4 more
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Postpositions et détermination en buamu (langue gur) [PDF]

Akofena
Résumé: Cet article porte sur certaines unités linguistiques du buamu, généralement traités comme des postpositions. Ces unités forment un inventaire fermé de noms simples renvoyant à des parties du corps ou de l’espace.
Roland BICABA & Abel OUEDRAOGO
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WE…WITH ANNA: THE INCLUSORY PLURAL PRONOMINAL CONSTRUCTION IN FINNISH AND FENNO‐SWEDISH*

Studia Linguistica, Volume 78, Issue 2, Page 364-398, August 2024.
Abstract This article provides a syntactic analysis of the inclusory plural pronominal construction in Fenno‐Swedish and Finnish. In this construction, a plural pronoun has a singular reading: vi …med Anna (literally “we …with Anna”) means ‘Anna and I’. In addition to the plural pronoun, the construction includes a comitative PP.
Klaus Kurki
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Rules as data

Regulation &Governance, Volume 18, Issue 3, Page 657-673, July 2024.
Abstract Rules lie at the core of many disciplines beneath regulatory studies. Such a broad interest inevitably comes with fragmented understandings and technical choices that hinder knowledge cumulation and learning. This introduction tackles these limitations through an encompassing analytical blueprint from measurement theory.
Alessia Damonte, Giulia Bazzan
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Annotation with adpositional argumentation

Intelligenza Artificiale, 2020
 This paper explains Adpositional Argumentation (AdArg), a new method for annotating arguments expressed in natural language. In describing this method, it provides the guidelines for designing a Gold Standard Corpus (GSC) of argumentative discourse in terms of so-called argumentative adpositional trees (arg-adtrees). The theoretical starting points of
Gobbo, F., Benini, M., Wagemans, J.H.M.
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Gilaki reverse Ezafe: The two faces of a nominal linker

Syntax, Volume 27, Issue 2, Page 376-392, June 2024.
Abstract This paper examines a nominal linker (known as reverse Ezafe) in the Caspian language Gilaki. It is shown that the nominal linker in Gilaki is in fact the realization of two different morphosyntactic elements with distinct properties. In doing so, we also highlight the differences between reverse Ezafe and Ezafe, found in Persian and other ...
Arsalan Kahnemuyipour, Mansour Shabani, Sahar Taghipour   +2 more
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The Problem of English Spatial, Non-spatial and Idiomatic Adpositions in Iranian EFL Environment: A Prototypical Approach [PDF]

Journal of Applied Linguistics, 2010
Several studies of L2 learners’ interlanguage have addressed the complexity of the English adpositional system due to several reasons like L1 transfer, lack of knowledge in L2 and the strong collocational relations of prepositions with other elements of ...
Nassim Golaghaei, Firooz Sadighi
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The secret nominal life of Afrikaans intransitive adpositions

Stellenbosch Papers in Linguistics, 2017
Languages like Afrikaans are sometimes said to feature a class of adpositions that can be described as “intransitive” (e.g. binne “inside”, bo “upstairs”, agter “in the back”, buite “outside”, onder “downstairs” voor “in the front”).
Pretorius, Erin
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