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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 +13 more
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Categorizing adpositions in Kîîtharaka
Nordlyd: Tromsø University Working Papers on Language & Linguistics, 2007 In this paper, I discuss the categorial status of Kîîtharaka adpositions. I demonstrate that there are two main classes of adpositions(to be referred to as Class A and Class B).
Peter Muriungi
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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 +4 more
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Postpositions et détermination en buamu (langue gur) [PDF]
AkofenaRésumé: 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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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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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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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 +2 more
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Principles that govern adposition postponing in Czech [PDF]
This thesis aims to contribute to the discussion surrounding a phenomenon which, for the most part, escaped the attention of researchers in the discourse of Czech linguistics.
Jiřička, Lukáš
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On the change to verb-medial word order in proto-Chinese : evidence from Tibeto-Burman [PDF]
, 2010 In attempting to reconstruct the morphosyntax of Proto-Sino-Tibetan, one of the most basic questions to be answered is what was the unmarked word order of the proto-language?
LaPolla, Randy J.
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