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An Inquiry into the Polysemy of the Preposition "bær" (on) in the Framework of Cognitive Semantics [PDF]
مجله مطالعات ایرانی, 2023 In the Persian language, since Old Persian, /bær/ (on) has been one of the adpositions that grammatically and semantically acts as a preposition. Studying the polysemy of /bær/ (on) as a preposition is the subject of this paper, which is in the cognitive
Arsalan Golfam, Nazanin Darvishi Rokni
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A Political Economy Approach to the Grammar of Institutions: Theory and Methods
Policy Studies Journal, Volume 50, Issue 2, Page 453-471, May 2022., 2022 This article proposes a political economy approach to the grammar of institutions, by building on the study of contracts in economics. First, I argue that more attention needs to be paid to the costs and benefits of institutions, thus allowing researchers to derive empirically testable hypotheses on the evolution of institutions. In this vein, the role
Matia Vannoni
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The Asia Minor Greek adpositional cycle: a tale of multiple causation [PDF]
, 2016 This paper examines the interplay of language-internal continuity and external influence in the cyclical development of the Asia Minor Greek adpositional system.
Asiedu, E.M. +9 more
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Body-part adpositions in Gaahmg--Grammaticalized forms with person-marker vowels
Studies in African Linguistics, 2014 Many African languages employ body parts as adpositions (Heine 1989), the general pattern in Gaahmg, with one locative postposition perhaps derived from ‘vagina’.
Timothy M. Stirtz
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Partitives and Indefinites: Phenomena in Italian Varieties
Studia Linguistica, Volume 76, Issue 1, Page 56-100, April 2022., 2022 Abstract This contribution examines the relation between genitives/ partitives and indefinites in some Italian varieties. A central question concerns the nature of the preposition de/di (DE) ‘of’ (< Latin de), specifically investigated in contexts where it does not introduce the usual possessive or partitive reading: bare partitives/Partitive articles ...
Benedetta Baldi, Leonardo M. Savoia
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Directionality and Resultativity: The Cross-linguistic Correlation Revisited
Nordlyd: Tromsø University Working Papers on Language & Linguistics, 2007 Recent approaches to the cross-linguistic variation in the expressions of directed motion assume a tight correlation between adjectival resultative and directed motion constructions (e.g., Beck and Snyder 2001, Mateu and Rigau 2001; 2002, McIntyre 2004 ...
Minjeong Son
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Computational Intelligence and Neuroscience, Volume 2022, Issue 1, 2022., 2022 For the better utilization of the enormous amount of data available to us on the Internet and in different archives, summarization is a valuable method. Manual summarization by experts is an almost impossible and time‐consuming activity. People could not access, read, or use such a big pile of information for their needs.
Divakar Yadav +10 more
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On the syntax of comitative constructions: the case of Finnish mukana, mukaan ‘with, along’
Eesti ja Soome-ugri Keeleteaduse Ajakiri, 2017 The topic of this article is the syntax of Finnish comitative markers mukana and mukaan ‘with, along’. Comitative markers express accompaniment relations, which are typically conceived of being asymmetrical: the accompanee is the predominant participant,
Krista Ojutkangas
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Semantic systems in closely related languages [PDF]
, 2015 In each semantic domain studied to date, there is considerable variation in how meanings are expressed across languages. But are some semantic domains more likely to show variation than others?
Dunn, Michael +2 more
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Reanalyzing Fataluku’s Postpositions as Serial Verbs
Journal of the Southeast Asian Linguistics Society, 2021 This paper presents a new analysis of a class of words previously analyzed as postpositions in the Papuan language Fataluku. Closer examination reveals that these words exhibit verbal characteristics, such as taking verbal morphology and occupying the ...
Tyler M. Heston
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