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Space and the Vision–Language Interface: A Model-Theoretic Approach

open access: yesBiolinguistics, 2011
The relation between spatial vision and spatial language has always been a source of controversy. Three problems can be identified as in need of a solution.
Francesco-Alessio Ursini
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Similarity Semantics and Building Probabilistic Semantic Maps from Parallel Texts

open access: yesLinguistic Discovery, 2010
This paper deals with statistical (non-implicational) semantic maps, built automatically using classical multidimensional scaling from a direct comparison of parallel text data (the Gospel according to Mark) in the domain of motion events (case ...
Bernhard Wälchli
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Image schematic analysis of Bangla postpositions

open access: yesActa Scientiarum: Language and Culture, 2018
  Spatial relationships are fundamental in shaping our interactions with the physical world. They also play a significant role in our construal of abstract ideas in terms of space.
Tanima Bagchi, Rajesh Kumar
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Genesis of spatial terms

open access: yesCorela, 2017
The genesis of basic colors provides hints to better understand the genesis of spatial terms. The two modes of internal lexical formation (by division and by union) inside the language system can be opposed to external lexical formation that attaches ...
Claude Vandeloise
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Directions from the GET-GO. On the syntax of manner-of-motion verbs in directional constructions

open access: yesCatalan Journal of Linguistics, 2010
Directional resultatives show puzzling syntactic restrictions. In Romance, broadly speaking, they do not occur at all with manner-of-motion verbs. In Dutch, directional resultatives with mannerof- motion verbs usually force postpositional order in the ...
Marcel den Dikken
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From a spatial adposition to a grammatical relations' marker: contact- and context-induced grammaticalization

open access: yesLähivõrdlusi, 2010
This paper is an investigation of grammatical relations' marking that combines the advances of monolingual analysis with cross-linguistic comparison. It examines adpositions as grammatical relations' markers and the linguistic change which leads to the ...
Leena Kolehmainen
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A word order typology of adnominal person

open access: yesLinguistic Typology
This paper investigates cross-linguistic variation in the expression of adnominal person (persn; cf. English “we linguists”) based on a survey of 114 languages, focusing on word order.
Höhn Georg F.K.
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Demonstratives in Afaan Oromoo

open access: yesCogent Arts & Humanities
This study explores demonstratives in Afaan Oromoo, focusing on morphosyntactic, semantic classes and pragmatic aspects. It also examines that the choice of demonstratives is determined not solely by the speaker’s desired attention, but also by ...
Eba Teresa Garoma
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Vanakooli

open access: yesKeel ja Kirjandus
The modifying compound word vanakooli (‘old-school’), frequently used in informal speech as a variant of the phrase vana kooli, exemplifies a linguistic phenomenon where certain noun-based phrases tend to form compound words.
Maire Raadik
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Stylometric analysis of AI-generated texts: a comparative study of ChatGPT and DeepSeek

open access: yesCogent Arts & Humanities
This study examined the readability and stylometric characteristics of AI-generated texts (AIGTs) produced by ChatGPT and DeepSeek. Specifically, it examines the extent to which AIGTs differ in terms of readability, morphological structures, lexical ...
Hasan M. S. Jaashan   +1 more
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