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AC3-LexemesAdjectiveAdverb - Adjective and adverb
a discussion on Wucun Pinghua adjective and adverb.
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There Are No Abilities to Succeed
Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, EarlyView.ABSTRACT There is an essential connection between the concept of an ability and various forms of practical and cognitive success. In particular, it is in virtue of exercising their abilities that agents’ general practical and cognitive endeavors, their doings and believings, become achievements—intentional actions or instances of knowledge.
David Heering
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Corpus of French Adjective-Adverbs in informal texts from the Web: Fr_A_Web
, 2013 This database comprises over 5.000 annotated examples of 389 different adjective-adverbs used in colloquial present-day French.
Höfferer, Julia +3 more
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Adverb extraction, specificity, and structural parallelism
, 2015 This paper investigates adverb extraction out of traditional adjective phrases (TAPs) like “extremely expensive”, in a number of Slavic, Romance, and Germanic languages, and establishes two novel generalizations regarding such extraction out of ...
Aida Talić
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Modal Logic and Modal Metaphysics: An Avicennian Division of Labour
Theoria, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper argues that Avicenna was both a necessitarian and a realist about contingency. The two aspects of his modal metaphysics are reconciled by arguing that Avicenna's modal metaphysics is founded on realism about essences: strictly speaking, an individual has no contingent properties, but a modal distinction can be made between the ...
Jari Kaukua
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Topics in Cognitive Science, EarlyView.Abstract This study investigates the role of locality (a task/material‐related variable), demographic factors (age, education, and sex), cognitive capacities (verbal working memory [WM], verbal short‐term memory [STM], speed of processing [SOP], and inhibition), and morphosyntactic category (time reference and grammatical aspect) in verb‐related ...
Marielena Soilemezidi +3 more
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The 'adverb-ly adjective' construction in English: Meanings, distribution and discourse functions
We investigate a class of adjective phrases composed of a deadjectival adverb ending in -ly and an adjective head (e.g. staggeringly incompetent, absolutely terrific, fiscally responsible), a compact construction whereby two adjectives may jointly ...
Taboada, M, Trnavac, R, Goddard, C
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Superlative Objoid Constructions in British and American English
World Englishes, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper investigates regional variation in Superlative Objoid constructions (SOCs) and their prepositional variant (at‐SOCs). SOCs combine a possessive pronoun with a superlative adjective. These function as manner‐degree modifiers in a context where the possessive is in postverbal position and correlative with the subject, as in they tried
Tamara Bouso, Marianne Hundt
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Journal of Danubian Studies and Research, 2013 The article gives new evidence about the adverb as a part of the grammatical system of the Ukrainian steppe dialect spread in the area between the Danube and the Dniester rivers.
Maryna Delyusto
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Korean Adverb Ordering in English-Korean Machine Translation
, 2007 This paper proposes an approach to determine the ordering of Korean adverb by using clustering method for making sentences more natural at the generation stage of English-Korean machine translation system.
Dong Un An +3 more
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