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A Study of English Adverb-Booster(hereafter booster) Usage and Preference of Korean Monolingual Speakers

, 2017
Jaewon Yang
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Verb patterning and acculturation in Nigerian English

World Englishes, Volume 45, Issue 1, Page 54-75, March 2026.
Abstract Speech communities have the tendency to develop habits as to which words tend to co‐occur, in the form of coinages and collocational patterns, thus constituting an aspect conducive to the subtle emergence of language variation. As these co‐occurrence tendencies become lexicalised and confined to specific, rigid word combinations, new ...
Mary Ifeoluwa Abidoye, Hans‐Georg Wolf
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“Grammar of emotions”: English affixal morphemes, adverbs of frequency, word-order, auxiliaryverbs as a means of verbalization of emotions

, 2022
Vira SLIPETSKA
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Introduction to the special issue on Nigerian English

World Englishes, Volume 45, Issue 1, Page 2-6, March 2026.
Abstract This article introduces this special issue of World Englishes devoted to Nigerian English. It outlines the significance of this special issue (and of Nigerian English) within global Englishes scholarship. It situates Nigerian English as one of the most demographically, functionally and intellectually important postcolonial varieties of English,
Kingsley O. Ugwuanyi
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Decoding Disbelief: Using Natural Language Processing's Sentiment Analysis to Assess 24 Years of Unfounded Rape Reports Narratives

Behavioral Sciences &the Law, Volume 44, Issue 1, Page 47-62, January/February 2026.
ABSTRACT Rape myths, including the belief that victims frequently lie, contribute to barriers in justice, such as the disproportionate use of the “unfounded” classification—where, following an investigation, it is determined no crime occurred. This study analyzes rape report narratives tied to previously untested sexual assault kits (N = 5638) from a ...
Rachel E. Lovell, Lacey Caporale, Jiaxin Du   +2 more
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Speaker-Oriented Adverbs, Subject-Oriented Adverbs and Manner Adverbs

Speaker-Oriented Adverbs, Subject-Oriented Adverbs and Manner Adverbs
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Thickness Is More Than Affective Valence: Evaluative Language Through the Lenses of Psycholinguistics

Cognitive Science, Volume 50, Issue 2, February 2026.
Abstract Thick terms like “courageous,” “smart,” and “tasty” combine description and evaluation, contrasting with purely evaluative terms like “good” and “bad,” and descriptive terms like “Italian” and “green.” Thick terms intuitively constitute a special class of evaluative language; but we currently do not know whether the psycholinguistic effects of
Giovanni Cassani, Matteo Colombo
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The Peculiarities of the Adverbs Functioning of the Dialect Spoken in the v. Shevchenkove, Kiliya district, Odessa Region

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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Against expectations – the rise of adverbs in Swahili phasal polarity

, 2023
Aron Zahran, Eva-Marie Bloom Ström
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Uniquely human temporal thoughts

Mind &Language, Volume 41, Issue 1, Page 137-157, February 2026.
Life on Earth will eventually come to an end. The thought expressed in the previous sentence is about a point in time that is not known to the individual entertaining the thought. This paper is concerned with the nature of such temporal thoughts. We propose that the capacity to mentally represent thoughts about non‐specific temporal intervals is a ...
İsa Kerem Bayırlı
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