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Vulgar Minimisers in English and Spanish1
Transactions of the Philological Society, EarlyView.Abstract In this paper, we investigated whether vulgar minimisers form a natural class in English and Spanish by evaluating (i) their similarities and differences with respect to non‐vulgar minimisers and (ii) whether vulgar minimisers are inherently negative in these languages.
Ángel L. Jiménez‐Fernández +1 more
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Surely not!Between certainty and disbelief
Discours, 2011 The marker surely possesses at least three different functions: as an intrapredicative adverb of manner, an extrapredicative epistemic adverb and a discourse adverb. In this paper I will propose a single characterisation of surely within the framework of
Graham Ranger
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Functional Transposition of After from a Diachronic Perspective
Baltic Journal of English Language, Literature and Culture, 2022 The paper aims at tracing the origin of the preposition, adverb, and conjunction after, starting with the first examples registered before 850; distinguishing the primary and transposed categories; and reconstructing the process of functional ...
Yurii Kovbasko
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Transactions of the Philological Society, EarlyView.Abstract Based on an analysis of the Old Literary Tibetan corpus—a corpus of the oldest documented Tibetic language—the present study provides evidence that literary Tibetan v3 verb stems (commonly termed ‘future’) initially encoded passive voice. New arguments put forward in this article range from Trans‐Himalayan nominal morphology to early Tibetan ...
Joanna Bialek
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Functional-semantic type of substantive word adverbialization form “boon”
Неофилология, 2023 The study relevance is due to the need for a comprehensive interdisciplinary mechanism analysis of transposition in the language, which generates a huge layer of grammatical and lexicalgrammatical homonyms, as well as syncretic (peripheral and hybrid ...
V. V. Shigurov, T. A. Shigurova
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Parameter Hierarchies and Language Contact: The Present Perfect in Ecuadorian Spanish1
Transactions of the Philological Society, EarlyView.Abstract This article explores the hypothesis that the ‘fine‐grained’ grammatical differences that adult grammars under contact are said to be sensitive to (e.g., Hicks et al. 2023) amount to micro/nanoparametric distinctions, in the sense of Roberts (2019).
Norma Schifano
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Diwan: Jurnal Bahasa dan Sastra Arab, 2019 This article discusses the similarities and differences between zharaf zaman and zharaf makan in Arabic with an adverb of time and place in Indonesian.
Latifa Islami Anuar +2 more
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There Is no First Phase of the Jespersen Cycle1
Transactions of the Philological Society, EarlyView.Abstract This paper challenges the traditional conception of the Jespersen Cycle by arguing that no ‘pure’ first phase of the cycle exists where a single negator operates without reinforcement. Drawing on historical data from Northern Italian dialects (Piedmontese, Lombard, Emilian), we demonstrate that emphatic negative structures systematically co ...
Tommaso Mattiuzzi, Cecilia Poletto
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THE GRAMMATICALIZATION AND PRAGMATICALIZATION OF INTENSIFYING ADVERBS IN ENGLISH: A CLOSER LOOK AT ‘REALLY’ [PDF]
Studii si Cercetari Filologice: Seria Limbi Straine AplicateIntensifiers in English appear to be at the junction of grammar and lexis thanks to an unachieved process of grammaticalization. They are sometimes also subjected to pragmaticalization processes.
Lucile BORDET
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Text mining for case report articles on “peritoneal dialysis” from PubMed database
Therapeutic Apheresis and Dialysis, Volume 29, Issue 3, Page 459-470, June 2025.Abstract Introduction The number of published medical articles on peritoneal dialysis (PD) has been increasing, and efficiently selecting information from numerous articles can be difficult. In this study, we examined whether artificial intelligence (AI) text mining can be a good support for efficiently collecting PD information.
Kazuhiko Fukushima +6 more
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