On some aspectual adverbs – in Brazilian Portuguese and in Chilean Spanish – that seem ambiguous
We turn to Brazilian Portuguese (BP) and Chilean Spanish (CS) in our study of some aspectual adverbs which, according to Cinque (1999, 2004), have a dual source both concerning their position in the universal hierarchy of adverbs and their scope.
Aquiles Tescari Neto +1 more
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Enrichment of OntoSenseNet: Adding a Sense-annotated Telugu lexicon
The paper describes the enrichment of OntoSenseNet - a verb-centric lexical resource for Indian Languages. This resource contains a newly developed Telugu-Telugu dictionary. It is important because native speakers can better annotate the senses when both
Parupalli, Sreekavitha, Singh, Navjyoti
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Abstract Parallel tracking of distant relations between speech elements, so‐called nonadjacent dependencies (NADs), is crucial in language development but computationally demanding and acquired only in late preschool years. As processing of single NADs is facilitated when dependent elements are perceptually similar, we investigated how phonetic ...
Dimitra‐Maria Kandia +3 more
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Chinese- Business -reading, 2 texts [PDF]
Two texts in Chinese and English for Intermediate learners. These are reading and translation exercises. The colours signify: blue highlight + underlined –verb + object; Yellow highlight – None; Green highlight - adjective or adverb; Red letters ...
Cheng, Linda
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Improving students’ understanding on adverb of frequency through memory round game (an action research with eighth grade students of MTs NU 07 Patebon kab. Kendal in the academic year of 2009/2010) [PDF]
The background of the study in this research are many students in junior high school have difficulties to memorize the meaning of adverb of frequency and they still confuse to use adverb of frequency in right position.
Khairunnisa, Khairunnisa
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How generics obscure the logic of conditionals
This paper discusses counter‐examples to modus ponens and modus tollens involving modals and quantificational adverbs, and presents new counter‐examples with generic conditionals. We argue that the counter‐examples are spurious, and are explained by the domain‐restricting effects of if‐clauses.
Daniel Lassiter +3 more
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John Lydgate’s Use of Prepositions and Adverbs Meaning ‘Between’
The aim of the present study is to thoroughly analyse the prepositions and adverbs meaning ‘between’ in the works of a Late Middle English poet John Lydgate.
Ciszek-Kiliszewska Ewa
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The sign-test for significance used in support of new concepts of meaning [PDF]
Chapter NineZadanie pt. „Digitalizacja i udostępnienie w Cyfrowym Repozytorium Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego kolekcji czasopism naukowych wydawanych przez Uniwersytet Łódzki” nr 885/P-DUN/2014 zostało dofinansowane ze środków MNiSW w ramach działalności ...
Turewicz, Kamila
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The Racialisation of Rape: A Far‐Right Tool for Boundary‐Creation Across Borders
ABSTRACT Far‐right parties and movements have increasingly come to incorporate ideas of gender equality into their political agendas. While seemingly out of concern for women's rights and safety, these issues are in reality seldom more than a veil to further the stigmatisation of Muslim men.
Mathilda Åkerlund
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De l’adverbe de manière au marqueur discursif : le cas de autrement [PDF]
The present research focuses on the French adverb autrement, which is characterized by a wide range of uses. This allows it to function not only as an adverb of manner that modifies the verb, but also as a discourse marker that the speaker employs to ...
Céline Corteel
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