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Adverb orientation: semantics and pragmatics [PDF]
, 2002 Orientation is a well known property of some adverbs in English. Early approaches to the topic simply offered a systematisation of paraphrase relations between these adverbs and the corresponding adjectives.
García Núñez, José María
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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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A re-examination of wieder: remarks on an overlooked prefix
Linguistica Brunensia, 2017 Departing from the repetitive-restitutive ambiguity of the German adverb wieder ('again'), we investigate its homophonous counterpart, the verbal prefix wieder (VPW).
Andreas Blümel, Hans-Joachim Particke
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Adverbs and adverbials in contemporary Arabic syntax: A phase-based account
Open LinguisticsIn generative syntax, two major types of proposals – syntax-oriented and semantics-oriented proposals – have been used to examine adverbs and adverbials.
Taha Mohammed +1 more
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Identifying Indonesian-core Vocabulary for Teaching English to Indonesian Preschool Children: a Corpus-based Research [PDF]
, 2011 This corpus-based research focuses on building a corpus of Indonesian children's storybooks to find the frequent content words in order to identify Indonesian-core vocabulary for teaching English to Indonesian preschool children.
Maryani, M. (Maryani)
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World Englishes, EarlyView.Abstract This research article presents an analysis of four (semi‐)modals of necessity/obligation (must, (have) got to, have to and need to) in four CMC registers (comments, tweets, web forums and websites) originating from four South Asian countries (Bangladesh, India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka) along with the United Kingdom and United States.
Muhammad Shakir
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The restricted access of information structure to syntax : a minority report [PDF]
, 2008 This paper sketches the view that syntax does not directly interact with information structure. Therefore, syntactic data are of little help when one wants to narrow down the interpretation of terms such as “focus”, “topic ...
Fanselow, Gisbert
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The double modal construction in English world wide
World Englishes, EarlyView.Abstract The dual foci of the present study of double modals are their semantic characteristics and their distribution across regional varieties of English world wide. Tokens were extracted from GloWbE:Blogs, a database whose great size and informal tenor facilitated the investigation of this low‐frequency non‐standard feature. Double modals were found
Peter Collins, Adam Smith
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, 2013 The existence of an extensive body of literature on the Present Perfect (PP), both Spanish-specific (cf. Alarcos Llorach 1947, Copple 2011, Escobar 1997, Gili Gaya 1972, Howe 2013, Rodríguez Louro 2009, Schwenter 1994, Schwenter & Torres Cacoullos 2008 ...
Dumont, Jenny
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Grammar practice : theory and practice [PDF]
, 2017 Fil: Luque Colombres, María Candelaria. Universidad Nacional de Córdoba. Facultad de Lenguas; Argentina.Fil: Meehan, Patricia. Universidad Nacional de Córdoba. Facultad de Lenguas; Argentina.Fil: Oliva, María Belén.
de Maussion, Ana +5 more
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