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An Investigation on Modern-Day Japanese Frequency Adverbs and Peripheral Adverbs (Iii)---Focusing on Their Correlation with Adverbs of Degree

open access: yes, 2015
計畫編號:NSC101-2410-H032-065 研究期間:201208~201307 研究經費:285,000現代日語中的「頻率副詞」和「次數副詞」都是從事態的外側來限定事態發生次數的副詞。其中,「頻率副詞」有四類,具體地說是「いつも(Itumo)」「常に(Tuneni)」這一類、「しょっちゅう(Syottyuu)」等表高頻率這一類、「たびたび(Tabitabi)」等表中頻率這一類、「まれに(Mareni)」等表低頻率這一類。相對於此,「次數副詞」有像「何度も(Nandomo ...
江雯薰
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Sentence-medial adverb placement in Spanish: acceptability and preference

open access: yesGlossa
This paper examines the acceptability of Spanish adverbs in sentence-medial positions in declarative main clauses. Both simple and complex verb forms are considered.
Laura Nogueira Sánchez
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A study of Japanese adverbs.

open access: yes, 1975
This study consists of a discussion of certain Japanese adverbs and their classifications based on various properties of these adverbs. The adverbs selected for discussion are two types, sentence and manner adverbs, which have received much attention in ...
Kato, Yoshiki.
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Modal Logic and Modal Metaphysics: An Avicennian Division of Labour

open access: yesTheoria, 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
wiley   +1 more source

Independent Effects of Age, Education, Verbal Working Memory, Motor Speed of Processing, Locality, and Morphosyntactic Category on Verb‐Related Morphosyntactic Production: Evidence From Healthy Aging

open access: yesTopics 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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Adverbial hierarchy and verb movement in the early production of Italian children

open access: yesIsogloss
This paper investigates the syntax of Italian adverbs and the placement of finite and non-finite predicates in children's early spontaneous speech, aiming at shedding light on the relationship between adverb syntax and verb movement in early language ...
Sonia Patrizi, Emanuela Sanfelici
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Superlative Objoid Constructions in British and American English

open access: yesWorld 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
wiley   +1 more source

The interplay of nominality and adverbiality in Phola

open access: yesHimalayan Linguistics
Some Yi/Ngwi languages exhibit functionally versatile word classes, including nouns which can be used as both referential arguments and adjuncts, covering functions typically associated with adverbs.
Manuel David González Pérez
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Must Can: Double‐Modal Constructions in Hong Kong English

open access: yesWorld Englishes, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Previous studies have focused on double‐modal constructions (DMs) in Englishes in the Inner Circle at the expense of the Outer Circle. Using data collected from internet forums and corpora, this study aims to narrow the research gap by examining DMs in Hong Kong English (HKE), an English variety in the Outer Circle.
Pun Ho Lui
wiley   +1 more source

The Impact of English on Other Languages and Linguistic Justice

open access: yesWorld Englishes, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article explores the implications of English's role as a global lingua franca for other languages, with a particular focus on the transformations these languages undergo due to English influence. Such changes are most evident in the lexical domain, where they are typically examined under the framework of lexical borrowing or Anglicisms ...
Sabine Fiedler
wiley   +1 more source

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