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Focusing Adverbs in Medical Academic Discourse
آداب الكوفة, 2013 In any communication , it is essential to focus upon certain parts of the message to achieve complete understanding. One way is by employing 'focus-ing adverbs' –the main concern of this study. Focusing adverbs are those that focus on a particular part
ازهار حسين عباس
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On the Categorial Status of Adverbs
LanguagesThis paper is concerned with the question of what adverbs in English are as a category. It argues that English adverbs are not positional variants of a single category together with adjectives but also do not constitute a separate lexical category on ...
Sascha Alexeyenko
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Review of semantic research of adverbs of place in Lithuanian
Lietuvių Kalba, 2013 Semantic investigations of adverbs of place in Lithuanian started in 1653, when in the first grammar of the Lithuanian language Danielius Kleinas offered a classification of adverbs of place that consisted of four semantic groups: 1) In Loco; 2) De Loco;
Gintarė Judžentytė
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Extending the adverbial coverage of a NLP oriented resource for French [PDF]
, 2011 This paper presents a work on extending the adverbial entries of LGLex: a NLP oriented syntactic resource for French. Adverbs were extracted from the Lexicon-Grammar tables of both simple adverbs ending in -ment '-ly' (Molinier and Levrier, 2000) and ...
Stavroula, Voyatzi, Tolone, Elsa
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Strategic Management Journal, EarlyView.Abstract Research Summary How do analysts react to communication about firms' strategies? Research has shown that executive communication influences markets, but we know little about reactions to the deeper strategy content communicated. Drawing from research on how evaluative frames and expectation violations shape cognition, we show that when ...
John C. Eklund, Michael J. Mannor
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The syntax of orientation shifting: Evidence from English high adverbs [PDF]
, 2014 This paper reviews new data supporting the inclusion of a Speech Act Phrase in the left periphery. Illocutionary and evidential adverbs in English shift orientation from speakers in declarative sentences to addressees in yes-no interrogative sentences ...
Woods, Rebecca
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A Bird's Eye View of English Grammar: Connecting the Dots in Two Dimensions
TESOL Quarterly, EarlyView.Abstract Over the past few decades, discussions on grammar instruction have primarily focused on teaching methodologies, such as whether grammar should be taught explicitly or implicitly, and whether the focus should be on form or forms. This paper, however, shifts the focus to grammar itself, aiming to provide a “shape” for pedagogical grammar.
Akira Tajino, Yoshitaka Kato
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Taikomoji kalbotyra, 2020 This article is one part of the research of adverbs in Lithuanian slang. Although there is no systematic and comprehensive research into the Lithuanian language slang, slang is commonly believed to be chaotic and have no grammatical system.
Robertas Kudirka
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TESOL Quarterly, EarlyView.Abstract This study investigates internal linguistic variation in the instructional discourse of international teaching assistants (ITAs) by segmenting their mini‐lecture performances into four discourse types: introduction, lecture, conclusion, and audience interaction.
Heesun Chang, Hector Rivera
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Kalbotyra, 2017 This paper presents a contrastive analysis of six English evidential adverbs ending in -ly with their Spanish nearest translation equivalents, in spoken and newspaper discourse.
Marta Carretero +2 more
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