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Superlative Objoid Constructions in British and American English

World 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

Using Grammar Dimensions to Transform Multilingual Teachers From Rule Repeaters to Reason Givers

TESOL Journal, Volume 17, Issue 3, September 2026.
ABSTRACT This study examines a reconceptualized approach to grammar addressing fundamental gaps in multilingual teacher preparation. Traditional rule‐based training has historically prepared teachers to give prescriptive responses that shut down student inquiry rather than to reason about grammatical patterns in context.
Chris Corbel, Julie Choi, David Nunan
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HOMONYMIC ADVERBS IN CROATIAN GLAGOLITIC TEXTS

Fluminensia: Journal for Philological Research, 2006
The thesis analyses adverbs i Croatian- Glaglitic liturgical and non- liturgical texts from the fourteenth and the fifteenth century. We are disscussed with the reference to lexemes considered to be unverified adverbs (adverbs of time, direction, place ...
Tanja Kuštović
doaj  

Adverbes [PDF]

Mandenkan, 2013
19.1. Adverbes deictiques et interrogatifs Comme de maniere generale en mandingue, les ‘adverbes’ de lieu ou de temps, ou en tout cas la plupart d’entre eux, ont des aptitudes syntaxiques qui s’expliquent par leur nature de substituts de constituants nominaux, mais qui peuvent poser probleme pour leur identification comme adverbes, si on entend par la ...
openaire   +1 more source

Authors as Mentors: Grammar as Tools, Not Rules

The Reading Teacher, Volume 80, Issue 1, July/August 2026.
ABSTRACT Using a contextualized approach to grammar instruction, with published authors as mentors, contrasts starkly to ineffective methods that use worksheets and isolated grammar instruction. With this contextualized approach, students turn to authors as mentors for using grammar as tools, not rules.
Vicki S. Collet, Brooke Ward
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Coming to Grips with Rather Elusive Adverbs: On English 'rather' and French 'plutôt'

NJES: Nordic Journal of English studies
This parallel corpus study looks into the contrastive connective and degree modifier uses of two cognate adverbs that can be considered each other’s crosslinguistic counterparts, English rather and French plutôt.
Lobke Ghesquière, Lieselotte Brems
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ROBERT WALSER'S ‘BLEISTIFTWEG’: POETICS OF ATTENTION AS CRAFT

German Life and Letters, Volume 79, Issue 3, Page 323-336, July 2026.
ABSTRACT This article examines Robert Walser's entry into what he called his ‘Bleistiftgebiet’ in the early 1920s, when in response to a profound crisis as a writer he began to produce manuscripts in minuscule size, the so‐called ‘Mikrogramme’ (microscripts). Intertwining the analysis of the short prose form with Walser's reflections on the short‐lived
Anne Fuchs
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Preliminary Psychometric Properties of Panic Disorder Severity Scale—Self‐Report Version: Validity, Reliability, and the Cut‐Off Point in Persian Clinical Samples

Brain and Behavior, Volume 16, Issue 6, June 2026.
Preliminary Psychometric Properties of Panic Disorder Severity Scale ‐ Self‐Report Version: Validity, Reliability, and the Cutoff point in Persian Clinical Samples METHOD & PARTICIPANTS (Iranian Sample, N = 63) PDSS‐SR Self‐Report Scale Administration • Clinical Group (PD) (N = 45; 75.6% female) • Comparison Group (non‐PD) (N = 18; 83.3% female ...
Fatemeh Akhavan‐Abiri, Mohammad Reza Shaeiri, Hojjatollah Farahani, Arsia Taghva   +3 more
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Developing an Artificial Intelligence Model to Determine Misconceptions About Cell Division of Secondary School Students

European Journal of Education, Volume 61, Issue 2, June 2026.
ABSTRACT The aim of this study is to develop an AI‐based model to identify students' misconceptions about mitosis and meiosis and to evaluate their responses to open‐ended questions. The sample consisted of 400 secondary school students in a city in eastern Turkey. Two open‐ended questions with answers rated from 0 to 3 by the teacher were prepared and
Meryem Konu Kadirhanoğulları
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Sentence-medial adverb placement in Spanish: acceptability and preference

Glossa
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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