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The Geometry and Dynamics of Meaning. [PDF]

Top Cogn Sci
Abstract An enigma for human languages is that children learn to understand words in their mother tongue extremely fast. The cognitive sciences have not been able to fully understand the mechanisms behind this highly efficient learning process. In order to provide at least a partial answer to this problem, I have developed a cognitive model of the ...
Gärdenfors P.
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Functional Category of Aspectuality in the Russian And English Languages

RUDN Journal of Language Studies, Semiotics and Semantics, 2021
This article studies functional and semantic Tense/Aspect complexes in Russian and English, focusing on their similarities and differences. In Russian, Tense-Aspect meanings of the verb forms correlate with the semantic components of Aktionsart, while in
Hripsime A. Derdzakyan
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Signifikansi Teori Aspek Verbal terhadap Penggunaan Kala pada Verba Imperatif dalam Surat Yakobus

Dunamis: Jurnal Teologi dan Pendidikan Kristiani, 2022
. This research analyzes the significance of tense usage on the meaning of an imperative verb, as contained in the verbal aspect theory. The letter of James is used as the corpus because it has a vast occurrence of imperative verbs.
Tomy Handaka Patria, Andreas Hauw
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Voice and Little v and VO–OV Word‐Order Variation in Chinese Languages

Syntax, Volume 24, Issue 1, Page 44-77, March 2021., 2021
Abstract This article addresses some issues related to Voice and little v. It does so by discussing and analyzing the variation that exists in the Chinese language family with respect to object placement (VO versus OV). It turns out that this variation can be accounted for straightforwardly as long as we assume, first, that Voice and v are sometimes ...
Rint Sybesma
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Neue Studien im Bereich der kontrastiven Grammatik und Gedächtniskultur / New Research in the Field of Contrastive Grammar and Memory Culture [PDF]

Linguistische Treffen in Wrocław, 2020
Im Folgenden wird der neueste 41. Band der Fachzeitschrift „Studia Germanica Gedanensia“ besprochen, der sich den aktuellsten Erkenntnissen im Bereich der kontrastiven Grammatik und Gedächtniskultur widmet.
Mariusz Jakosz
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The Semantic Map of "Aktionart" and Lexical Entailment of Old English Strong Verbs

Journal of English Studies, 2022
The aim of this article is to analyse the semantic relations that hold between Old English primitive and derived verbs in terms of troponymy and Aktionsart.
Luisa Fidalgo Allo
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Truth is dead; long live the truth. Commentary on Conjoining Meanings by Paul Pietroski

Mind &Language, Volume 35, Issue 2, Page 251-265, April 2020., 2020
Pietroski successfully dismantles the idea of a formal semantic theory based on direct truth conditions and offers new and formally constrained alternatives. In this paper, I summarize the arguments but also provide a number of test cases to show that refusing to accept Pietroski's conclusions condemns the field to constantly restating and technically ...
Gillian Ramchand
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Verbal derived stems and semantics of prefixed verbs in the earliest Lithuanian texts

Lietuvių Kalba, 2022
This article discusses the deverbal verb derivation by the means of the prefixes in the Old Lithuanian language, basing on the corpus of about 110 primary verbs and their approximately 460 derivates attested in the Evangelijos bei epistolos (Gospels and ...
Otso Vanhala
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K překladu českých významů povahy slovesného děje do španělštiny: aplikace myšlenek Jiřího Levého

Acta Universitatis Carolinae: Philologica, 2018
The aim of this article is to analyze the strategies that translators apply when transmitting some of the meanings of Aktionsart Czech into Spanish. For this, we start from the fact that Czech is a language where many meanings of the Aktionsart can be ...
Jana Pešková
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The Concept of Telicity in English, Romanian and Serbian

Romanian Journal of English Studies, 2020
Given that the notion of telicity was simply defined by English linguists as a situation which tends towards a goal, this paper will additionally explain and define telicity in the English language.
Lazović Mihaela
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