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Вестник Кемеровского государственного университета, 2014 The paper provides an overview of the main factors behind the formation of distinctive toponymy of the Ob Ugric peoples. The paper examines the substrate names of water sources of Khanty origin in the aspect of authors’ linguistic identity.
Y. V. Islamova
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Attributive Phrases in English-Language Abstracts of Engineering and Transportation Research
Научный диалогThis study investigates the structural properties and thematic specificity of attributive phrases, including adjectives, in scientific abstracts related to the field of engineering and transportation.
E. V. Rybakova
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Language Learning, EarlyView.Abstract This study investigated which type of Mandarin Chinese relative clause (RC)—subject‐extracted relative clause (SRC) or object‐extracted relative clause (ORC)—imposes greater processing demands on second language (L2) learners’ production. Sixty‐two native (L1) Mandarin speakers and 72 L1 Korean learners of Mandarin participated in a picture ...
Deran Kong, Sun‐A Kim, Jeong‐Ah Shin
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The [ADJ + as] intensifier construction in Māori English/Aotearoa English
World Englishes, EarlyView.Abstract We introduce the Waikato Māori English Conversation (MEC) corpus, which consists of 43 dyadic conversations between 49 young adults who self‐recorded informal conversations with close friends, in their own homes, with no topic of conversation specified (83 hours of dialogue; nearly 800,000 words).
Andreea S. Calude, Hēmi Whaanga
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Cuadernos de Filología Italiana, 2017 This paper aims to examine the attributive matter of Naturalmente chere ogni amadore, one of the three responsive sonnets to the Vita nova. The bi-partite textual tradition doesn’t allow an attributive certainty, and in this study the author recovers the
Paolo Rigo
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Reasons, rationality, and opaque sweetening: Hare's “No Reason” argument for taking the sugar
Noûs, Volume 60, Issue 2, Page 328-350, June 2026.Abstract Caspar Hare presents a compelling argument for “taking the sugar” in cases of opaque sweetening: you have no reason to take the unsweetened option, and you have some reason to take the sweetened one. I argue that this argument fails—there is a perfectly good sense in which you do have a reason to take the unsweetened option. I suggest a way to
Ryan Doody
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A New Look at the Structure of Genitive and Attributive Similes with a Special Emphasis on Hafez’s Poems [PDF]
مطالعات زبانی و بلاغی, 2018 Simile is one of the most important and useable fictional elements in prose and poem. This fictional element has been the poets’ and educators’ means to show their artistic skills in various ways. One of the ways of using similes is to include the simile
Meysam Hajipour, Enayatollah Mahmoodi
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Towards a Thoroughly Kripkean Theory of Proper Name Reference
Theoria, Volume 92, Issue 3, June 2026.ABSTRACT In the late 1960s and early 1970s, both Saul Kripke and Keith Donnellan challenged descriptivist theories of proper names, arguing that reference—at least in their case—is basically a historical relation. However, as has become increasingly recognised over the past decade, their pictures differ substantially: when confronted with a token of a ...
Andrea Bianchi
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Plant growth regulator and spring nitrogen effects on grass seed crops in western Canada
Agronomy Journal, Volume 118, Issue 3, May/June 2026.Abstract Plant growth regulators (PGRs) are used in herbage seed crops to mitigate lodging risk and protect seed yield, though their effects on aging perennial grass stands remain understudied. This study evaluated the effect of PGRs on the agronomic characteristics of herbage seed crops of creeping red fescue (Festuca rubra L.), meadow brome (Bromus ...
Bishnu Pandey +3 more
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Churchill’s reflection discourse
Topics in Linguistics, 2021 This study presents the results of a cognitive analysis of Winston Churchill’s historical works and memoirs at the textual, lingual and conceptual levels in order to interpret the implicatures of Churchill’s reflection discourse. The scope of the present
Bazylevych Nataliia, Nikonova Vira
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