A corpus-based analysis of noun modifiers in L2 writing: The respective impact of L2 proficiency and L1 background. [PDF]
PLoS ONEComplex noun phrases, as a distinctive feature of academic writing, pose an important learning task for L2 learners. Noun modifiers are the primary means of constructing complex noun phrases.
Fatih Ünal Bozdağ +2 more
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Interpretative Potential of Abstract and Concrete Common Nouns
СибСкриптThe article describes the interpretative potential of abstract and concrete common nouns. In interpretational linguistics, any word may become part of dialogue, which means that its semantics is not static.
E Yu. Pozdnyakova, N. N. Shpilnaya
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VOKATIVE AS AN ELEMENT OF UKRAINIAN SPEECH ETIQUETTE (SPECIAL FEATURES AND TRENDS IN THE FRAMEWORK OF THE NEWEST COMMUNICATIVE DISCOURSE) [PDF]
Вісник університету ім. А. Нобеля. Серія Філологічні науки, 2020 The dichotomy “language and speech” will never disappear as a part of research from linguistic studies. These two phenomena nourish and rich each other. Vocative is one of such cross-points between language and speech in Ukrainian.
Olena M. Turchak
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THE PECULIARITIES OF FUNCTIONING OF LEXICAL-SEMANTIC VARIANTS OF THE NOUN FIRE IN THE PROCESS OF PHRASEOLOGICAL UNIT FORMATION [PDF]
Вісник університету ім. А. Нобеля. Серія Філологічні науки, 2021 The article focuses on the issue of participation of lexical-semantic variants of the polysemous noun Eng. fire in the process of formation of phraseological units.
Yana V. Bechko
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What can Verbal Derivation Tell us about Proper Names?
Lexis: Journal in English Lexicology, 2022 Proper names are always defined in relation to common nouns. No agreement on their definition has yet been reached. Following Philippe [2020: 445], the study explores the hypothesis that proper names are not nouns but borrow from the semantics ...
Aurélie Héois
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The history, linguistic status and potential of the term dramway
Lexis: Journal in English Lexicology, 2022 This is a comprehensive investigation of the term dramway, local to south-west Britain and best recorded in Gloucestershire. It does not appear in the Oxford English Dictionary or in well-known national and regional dialect dictionaries.
Richard Coates
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Revisiting the Paronymic Attraction to a Personal Name: the Name Elena in Russian Dialects [PDF]
Вопросы ономастики, 2019 The article focuses on Russian dialectal words, which are full homonyms of the name Elena or its derivatives (Alyona, Alyonka, Elenka, Lena, Lenka) included into the same morphosemantic field.
Lyubov A. Feoktistova
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ON PROPER NAMES IN GERMAN: AN ANALYSIS FROM THE COGNITIVE PERSPECTIVE [PDF]
Respectus Philologicus, 2013 The aim of this paper is a cognitive grammar analysis of noun phrases in German which contain a proper noun. It is common for proper nouns in German, like first names, surnames, the names of cities and countries, to occur without an article.
Magdalena Zofia Majcher
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Topics in Linguistics, 2020 The article presents the results of a study of functional, semantic and chronological issues concerning Middle English occupational terms with Scandinavian word stems.
Dobrovolska Oksana
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The role of the Babanki noun phrase-final enclitic class marker
Linguistique et Langues Africaines, 2022 Babanki, a Grassfields Bantu language of the North-West Region of Cameroon exhibits a noun phrase (NP) level enclitic class marker related to that found in other Ring languages such as Aghem and Lamnso’. As is common in Ring noun class systems generally,
Pius W. Akumbu, Roland Kießling
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