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We investigate the sources of betting constructions, and specifically their predicates. The notion of risking something of value on an outcome is a complex one. Culturally, some degree of disposability of property is required. The concept is nevertheless
Hollmann, Willem +2 more
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The article proposes the following idea: a word (common noun) is a component of the interpretational activity of the addressee perceiving the lexeme and creating interpretational speech utterance. The language speaker’s association appears as a condensed
E. Yu. Pozdnyakova, N. N. Shpilnaya
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Inclusory Constructions and Their Development in Philippine Languages [PDF]
In many Philippine languages it is possible to express plural participants in an activity by conjoining two or more noun phrases with the same case-marking.
Reid, Lawrence A.
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Sufiksalne rzeczownikowe derywaty augmentatywne w serbskiej leksyce potocznej
Suffixable Noun Augmentative Derivatives in Serbian Common Lexis: The article discusses Serbian augmentative nouns. It presents common suffixes forming the beads, typical for Serbian common lexis, revealed through contemporary examples in whole phrases ...
Bońkowski, Robert
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Types and constructions of noun phrases in the Adventure of Sherlock Holmes and their teaching approach [PDF]
The objectives of this study are to find out and analyze what the common type and construction of noun phrase used in short story entitled The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes is and also to know what teaching approach can be used to teach noun phrase ...
Mutmainnah, Hidayatul
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Complement of adverb, adverbial phrase or Prepositional phrase? [PDF]
Discussion of complement types is among new grammatical issues, not addressed in all its aspects yet. Place of adverbial complement in the sentence is also worthy of attention and study, since it is categorized as types of adverbs and also types of ...
Maryam Heidari
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In the English Language, there are a great many common expressions that are built on the formula whose what, that is, a possessive noun plus a noun. To discover just how many of these little phrases have become established, try filling in the blanks ...
Lederer, Richard
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On creativity. "El Diego" and the human language
The goal of this essay is to emphasize an analogy between language creativity and the inventive power of Diego Armando Maradona’s football. Accordingly, we develop some syntactic and semantic remarks concerning sequences like el Diego, in which there is ...
José Silva Garcés, María Mare
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Changes in visual object recognition precede the shape bias in early noun learning
Two of the most formidable skills that characterize human beings are language and our prowess in visual object recognition. They may also be developmentally intertwined.
Meagan N Yee +2 more
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This study questions the syntactic status of the NPs in exclamative constructions, such as It’s amazing the car he bought, that is to say in constructions in which the pronoun IT is followed by BE, by an emotive hyperbolic adjective such as amazing, and ...
Olivia Reneaud-Jensen
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