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Entity, event, and sensory modalities: An onto-cognitive account of sensory nouns
Humanities & Social Sciences Communications, 2023 Nouns in human languages mostly profile concrete and abstract entities. But how much eventive information can be found in nouns? Will such eventive information found in sensory nouns have anything to do with the cognitive representation of the basic ...
Yin Zhong +2 more
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Children’s preference for HAS and LOCATED relations: A word learning bias for noun–noun compounds [PDF]
, 2010 The present study investigates children’s bias when interpreting novel noun–noun compounds (e.g. kig donka) that refer to combinations of novel objects (kig and donka).
ANDREA KROTT +13 more
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Towards a semantics for mass nouns derived from gradable expressions [PDF]
, 2010 International audienceWhat semantics should we attribute to mass expressions like "wisdom" and "love", which are derived from gradable expressions ("wise", "to love")?
Nicolas, David
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Eléments pour une typologie des emplois du nom défini marqué et du nom nu en créole haïtien
Études Créoles, 2019 This paper presents a corpus study for definite NPs in haitian creole. It aims at defining criteria for choosing between bare nouns and marked nouns. We show that well-known parameters as familiarity, previous mentions are important, but we add semantic ...
Hélène Manuélian
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Rapid learning of an abstract language-specific category: Polish children's acquisition of the instrumental construction [PDF]
, 2008 Rapid acquisition of linguistic categories or constructions is sometimes regarded as evidence of innate knowledge. In this paper, we examine Polish children's early understanding of an idiosyncratic, language-specific construction involving the ...
Bańko +15 more
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Stilistic And Syntactic Variation Of German Prepositions
Vestnik MGIMO-Universiteta, 2014 This work is devoted to the stylistic and syntactic variation of prepositions per and via in the publicistic style of modern German language. The similarity of German prepositions with the units of significant vocabulary in the aspect of variation is ...
Elvira L. Shubina
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The semantics of nouns derived from gradable adjectives [PDF]
, 2003 What semantics should we attribute to nouns like "wisdom" and "generosity", which are derived from gradable adjectives? We show that, from a morphosyntactic standpoint, these nouns are mass nouns.
Nicolas, David
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Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 2015 Metaphorical expressions very often involve words referring to physical entities and experiences. Yet, figures of speech such as metaphors are not intended to be understood literally, word-by-word.
Bálint eForgács +5 more
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Do Mass Nouns Constitute a Semantically Uniform Class?
Kansas Working Papers in Linguistics, 2002 Research on mass nouns has focused on concrete terms. So, are there semantic properties shared by all mass terms? We first consider concrete nouns like milk and furniture.
Nicolas, David
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Proper Names as the Prototypical Nominal Category
Names, 2007 Proper names are the prototypical, unmarked nouns; they refer rather than describe or predicate as do common nouns. Proper names systematically appear in close appositional structures of such types as the poet Burns, Hurricane Edna, Fido the dog, the ...
Willy Van Langendonck
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