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Be concrete to be comprehended:consistent imageability effects in semantic dementia for nouns, verbs, synonyms and associates [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
There are two contrasting views on the nature of comprehension impairment in semantic dementia: (a) that it stems from degradation of a pan-modal "hub" that represents core conceptual knowledge or (b) that it results from degradation of modality-specific
Hoffman, Paul; id_orcid   +5 more
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Verbs, nouns and affixation [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
What explains the rich patterns of deverbal nominalization? Why do some nouns have argument structure, while others do not? We seek a solution in which properties of deverbal nouns are composed from properties of verbs, properties of nouns, and ...
Alexiadou, Artemis, Grimshaw, Jane
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Semantic Characteristic of Nouns Formed with the Suffix -ost’ in the Modern Russian Literary Language

open access: yesВестник Самарского университета: История, педагогика, филология, 2020
The article aims to demonstrate the semantic diversity of the nouns formed with the suffix -ost, which have been considered as one of the most regular word-formation types in the modern Russian language.
Zhang Shuchun
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Stilistic And Syntactic Variation Of German Prepositions

open access: yesVestnik 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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Entity, event, and sensory modalities: An onto-cognitive account of sensory nouns

open access: yesHumanities & 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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Optimization of Production Parameters of Alkali-Activated Concrete

open access: yes, 2021
Concrete is a frequently preferred construction material which is used in many fields and applications such as buildings, roads, tunnels, bridges, dams and harbors.
Soriano, L.   +4 more
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Eléments pour une typologie des emplois du nom défini marqué et du nom nu en créole haïtien

open access: yesÉtudes 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
doaj   +1 more source

Verbal Idioms: Concrete Nouns in Abstract Contexts

open access: yes, 2021
In this paper, we present our approach for the KONVENS 2021 shared task Disambiguation of German Verbal Idioms. Our model is a decision tree-based classifier that uses static word embeddings and computed concreteness values to predict whether a verbal idiom is used figuratively or literal.
Charbonnier, Jean, Wartena, Christian
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Metaphors are physical and abstract: ERPs to metaphorically modified nouns resemble ERPs to abstract language

open access: yesFrontiers 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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SHELL NOUNS IN ACADEMIC DISCOURSE: A CORPUS STUDY OF THE RESEARCH MEDICAL ARTICLE IN BULGARIAN AND ENGLISH [PDF]

open access: yesЕзиков свят, 2023
The focus of the article is the research medical article, which is the academic genre heavyweight and whose structure serves as the mainframe of all other genre forms.
Ivaylo Y. DAGNEV
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