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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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Entity, event, and sensory modalities: An onto-cognitive account of sensory nouns
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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Verbal Idioms: Concrete Nouns in Abstract Contexts
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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Eléments pour une typologie des emplois du nom défini marqué et du nom nu en créole haïtien
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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Stilistic And Syntactic Variation Of German Prepositions
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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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?
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
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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ABSTRACT NOUNS IN THE SPEECH OF THE EMGLISHMEN (BASED ON FICTION WORKS AND BRITISH NATIONAL CORPUS)
The research aimed at studying the use of abstract nouns in the Englishmen’s speech from the standpoint of sociolinguistics. The article introduces a new, sociolinguistic, approach to research of abstract nouns; it is also the first time they are studied
Natalia Veniaminovna Khokhlova
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NdeN et acquisition d’informations lexicales à partir du Trésor de la Langue Française Informatisé
For NLP systems, a major issue consists in resolving reference in order to find the themes of documents. In this article, we present a way to find semantic informations to resolve anaphors which use a referential expression of the form NdeN and an ...
Laurence Kister, Evelyne Jacquey
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