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Typological parameters of genericity [PDF]
, 2000 Different languages employ different morphosyntactic devices for expressing genericity. And, of course, they also make use of different morphosyntactic and semantic or pragmatic cues which may contribute to the interpretation of a sentence as generic ...
Behrens, Leila
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, 2020 The mass-count distinction is a morpho-syntactic distinction among nouns that is generally taken to have semantic content. This content is generally taken to reflect a conceptual, cognitive, or ontological distinction and relates to philosophical and ...
Moltmann, Friederike
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Concreteness and Emotional Valence Ratings of 399 Dutch Nouns
Psychologica Belgica, 1999 This paper presents norms for concreteness and emotional valence of 200 monosyllabic and 199 three-syllabic nouns. Both sets of words were comparable in lexical familiarity. Each word was rated for both characteristics by at least 145 raters. Test-retest and inter-rater reliability proved high for both concreteness and emotional valence ratings.
Van Der Goten, K +2 more
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Does an optimistic tone in annual reports predict better financial and non‐financial performance?
European Management Review, EarlyView.Abstract In the current paper, we investigate whether management adopts an optimistic disclosure tone to impress the corporate audience or to provide incremental information (II) by anticipating positive corporate performance. Specifically, we test whether an optimistic tone in annual reports (ARs) is a positive predictor of better financial and non ...
Francesco Gangi +3 more
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Sobre repetición léxica y sintaxis prepositiva
Estudios de Lingüística, 1992 This study intends to describe the functions of the Spanish structures whose nouns appear repeated and integrated by means of some connecting preposition, for example de casa en casa (Pr+N+Pr+N), entre cigarro y cigarro (Pr+N+cop.+N) or codo ...
Joaquín García-Medall Villanueva
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From ergativus absolutus to topic marking in Kiranti : a typological perspective [PDF]
, 2010 In many languages, clauses can be subordinated by means of case markers. For Bodic languages, a branch of Sino-Tibetan, Genetti (1986) has shown that the meaning of case markers on clauses is in most instances a natural extension of their function on ...
Bickel, Balthasar
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Financial Accountability &Management, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Rooted in the theoretical perspective of impression management, and drawing on the critical discourse analysis (CDA) approach, this study analyzes whether and how the Italian state‐owned enterprises (SOEs) in the energy sector over the period 2020–2023 use persuasive language strategies in their annual reports to portray the image of a ...
Fiorenza Meucci +3 more
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Primary and secondary paronyms in contemporary Serbian [PDF]
Južnoslovenski FilologThis paper focuses on the classification of paronyms into primary and secondary (induced) types, resulting from a broader study of paronymic relationships among concrete nouns.
Nikolić Vesna S.
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Generating natural language specifications from UML class diagrams [PDF]
, 2008 Early phases of software development are known to be problematic, difficult to manage and errors occurring during these phases are expensive to correct. Many systems have been developed to aid the transition from informal Natural Language requirements to
A Abbott +19 more
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The Geographical Journal, EarlyView.Short Abstract The commentary offers a simple heuristic framework to suggest how geographers might conceive and unlock the potential of alternative modalities of infrastructure‐based futuring to make a difference to how policy and action unfold in spatial future‐making.
Michael Glass, Jean‐Paul Addie
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