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The Adversary or the Devil?: Semantic Analysis of Wiþer-Nouns in Old English
Studia Anglica Posnaniensia, 2020 The examination of Old and Middle English religious lexis has attracted attention of many scholars. However, there are hardly any studies that would offer a comprehensive diachronic analysis of the terms denoting ‘Satan/(the)Devil’.
Sylwanowicz Marta, Wojtyś Anna
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Conversational Grammar- Feminine Grammar? A Sociopragmatic Corpus Study [PDF]
, 2010 One area in language and gender research that has so far received only little attention is the extent to which the sexes make use of what recent corpus research has termed “conversational grammar.” The author’s initial findings have suggested that the ...
Adolphs, Svenia +34 more
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Dative alternation in Indian English: a corpus-based study [PDF]
, 2013 The dative alternation refers to the alternation between two constructions that denote some type of transfer: the double object construction (I give my sister a book) vs. the to-dative construction (I give a book to my sister).
De Cuypere, Ludovic, Verbeke, Saartje
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Glossa, 2018 We report two corpus analyses to examine the impact of animacy, definiteness, givenness and type of referring expression on the ordering of double objects in the spontaneous speech of German-speaking two- to four-year-old children and the child-directed ...
Antje Sauermann, Barbara Höhle
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Empirical Musicology Review, 2017 This response offers an alternate interpretation for the data described in Joseph Daniele's 2016 article "A tool for the quantitative anthropology of music: Use of the nPVI equation to analyze rhythmic variability within long-term historical patterns in ...
Leigh VanHandel
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“That’s the Metaphor You’re Going for?” Deliberate Metaphor and Humor
Studies in Logic, Grammar and Rhetoric, 2020 This paper aims at discussing the function of deliberate metaphors in humorous narratives due to the similarities in mechanisms underlying both elements of language.
Wawrzyniuk Justyna
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Lexis: Journal in English Lexicology, 2020 The linguistic constituents that come to express path are often co-opted into more abstract schematic constructions through a diachronic process known as constructionalization.
Quentin Feltgen
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Identifying generalizable knowledge from the distribution of tonotactic accidental gaps in Mandarin
Laboratory Phonology, 2023 This study investigates tonotactic accidental gaps (unattested syllable-tone combinations) in Mandarin Chinese. In a corpus study, we found that, independent of syllable type, T2 (rising) and T3 (falling-rising) gaps were over-represented, whereas T1 ...
Shao-Jie Jin, Sheng-Fu Wang, Yu-An Lu
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Holistic corpus-based dialectology [PDF]
, 2011 This paper is concerned with sketching future directions for corpus-based dialectology. We advocate a holistic approach to the study of geographically conditioned linguistic variability, and we present a suitable methodology, 'corpusbased dialectometry',
Szmrecsanyi, Benedikt, Wolk, Christoph
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