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The phraseological potential of body part terms jezik, uho/uvo, mozak and obraz in Serbian [PDF]
Južnoslovenski Filolog, 2017 This article focuses on the human body as the source domain in the conceptualization of different activities in various target domains. The paper examines the role of body part terms jezik, uho/uvo, mozak and obraz in the development of ...
Štrbac Gordana R.
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A derivational rephrasing experiment for question answering [PDF]
, 2010 In Knowledge Management, variations in information expressions have proven a real challenge. In particular, classical semantic relations (e.g. synonymy) do not connect words with different parts-of-speech. The method proposed tries to address this issue.
Jacquemin, Bernard
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Paracompositionality, MWEs and Argument Substitution
, 2018 Multi-word expressions, verb-particle constructions, idiomatically combining phrases, and phrasal idioms have something in common: not all of their elements contribute to the argument structure of the predicate implicated by the expression.
Bozsahin, Cem, Guven, Arzu Burcu
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A Frobenius Algebraic Analysis for Parasitic Gaps [PDF]
, 2020 The interpretation of parasitic gaps is an ostensible case of non-linearity in natural language composition. Existing categorial analyses, both in the typelogical and in the combinatory traditions, rely on explicit forms of syntactic copying. We identify
Moortgat, Michael +2 more
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Lability in Hittite and Indo‐European: A Diachronic Perspective
Studia Linguistica, Volume 80, Issue 1, April 2026.ABSTRACT Lability is defined as the possibility of a verb to enter a valency alternation without undergoing any change in its form. Labile verbs were common in ancient Indo‐European languages, including Hittite, which mostly features anticausative lability, with reflexive and reciprocal lability being less prominent.
Guglielmo Inglese
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Romance Loans in Middle Dutch and Middle English: Retained or Lost? A Matter of Metre1
Transactions of the Philological Society, Volume 124, Issue 1, Page 1-28, March 2026.Abstract Romance words have been borrowed into all medieval West‐Germanic languages. Modern cognates show that the metrical patterns of loans can differ although the Germanic words remain constant: loan words Dutch kolónie, English cólony, German Koloníe compared with Germanic words Dutch wéduwe, English wídow, German Wítwe.
Johanneke Sytsema, Aditi Lahiri
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The Functional-Semantic Peculiarities of Derivative Words in the Texts of Chronicle Genre
Вестник Волгоградского государственного университета: Серия 2. Языкознание, 2016 The paper analyzes the functional-semantic peculiarities of derivative words in the language of Russian chronicles. The word-formation is considered as an important mechanism of nominative human activity, which represents the process of learning of ...
Irina Valeryevna Erofeeva
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Ordinal Numerals as a Criterion for Subclassification: The Case of Semitic
Transactions of the Philological Society, Volume 124, Issue 1, Page 240-256, March 2026.Abstract This article explores how ordinal numerals (like first, second and third) can help classify languages, focusing on the Semitic language family. Ordinals are often formed according to productive derivational processes, but as a separate word class, they may retain archaic morphology that is otherwise lost from the language.
Benjamin D. Suchard
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SUFFIXES FORMING AFFIXAL POLYSEMY OF LEXICALDERIVATIVES OF MUTATIONAL TYPE
Вестник Кемеровского государственного университета, 2014 The paper studies suffixal derivational formants which render the mutational word-forming meaning. They form polysemantic verbal nouns. The author describes one of types of the derivational polysemy – the affixal polysemy of lexicalderivatives of the ...
V. N. Musatov
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Against semantic features: the view from derivational affixes
GlossaThis paper builds a systematic argument against the existence of semantic features, although these would in principle conform with the understanding of features in Chomsky (1995) as instructions to the interfaces, to the Conceptual-Intentional Interface ...
Phoevos Panagiotidis
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