Results 41 to 50 of about 1,031,931 (213)
Transactions of the Philological Society, EarlyView.Abstract This paper investigates the role of semantic features of noun and adjective bases in determining the grammatical behaviour of Ancient Greek denominal and deadjectival verbs in *‐ye/o‐. The paper adopts a lexicalist framework (Rappaport Hovav & Levin 1998) and examines how the event schema, actionality, telicity and voice of derived verbs are ...
Carolina Marescotti
wiley +1 more source
Take an Introductory Linguistics Course; It May Increase Your Language Learning Ability
International Journal of Applied Linguistics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Can general linguistics knowledge be used to better learn a new language? This exploratory study is concerned with the potential advantageous transfer of general linguistics knowledge to the learning of a new, additional foreign language.
Kiyono Fujinaga‐Gordon +2 more
wiley +1 more source
Names, derivational morphology, and Old English gender [PDF]
, 2008 The paper argues that names constitute a primary linguistic category: they do not constitute a subclass of nouns. What have been regarded as formal devices for signalling “name-hood”, “properness”, and so on, are part of a language’s derivational ...
Colman, Fran
core
The acquisition of gender and the development of derivational morphology in child L2 Greek [PDF]
, 2019 We investigate the relationship between the acquisition of gender and derivational morphology in 124 Turkish L1 child acquirers of Greek (mean age: 13.6).
Konta, Eirini
core +1 more source
Univerbation from the point of view of Serbian derivational morphology [PDF]
Južnoslovenski Filolog, 2018 This paper analyzes different meanings of the term univerbation in the Serbian word-formation processes. The main goals were to investigate different perspectives on univerbation in Serbian derivational morphology, to compare it with the views ...
Milašin Goran B.
doaj +1 more source
Applied Cognitive Psychology, Volume 40, Issue 5, September/October 2026.ABSTRACT This study investigates how plain and apparently simple language can mislead readers in online advertising. Using eye‐tracking and a forced‐choice task, we compared an original smartphone advertisement with a revised version. The revision replaced frequent and generic wording with more specific expressions and substituted a declarative verbal ...
Stefano Rastelli +2 more
wiley +1 more source
International Journal of Language &Communication Disorders, Volume 61, Issue 5, September/October 2026.ABSTRACT Background Childhood apraxia of speech (CAS) is a motor speech disorder for which assessment and diagnostic standards have been largely informed by studies of English‐speaking populations. Evidence related to CAS in Turkish‐speaking children remains sparse, is published across both Turkish‐ and English‐language sources, and variable in ...
Eddy C. H. Wong +2 more
wiley +1 more source
Simplification in Derivational Morphology in the Lindisfarne Gloss [PDF]
, 2016 The language of the English gloss to the Lindisfarne Gospels bears witness to early morphological simplification in the late Northumbrian dialect compared to other Old English varieties. Cases of merger in the nominal inflection have
Luisa García García +1 more
core +1 more source
Students’ problems in making derivational words
ELT Forum: Journal of English Language Teaching, 2017 This paper aims to find out what kinds of errors the students made in making derivational words and the most frequent errors occurred. It is a descriptive qualitative research which focuses on the error analysis of derivational morphology. The subject of
Dwi Putri Setyani +2 more
doaj +1 more source
Transactions of the Philological Society, Volume 124, Issue 2, Page 314-356, July 2026.Abstract Based on an analysis of the Old Literary Tibetan corpus—a corpus of the oldest documented Tibetic language—the present study provides evidence that literary Tibetan v3 verb stems (commonly termed ‘future’) initially encoded passive voice. New arguments put forward in this article range from Trans‐Himalayan nominal morphology to early Tibetan ...
Joanna Bialek
wiley +1 more source