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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
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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
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Derivational Nest of Lexeme Oganj: Semantic-derivational Analysis [PDF]
Предмет рада биће анализа деривационог гнезда лексеме огањ. Најпре ћемо представити семантичку структуру ове лексеме, а затим ћемо са синхронијског становишта, према начину творбе, грађу поделити на изведене и сложене речи, те лексеме даље сврставати у ...
Стојановић, Милица
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A cartographic model for the derivational relations of educational education in Najaf Governorate
Agricultural development in Iraq occupies an important and distinguished place because of its role in the development of the agricultural sector. In developed countries, there was great financial, technical, scientific and technological support by ...
عبد الصاحب ناجي البغدادي +2 more
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Hydronymic Space of Adygea: Structural and Semantic Organization
The paper deals with the actual issues of regional onomastic space. The names of linear hydro objects – rivers flowing through the territory of the Adyghe Republic are in the focus of consideration.
Elena A. Sokur +2 more
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(Co‐)Reference All the Way Down: A Unified Theory of (Pro) Nominals in Ordinary English
ABSTRACT This essay joins two themes, both arising from Kripke's inspiring ideas in the theory of reference. The first theme concerns reference in general. The second examines the notion of co‐reference and the role it plays in a unified theory of pronouns for natural language.
Jessica Pepp, Joseph Almog
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Focus and question formation in Edo
The purpose of this study is to investigate the relations that hold between sentence constituents in focus constructions and the derivation of questions which involve focussing.
Thomas O. Omoruyi
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New Insights Into Lakota Syntax: The Encoding of Arguments and the Number of Verbal Affixes
ABSTRACT This paper examines the morphosyntax of transitive constructions in Lakota, with particular emphasis being placed on the encoding of arguments. The analysis of argument marking through verbal affixes in Lakota transitive constructions raises two main questions: the existence or non‐existence of the zero marker for the third person singular and
Avelino Corral Esteban
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The effect of derivational entropy in word naming.
Michael Ramscar (347404) +2 more
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Lability in Hittite and Indo‐European: A Diachronic Perspective
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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