Academic Dynasties: Decentralization and Familism in the Italian Academia [PDF]
Decentralization can lead to "good" or "bad" outcomes depending on the socio-cultural norms of the targeted communities. We investigate this issue by looking at the evolution of familism and nepotism in the Italian academia before and after the 1998 ...
Giovanna Labartino +2 more
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Syntax and semantics: A comparison of the structuralistic language theory of Ebeling with knowledge graph theory [PDF]
, 2004 This paper describes a comparison of two structuralistic theories of syntax and semantics of language. Both theories were developed in The Netherlands.
Hoede, C.
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From the history of logic. Semantics of homonymy in Porphyry’s logic
Studia Humanitatis, 2016 The article deals with the logical and semantic aspects of the theory of homonyms in Aristotle’s “Categories” within the context of Porphyry’s commentaries.
Garin Sergey Vyacheslavovich
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LEXICAL AND GRAMMATICAL POTENTIAL OF THE VERB LASSEN IN MODERN GERMAN
Вестник Волгоградского государственного университета: Серия 2. Языкознание, 2014 A solution to the problem of verbal meaning identity is offered with the support of semantic analysis of the verb lassen and determination of grammatical construction types with it. Studies of dictionary definitions helped to reveal formal and conceptual
Rogozhnikova Irina Nikolaevna
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HOMONYMS IN FOREIGN AND RUSSIAN DICTIONARIES OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE(based on the homonym ‘lie’)
Polylinguality and Transcultural Practices, 2016 The article analyses various ways of representing homonyms in different types of dictionaries of the English language (bilingual and monolingual). The author considers the influence of these representative methods on students’ perception of homonyms ...
I Y Cherepanov
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Studia Philosophica Estonica, 2014 Proponents of ground, which is used to indicate relations of ontological fundamentality, insist that ground is a unified phenomenon, but this thesis has recently been criticized. I will first review the proponents' claims for ground's unicity, as well as
Margaret Anne Cameron
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Why evolution does not always lead to an optimal proto-language.An approach based on the replicator dynamics [PDF]
Sender–receiver models in the style of Lewis (1969), Hurford (1989), or Nowak and Krakauer (1999) can be used to explain meaning of signals in situations of cooperative interaction.
Christina Pawlowitsch
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Mapping metaphors of wealth and want: a digital approach [PDF]
, 2014 The AHRC-funded Mapping Metaphor with the Historical Thesaurus project aims to provide data on the extent and development of metaphor across the history of English.
Alexander, Marc, Bramwell, Ellen
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Orthographic Norm and Grammatical Homonymy
Vestnik Volgogradskogo gosudarstvennogo universiteta. Serija 2. Jazykoznanije, 2019 The article deals with the relevant linguistic issue of correlation between word spelling and the distinction of units belonging to different grammatical classes. The concepts of word and part of speech are contrasted. The author has revealed the peculiarities of lexical units functioning in written speech, which enables their part-of-speech status ...
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Polysemy and word meaning: an account of lexical meaning for different kinds of content words [PDF]
, 2018 There is an ongoing debate about the meaning of lexical words, i.e., words that contribute with content to the meaning of sentences. This debate has coincided with a renewal in the study of polysemy, which has taken place in the psycholinguistics camp ...
Vicente, Agustin
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