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This paper discusses Aristotle’s account of multivocity (πολλαχῶς/ πλεοναχῶς λέγεται) as expounded in Topics 1.15. This article argues that an inquiry into how many ways (ποσαχῶς) something is said becomes for Aristotle a tool of dialectical examination ...
Mikołaj Domaradzki
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ABSTRACT It has been suggested that informing language learners about the original, literal meaning of idioms helps them to remember these expressions, but the empirical evidence is limited. A new study was conducted with three groups of learners of English (53 Chinese students at a university in Canada, 56 students at a university in China, and 77 ...
Xiaofei Wang +3 more
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Remnant Case Forms and Patterns of Syncretism in Early West Germanic
Abstract Early stages of the Old West Germanic languages differ from the other two branches, Gothic and Norse, by showing remnants of a fifth case in a‐ and ō‐stem nouns. The forms in question, which have the ending ‐i or ‐u, are conventionally labelled ‘instrumental’ and cover a range of functions, such as instrument, means, comitative and locative ...
Will Thurlwell
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Die mikrostrukturele bewerking van affikse in Afrikaanse vertalende woordeboeke
<p><b>The Microstructural Treatment of Affixes in Afrikaans Translation Dictionaries</b></p><p>The microstructural treatment of affix lemmata in Afrikaans translation dictionaries is currently inadequate.
Gerda de Wet
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Homonymy in Polish and Belarusian [PDF]
The paper is a review of homonymy (in a broad sense of the term) in two Slavic languages: Polish and Belarusian. Different types of homonyms were described and compared.
Kaleta, Radosław
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Abstract This paper offers a reflection on methodological issues surrounding the historical study of deification in response to the approach proposed in the Oxford Handbook of Deification. The paper contextualises the OHD's proposal in light of previous attempts to address the question of how to define/identify the concept of deification.
Brendan A. Harris
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Relative Meaning Frequencies for 100 Homonyms: British eDom Norms
This data set contains British-English ratings of meaning frequencies for 100 homonyms, i.e., words with multiple unrelated meanings (e.g., “money/river bank”).
Greg Maciejewski +1 more
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A replacement name Yahganona Sihvonen, Hausmann & Brehm nom. nov., is proposed for the preoccupied genus name Ona Sihvonen, Hausmann & Brehm, 2026 (Lepidoptera: Apoprogonidae). The single southern South American species previously classified in Ona is now classified as Yahganona australis Sihvonen, Hausmann & Brehm, comb. nov. The collecting site of Y.
Pasi Sihvonen +3 more
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Metaphor Is Between Metonymy and Homonymy: Evidence From Event-Related Potentials
The goal of the present study was to investigate the interaction between different senses of polysemous nouns (metonymies and metaphors) and different meanings of homonyms using the method of event-related potentials (ERPs) and a priming paradigm ...
Anna Yurchenko +5 more
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