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Idiom

The Iowa Review, 2000
openaire   +1 more source

Neutral Forms of Be as Default Forms: The Utility of Underspecification and Blocking in a Welsh Morphosyntactic Phenomenon

Transactions of the Philological Society, EarlyView.
Abstract In Welsh, in certain tenses, unique forms of the verb for ‘be’ are used in positive clauses. These specialised forms of ‘be’ are incompatible with positive main‐clause declarative complementizers, despite their apparent featural compatibility. For most speakers, they are also blocked from if‐clauses; although, I report on data regarding their ...
Frances Dowle
wiley   +1 more source

ON SEMANTIC INTEGRITY OF IDIOMS AND FREE WORD GROUPS

, 2015
Vladimir M. Savitsky
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Vulgar Minimisers in English and Spanish1

Transactions of the Philological Society, EarlyView.
Abstract In this paper, we investigated whether vulgar minimisers form a natural class in English and Spanish by evaluating (i) their similarities and differences with respect to non‐vulgar minimisers and (ii) whether vulgar minimisers are inherently negative in these languages.
Ángel L. Jiménez‐Fernández, Susagna Tubau   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

IDIOMS WITH COMPONENT FACE IN THE TRANSLATIONS FROM CZECH INTO MACEDONIAN

, 2019
Јasmina Delova-Siljanova
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The ‘Bilingualism Factor’ in Language Change: The Consequences of Language Contact Within and Across Bilingual Minds1

Transactions of the Philological Society, EarlyView.
Abstract Building on Uriel Weinreich's pioneering (1953) Languages in Contact and on Peter Matthews' insightful commentary on it (2006, this volume) this paper discusses the crucial role of bilingualism, and specifically different types of bilingualism, in understanding whether and how the initial changes at the level of Saussure's parole can ...
Luna Filipović, John A. Hawkins
wiley   +1 more source

Cultural Context and Mental Health: A Kenyan Elite Athlete's Perspective. [PDF]

Sports Med
Kirkland A, Whittaker AC, Boit M, Chinn S, Crawley M, Ndetei D, Ochieng P, Stirling E, Chesire I.   +8 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Semantik Idiom Bahasa Inggris Yang Menggunakan Leksem Apple

, 2023
Rizky Ainun Maftuhah, Mulyadi Mulyadi
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Contact and Language Change: Using the Present to Explain the Past1

Transactions of the Philological Society, EarlyView.
Abstract Although we may know the outcome of language changes that could have resulted from language contact in the past, we are unlikely to know how and why these changes occurred unless we also know about the individual speakers who came into contact and the nature of their interactions—information that all too often is impossible to uncover.
Jenny Cheshire
wiley   +1 more source

Digital activism in Kenya: moving from the digital center to the digital periphery of Long Covid experience. [PDF]

Global Health
Mendenhall E, Kamau LW, Kenworthy N, Bosire EN.   +3 more
europepmc   +1 more source