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Electrophysiological correlates of concept type shifts.
A recent semantic theory of nominal concepts by Löbner [1] posits that-due to their inherent uniqueness and relationality properties-noun concepts can be classified into four concept types (CTs): sortal, individual, relational, functional.
Natalia Bekemeier +4 more
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Determination: a universal dimension for inter-language comparison : (preliminary version) [PDF]
The basic idea I want to develop and to substantiate in this paper consists in replacing – where necessary – the traditional concept of linguistic category or linguistic relation understood as 'things', as reified hypostases, by the more dynamic concept ...
Seiler, Hansjakob
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The Radical Account of Bare Plural Generics [PDF]
Bare plural generic sentences pervade ordinary talk. And yet it is extremely controversial what semantics to assign to such sentences. In this paper, I achieve two tasks.
Nguyen, Anthony
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Demonstrative Paradigms in English and Ibibio: Some Contrastive Observations [PDF]
This paper describes demonstrative paradigms in English and Ibibio based on their syntactic and semantic behaviours, especially with English as the language of education in Nigeria.
Ekah, Maria-Helen
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Problems in the Reconstruction of Proto-Philippine Construction Markers [PDF]
This paper is the result of an attempt to try to define the problems that must be faced in reconstructing the construction markers of ProtoPhilippines.
Reid, Lawrence A.
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Grammar practice : theory and practice [PDF]
Fil: Luque Colombres, María Candelaria. Universidad Nacional de Córdoba. Facultad de Lenguas; Argentina.Fil: Meehan, Patricia. Universidad Nacional de Córdoba. Facultad de Lenguas; Argentina.Fil: Oliva, María Belén.
de Maussion, Ana +5 more
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The development of determiners in the context of French-English bilingualism: a study of cross-linguistic influence [PDF]
This paper reports the preliminary results of a study examining the role of structural overlap, language exposure and language use on cross-linguistic influence (CLI) in bilingual first language acquisition.
Bloom +7 more
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Typological parameters of genericity [PDF]
Different languages employ different morphosyntactic devices for expressing genericity. And, of course, they also make use of different morphosyntactic and semantic or pragmatic cues which may contribute to the interpretation of a sentence as generic ...
Behrens, Leila
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Identifiability and definiteness in Chinese [PDF]
This article explores how the pragmatic notion of identfiability is encoded in Chinese. It presents a detailed analysis of the distinctive linguistic devices, including lexical, morphological, and position in sentence, which are employed in Chinese to ...
Chen, Ping
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This paper focuses on the sequence of the following types of constituents within complex nominals in Croatian: adjectival premodifiers, determiners and quantifiers. Using the methodology of Cognitive Grammar (Langacker 1987, 1991, Taylor 2002, Radden and
Branko Kuna, Branimir Belaj
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