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An Early Lexical Screening Tool for British English: Psychometric Properties and Clinical Utility
International Journal of Language &Communication Disorders, Volume 61, Issue 4, July/August 2026.ABSTRACT Background Existing direct measures of vocabulary for ages 2–3 years are insufficient as vocabulary increases to include nouns, verbs, adjectives and adverbs, reflecting qualitative changes that support emerging grammatical abilities. Aims The present study aims to establish the psychometric properties and validate a lexical screening tool for
Allegra Cattani +2 more
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Transactions of the Philological Society, Volume 124, Issue 2, Page 314-356, July 2026.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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Infinitive Sentences as a Means to Organize the Modal Space of the Russian Bylina Epic
Известия Уральского федерального университета. Серия 2: Гуманитарные науки, 2015 The article studies the peculiarities of infinitive sentences functioning in the texts of the Russian bylina epic. The authors analyze the semantic peculiarities of the modal complex of infinitive constructions and reveal the artistic role of infinitive ...
Svetlana Sergeyevna Vaulina +1 more
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Infinitive Constructions as Explicators of Modal Meaning of Necessity in Document Texts
Вестник Волгоградского государственного университета: Серия 2. Языкознание, 2016 The article considers the functional-pragmatic value of the linguistic category of modality, which has a rich content plane and a wide range of linguistic means of its realization.
Arina Igorevna Tkachenko
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Environment and Planning B: Planning and Design, 2011 There is no abstract for this paper.
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Parameter Hierarchies and Language Contact: The Present Perfect in Ecuadorian Spanish1
Transactions of the Philological Society, Volume 124, Issue 2, Page 513-546, July 2026.Abstract This article explores the hypothesis that the ‘fine‐grained’ grammatical differences that adult grammars under contact are said to be sensitive to (e.g., Hicks et al. 2023) amount to micro/nanoparametric distinctions, in the sense of Roberts (2019).
Norma Schifano
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Metaethics and the Functions of Moral Language
Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, Volume 113, Issue 1, Page 74-87, July 2026.ABSTRACT Metaethics has long included debates about the function of moral discourse. Some have argued that moral statements express our attitudes, others that they serve as prescriptions for how to act, still others that they describe moral facts or properties.
Amie L. Thomasson
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Journal of Computer Assisted Learning, Volume 42, Issue 3, June 2026.ABSTRACT Background The use of recent artificial intelligence (AI) chatbots, such as chat generative pretrained transformer (ChatGPT), in second language (L2) writing may face criticism for potentially promoting plagiarism and raising ethical concerns.
Yuah V. Chon, Dongkwang Shin
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On Functions of Non-Finite Forms in English Language
Научный диалог, 2018 The article considers syntactic functions and grammatical status of non-finite forms in the English language. The author notes that this is a field of grammar that presents challenges for both studying and learning.
A. Y. Sokolova
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