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Superlative Objoid Constructions in British and American English
World Englishes, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper investigates regional variation in Superlative Objoid constructions (SOCs) and their prepositional variant (at‐SOCs). SOCs combine a possessive pronoun with a superlative adjective. These function as manner‐degree modifiers in a context where the possessive is in postverbal position and correlative with the subject, as in they tried
Tamara Bouso, Marianne Hundt
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“There Are Places Full of Beauty”: Desettling High School Students' Scientific Writing
Science Education, Volume 110, Issue 4, Page 1018-1042, July 2026.ABSTRACT This study contributes to desettling and expanding expectations about the forms of scientific language that belong in students' scientific writing. The primary empirical focus is the analysis of 52 high school student abstracts articulating community‐based investigations, submitted as part of their participation in a student conference in a ...
Alejandra Frausto Aceves
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KLASIFIKASI KALIMAT PASIF INTRANSITIF DALAM BAHASA JEPANG BERDASARKAN PERAN SEMANTISNYA
Kajian Linguistik dan Sastra, 2015 A predicate of a passive sentence in Japanese can be filled in by a transitive,ditransitif, and intransitive verb. Passive sentences with intransitive verbs as the predicates commonly express oppositive meaning.
Dedi Sutedi
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, 2022 This study investigated whether some Japanese intransitive verbs, called agent-implying intransitive verbs, are processed differently from other ordinary intransitive verbs.
Zoe Pei-sui Luk (13183416)
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The transitivity of borrowed verbs in Basque: an outline
Anuario del Seminario de Filología Vasca "Julio de Urquijo", 2003 In this paper I will study the main patterns that Basque speakers follow when they choose the auxiliary used with verbs borrowed from neighbouring languages.
Xabier Alberdi
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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Volume 32, Issue 2, Page 434-455, June 2026.This article explores the activities of daily life in a village neighbouring the TEPCO nuclear power plant in Fukushima. It argues that one of the potentials of taking a dwelling perspective – a phenomenological approach to living within the ecological and social environments – emerges most compellingly within a polluted landscape.
Tomoko Sakai
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Theatres of Indirectness: Passive Aggression and Failure
Critical Quarterly, EarlyView.
Sara Crangle, Sam Ladkin
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How Flexible Are Grammars Past Puberty? The Case of Relative Clauses in Turkish‐American Returnees
Language Learning, Volume 76, Issue 2, Page 391-424, June 2026.Abstract How flexible are grammars after puberty? To answer this, we test returnees: heritage speakers (HS) born in an immigration context who returned to their homeland in later years. If returnees are targetlike, then language is still malleable after puberty; in contrast, if maturational effects are in play, postpuberty returnees will show ...
Aylin Coşkun Kunduz, Silvina Montrul
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Psychology and Psychotherapy: Theory, Research and Practice, Volume 99, Issue 2, Page 684-704, June 2026.Abstract Objectives Sexual minority adolescents experience elevated rates of psychological distress, influenced by societal stigma and heteronormativity. Psychological therapists can play a key role in supporting identity development and advocating for systemic change.
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A phonetic study of focus in intransitive verb sentences [PDF]
Proceeding of Fourth International Conference on Spoken Language Processing. ICSLP '96, 1996 In English, focus is one of the factors determining the prosodic characteristics of an utterance. Some recent linguistic analyses (Selkirk, 1995) claim that focus is represented in the phonology by pitch accents, and the placement of these accents is determined by both the type of focus (broad, narrow), syntactic structure, and other factors such as ...
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