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Lexicalization of Light Verb Structures and the Semantics of Nouns

Catalan Journal of Linguistics, 2004
In this study I shall focus on two Romance idiomatic patterns and the semantics of nouns. It is shown that idioms, in addition to having distinct basic argument structure representations, are formed in syntax by various instantiations of Merge.
M. Teresa Espinal
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Figement et grammaticalisation dans l’expression era să spun / să zic ‘j’allais dire’ en roumain [PDF]

Studii de Lingvistica, 2023
The article deals with the relation between lexicalization and grammaticalization in the pragmatic phraseological unit era să spun / să zic ‘I was going to say’ in Romanian.
Cristina Petraș
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From Diglossia to an Ethno-Stylistic and Polyphonic Approach to Writing in Olympe Bhêly-Quenum’s Work [PDF]

Uirtus, 2023
Olympe Bhêly-Quenum writes in contact with a complex linguistic universe. He also writes in a context where a language must convey another culture.
Kokou Sahouegnon
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THE GRAMMATICALIZATION AND PRAGMATICALIZATION OF INTENSIFYING ADVERBS IN ENGLISH: A CLOSER LOOK AT ‘REALLY’ [PDF]

Studii si Cercetari Filologice: Seria Limbi Straine Aplicate
Intensifiers in English appear to be at the junction of grammar and lexis thanks to an unachieved process of grammaticalization. They are sometimes also subjected to pragmaticalization processes.
Lucile BORDET
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Morphologie und Semantik der "n"-Erweiterung bei "Muttern" und "Vatern" im Deutschen

Zeitschrift für Wortbildung, 2021
This paper deals with German kinship terms ending with the form n (Muttern, Vatern). Firstly, data from newspapers are presented that show that especially Muttern denotes very special meanings that can only be derived to a limited extent from the lexical
Alexander Werth
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Words within words: lexical statistics and lexical access [PDF]

2nd International Conference on Spoken Language Processing (ICSLP 1992), 1992
Contains fulltext : 6066.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Open Access)
McQueen, J., Cutler, A.
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Lexical Decision in Children: Sublexical Processing or Lexical Search? [PDF]

Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 2012
Length effects in the lexical decision latencies of children might indicate that children rely on sublexical processing and essentially approach the task as a naming task. We examined this possibility by means of the effects of neighbourhood size and articulatory suppression on lexical decision performance.
van den Boer, M., de Jong, P.F., Haentjens-van Meeteren, M.M.   +2 more
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The effect of lexicalization biases on cross-situational statistical learning of novel verbs

Language and Cognition
Languages vary in the mapping of relational terms onto events. For instance, English motion descriptions favor manner (how something moves) verbs over path (where something move) verbs, whereas those of other languages, like Spanish, show the opposite ...
Nathan R. George, Sabina Ciaccio, Lucia Berry, Daniel J. Weiss   +3 more
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How proper names enter the lexicon – From the Central Intelligence Agency to CIA: the reduction of full denominative expressions interpreted as a means to achieve (greater) lexicalization

Lexis: Journal in English Lexicology, 2022
This paper analyses the integration of proper names into the lexicon when they are reduced to initialisms, acronyms and clippings. We confirm their apparently abnormal inclusion in “common” dictionaries, despite their not being semantically or ...
Manon Philippe, Élise Mignot
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Semantic Paths of Lexicalization

Histoire Épistémologie Langage
While there is now an impressive amount of literature on the semantic changes involved in grammaticalization, studies on lexicalization in the sense of unidirectional, unguided, unconscious processes of lexico-semantic change leading to an increasing ...
Wiltrud Mihatsch
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