The Indonesian verbal suffix -nya; Nominalization or subordination? [PDF]
The suffix nya is one of the most frequent and polysemic suffixes in Indonesian. It can provide definite determination and topicalization. The "Verb nya", which often appears in a topicalized subject Noun Phrase (NP), is generally labelled as a deverbal ...
Philippe Grangé
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English deadjectival nouns as models of knowledge representation about the world [PDF]
From the position of a cognitive approach the authors consider English deadjectival nouns, what involves identifying and describing knowledge domains represented by these language units in English language culture.
Liudmila V. Babina, Ksenia E. Lukina
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Nominalization in high- and low-rated L2 undergraduate writing
Nominalizations, or nouns derived from verbs or adjectives through suffixes, are a pervasive characteristic feature of written academic discourse. To better understand the nature of nominalization in L2 student writing and its relation to assessment in ...
Tetyana (Tanya) Bychkovska +1 more
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Nominalisierung in Abstracts deutscher und polnischer sprachwissenschaftlicher Artikel [PDF]
The aim of this study is to analyze and compare the use of nominalized verbs and adjectives in abstracts of research articles in linguistics written by German- and Polish-speaking scientists. The paper begins by describing academic texts as a subject of (
Adam Gołębiowski
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Analyzing the semiotic nature of GIFs: visual nominalization and visual telicity
GIFs, short audio-free loops of moving sequences, are active members of social semiotic resources in the era of Internet 2.0 that could generate humor, mediate power and signal identity.
Fan Yi
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Possession and nominalization in Dan: Evidence for a general theory of categories
Dan, a Mandean language of the Ivory Coast, marks the alienable possessors of simple nonrelational nouns differently from the inalienable possessors of relational nouns: only the former occur with the particle ɓa.
Bleu Gildas Gondo, Mark C Baker
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Investigating Action Nominalization in the Introduction Sections of Research Articles: A Cross-disciplinary Study of Hard and Soft Sciences [PDF]
This study reports on a corpus-based study of action nominalizations and their distribution in the thematic structure of introduction sections of research articles (RAs) across hard and soft sciences.
Khodayar Mehrabi +3 more
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Kotarbiński’s Ontology of Humanities [PDF]
What is left of this initial project once Kotarbiński’s textbook became obsolete – as Kotarbiński himself claims, perhaps too modestly, in the preface of its second edition, in 1959 – and also given the strong criticism of reism, particularly by ...
Pouivet, Roger
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Discourse function of nominalization : a case study of English and Slovene newspaper articles
The article deals with nominalization as a linguistic form with a universal discourse function. lt offers an explanation ofthe discourse function of nominalization as a topicalization mechanism.
Katja Plemenitaš
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Persian Deadjectival Nominals: An Exoskeletal Approach [PDF]
Nominalized words are complex nominals, which have their own particular derivational structure. These nominals can be derived from different parts of speech. Correspondingly, a deadjectival nominal is a nominal that is derived from an adjective; Although
Hoda ُSiavashi +2 more
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