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Nominalization in Arabic translations of patient information leaflets

Translation and Interpreting : the International Journal of Translation and Interpreting Research
Patient information leaflets (PILs) inserted in medicine packages constitute a genre written by experts for an audience of laymen, but studies of PILs in Arabic report low readability. According to the lay friendliness framework developed by Jensen (2013)
Hala Sharkas
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On the Directionality of the Balkan Turkic Verb Phrase: Variationist and Theoretical Perspectives

Languages, 2022
Balkan varieties of Turkic, particularly those on the periphery of the Turkic spread area in the region, such as Gagauz and West Rumelian Turkish, are commonly observed to have head-initial verb phrases. Based on a wide survey, this paper attempts a more
Cem Keskin
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Nominalization in Rawang [PDF]

, 2010
This paper discusses the various forms, origins, and uses of nominalization in the Rawang (Rvwàng) language, a Tibeto-Burman language of northern Myanmar, with data taken mainly from naturally occurring ...
LaPolla, Randy J.
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Fossil Nominalization Prefixes in Tibetan and Chinese

, 2019
This paper shows that both Tibetan and Old Chinese preserve lexicalized traces of several nominalization prefixes which are still productive in morphologically more conservative languages of the Trans-Himalayan family such as Rgyalrongic, which can thus ...
Guillaume Jacques
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Shimelis Mazengia, Nominalization via Verbal Derivation: Amharic, Tigrinya and Oromo

Aethiopica, 2019
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Magdalena Krzyżanowska
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The influence of aspect on the countability of Polish deverbal nominalizations: Evidence from an acceptability rating study

Zeitschrift für Sprachwissenschaft, 2021
The paper presents the results of a study investigating a possible influence of the viewpoint (perfective vs. imperfective) and lexical (telic vs. atelic) aspect of Polish verbs on the countability of eventive nominalizations (substantiva verbalia ...
Gulgowski Piotr, Błaszczak Joanna, Puhacheuskaya Veranika   +2 more
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Word-class-changing derivations in Rawang [PDF]

, 2010
Rawang [...] is a Tibeto-Burman language spoken by people who live in the far north of Kachin State in Myanmar (Burma), particularly along the Mae Hka ('Nmai Hka) and Maeli Hka (Mali Hka) river valleys (see map on back page); population unknown, although
LaPolla, Randy J.
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(No) competition between deverbal nouns and nominalized infinitives in Spanish

Borealis: An International Journal of Hispanic Linguistics, 2020
This paper explores the distribution of deverbal nouns and nominalized infinitives that are built on transitive verbs and occur in eventive interpretations.
Barbara Schirakowski
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Verbs, nouns and affixation [PDF]

, 2008
What explains the rich patterns of deverbal nominalization? Why do some nouns have argument structure, while others do not? We seek a solution in which properties of deverbal nouns are composed from properties of verbs, properties of nouns, and ...
Alexiadou, Artemis, Grimshaw, Jane
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Exploring nominalization in scientific textbooks: A cross-disciplinary study of hard and soft sciences

, 2017
Given the importance of disciplinary specificity in terms of the potential differences in the functionality of nominalizations in scientific textbooks and the dearth of studies of this type, the current study explores the extent to which nominalization ...
A. Jalilifar, P. White, N. Malekizadeh
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