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Noun Verbalization in the Erzya Dialects of the Prisurye Region
Introduction. The lexicalization of various parts of speech in the Mordovian languages remains a complex and understudied phenomenon within Finno-Ugric studies.
Ivan N. Ryabov +2 more
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Noun clauses for advanced writing
Noun clauses add depth and detail to your writing.
Polak, Tanja Nadine
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A Noun is a Noun is a Noun – Or is It? Some Reflections on the Universality of Semantics
Proceedings of the Nineteenth Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society: General Session and Parasession on Semantic Typology and Semantic Universals (1993)
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Abstract Current trends encouraging a move away from monolingual teaching have sparked a renewed interest in the role of translation in language instruction. Yet, there are few theoretically and empirically grounded proposals regarding specific uses of translation in the language classroom.
Monika Bader +2 more
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Genitive quantifiers in Japanese as reverse partitives [PDF]
Quantificational determiners in Japanese can be marked with genitive case. Current analyses (for example by Watanabe, Natural Language and Linguistic Theory, to appear) treat the genetive case marker in these cases as semantically vacuous, but we show ...
Kazuko Yatsushiro +3 more
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Introducing and Evaluating a Measure of Lexical Diversity Across Word Classes
Abstract Lexical diversity (LD) has been shown to be a strong predictor of second language (L2) proficiency. However, most current indices combine all word classes into a single measure and thus only capture the broadest patterns of lexical variation.
Taehyeong Kim +4 more
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The Elliptical Noun Phrase in English Structure and Use
This book presents a detailed analysis of structural as well as pragmatic aspects underlying the phenomenon of noun ellipsis in English. Here Günther examines the structure of elliptical noun phrases to account for the conditions on noun ellipsis and ...
Günther, Christine. +1 more
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Communicative Drills: The Impact of Communicative Intent on Oral Proficiency
Abstract This exploratory study investigated the role of communicative intent in second language (L2) oral practice by comparing communicative and meaningful drills. English language learners played a game designed to elicit repeated use of the second conditional.
Jonathan Serfaty
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D. M. Ovsianyko-Kulikovsky as an Orthologist: the Cognitive-evolutionary Coverage
The article is devoted to the cognitive-evolutionary coverage of D. M. Ovsianyko-Kulikovsky's beliefs as an orthologist who expressed his orthological convictions regarding the norms of syntactic agreement of adjectives with homogeneous noun phrases. The
Sergiy Popov
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Abstract This study examined how task design, task motivation, and learner engagement influenced L2 vocabulary learning by comparing learner‐generated content (LGC) and teacher‐generated content (TGC) in a classroom setting. One hundred sixty‐three Japanese high school students from five intact classes were assigned to LGC, TGC, or a test‐only control ...
Gaia Oikawa, Takumi Uchihara
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