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Desemantization as a specificity of everyday communication

Гуманитарные и юридические исследования
Introduction. The problem of desemantization in linguistics is considered from different sides: as a consequence of the development of the meaning of a word, as a phenomenon caused by the weakening of the nominative function, as a result of the influence
V. M. Gryaznova
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The Hare and the Tortoise in Ecological L2 Learning: Distributed Practice Effects in Vocabulary and Grammar

TESOL Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract Research on the distributed practice effect, that is the impact of different intervals between learning sessions, has investigated both intentional and incidental learning of second language vocabulary and grammar targets. This research is complex and has produced conflicting findings: whereas robust effects have been shown for intentional ...
Shona Whyte, Katerina Palasis, Amanda Edmonds, Emilie Gerbier   +3 more
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Receptive Meaning‐Recall Knowledge of Derivational Morphology Among EFL Learners: A Case for L1‐Population‐Specific Assessment

TESOL Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract Vocabulary knowledge plays a crucial role in L2 proficiency, significantly impacting learners' reading comprehension. Although extensive research has explored whether knowledge of base words extends to recognition of derivational forms, results are inconsistent, especially among learners from non‐Indo‐European linguistic backgrounds.
Mastoor Al‐Kaboody, Geoffrey G. Pinchbeck, Joseph P. Vitta, Christopher Nicklin, Paweł Mandera, Stuart McLean   +5 more
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Noun phrase modifiers in early Germanic : a comparative corpus study of Old English, Old High German, Old Icelandic, and Old Saxon

This chapter gives an overview of modifier position in noun phrases in the early Germanic languages Old English, Old High German, Old Icelandic, and Old Saxon. We first present data for the relative position of adjectives, cardinal numerals, possessives,
Breban, Tine, Börjars, Kersti, Bech, Kristineditor, Walkden, George, Bech, Kristin, Pfaff, Alexandereditor, Booth, HannahUGent0002115547748020031096929783739171410000-0003-4252-155237B548C4-30AE-11E9-AE0C-B4045707D3EF, Petrova, Svetlana   +7 more
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Lexical Syllabus in Elementary and Secondary Education: Construction and Implementation

TESOL Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract Nonnative language users operate with significantly limited vocabularies compared to native speakers, particularly when the language is learnt in school contexts. This paper demonstrates how empirical research on vocabulary learning combined with experience in teaching and curricula design has informed the principled construction of a lexical ...
Batia Laufer
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Supporting Young Foreign Language Learners With Image Generative AI in Digital Multimodal Composing: Benefits and Challenges

TESOL Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract Integrating generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) into digital multimodal composing (DMC) offers promising avenues for young Foreign Language (FL) learners' learning experiences. Image‐based GenAI tools enable students to generate personalized images from written prompts to help convey meanings, and DMC combines text, images, and sound to
Alex Lap‐kwan Lam
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Cutting freedom down to size Liberté calibrée

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
Freedom, as a concept and a value, presents limited prospects for anthropological comparison. The study of enslavement, much neglected in attempts to develop an anthropology of freedom, shows that freedom has been imagined by the enslaved as the opposite of their condition only under particular circumstances.
Harri Englund
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Loanwords and Linguistic Phylogenetics: *pelek̑u‐ ‘axe’ and *(H)a(i̯)g̑‐ ‘goat’1

Transactions of the Philological Society, Volume 123, Issue 1, Page 116-136, March 2025.
Abstract This paper assesses the role of borrowings in two different approaches to linguistic phylogenetics: Traditional qualitative analyses of lexemes, and quantitative computational analysis of cognacy. It problematises the assumption that loanwords can be excluded altogether from datasets of lexical cognacy.
Simon Poulsen
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On the Morphology of Toponyms: What Greek Inflectional Paradigms Can Teach us

Transactions of the Philological Society, Volume 123, Issue 1, Page 77-96, March 2025.
Abstract The research is a contribution to the investigation of the grammatical status of toponyms from the point of view of inflectional paradigmatic morphology. By examining data from Standard Modern Greek, as well as select data from its historical development, the analysis reveals that the inflectional morphology of toponyms shows significant ...
Michail I. Marinis
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THE CATEGORY OF COUNTABILITY IN THE CROATIAN LANGUAGE

Fluminensia: Journal for Philological Research, 2005
This paper considers the category of countability as a category established on the lexical meaning of nouns. The lexical meaning of nouns can be dually structured, in a unit and mass forms, relative to the opposition one ≠ many.
Marija Znika
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