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The noun and the article

open access: yes, 2000
Данная методическая разработка предназначена для занятий практической грамматики со студентами студентов I курса филологического факультета специальности «Английский язык».
Шаплюк Н. В.
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Factors Influencing the Interpretation of Noun-Noun Compounds [PDF]

open access: yes, 2007
The Competition Among Relation in Nominals theory (Gagné & Shoben, 1997) asserts that the relation frequency of the modifying noun is the primary determinant of ease of interpretation for noun-noun compounds.
Maguire, Phil   +4 more
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Bactrian in Issyk‐Kushan Script: Additional Readings and Decipherments1

open access: yesTransactions of the Philological Society, EarlyView.
Abstract This article presents additional readings of several inscriptions written in the Issyk‐Kushan script, building on the improved system of sound values recently proposed by Sims‐Williams (2025b). We propose that some further lines of Dašt‐i Nāwur inscription DN III and parts of several other inscriptions can now be read as Bactrian, add new ...
Jakob Halfmann   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Factors influencing the interpretation of noun-noun compounds [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
The Competition Among Relation in Nominals theory (Gagné & Shoben, 1997) asserts that the relation frequency of the modifying noun is the primary determinant of ease of interpretation for noun-noun compounds.
Maguire, Phil   +2 more
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There Is no First Phase of the Jespersen Cycle1

open access: yesTransactions of the Philological Society, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper challenges the traditional conception of the Jespersen Cycle by arguing that no ‘pure’ first phase of the cycle exists where a single negator operates without reinforcement. Drawing on historical data from Northern Italian dialects (Piedmontese, Lombard, Emilian), we demonstrate that emphatic negative structures systematically co ...
Tommaso Mattiuzzi, Cecilia Poletto
wiley   +1 more source

From Nouns and Adjectives to Verbs: Base Effects on the Grammatical Behaviour of Denominal Verbs in Ancient Greek1

open access: yesTransactions of the Philological Society, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper investigates the role of semantic features of noun and adjective bases in determining the grammatical behaviour of Ancient Greek denominal and deadjectival verbs in *‐ye/o‐. The paper adopts a lexicalist framework (Rappaport Hovav & Levin 1998) and examines how the event schema, actionality, telicity and voice of derived verbs are ...
Carolina Marescotti
wiley   +1 more source

Cumulative semantic effects in noun-noun compound production

open access: yes, 2019
Ndao A, Abdel Rahman R, Zwitserlood P, Lorenz A. Cumulative semantic effects in noun-noun compound production.
Abdel Rahman, Rasha   +3 more
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The Gender of Heteroclites1

open access: yesTransactions of the Philological Society, EarlyView.
Abstract Few have asked what happens to gender when a noun is heteroclitic – when its inflection draws on more than one inflection class. While heteroclisis has moved from being treated as a marginal irregularity to a theoretically revealing phenomenon, its implications for gender assignment remain largely unexplored.
Greville G. Corbett
wiley   +1 more source

Shared Vocabulary between Meiteilon and Tai Varieties and Pre‐Modern Language Contact on the Indo‐Myanmar Border1

open access: yesTransactions of the Philological Society, EarlyView.
Abstract This article examines lexical and phonological evidence for language contact between Old and modern Meiteilon (Manipuri) and Tai varieties, identifying loanwords relating to domestic life, trade and literary culture. Comparative data from Shan dialects and Old Meiteilon manuscripts such as the Cheitharon Kumpapa are employed in contextualising
Josiah Medin
wiley   +1 more source

Phraseological adjective + noun calques loaned from English into Croatian

open access: yesRasprave Instituta za Hrvatski Jezik i Jezikoslovlje, 2016
This paper describes phraseological calques loaned from English into Croatian whose common denominator is their adjective + noun structure. Eighteen such idioms found in literature as confirmed examples of calques from English have been included in the ...
Jasmina Jelčić
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