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The Agreement between Conjoined Subjects and Predicate: Croatian Church Slavonic Corpus Analysis
Slovene, 2017 The abundance of grammatical categories in Slavonic and their overlap are particularly evident in the agreement between conjoined subjects and predicate.
Ana Kovačević
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ON PROPER NAMES IN GERMAN: AN ANALYSIS FROM THE COGNITIVE PERSPECTIVE [PDF]
Respectus Philologicus, 2013 The aim of this paper is a cognitive grammar analysis of noun phrases in German which contain a proper noun. It is common for proper nouns in German, like first names, surnames, the names of cities and countries, to occur without an article.
Magdalena Zofia Majcher
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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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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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THE USE OF ENGLISH NOUN PHRASES
, 2014 This study discusses English noun phrases. It focuses on the kinds of modifier and functions of noun phrase. This research is descriptive in nature. It was conducted through the following steps: collecting, classifying, and analyzing the data.
Perdani, Lia Siska Selfi
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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 +7 more
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Pragmatic impacts of linguistic elision of noun and verb phrases in Saudi Business communication
Studies in English Language and EducationAlthough existing research has affirmed that omitting noun and verb phrases can streamline interactions and provide alternative interpretations for recipients, there is limited insight into how these elliptical constructions function in context in Saudi
Mohammad Awad Al-Dawoody Abdulaal
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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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PLoS ONEComplex noun phrases, as a distinctive feature of academic writing, pose an important learning task for L2 learners. Noun modifiers are the primary means of constructing complex noun phrases.
Fatih Ünal Bozdağ +2 more
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