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COMPOSITIONALITY/NON-COMPOSITIONALITY OF IDIOMS: NON-NATIVE SPEAKERS’ CONSTRAINTS TO COMPREHENSION
Indonesian Journal of Applied Linguistics, 2016 Informed by Jackendoff’s (1997) Representational Modularity (RM) Hypothesis which states that, similar to how people make sense of categories, they also systematically make sense of language.
Yvonne Pedria Velasco
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Reconstruction of Passive suffix in middle Persian Languages [PDF]
Matn/Pizhūhī-i Adabī, 2005 It has been claimed That in middle Persian Languages, one way of passivization was adding suffix - Th to the present stem of the Verb. Contrary to this claim, It is proved in this article that the passive suffix was - T which historically originated from
mojtaba monshi zadeh
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Passiv og passiverbarhed på dansk og tysk
Hermes, 1988 It is a general and undoubtedly true assumption that the passive has a higher frequency in Danish than in German. One of the reasons for this is that the Danish language allows passivization to a much larger degree than does the German, not least because
Ole Lauridsen
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On Single and Two-Tiered Approaches to Control
Languages, 2020 In his most recent work, Landau suggests that control in impersonal passive constructions is cross-linguistically limited to attitude verbs and argues that this universal restriction offers convincing support for his two-tiered theory of control (TTC ...
Lisa A. Reed
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Atypical Stative Sentences In Japanese And English
Kansas Working Papers in Linguistics, 2000 Stative predicates normally mark objects in the nominative in Japanese and are non-passivizable in English. However, under some conditions, Japanese uses accusative marking and English allows passivization.
Baika, Tadashi
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Automatic generation of large-scale paraphrases [PDF]
, 2005 Research on paraphrase has mostly focussed on lexical or syntactic variation within individual sentences. Our concern is with larger-scale paraphrases, from multiple sentences or paragraphs to entire documents.
Power, Richard, Scott, Donia
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Teaching Through Trauma: English Teachers Navigating Affective Regimes in Post‐Earthquake Türkiye
TESOL Quarterly, EarlyView.Abstract This study explores how English as a Foreign Language (EFL) teachers in post‐earthquake Türkiye narrated their experiences of loss, survival, and teaching within state‐imposed affective regimes. Drawing on an affective–discursive analysis of Ministry of National Education (MoNE) documents and media texts, the study first investigates how ...
Merve Özçelik
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A natural limit on the observable periods of anomalous x-ray pulsars and soft gamma-ray repeaters [PDF]
, 2011 We investigate the dependence of the evolution of neutron stars with fallback disks on the strength of the magnetic dipole field of the star. Using the same model as employed by Ertan et al.
Alpar, M. Ali +7 more
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Transactions of the Philological Society, EarlyView.Abstract Based on an analysis of the Old Literary Tibetan corpus—a corpus of the oldest documented Tibetic language—the present study provides evidence that literary Tibetan v3 verb stems (commonly termed ‘future’) initially encoded passive voice. New arguments put forward in this article range from Trans‐Himalayan nominal morphology to early Tibetan ...
Joanna Bialek
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Properties of applied objects in Kiswahili and Kindendeule
Studies in African Linguistics, 1998 This paper examines objects which are licensed by the applicative affix in the Bantu languages of Kindendeule and Kiswahili. The data show that all verbs can take the applicative suffix deriving transitive verbs from intransitive verbs, and ditransitive ...
Deo Ngonyani
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