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PERIPHRASIS IN A POETIC TEXT ABOUT THE MOON: W. Stevens “Lunar Paraphrase”

Неофилология, 2018
Based on the material of the poetic text of the poem by Wallace Stevens “Lunar Paraphrase” we establish that the periphrasis has a nominative character, has the replacing function, replacing the word “moon”, has metaphorical in relation to the replaced ...
Chunyang Du
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Urbanonyms-periphrases of the city of Smolensk in the semantic field “war”

Неофилология, 2020
In modern domestic linguistics, there are many works dedicated to the study of the figurative meaning of the word. However, periphrases more functioning in oral speech are not sufficiently studied. Of particular interest are proper names that reflect the
N. A. Rodina
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Bailando, me paso el día bailando y los vecinos mientras tanto no paran de molestar. Parar de + inf as an Interruptive Verbal Periphrasis in Spanish

Languages, 2021
The main aim of this paper is to describe the Spanish construction parar de + inf, an aspectual verbal periphrasis which expresses the interruption of the event referred to by the infinitive in affirmative clauses, and the continuity and repetition of ...
Mar Garachana
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Phraseological characteristics of the sport's column of the daily newspapers Jedinstvo [PDF]

Baština, 2011
The author defines as her research field a widely comprehended concept of phraseology, exacerbated in the corpus of daily newspapers Jedinstvo from November 1998.
Vučetić Jasmina
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From Nominalisation to Passive in Old Tibetan: Reconstructing Grammatical Meaning in an Extinct Language1

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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The periphrasis dar + participle in the Spanish spoken in Galicia

, 2022
Dar + participio es una perífrasis de la lengua gallega que es usada en el español hablado en Galicia. El objetivo del estudio es analizar sintáctica y semánticamente las ocurrencias de la perífrasis en ESLORA, un corpus del español hablado en Galicia ...
Pöllänen, Roosa Maria, Pöllänen, Roosa   +1 more
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The double modal construction in English world wide

World Englishes, EarlyView.
Abstract The dual foci of the present study of double modals are their semantic characteristics and their distribution across regional varieties of English world wide. Tokens were extracted from GloWbE:Blogs, a database whose great size and informal tenor facilitated the investigation of this low‐frequency non‐standard feature. Double modals were found
Peter Collins, Adam Smith
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Veillée de langues endeuillées. Circonfession (1991) de Jacques Derrida

Recherches & Travaux, 2020
This study aims to enter into the flesh of a text written by Jacques Derrida, Circumfession (1991), dealing with the decay of his aging mother. How do the confusing formal choices adopted by Derrida in this text, which is also part of an autobiographical
Jérémie Majorel
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Etymology and entomology: The semiotics and ethics of multispecies gene nomenclatures

Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, Volume 36, Issue 2, August 2026.
Abstract This article examines controversies surrounding gene names that are perceived as humorous in the context of fruit flies but are considered rude in the clinical context of human medicine. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork in insect laboratories, interviews with entomologists and geneticists, and an analysis of scientific and clinical ...
Colin M. E. Halverson
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Motivated causal judgments and responsibility for civilian casualties in military conflicts

Political Psychology, Volume 47, Issue 2, April 2026.
Abstract Causal judgments are ubiquitous in politics and crucial for assigning responsibility and blame. Cognitive science has demonstrated that people are more likely to pick factors as “causal” when they make a difference for the outcome across a range of counterfactual scenarios, with the scenarios sampled based on statistical and prescriptive ...
Dimiter Toshkov, Honorata Mazepus
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