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To See or Not To See. The Polysemy of the Word עין in the Isaac Narratives (Gen 17-35)
Journal of Hebrew Scriptures, 2010 This article discusses the polysemy of the word עיןin the Isaac narratives (Gen 17-35). The word's given ambivalent nature is exploited on every level. It fits the major themes in the Isaac story as well as the small nuances in individual sentences.
Karolien Vermeulen
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Developmental Science, Volume 29, Issue 2, March 2026.ABSTRACT Languages differ in how words carve up the world into categories, and these differences in lexical categories often influence how speakers interpret perceived events. Past research has shown that languages with a single and general word for one domain tend to cue attention more broadly than languages with multiple, more specific verbs.
Hiromichi Hagihara +3 more
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Stellenbosch Papers in Linguistics, 2017 Cognitive and generative approaches to linguistics have taken a different perspective on grammatical polysemy and grammaticalization. While the former see polysemy as a core characteristic of language and a necessary result of grammaticalization within ...
Locatell, Christian
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The meaning-frequency law in Zipfian optimization models of communication [PDF]
, 2016 According to Zipf's meaning-frequency law, words that are more frequent tend to have more meanings. Here it is shown that a linear dependency between the frequency of a form and its number of meanings is found in a family of models of Zipf's law for word
Ferrer-i-Cancho, Ramon
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European Journal of Education, Volume 61, Issue 1, March 2026.ABSTRACT This study focuses on the process by which doctoral researchers construct epistemic sovereignty and control in AI‐assisted writing. This study employs a duoethnographic approach to analyse the reflective dialogues of two multidisciplinary doctoral researchers.
Xiaofei Ma +3 more
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Discursive play in the appropriation of scientific language by undergraduate research chemistry students [PDF]
Investigações em Ensino de Ciências, 2011 In this paper we analyze discourses that took place in chemistry research laboratories involving undergraduate research students of a university in the state of São Paulo.
Luciana Massi, Salete Linhares Queiroz
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Omonimia, polisemia, ambiguità e altre questioni semantiche
Atti del Sodalizio Glottologico Milanese, 2019 Homonymy, Polysemy, Ambiguity and other Semantic Issues. Meaning (literal and non-literal) may be regarded as a a many-faceted, multi-layered dynamic concept encompassing a number of different core and outer dimensions.
Igor Fortuna
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Museum Anthropology, Volume 49, Issue 1, Spring 2026.ABSTRACT This paper proposes Virtual Reality (VR) and 360 film as promising fieldwork tools for addressing problematic temporalities in ethnographic museums and for collaborating with communities of origin. Focusing on the Maria Czaplicka Siberian collections at the Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford, we examine how previous methods of display marginalized the
Anya Gleizer +2 more
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Polysemy of the Temporal Adverb JAM in Latin
Вісник Харківського національного університету імені В. Н. Каразіна. Серія Філологія. Vìsnik Harkìvsʹkogo nacìonalʹnogo unìversitetu ìmenì V.N. Karazìna. Serìâ Fìlologìâ.One of the most important types of semantic relations in the lexical and semantic system of languages is polysemy. The study of polysemy in Latin is extremely relevant, as it helps to understand the origin and development of polysemy in European ...
Nataliia Panchyshyn
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Moderate Holism: Answering to Criticism and Explaining Linguistic Phenomena [PDF]
, 2018 In this paper I present a version of meaning holism proposed by Henry Jackman (1999a, 1999b, 2005 and 2015) entitled "moderate holism". I will argue that this moderate version of holism, in addition to responding to much of the criticism attributed to ...
Estrela, Kênio
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