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Relativity, linguistic variation and language universals
Language universals are usually thought of as properties holding of all languages. But very few, if any, such universals exist, due to the extreme structural diversity of languages.
William Croft
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Dative by genitive replacement in the Greek language of the papyri: a diachronic account of case semantics [PDF]
Semantic analysis of the prenominal first person singular genitive pronoun (μου) in the Greek of the documentary papyri shows that the pronoun is typically found in the position between a verbal form and an alienable possessum which functions as the ...
Stolk, Joanne Vera
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Verbs of possession such as HAVE and GIVE have been extensively studied both typologically and from a cognitive linguistic perspective. The present study presents an analysis of possession verbs as a semantic field with a focus on the most basic verbs ...
Åke Viberg
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Psychological Aspects of Using Video for Forming Teenagers’ Translational Competence
The aim of the article is to show the types of video material which help to develop the translational competence of teens; to determine the structural components of willingness of pupils to provide translational activity. Methods of the research.
Ернест Івашкевич
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Recent historical research using big-data techniques casts doubt on whether District of Columbia v. Heller was rightly decided according to originalist methods. These new discoveries put originalists in a bind. Do they embrace “faint hearted” originalism:
Pardon, Gaspard +1 more
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Own and Possess―A Corpus Analysis
This study is a corpus-based analysis of the verbs own and possess, which are two of the verbs that are used to express possession and ownership in English.
Marie Nordlund
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PECULIARITIES OF AUDIOVISUAL TEXT TRANSLATION
The article is devoted to urgent problems of the audiovisual texts translation and the distinctive peculiatities of film discourse as a form and source of social and cultural knowledge.
Svetlana Andreevna Pesina +1 more
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The universality of categories and meaning: a Coserian perspective [PDF]
Studies in linguistic typology have challenged the idea that languages can be analyzed in terms of a set of preestablished universal categories.
Willems, Klaas
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The Spanish verb quedar is a very rich term. Although it mainly conveys a meaning of permanence, it relates it to different domains (existence, location, possession or state). Surprisingly, quedar is also able to express the notion of change.
Lucía Gómez Vicente
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External versus internal possessor structures and inalienability in Russian [PDF]
This study deals with the choice between two external possessor structures in Russian: the possessive dative and the U + genitive PP. Is shows that this choice is primarily related to the thematic role of the possessor adjunct, which can vary with the ...
Paykin, Katia, Van Peteghem, Marleen
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