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Language Learning, Volume 76, Issue 1, Page 67-102, March 2026.Abstract This study investigates how distributional cues are integrated into the mental representation of the as‐predicative construction by English native and nonnative speakers, drawing on associative learning theory. We examined speakers’ constructional retrieval when given a verbal cue (Experiment 1) and their verb retrieval when given a ...
Ivana Domazetoska, Helen Zhao
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Automatic extraction of paraphrastic phrases from medium size corpora
, 2004 This paper presents a versatile system intended to acquire paraphrastic phrases from a representative corpus. In order to decrease the time spent on the elaboration of resources for NLP system (for example Information Extraction, IE hereafter), we ...
Poibeau, Thierry
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Language Learning, Volume 76, Issue 1, Page 103-131, March 2026.Abstract The current study investigated from a usage‐based perspective how phrasal frequency and collocational strength of verb–preposition collocations influence preposition placement in wh‐relative clauses. Native English speakers and Chinese learners of English as a second language of the intermediate and advanced English proficiencies completed a ...
Henan Duan (she/her) +2 more
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The Gradability of ‘Conscious’
Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, Volume 112, Issue 2, Page 392-405, March 2026.ABSTRACT Are some creatures “more conscious” than others? A number of consciousness researchers have aimed to answer this question. Yet some have claimed that this question does not even make sense. They claim that “conscious” (in the phenomenal sense) never occurs as a gradable adjective, meaning an adjective that permits degree expressions (“more f ...
Andrew Y. Lee, Poppy Mankowitz
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Measure instrumental in russian [PDF]
, 2013 We will argue that some seemingly adverbial free DPs in the instrumental in Russian which are traditionally termed measure instrumental are best understood as secondary predicates.
Demjjanow, Assinja, Strigin, Anatoli
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Métaphore grammaticale : le nom en –ness, une création lexicale à usage unique
Lexis: Journal in English Lexicology, 2014 In this paper, –ness nominalization is interpreted as a case of grammatical metaphor, following recent cognitive approaches such as Langacker [2009], Panther et alii [2009].
Julie Neveux
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Process nominalizations in russian [PDF]
, 2013 Within a minimalist framework of sound-meaning correlation, the present study concentrates on process nominalizations of Russian. It is shown how these constructions are built up syntactically and semantically and in which respects they differ from other
Zimmermann, Ilse
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Studia Romanica Posnaniensia, 2023 In this paper, we present the problems encountered during our research in the field of nominal predication in Polish, in particular concerning nouns referring to properties and character traits.
Grażyna Vetulani
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Processing of verbal versus adjectival agreement: Implications for syntax and psycholinguistics
GlossaLinguistic theories distinguish between external and internal agreement (e.g., noun-verb agreement vs. noun-modifier agreement, the latter also known as concord) and model them using different mechanisms.
Irina A. Sekerina +3 more
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Determiner spreading in Rukiga. [PDF]
Linguistics, 2023 Asiimwe A, Kouneli M, van der Wal J.
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