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The Semantic Composition of Basque ‘Noun + egin’ predicates
Anuario del Seminario de Filología Vasca "Julio de Urquijo", 2019 Basque ‘Noun + egin’ (‘make’) expressions display striking properties for the Grammar of Basque: They have ‘defective’ morpho-syntax and semantics, involve discourse opacity, lack scope relations, and show a highly constrained combinatory. These are, however, typical features of (semantic) incorporation structures.
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Remnant Case Forms and Patterns of Syncretism in Early West Germanic
Transactions of the Philological Society, EarlyView.Abstract Early stages of the Old West Germanic languages differ from the other two branches, Gothic and Norse, by showing remnants of a fifth case in a‐ and ō‐stem nouns. The forms in question, which have the ending ‐i or ‐u, are conventionally labelled ‘instrumental’ and cover a range of functions, such as instrument, means, comitative and locative ...
Will Thurlwell
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Язык и текст, 2018 In this paper, various types of nominalizations are examined in English to Russian translation. A predicative verb at the beginning of a simple English sentence can be replaced by a deverbal noun in translation in order to shift the focus of ...
E.A. Balygina, O.A. Krukovskaya
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Научный диалог, 2020 The article is devoted to the analysis of analytical trends in the grammatical structure of the modern Russian language, manifested both at the morphological level - in the system of parts of speech, and at the syntactic level - in the system of types of
A. V. Pryanikov
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Nominal predication and focus anchoring [PDF]
, 2013 It will be shown that verbs can be missing in predicative sentences by using the data from Chinese. Copula-less sentences in Chinese are subject to 'Generalized Anchoring Principle' (GAP), which requires that every clause be anchored at the interface for
Tang, Sze-Wing
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What are particularistic pejoratives?
Mind &Language, EarlyView.Particularistic pejoratives (PPs) mock individuals based on their personal attributes yet lack a precise definition. This paper seeks to refine our understanding of PPs by examining their derogatory profiles across three dimensions: descriptiveness, intensity, and slurring potential.
Víctor Carranza‐Pinedo
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'Most' vs. 'the most' in languages where 'the more' means 'most' [PDF]
, 2018 This paper focuses on languages in which a superlative interpretation is typically indicated merely by a combination of a definiteness marker with a comparative marker, including French, Spanish, Italian, Romanian, and Greek ('DEF+CMP languages ...
Coppock, Elizabeth, Strand, Linnea
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The Racialisation of Rape: A Far‐Right Tool for Boundary‐Creation Across Borders
Nations and Nationalism, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Far‐right parties and movements have increasingly come to incorporate ideas of gender equality into their political agendas. While seemingly out of concern for women's rights and safety, these issues are in reality seldom more than a veil to further the stigmatisation of Muslim men.
Mathilda Åkerlund
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INDONESIAN NOUN PHRASE=NOUN+NOUN:A SEMANTIC PERSPECTIVE [PDF]
, 2013 This paper analyzes the nature of the Indonesian noun + noun constructed noun phrase. Basically, there are two thoughts responding to the nature of Indonesia noun phrase, and compound words. First, there is no concept of compound words; it is only noun
Suparto, Suparto
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Pacific Philosophical Quarterly, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper is about the hierarchy view: that each word has infinitely many meanings, arranged into levels, with the level n meaning serving as its semantic value when it occurs embedded to degree n in indirect or attitude reporting verbs. Departing from the famous debates over the bare tenability of the hierarchy view, I focus on whether there
Mark McCullagh
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