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Weather, EarlyView.The English language is a gargantuan, gluttonous beast. It has become extraordinary among its peers in its powers of assimilation – such that we rarely consider the diverse origins of the words we use. In this two‐part paper, we will explore these origins, including the Pontic‐Caspian steppe, the British Empire, latinophone scientists and a TV show. We
Kieran M. R. Hunt
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Spatial meanings of na and semantically related prepositions in Macedonian
Journal of Contemporary Philology, 2019 The paper presents а contrastive analysis of the spatial meanings of the preposition na and its semantic counterparts in Macedonian. Reviewed here are the contexts in which na assumes similarity of meaning to another preposition.
Aleksandar Pavlov
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Diglosia, 2023 The use of social media gave rise to internet variety language. This language variety includes low variety language because it is used in informal situations.
Faradhiba Salsabila +2 more
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Measuring New Venture Legitimacy: A Multi‐dimensional Approach Using Computational Textual Analysis
British Journal of Management, EarlyView.Abstract Legitimacy is critical for the growth, survival and performance of ventures, yet efforts to measure legitimacy empirically typically focus on a single dimension of this multi‐dimensional construct. In this article, we develop a multi‐dimensional framework for measuring legitimacy using computational text analysis.
Ali Ghods +3 more
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Научный диалог, 2017 The article is devoted to the description of derived prepositions soobrazno ( s ) ‘in accordance (with)’ within a system of means of expression the relations of comparison.
E. S. Sheremetyeva, T. Chuyeakayev
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Fronting in Old Catalan: Asymmetries between Narration and Reported Speech1
Transactions of the Philological Society, Volume 123, Issue 1, Page 1-28, March 2025.Abstract This article explores the distribution, syntax, and information structure of XVS clauses in the narrative text and the reported speech of a thirteenth‐century Old Catalan chronicle, the Llibre dels Fets. It is shown that XVS occurs mainly within reported speech and in embedded clauses.
Afra Pujol i Campeny
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Frequency and Variability in Errors in the Use of English Prepositions
Miscelánea: A Journal of English and American Studies, 1996 The purpose of this study is: a) to determine the frequency of preposition errors in a descriptive composition written by Spanish secondary students; b) to prove the systematicity of these errors in students from different state secondary schools; c) to
Rosa María Jiménez Catalán
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Isogloss, 2022 This paper investigates the acquisition of prepositions in Italian looking at children’s early spontaneous speech. With a longitudinal study on the production of seven Italian-speaking children aged 1;7 to 3;4, we sought to determine the timing in which
Emanuela Sanfelici, Camilla Gallina
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Vulgar Minimisers in English and Spanish1
Transactions of the Philological Society, EarlyView.Abstract In this paper, we investigated whether vulgar minimisers form a natural class in English and Spanish by evaluating (i) their similarities and differences with respect to non‐vulgar minimisers and (ii) whether vulgar minimisers are inherently negative in these languages.
Ángel L. Jiménez‐Fernández +1 more
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