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Prepositional Phrase Attachment Disambiguation Using WordNet [PDF]

, 2006
In this thesis we use a knowledge-based approach to disambiguating prepositional phrase attachments in English sentences. This method was first introduced by S. M. Harabagiu. The Penn Treebank corpus is used as the training text.
Spitzer, Claus
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Code-Switching Does Not Equal Code-Switching. An Event-Related Potentials Study on Switching From L2 German to L1 Russian at Prepositions and Nouns

Frontiers in Psychology, 2020
Studies on event-related potentials (ERP) in code-switching (CS) have concentrated on single-word insertions, usually nouns. However, CS ranges from inserting single words into the main language of discourse to alternating languages for larger segments ...
Jan Patrick Zeller, Jan Patrick Zeller
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Mandarin Relative Clause Production by Second Language Learners: Subject–Object Asymmetry and Individual Differences

Language Learning, EarlyView.
Abstract This study investigated which type of Mandarin Chinese relative clause (RC)—subject‐extracted relative clause (SRC) or object‐extracted relative clause (ORC)—imposes greater processing demands on second language (L2) learners’ production. Sixty‐two native (L1) Mandarin speakers and 72 L1 Korean learners of Mandarin participated in a picture ...
Deran Kong, Sun‐A Kim, Jeong‐Ah Shin
wiley   +1 more source

The Origin and Vicissitudes of the Term šibh al-ǧumla (“Quasi-Clause”) in Arabic Grammatical Tradition

Al-Qantara : Revista de Estudios Arabes
This article delves into the origin of the now widely used term šibh al-ǧumla (lit. “quasi-clause”) in Medieval Arabic grammatical tradition, tracing its transformation until it acquired its present form, as a hyperonym of both the ẓarf and the ...
Almog Kasher
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Le syntagme prépositif latin — texte figé dans un texte libre français et polonais? // The Latin prepositional syntagm — a fixed text in free French and Polish texts? [PDF]

Svět Literatury, 2015
This presentation addresses the presence of Latinisms in French and Polish phrases of legal language. We distinguish Latin fixed sequences as phrases (paremias) and non-verbal syntagms (locutions).
Ilona Krasoń
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Language Dominance Shapes Protracted Development of Nonpersonal Clitics (Even) in Cases of Widespread Bilingualism

Language Learning, EarlyView.
Abstract Little research has explored how language dominance may affect the development and ultimate attainment of morphosyntax in a situation of widespread and social bilingualism, where exposure to both languages starts early on and can be sustained over time.
Adriana Soto‐Corominas, Sílvia Perpiñán, Scott James Perry   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Impact of Topic Selection on Lexico-Grammatical Errors and Scores in English Oral Proficiency Interviews of Korean College Students

Education Sciences, 2023
The primary objective of this study is to identify the types of errors made by Korean college students in an oral proficiency interview in relation to specific task topics, and to examine how these errors affect their lexico-grammatical proficiency ...
Yongkook Won, Sunhee Kim
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Independent Effects of Age, Education, Verbal Working Memory, Motor Speed of Processing, Locality, and Morphosyntactic Category on Verb‐Related Morphosyntactic Production: Evidence From Healthy Aging

Topics in Cognitive Science, EarlyView.
Abstract This study investigates the role of locality (a task/material‐related variable), demographic factors (age, education, and sex), cognitive capacities (verbal working memory [WM], verbal short‐term memory [STM], speed of processing [SOP], and inhibition), and morphosyntactic category (time reference and grammatical aspect) in verb‐related ...
Marielena Soilemezidi, Maki Kubota, Marina Chrisikopoulou, Valantis Fyndanis   +3 more
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HOMONYMY OF VERBAL COLLOCATIONS IN ENGLISH [PDF]

Studii de gramatică contrastivă, 2013
The article deals with homonymic verbal collocations with a prepositional phrase as an adjunct. They differ from each other both in their functions (adverbial and object) and semantically.
Leila YUNUSOVA
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Les prépositions en contexte

Corela, 2017
This paper offers an enunciative approach to prepositions. The first section is about the general properties (§ 1-3) and possible definitions of prepositions (§ 1).
Jean-Marie Merle
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