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Verb patterning and acculturation in Nigerian English
World Englishes, Volume 45, Issue 1, Page 54-75, March 2026.Abstract Speech communities have the tendency to develop habits as to which words tend to co‐occur, in the form of coinages and collocational patterns, thus constituting an aspect conducive to the subtle emergence of language variation. As these co‐occurrence tendencies become lexicalised and confined to specific, rigid word combinations, new ...
Mary Ifeoluwa Abidoye, Hans‐Georg Wolf
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Nigerian English: History, functions and features
World Englishes, Volume 45, Issue 1, Page 7-18, March 2026.Abstract This article offers a comprehensive overview of Nigerian English, a rapidly expanding variety of world Englishes, recognised as one of the fastest‐growing varieties of English globally in numerical terms. This article has four aims. First, it discusses the historical developments of English in Nigeria with reference to the events that led to ...
Kingsley O. Ugwuanyi +1 more
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Conjunctive and prepositional comparatives in Slovenian
Linguistica, 2010 The paper deals with the distribution of conjunctive and prepositional comparative structures in Slovenian. They are introduced by the complementiser kot and the preposition od, respectively. Comparative structures are categorised along three dimensions:
Sašo Živanović
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Moderna Språk, 2020 In this introductory article, we will first illustrate the great morpho-syntactic diversity that exists in the Romance possessive systems from a comparative perspective, and then detail the recent changes that have taken place.
Miriam Bouzouita +1 more
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What secondary predicates in russian tell us about the link between tense, aspect and case [PDF]
, 2013 In this paper I show that the different case marking possibilities on predicate adjectives in depictive secondary predicates in Russian constitute the uninterpretable counterpart of the interpretable tense and aspect features of the adjective.
Richardson, Kylie
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Revisiting the information structure of English prepositional phrases in predication [PDF]
Linguistica PragensiaThe theory of functional sentence perspective (FSP) is centred on communicative dynamism and its distribution among communicative units, i.e. individual sentence elements (Firbas, 1996; 1999). When a context-dependent subject is further specified by more
Irena Headlandová Kalischová +1 more
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Prepositional Phrase Attachment without Oracles
Computational Linguistics, 2021 Michaela Atterer, Hinrich Schütze
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Proceedings of QG2010: The Third Workshop on Question Generation [PDF]
, 2010 These are the peer-reviewed proceedings of "QG2010, The Third Workshop on Question Generation". The workshop included a special track for "QGSTEC2010: The First Question Generation Shared Task and Evaluation Challenge".
Boyer, Kristy Elizabeth, Piwek, Paul
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Extracting Formal Models from Normative Texts
, 2016 We are concerned with the analysis of normative texts - documents based on the deontic notions of obligation, permission, and prohibition. Our goal is to make queries about these notions and verify that a text satisfies certain properties concerning ...
Camilleri, John J. +2 more
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Irish treebanking and parsing: a preliminary evaluation [PDF]
, 2012 Language resources are essential for linguistic research and the development of NLP applications. Low- density languages, such as Irish, therefore lack significant research in this area.
Cetinoglu, Ozlem +5 more
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