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International Journal of Applied Linguistics, Volume 35, Issue 2, Page 659-671, May 2025.ABSTRACT Clear communication between government administrations and citizens is a challenge in democratic societies. Public administration texts often contain technical legal terms, essential to convey specialized knowledge with precision but often impenetrable to non‐experts.
Sabela Fernández‐Silva +1 more
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Function Words in Surnames — “Alien Bodies” in Anthroponymy (with Particular Reference to Poland)
, 2017 This article aims to discuss function words in surnames, such as vel, alias, de, in selected countries with European naming traditions, with particular reference to Poland.
Justyna B. Walkowiak, Walkowiak, Justyna
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The syntax of Greek split reciprocals
Syntax, Volume 27, Issue 4, Page 713-746, December 2024.Abstract We provide the first detailed description and analysis of the syntax of the understudied Greek split reciprocal reconstruction. As in other languages, the reciprocal appears to be bipartite consisting of a quantificational distributor (‘the one’) and a reciprocator (‘the other’).
Lefteris Paparounas, Martin Salzmann
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Challenges and Strategies for Acquiring Adjectives
Language and Linguistics Compass, Volume 18, Issue 6, November/December 2024.ABSTRACT Children acquiring language must learn a variety of words mapping on to different kinds of concepts. Typically, word learning accounts focus on how children strategically acquire words for entities (nouns) and events (verbs). Often underrepresented are word for properties (adjectives).
Kristen Syrett
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Beyond accuracy: The development of syntactic complexity in middle school Spanish immersion
Foreign Language Annals, Volume 57, Issue 3, Page 844-866, Fall 2024.Abstract Language immersion programs seek to develop multilingual, multiliterate individuals able to engage with academic content. Studies of immersion students' language development provide details regarding language proficiency and accuracy, yet they generally do not address how features of written, academic language, for example, syntactic and ...
Mandy R. Menke
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WORKING ON SUBORDINATE WORD RELATIONSHIPS WHEN STUDYING THE TOPIC OF "PREPOSITION"
The article examines the heterogeneous nature of syntactic relations in a sentence. Their dependence on syntactic functions, on lexical and grammatical features of a word, on syntactic positions of connecting word forms is substantiated.
Holikova, Gulnoza +3 more
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Language Learning, Volume 74, Issue 3, Page 672-706, September 2024.Abstract This study examined the relationship of linguistic complexity, captured using a set of lexical richness, syntactic complexity, and discoursal complexity indices, to second language (L2) learners’ perception of text difficulty, captured using L2 raters’ comparative judgment on text comprehensibility and reading speed. Testing materials were 180
Xiaopeng Zhang, Xiaofei Lu
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Commonsense morality and contact with value
Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, Volume 109, Issue 1, Page 410-430, July 2024.Abstract There seem to be many kinds of moral duties. We should keep our promises; we should pay our debts of gratitude; we should compensate those we've wronged; we should avoid doing or intending harm; we should help those in need. These constitute, some worry, an unconnected heap of duties: the realm of commonsense morality is a disorganized mess ...
Adam Lovett, Stefan Riedener
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Exploring Children's L2 Disciplinary Literacy Through a Multimodal Science Project in a CLIL Context
TESOL Quarterly, Volume 58, Issue 2, Page 628-663, June 2024.Abstract This study explores the ways in which young second language learners in an intact fourth‐grade content and language integrated (CLIL) science class drew on the affordances of multiple semiotic resources including language, images, sound, movement, etc., to construct disciplinary knowledge in the context of a multimodal project on machines ...
Yvette Coyle, Julio Roca de Larios
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Unidades de relación en benasqués
, 1999 La finalidad de este trabajo es el establecimiento de las formas y usos que revisten las unidades de relación en la lengua autóctona del valle de Benasque.
Saura Rami, José Antonio
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