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Journal of Research in Reading, Volume 46, Issue 3, Page 294-311, August 2023., 2023 Background German is exceptional in its use of noun capitalisation. It has been suggested that sentence‐internal capitalisation as in German may benefit processing by specifically marking a noun and thus a noun phrase (NP). However, other cues, such as a determiner, can also indicate an NP.
Margreet Vogelzang +3 more
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Loss of MID in English: Free Peasantry and Their Linguistic Advantage
Transactions of the Philological Society, Volume 121, Issue 2, Page 251-269, July 2023., 2023 Abstract The paper deals with the mysterious loss of a common preposition MID in the historical development of English. The issue is examined using a quantitative method combined with a historical sociolinguistic focus on the free peasantry in the East Midlands and Kent.
Rongkun Liu
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James Cowles Prichard and the Linguistic Foundations of Ethnology**
Berichte zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Volume 46, Issue 1, Page 76-91, March 2023., 2023 Abstract This article examines the English scholar James Cowles Prichard's attention to language and comparative philology within his wider project on the natural history of man. It reveals that linguistic evidence was among the most important elements for Prichard in his overarching scientific aim of investigating human physical diversity, and served ...
Ian Stewart
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Nauchnyy dialog, 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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Philology at MGIMO, 2021 The article offers options for the classification of abbreviations-documentary names on the basis of various characteristics. The following can be selected as the classification criteria: the number of components in an abbreviation, which affects its ...
N. V. Kukina
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German Language Teachers and Dyslexic Students
Journal of Vasyl Stefanyk Precarpathian National University, 2023 Dyslexia is a common disorder experienced by many students in Europe and worldwide. It is a specific learning disability, which also generates difficulties in foreign language acquisition.
Danuta Grzesiak-Witek +2 more
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Toponyms in the Titles of Modern German-Language Novels
Вестник Пермского университета. Российская и зарубежная филологияThe article is devoted to a comprehensive study of toponyms presented in the titles of modern German-language novels created at the turn of the 20th-21st centuries.
Valeria E. Shtyrova, Sergey I. Dubinin
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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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Financial Accountability &Management, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Rooted in the theoretical perspective of impression management, and drawing on the critical discourse analysis (CDA) approach, this study analyzes whether and how the Italian state‐owned enterprises (SOEs) in the energy sector over the period 2020–2023 use persuasive language strategies in their annual reports to portray the image of a ...
Fiorenza Meucci +3 more
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SEMANTIC DIFFERENTIATION OF HOMONYMOUS NOUNS OF THE MODERN GERMAN LANGUAGE
Germanic Philology Journal of Yuriy Fedkovych Chernivtsi National UniversityThe article explores the semantic features of homonyms and the methods used to differentiate them in speech. A comprehensive sampling from the explanatory dictionaries Duden (2023), Langenscheidt (2019), and Wahrig (2018) revealed 2,128 homonymous nouns,
Svitlana Kiyko, Yurii Kiyko
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