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, 2008 Unit 1__ Prepositions: common exceptions and difficulties for the Spanish-speaking ...
Aleson-Carbonell, Marian +1 more
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Orbis Litterarum, EarlyView.Abstract The critical and popular appeal of Sigrid Nunez's The Friend (2018), which centers on the bond between an unnamed female writer and a Great Dane, Apollo, suggests that readers are drawn to thoughtful explorations of human–animal encounters in literature.
Martyna Bryla
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“I Paid A Bribe”—Lessons and Insights From Crowdsourced Corruption Reporting in India
Regulation &Governance, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Preventing and reducing corruption has proven to be an enormous challenge. An important step in this process is to produce and use good metrics to identify where anti‐corruption resources would be most beneficial. Most measures of corruption, however, rely on surveys of perceptions or bribery incidence.
Ina Kubbe +2 more
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Prepositions An Analytical Bibliography
The aim of the present bibliography is to provide a single and reasonably comprehensive list of books and articles which deal with problems related to prepositions in natural languages.
Guimier, Claude.
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Superlative Objoid Constructions in British and American English
World Englishes, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper investigates regional variation in Superlative Objoid constructions (SOCs) and their prepositional variant (at‐SOCs). SOCs combine a possessive pronoun with a superlative adjective. These function as manner‐degree modifiers in a context where the possessive is in postverbal position and correlative with the subject, as in they tried
Tamara Bouso, Marianne Hundt
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Uwagi o statusie jednostki przyimkowej
Studia Rossica Posnaniensia, 2018 One of primary tasks within recently intensified research on Slavic prepositions is compiling a full corpus of units that can function as prepositions in specific circumstances, and their versatile characteristics in the particular Slavic languages. This
Czesław Lachur
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The Impact of English on Other Languages and Linguistic Justice
World Englishes, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article explores the implications of English's role as a global lingua franca for other languages, with a particular focus on the transformations these languages undergo due to English influence. Such changes are most evident in the lexical domain, where they are typically examined under the framework of lexical borrowing or Anglicisms ...
Sabine Fiedler
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The Indian English Complaint Tradition: ‘Old Chestnuts’ and New Perspectives
World Englishes, EarlyView.ABSTRACT English usage in India has been the target of a linguistic complaint tradition ‘which has taken the form of complaint about so‐called mis‐use of language and linguistic decline’ since the 19th century. The Indian English (IndE) complaint tradition in the 21st century has shifted from colonial to postcolonial in that IndE usage is now targeted ...
Claudia Lange, Sven Leuckert
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A Comparative Study on Chinese Prepositions and Myanmar Prepositions
, 2019 This paper studies modern Chinese Prepositions and Myanmar Prepositions as the research objects. It mainly focuses definition, classification, grammatical characteristics and similarities and differences between modern Chinese prepositions and Myanmar ...
Khin Maw Soe
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