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On the syntax and semantics of Spanish spatial prepositions

Borealis: An International Journal of Hispanic Linguistics, 2013
The goal of this paper is to offer a novel account on the Syntax and Semantics of Spanish Spatial Prepositions. This account is novel in at least three aspects.
Francesco-Alessio Ursini
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Linguistic Variation across Instructional Segments in International Teaching Assistants' Discourse: A Corpus‐Based Analysis

TESOL Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract This study investigates internal linguistic variation in the instructional discourse of international teaching assistants (ITAs) by segmenting their mini‐lecture performances into four discourse types: introduction, lecture, conclusion, and audience interaction.
Heesun Chang, Hector Rivera
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An Investigation into Automatic Translation of Prepositions in IT Technical Documentation from English to Chinese [PDF]

, 2010
Machine Translation (MT) technology has been widely used in the localisation industry to boost the productivity of professional translators. However, due to the high quality of translation expected, the translation performance of an MT system in ...
Sun, Yanli
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Experimental Entailments: The Case of Spatial Prepositions

NJES: Nordic Journal of English studies, 2014
In this paper we present an experimental study on native speakers’ access to lexical relations among spatial relations. Our main focus is a still poorly understood domain: the lexical relations that hold between (pairs of) directional spatial ...
Francesco-Alessio Ursini
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Vaste combinaties van werkwoorden met voorzetsels in het Nederlands en het Tsjechisch

Neerlandica Wratislaviensia, 2023
This paper describes the results of a pilot contrastive study that focused on the differences and similarities between Dutch combinations of verbs with fixed prepositions and their Czech equivalents.
Kateřina Křížová
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How weather got its words: a history of meteorological English – Part 1: Old English to the Age of Discovery

Weather, EarlyView.
The English language is a gargantuan, gluttonous beast. It has become extraordinary among its peers in its powers of assimilation – such that we rarely consider the diverse origins of the words we use. In this two‐part paper, we will explore these origins, including the Pontic‐Caspian steppe, the British Empire, latinophone scientists and a TV show. We
Kieran M. R. Hunt
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Prepositions and prepositional verbs in classical Arabic [PDF]

, 1983
The thesis consists of two parts. The first one is connected with the establishment of Preposition as a word class, and with that class of Prepositions whose association with the governing word is accounted for in a transformational generative grammar ...
Fiteih, Mohammad Soliman Ibrahim
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The acquisition of prepositions in Italian L2 by immigrant children

, 2023
The main goal of our work is to present the way in which immigrant children in the critical age with different L1s, Ukrainian and Romanian, learn prepositions in the Italian language, taking into account other influential factors besides age, such as
Patrizia Giuliano, Chiara Caruso
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L’absence et la compensation : en l’absence de, faute de, à défaut de, par manque de [PDF]

Studii de Lingvistica
In this article, I study a group of complex prepositions linked semantically by the notion of absence of an entity or event, seen as a circumstance for another situation: en l’absence de, faute de, à défaut de, par manque de.
Thierry Ruchot
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Essai de classification des prépositions de localisation

SHS Web of Conferences, 2012
Nous avons relevé 205 prépositions de localisation, qui sont, pour près de 90% d’entre elles, des locutions. Nous proposons d’abord une définition syntaxique des prépositions de localisation.
Le Pesant Denis
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