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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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Combining Geometric, Textual and Visual Features for Predicting Prepositions in Image Descriptions
Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, 2015 We investigate the role that geometric, textual and visual features play in the task of predicting a preposition that links two visual entities depicted in an image. The task is an important part of the subsequent process of generating image descriptions.
Arnau Ramisa +5 more
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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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Fronting in Old Catalan: Asymmetries between Narration and Reported Speech1
Transactions of the Philological Society, Volume 123, Issue 1, Page 1-28, March 2025.Abstract This article explores the distribution, syntax, and information structure of XVS clauses in the narrative text and the reported speech of a thirteenth‐century Old Catalan chronicle, the Llibre dels Fets. It is shown that XVS occurs mainly within reported speech and in embedded clauses.
Afra Pujol i Campeny
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L’absence et la compensation : en l’absence de, faute de, à défaut de, par manque de [PDF]
Studii de LingvisticaIn 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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Vulgar Minimisers in English and Spanish1
Transactions of the Philological Society, EarlyView.Abstract In this paper, we investigated whether vulgar minimisers form a natural class in English and Spanish by evaluating (i) their similarities and differences with respect to non‐vulgar minimisers and (ii) whether vulgar minimisers are inherently negative in these languages.
Ángel L. Jiménez‐Fernández +1 more
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Persian Spatial Prepositions: A Novel Logical Syntactical Approach to the Spatial Prepositions [PDF]
Studii si Cercetari Filologice: Seria Limbi Straine Aplicate, 2018 The goal of this paper is to analyze the syntax of spatial preposition in Persian language. This account is pretty novel as it analyzes the Persian prepositional phrases in a unified way, which does not restrict itself to some simple spatial ...
Rajdeep Singh
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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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Transactions of the Philological Society, EarlyView.Abstract Based on an analysis of the Old Literary Tibetan corpus—a corpus of the oldest documented Tibetic language—the present study provides evidence that literary Tibetan v3 verb stems (commonly termed ‘future’) initially encoded passive voice. New arguments put forward in this article range from Trans‐Himalayan nominal morphology to early Tibetan ...
Joanna Bialek
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