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Measuring New Venture Legitimacy: A Multi‐dimensional Approach Using Computational Textual Analysis
British Journal of Management, EarlyView.Abstract Legitimacy is critical for the growth, survival and performance of ventures, yet efforts to measure legitimacy empirically typically focus on a single dimension of this multi‐dimensional construct. In this article, we develop a multi‐dimensional framework for measuring legitimacy using computational text analysis.
Ali Ghods +3 more
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Omission of Prepositions in Time Adverbials in Present-day Spoken AmE [PDF]
, 2002 This article aims to explore how and to what extent prepositions are left out in time adverbials in present-day spoken AmE. On the whole, on, at, for, in, and during are dropped before time adverbials, and of those prepositions on and for are omitted ...
Sonoda, Kenji
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The Geometry Of Preposition Meanings
The Baltic International Yearbook of Cognition, Logic and Communication, 2015 This article presents a unified approach to the semantics of prepositions based on the theory of conceptual spaces. Following the themes of my recent book The Geometry of Meaning, I focus on the convexity of their meanings and on which semantic domains ...
Peter Gärdenfors
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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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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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Empirical study of verbs and prepositions in european portuguese with recourse to Web/Text mining [PDF]
, 2018 This chapter describes our study of verbs and prepositions for European Portuguese as they are used in current articles in newspapers. The aim is to enrich the information that is available in dictionaries.
Leal, António +2 more
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Verb Semantics Affects the Interpretation of Spatial Prepositions
, 2010 Vorwerg C, Weiß P. Verb Semantics Affects the Interpretation of Spatial Prepositions. Spatial Cognition and Computation. 2010;10(4):247-291.Spatial prepositions, more specifically projective prepositions, such as in front of or behind can be interpreted ...
Constanze Vorwerg +3 more
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Arabic prepositions and their Maltese equivalents
, 2022 The aim of this paper is showing how many Classical Arabic and dialectal Arabic prepositions have survived in Maltese and how many have disappeared. Moreover, the etymology of the Maltese prepositions of Arabic origin is determined.
Turek, Przemysław
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Revue des Sciences Humaines, 2016 Most teachers of English as a foreign language agree that a great number of learners use spatial prepositions inadequately and, despite the different techniques used in teaching them, most learners still consider learning the use of these prepositions ...
Assma ATHMANI
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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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