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On Spanish prepositional prefixes and the cartography of prepositions

Catalan Journal of Linguistics, 2010
Malgrat que és inicialment atractiva, l'anàlisi dels prefixos com a preposicions (i, doncs, com a objectes sintàctics), causa diversos problemes relacionats amb la selecció, la natura del nucli i l'isomorfisme semàntic. En aquest article abordem aquests problemes.
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Impressions that matter: How Italian SOEs construct a digital image through persuasive language strategies

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, Raffaela Casciello, Flavio Spagnuolo, Belén Gill‐de‐Albornoz   +3 more
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Nominalizations and temporal prepositions

, 2013
In this paper, we deal with the semantic interaction between ung-nominalizations of different event types and temporal prepositions like wiihrend 'during', vor 'before', nach 'after', bis 'until' and seit 'since'.
Rapp, Irene, Ehrich, Veronika
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From locative to de directional preposition phrases in Romanian

Bucharest Working Papers in Linguistics, 2007
The paper discusses the (syntactic and semantic) conditions under which Romanian simple spatial prepositions render locative or directional reading of an event.
Iulia Zegrean
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On Italian spatial prepositions and measure phrases: reconciling the data with theoretical accounts

Linguistics
The goal of this article is to offer new empirical evidence regarding the grammatical and semantic properties of Italian spatial prepositions, and to provide a theoretical account based on this evidence. We show that Italian has four grammatical types of
Ursini Francesco-Alessio, Wu Tong
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Linguistic Analyses of Written Corrective Feedback for Chinese as a Second Language: ChatGPT Versus Human Teachers

International Journal of Applied Linguistics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study conducted linguistic analyses of the written corrective feedback (WCF) for Chinese as a second language (CSL) provided by chat generative pre‐trained transformer (ChatGPT) and human teachers (including preservice teachers and senior teachers).
Ling Zhang, Jingjing XU, Hoang Anh Nguyen   +2 more
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WHAT GRAMMAR SAYS ABOUT COGNITIVE MECHANISMS? (THE CASE OF PREPOSITIONS VID AND DO)

Записки з українського мовознавства, 2017
The aim of this article is to describe semantic relations in the prepositions and the cognitive structures and mechanisms that contribute to the extension of the semantic networks of prepositions.
О. В. Орленко
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Word Associations in a Minoritised Language: The Case of Cymraeg (Welsh)

International Journal of Applied Linguistics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT As with many research strands in linguistics, word association (WA) literature is dominated by English language data. This paper (i) explores the extent to which methodologies developed to date are applicable to other languages—specifically, Welsh (Cymraeg)—and (ii) investigates what WA analysis can reveal about lexical organisation and ...
Tess Fitzpatrick, Steve Morris, Theodore Mills   +2 more
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On the Content of Prepositions in Prepositional Collocations

ELOPE: English Language Overseas Perspectives and Enquiries, 2004
The article aims to shed some light on the problems faced by non-native speakers in the formation of so-called prepositional collocations (i.e. typical, recurrent combinations of verbal, nominal or adjectival bases with prepositional collocators). The reasons for frequent mistakes mainly lie in the meaning of the preposition used as part of collocation,
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The Development and Validation of the Chinese Vocabulary Levels Test

International Journal of Applied Linguistics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In response to the increasing need for effective Chinese vocabulary assessments, this study developed the Chinese Vocabulary Levels Test (CVLT), a test designed for intermediate‐level Chinese as a second or foreign language (CSL/FL) learners, based on the vocabulary lists (levels 4–6) from the Chinese Proficiency Grading Standards for ...
Shiwei Qi, Ailan Fu
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