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Evaluation of telling narrative between children and adults based on Talmy’s motion event [PDF]
زبان پژوهی, 2019 Language is more than a list of words. Language conveys a whole system of thought transmitted in a symbolic network of form and meaning. Dictionaries and grammars, indispensable as they are, capture only isolated words and phrases. But human beings speak
Elham Akhlaghi +2 more
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Glossa PsycholinguisticsThis study investigates whether crosslinguistic constraints on subject selection in physical causative constructions extend to causative psychological verbs (psych verbs, e.g., frighten, surprise), with a focus on subject volitionality.
Jihyun Kim, Heather Marsden
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Animacy and Affectedness in Germanic Languages
Open Linguistics, 2018 This paper deals with the influence of animacy on affectedness. German, like other Germanic languages, requires oblique marking of the inanimate undergoer argument of verbs of contact by impact (e.g.
Fleischhauer Jens
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Basic Reporting Verbs as Markers of the Author’s Idiostlyle
Известия Уральского федерального университета. Серия 2: Гуманитарные науки, 2023 This article reveals the peculiarities of idiostyles referring to works by nineteenth-century classical Russian writers (F. M. Dostoevsky, L. N. Tolstoy, A. P. Chekhov, and I. S. Turgenev).
Maria Vladimirovna Dyuzenli
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Be concrete to be comprehended:consistent imageability effects in semantic dementia for nouns, verbs, synonyms and associates [PDF]
, 2013 There are two contrasting views on the nature of comprehension impairment in semantic dementia: (a) that it stems from degradation of a pan-modal "hub" that represents core conceptual knowledge or (b) that it results from degradation of modality-specific
Hoffman, Paul; id_orcid +5 more
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Indonesian Journal of Applied Linguistics, 2020 While there has been a sustained interest in conducting stylistic studies on fiction, specifically novels and short stories, the literature about stylistic analysis of flash fiction as a literary genre remains scant.
Veronico N. Tarrayo
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Вестник Кемеровского государственного университета, 2017 The article features an analysis of semantics, pragmatics and text-based functioning of figurative vocabulary and expressions, which are metaphorically motivated by such verbs as bite, gnaw, nibble and chew. These verbs name various activities, processes
N. A. Zhivago
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Case marking in Spanish reverse psychological verbs : a lexical semantic perspective [PDF]
, 2017 This dissertation is a lexical semantic study of case marking in Spanish reverse psychological verbs, which exhibit an alternation in dative-accusative case marking.
Ganeshan, Ashwini
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Heavy Hands, Magic, and Scene-Reading Traps
European Journal of Analytic Philosophy, 2007 This is one of a series of articles in which I examine errors that philosophers of language may be led to make if already prone to exaggerating the rôle compositional semantics can play in explaining how we communicate, whether by expressing propositions
Stephen Neale
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A protocol for psych verbs [PDF]
Bucharest Working Papers in Linguistics, 2016 So-called psychological verbs such as Italian temere ‘fear’, preoccupare ‘worry’, and piacere ‘like’ present an extremely varied argument structure across languages, that arranges these two roles in apparently opposite hierarchies and assigns them ...
Giuliana Giusti, Rossella Iovino
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