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Priming relations in ambiguous noun-noun combinations [PDF]
Memory & Cognition, 2002 We conducted two experiments to examine whether the interpretation of an ambiguous noun phrase is influenced by exposure to a similar combination. In Experiment 1, we found that it was easier to verify a definition for a combination (e.g., adolescent doctor, a doctor for adolescents) when the prime used the same relation as the target (e.g., adolescent
Christina L, Gagné, Edward J, Shoben
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NPs in German: Locality, theta roles, possessives, and genitive arguments
Glossa, 2021 Since Abney (1987), the DP-analysis has been the standard analysis for nominal complexes, but in the last decade, the NP analysis has experienced a revival. In this spirit, we provide an NP analysis for German nominal complexes in HPSG.
Antonio Machicao y Priemer +1 more
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Vyrazhenie neotchuzhdajemoj posessii v udmurtskom jazyke. Marking Inalienable Possession in the Udmurt Language; pp. 112-137 [PDF]
Linguistica Uralica, 2010 The present paper describes the semantic and grammatical dimensions of the category of inalienable possession in Udmurt. The language material proves that in Udmurt there is a special morpheme which is intended to mark inalienable possession and another ...
Svetlana Edygarova
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Asymmetric Underlying Mechanisms of Relation-Based and Property-Based Noun–Noun Conceptual Combination [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2021 Conceptual combination is a fundamental human cognitive ability by which people can experience infinite thinking by artfully combining finite knowledge. For example, one can instantly combine “cactus” and “fish” together as “prickly fish” even if one has never previously heard of a “cactus fish.” Although two major combinatorial types—property and ...
Choi, Mingyeong, Yoon, Sangsuk
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Analyzing the experiential meanings of survivors’ expressions of natural disasters in Indonesia [PDF]
E3S Web of Conferences, 2023 This study examines how natural disaster survivors in Indonesia construe their experiences regarding such calamities affecting them personally or environmentally from a linguistic angle.
Zulprianto +5 more
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The diversity of Maa (Nilotic) adverbs
Studies in African Linguistics, 2020 Maa linguistic varieties (Maasai, Parakuyo, Chamus, Samburu, among others), of the Eastern Nilotic family (Nilo-Saharan phylum), have words which can modify a predicate or predication and have the function of what cross-linguistically are called adverbs.
Doris Payne
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Possession and nominalization in Dan: Evidence for a general theory of categories
Glossa, 2020 Dan, a Mandean language of the Ivory Coast, marks the alienable possessors of simple nonrelational nouns differently from the inalienable possessors of relational nouns: only the former occur with the particle ɓa.
Bleu Gildas Gondo, Mark C Baker
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Grammaticalization of New Cases in Beserman Udmurt; pp. 27-48 [PDF]
Linguistica Uralica, 2017 The paper gives a detailed description of seven spatial nominal cases in the Beserman dialect of Udmurt, which do not exist in the literary language, namely, six personal local cases and the recessive.
Maria Usacheva, Timofey Arkhangelskiy
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Familiarity and relational preference in the understanding of noun-noun compounds [PDF]
Memory & Cognition, 2006 When people are presented with noun-noun compounds, they tend to produce two main types of interpretation: relational and property interpretations. One theory of compounding maintains that relational interpretations are preferred over property ones. However, many of the studies supporting this relational preference hypothesis appear to be vitiated by a
Georgios, Tagalakis, Mark T, Keane
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El 'centro' y la 'periferia' de la categoría de sustantivo en español
Estudios de Lingüística, 1994 The present paper constitutes an attempt to establish a delimitation between central and peripheral elements in the category noun in Spanish according to the criterial mentioned as relevant for this distinction by the linguistics of Prague ...
María Tadea Díaz Hormigo
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