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Adjectival 'cuco / cuqui' as "cute" and "astute"
Borealis: An International Journal of Hispanic Linguistics, 2015 In this squib, we present an analysis of the nowadays commonly used adjective cuco/cuqui in Spanish. We hypothesize that its two adjectival meanings, as “cute” and as “astute”, are metonymically derived from the meanings of cuco as “carrycot” and “bird ...
José Antonio Jódar Sánchez
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Recent Semantic Changes for the Term "Digital"
Proceedings from the Document Academy, 2016 The term digital originates from the Latin word for finger/counting and has for many years been used to denote discrete signals and information, as opposed to analog. Discrete representation is an important principle, not only in computers, but also for (
Tore Brattli
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Kontextus(ok) a grammatikalizációs jelentésváltozás irodalmában [PDF]
Jelentés és Nyelvhasználat, 2014 Jelen írás a történeti pragmatika, ezen belül a grammatikalizációs jelentésváltozással foglalkozó kutatások kontextusfogalmának feltárását tűzi ki célul.
Katalin Nagy C.
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Phraseologization as a process of semantic change
Catalan Journal of Linguistics, 2015 On the one hand, phraseology has sorted out how to describe Phraseological meaning from a synchronic perspective. On the other, cognitive diachronic linguistics has thoroughly described the process of semantic change and the mechanisms leading to it, but
Elena Sánchez López
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A study on “substitutional verbs” in modern Persian language [PDF]
Matn/Pizhūhī-i Adabī, 2008 In Persian Grammatical structure, the subject of verb is a complicated is- sue, especially for those who want to learn Farsi as a second language. One of the kinds of verbs that has not been analyzed or less mentioned in Persian Grammatical materials and
akram soltani
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Catalan Journal of Linguistics, 2015 In this paper we study the polysemy that the verbs pegar (‘hit/stick’), apegar (‘stick’) and empegar (‘stick’) possess today in the Catalan language. First of all, we perform a thorough description of the meanings that each of these verbs have acquired ...
Joan-Rafael Ramos
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Arabic Words in Persian Challenges Evolved in Translation [PDF]
پژوهشهای ترجمه در زبان و ادبیات عربی, 2017 Iranians do not see the Arabic as a foreign language due to a profound belief in Islam and therefore do not resist Arabic words particularly those with religious identity.
Robabeh Ramazani
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Lexical Semantic Change Discovery [PDF]
Proceedings of the 59th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics and the 11th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (Volume 1: Long Papers), 2021 While there is a large amount of research in the field of Lexical Semantic Change Detection, only few approaches go beyond a standard benchmark evaluation of existing models. In this paper, we propose a shift of focus from change detection to change discovery, i.e., discovering novel word senses over time from the full corpus vocabulary.
Kurtyigit, Sinan +4 more
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Semantic Change in African American Slang
Studia Anglica Posnaniensia, 2013 Semantic change is an important part of African American slang and involves two mechanisms: figuration and shifting. Both are enormously productive and account for numerous slang expressions based on standard English.
Widawski Maciej
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Languages, 2022 This paper aims to study the meanings of passive auditory perception verbs in Catalan (sentir) and French (entendre) with regards to diachronic semantic change and from the point of view of cognitive semantics.
Carla Ferrerós-Pagès
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