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Grammar of Location and Motion in Zande [PDF]
In Zande expressions of position and motion are arranged on a gamut in correlation with increasing syntactic complexity. Topological relations, expressed by basic locative construction are at the left end, directed motion at the right end.
Pasch, Helma
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PREPOSITION IN THE SOCIO-CULTURAL SPACE OF LANGUAGE
This article discusses the theoretical and practical sig-niicance of the comparative study of prepositions in their discursive realizations, the reasons for their interlingual semantic differences against the background of universality of cognitive ...
Z. Kasyanova, C. Martirosyan
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Contextual Media Retrieval Using Natural Language Queries
The widespread integration of cameras in hand-held and head-worn devices as well as the ability to share content online enables a large and diverse visual capture of the world that millions of users build up collectively every day.
Bulling, Andreas +3 more
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Ontological Dependence, Spatial Location, and Part Structure [PDF]
This paper discusses attributively limited concrete objects such as disturbances (holes, folds, scratches etc), tropes, and attitudinal objects, which lack the sort of spatial location or part structures expected of them as concrete objects.
Moltmann, Friederike
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Applying cognitive linguistics to pedagogical grammar: the english prepositions of verticality
In this paper, we illustrate the merit of applying insights from Cognitive Linguistics to pedagogical grammar. We do so by examining English prepositions, long assumed to be one of the most difficult areas of acquisition for second language learners. The
Vyvyan Evans, Andrea Tyler
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Theoretical issues in the interpretation of Cappadocian, a not-so-dead Greek contact language [PDF]
Cappadocian is a mixed Greek-Turkish dialect continuum spoken in the Turkish Central Anatolia Region until the population exchange between Greece and Turkey in the 1920s. Only a few Cappadocian dialects are still spoken in present-day Greece.
Janse, Mark
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The semantics of spatial prepositions: the main trends of research
The paper overviews the main trends of research into the semantics of spatial prepositions, as demonstrated by a plethora of papers on linguistic data from a variety of languages. The more traditional approach focuses on the locative meaning with respect to other words—both syntagmatically and in paradigms, thus ruling out pragmatics—and considers ...
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Adposition and Case Supersenses v2.5: Guidelines for English
This document offers a detailed linguistic description of SNACS (Semantic Network of Adposition and Case Supersenses; Schneider et al., 2018), an inventory of 50 semantic labels ("supersenses") that characterize the use of adpositions and case markers at
Abend, Omri +10 more
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This article analyzes the meaning of the Croatian preposition pri and its relation to the general meaning of the locative case. The analysis shows how spatial meanings are extended into non-spatial domains.
Ljiljana Šarić
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Конструкції з просторовими відношеннями в поезії Василя Стуса [PDF]
Стаття продовжує перелік публікацій про поетичний ідіолект В.Стуса, зокрема локативні словоформи та предикативні структури зі значенням місця, що відображають силу контрастів.
Білик, Я. С. (Ya. Bilyk)
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