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Analysis of prepositions: near and away from Frames of reference. [PDF]
, 2017 XXII Jornades de Foment de la Investigació de la Facultat de Ciències Humanes i Socials (Any 2017)Traditional strategies and procedures to learn a foreign language include the study of rules of grammar and doing exercises such as filling ...
Flor Fabregat, Nuria
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The grammar and semantics of near
CogniTextes, 2016 The cognitive linguistic interest in spatial prepositions is a relatively new research path. The question of their categorical status has not been resolved yet — linguists underline either their purely grammatical or lexical nature.
Maria Brenda
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Ancient Egyptian prepositions for the expression of spatial relations and their translations. A typological approach [PDF]
, 2012 The article explores the static spatial meaning of basic prepositions in Hieroglyphic Ancient Egyptian, as compared to eight modern target languages. The tertium comparationis is the typological-linguistic tool of the Topological Relations Picture Series.
Werning, Daniel A.
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Nordlyd: Tromsø University Working Papers on Language & Linguistics, 2007 In this paper I present the prepositional system in Persian. I show that Persian prepositions can be divided into three classes (Class 1, Class 2a and Class 2b) which exhibit distinct syntactic behavior.
Marina Pantcheva
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Semantic categories underlying the meaning of ‘place’ [PDF]
, 2007 This paper analyses the semantics of natural language expressions that are associated with the intuitive notion of ‘place’. We note that the nature of such terms is highly contested, and suggest that this arises from two main considerations: 1) there are
B. Bennett +18 more
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Unnamed locations, underspecified regions, and other linguistic phenomena in geographic annotation of water-based locations [PDF]
, 2010 This short paper investigates how locations in or close to water masses in topics and documents (e.g. rivers, seas, oceans) are referred to. For this study, 13 topics from the GeoCLEF topics 2005-2008 aiming at documents on rivers, oceans, or sea ...
Leveling, Johannes
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Open Linguistics, 2022 Research into Ugandan English places it in the nativisation phase of the evolution of Englishes, amidst a nexus of local acceptance with ingredients of endonormativity and ingrained exonormative traditions.
Isingoma Bebwa, Meierkord Christiane
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Advanced Science, EarlyView.A residual‐charge‐induced electric field control (SDREC) strategy enables the fabrication of patterned microstructure arrays with a resolution of 20 µm via the selective deposition of charged droplets. The resulting arrays exhibit reversible writing/erasing, optical encryption, and selective silver electrode formation, offering a versatile route to ...
Yuechen Pei +8 more
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Les prépositions ensemblistes et la question de leur emploi spatial
Corela, 2012 The purpose of this article is to show, first of all, the place of parmi in a specific micro-system of prepositions (which we call ‘ensemblistes’, i.e. “linking, adjoining”) when used spatially : parmi refers to the dissociation of the elements belonging
Emilia Hilgert
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Spatial semantics: Modeling the meaning of prepositions
Language and Linguistics Compass, 2017 Abstract Reference to space, especially with prepositions, plays a central role in natural language and is receiving more and more attention over the past decades. One line of research uses formal semantic modeling, using topological and other geometrical concepts such as regions, vectors, and paths. Another line of research has drawn
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