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Les prépositions ensemblistes et la question de leur emploi spatial

open access: yesCorela, 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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From Nominalisation to Passive in Old Tibetan: Reconstructing Grammatical Meaning in an Extinct Language1

open access: yesTransactions of the Philological Society, EarlyView.
Abstract Based on an analysis of the Old Literary Tibetan corpus—a corpus of the oldest documented Tibetic language—the present study provides evidence that literary Tibetan v3 verb stems (commonly termed ‘future’) initially encoded passive voice. New arguments put forward in this article range from Trans‐Himalayan nominal morphology to early Tibetan ...
Joanna Bialek
wiley   +1 more source

Both symbolic and embodied representations contribute to spatial language processing: Evidence from younger and older adults [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
Building on earlier neuropsychological work, we adopted a novel individual differences approach to examine the relationship between spatial language and a wide range of both verbal and nonverbal abilities.
Coventry, Kenny   +3 more
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Spatial semantics: Modeling the meaning of prepositions

open access: yesLanguage 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
openaire   +3 more sources

Countering FIMI by Digital Authoritarianisms: Audience Architecture and Reverse Language Engineering

open access: yesGlobal Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Foreign information manipulation and interference (FIMI) campaigns on social media are currently both more accessible and more impactful than the North Atlantic Treaty Organization's (NATO) or European Union's (EU), offering their opponents superiority and efficiency on those platforms.
Michelangelo Conoscenti
wiley   +1 more source

Grammaire cognitive des prépositions : épistémologie et applications

open access: yesCorela, 2017
Cognitive Grammar first began as « space grammar » so it is no coincidence that spatial cognition should have played a major role in the development of the general theoretical framework.
Jean-Rémi Lapaire
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Spatial prepositions for original (and richer) meanings: the case of Spanish

open access: yesIsogloss, 2022
Spatio-temporal prepositions like hasta ‘until’ find crucially distinct uses across Spanish varieties. In many cases, uses disallowed in more restrictive variants alternate nontrivially with canonical P distribution, raising pressing questions on ...
Maria Eugenia Rasia   +1 more
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Ancient Egyptian prepositions for the expression of spatial relations and their translations. A typological approach [PDF]

open access: yes, 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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Impressions that matter: How Italian SOEs construct a digital image through persuasive language strategies

open access: yesFinancial Accountability &Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Rooted in the theoretical perspective of impression management, and drawing on the critical discourse analysis (CDA) approach, this study analyzes whether and how the Italian state‐owned enterprises (SOEs) in the energy sector over the period 2020–2023 use persuasive language strategies in their annual reports to portray the image of a ...
Fiorenza Meucci   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

The interface of real world, lexicalization and conceptualization on the example of the Contact Sense of the German preposition an (on, at) and its Polish Spanish and English counterparts

open access: yesResearch in Language, 2023
The paper takes up the issue of creating meanings, focusing the dynamic relation between lexicalization and conceptualization on the example of prepositions.
Jolanta Mazurkiewicz-Sokołowska
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