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Grammaire cognitive des prépositions : épistémologie et applications
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
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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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
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Countering FIMI by Digital Authoritarianisms: Audience Architecture and Reverse Language Engineering
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
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From locative to de directional preposition phrases in Romanian
The paper discusses the (syntactic and semantic) conditions under which Romanian simple spatial prepositions render locative or directional reading of an event.
Iulia Zegrean
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Prepositions in MSA and English
Spatial scenes are identical in the world languages. However, cultures may diverge in profiling spatial scenes (Levinson 2003). This paper selects for study the prepositions in and on in English and their Modern Standard Arabic (MSA) counterparts fi and ...
Saad Nasser Aldwayan
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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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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
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Relations of simultaneity of prepositions in local and temporal usage [PDF]
In this paper, we analyze different Serbian prepositions that are used to express the simultaneity between events and processes. We explore both genuine temporal entities (like days, months, seasons) and happenings that presuppose the passage of time ...
Ašić Tijana V., Simović Marija Đ.
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The goal of this paper is to offer an overview of polysemy patterns in Mandarin’s chief spatial categories: prepositions (e.g., zai) and simple and compound localisers (respectively, qian and qian-mian).
Francesco-Alessio Ursini +4 more
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