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There Is no First Phase of the Jespersen Cycle1

Transactions of the Philological Society, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper challenges the traditional conception of the Jespersen Cycle by arguing that no ‘pure’ first phase of the cycle exists where a single negator operates without reinforcement. Drawing on historical data from Northern Italian dialects (Piedmontese, Lombard, Emilian), we demonstrate that emphatic negative structures systematically co ...
Tommaso Mattiuzzi, Cecilia Poletto
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Relations of simultaneity of prepositions in local and temporal usage [PDF]

Baština
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 Gender of Heteroclites1

Transactions of the Philological Society, EarlyView.
Abstract Few have asked what happens to gender when a noun is heteroclitic – when its inflection draws on more than one inflection class. While heteroclisis has moved from being treated as a marginal irregularity to a theoretically revealing phenomenon, its implications for gender assignment remain largely unexplored.
Greville G. Corbett
wiley   +1 more source

Modelling the semantic variability of spatial prepositions in referring expressions [PDF]

, 2021
Spatial prepositions in the English language can be used to denote a vast array of configurations which may greatly diverge from any canonical meaning and this semantic variability poses challenges for many systems where commands or queries are given in ...
Richard-Bollans, Adam Louis
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Relics, writing, and devotion in early medieval Chelles

Early Medieval Europe, EarlyView.
The discovery in 1983 of a collection of relics with their medieval identificatory tags in the parish church of Chelles opened new avenues for research on devotional and writing practices in this Frankish royal foundation. This is the first systematic study of the corpus of relic labels that accompanied these sacred objects, particularly of the subset ...
Ana de Oliveira Dias
wiley   +1 more source

Spatial Prepositions in Arabic and English [PDF]

, 2017
The acquisition of English prepositions is particularly challenging for students learning English as a second language. This project explores the acquisition of English spatial expressions by Arab ESL learners. This study examines several issues that may
Alshammari, Maha
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Proximity in English and Lithuanian

Kalbotyra, 2003
The article sets out to disclose the semantic structure of the spatial prepositions of proximity by and beside in English and šalia, greta and ties in Lithuanian. The paper argues that proximity covers a wide range of spatial relations.
Inesa Šeškauskienė
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Word Associations in a Minoritised Language: The Case of Cymraeg (Welsh)

International Journal of Applied Linguistics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT As with many research strands in linguistics, word association (WA) literature is dominated by English language data. This paper (i) explores the extent to which methodologies developed to date are applicable to other languages—specifically, Welsh (Cymraeg)—and (ii) investigates what WA analysis can reveal about lexical organisation and ...
Tess Fitzpatrick, Steve Morris, Theodore Mills   +2 more
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Spatial Position Reasoning of Image Entities Based on Location Words

Mathematics
The endeavor of spatial position reasoning effectively simulates the sensory and comprehension faculties of artificial intelligence, especially within the purview of multimodal modeling that fuses imagery with linguistic data.
Xingguo Qin, Ya Zhou, Jun Li
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Reflections on the Functional Characterization of Spatial Prepositions

Corela, 2010
In his research on spatial prepositions, Vandeloise raised the basic question of whether they are really spatial in nature. He clearly established the importance—if not the predominance—of functional considerations.
Ronald W. Langacker
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