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Regard sur l’histoire de quelques prépositions de l’anglais contemporain :apport de la diachronie
Corela, 2017 This article considers the prepositions in the common corpus from a diachronic perspective, focusing on by, of and for, three prepositions inherited from Old English. The corpus yields one occurrence of by introducing an agent, one instance of of linking
Anne Mathieu
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Language Learning, EarlyView.Abstract Little research has explored how language dominance may affect the development and ultimate attainment of morphosyntax in a situation of widespread and social bilingualism, where exposure to both languages starts early on and can be sustained over time.
Adriana Soto‐Corominas +2 more
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Przyimki polskie a tendencja analityczna języków indoeuropejskich
Studia z Filologii Polskiej i Słowiańskiej, 2015 Polish prepositions and analytic tendencies in Indo-European languages As analytic tendencies in Indo-European languages intensify, grammatical forms and lexemes become generalised.
Marek Gawełko
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Teaching English locative prepositions: a cognitive perspective
Linguistica, 2014 Prepositions are notoriously hard to learn, and frequently subject to negative transfer. In addition, prepositional meanings are commonly extended from the spatial to abstract domains and are, as a consequence, often unpredictable and arbitrary ...
Silva Bratož
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Orbis Litterarum, EarlyView.Abstract The critical and popular appeal of Sigrid Nunez's The Friend (2018), which centers on the bond between an unnamed female writer and a Great Dane, Apollo, suggests that readers are drawn to thoughtful explorations of human–animal encounters in literature.
Martyna Bryla
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Applying Computational Models of Spatial Prepositions to Visually Situated Dialog [PDF]
, 2009 This article describes the application of computational models of spatial prepositions to visually situated dialog systems. In these dialogs, spatial prepositions are important because people often use them to refer to entities in the visual context of a
Kelleher, John +2 more
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مجلة الآدابThis paper investigates the non-literal meanings of prepositions in English and Arabic religious texts, focusing on how image schemas shape these meanings.
Sahar Mohammad, Mahdi Kareem
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The Syntax of Spatial Anaphora
Nordlyd: Tromsø University Working Papers on Language & Linguistics, 2007 In this paper, we provide a comprehensive Minimalist analysis of the apparent free variation between pronouns and anaphors in snake-sentences. Three sets of data provide the basis for the analysis: hitherto unobserved restrictions on quantifier-pronoun ...
Johan Rooryck, Guido Vanden Wyngaerd
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“I Paid A Bribe”—Lessons and Insights From Crowdsourced Corruption Reporting in India
Regulation &Governance, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Preventing and reducing corruption has proven to be an enormous challenge. An important step in this process is to produce and use good metrics to identify where anti‐corruption resources would be most beneficial. Most measures of corruption, however, rely on surveys of perceptions or bribery incidence.
Ina Kubbe +2 more
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Superlative Objoid Constructions in British and American English
World Englishes, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper investigates regional variation in Superlative Objoid constructions (SOCs) and their prepositional variant (at‐SOCs). SOCs combine a possessive pronoun with a superlative adjective. These function as manner‐degree modifiers in a context where the possessive is in postverbal position and correlative with the subject, as in they tried
Tamara Bouso, Marianne Hundt
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