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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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Applying Computational Models of Spatial Prepositions to Visually Situated Dialog
, 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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Journal of English Studies, 2004 The simple relations model pervades most semantic treatments of the topological prepositions in, on and at. Concerning the preposition on, the pertinent literature has established two features, support and contiguity, which allegedly applies to all its ...
Carmen Guarddon Anelo
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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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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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The [ADJ + as] intensifier construction in Māori English/Aotearoa English
World Englishes, EarlyView.Abstract We introduce the Waikato Māori English Conversation (MEC) corpus, which consists of 43 dyadic conversations between 49 young adults who self‐recorded informal conversations with close friends, in their own homes, with no topic of conversation specified (83 hours of dialogue; nearly 800,000 words).
Andreea S. Calude, Hēmi Whaanga
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Dimensionality Expressed by Caseendings and Spatial Prepositions
, 2002 The purpose of this essay is to investigate some of the uses of English prepositions and Hungarian case endings employed to express spatial relations.
Komlósi, László Imre +1 more
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Lexicalization Patterns of Path Motion in Vietnamese
Journal of the Southeast Asian Linguistics Society, 2020 This paper investigates how Vietnamese people express motion by using path verbs. This paper is based on the theory of lexicalization patterns, which is related to the conflation of semantic components into linguistic units.
Ngoc Toan Ly
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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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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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