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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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On the syntax and semantics of Italian spatial Ps [PDF]
, 2015 This paper offers a unified approach to Italian spatial prepositions, such as di fronte a ‘in front of’, verso ‘towards’, in ‘in’, dietro a ‘behind’, and nel mezzo di ‘in the middle of’. Three assumptions play a key role.
Ursini, Francesco-Alessio
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Spatial Position Reasoning of Image Entities Based on Location Words
MathematicsThe 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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“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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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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Надградени показатели на динамичните просторни релации во македонскиот јазик (во балкански контекст)
Slavia Meridionalis, 2015 Dominant exponents of dynamic spatial relations in the Macedonian language (in a Balkan context) In the Macedonian language, 'doubling' of prepositions is well documented in grammars and monographs, but now we can witness increased use of prepositional
Марјан [Marjan] Марковиќ [Markovikj]
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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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Two multifunctional locative and directional prepositions in Zande [PDF]
, 2012 In Pasch (2007: 174ff) I observed that the direction of self-induced or caused motion towards a location is usually expressed by the preposition ku ((1), (2)).
Pasch, Helma
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Sexual and reproductive health and rights in anticipatory action for disasters
Disasters, Volume 50, Issue 3, July 2026.Abstract An examination of the incorporation of sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) in anticipatory action (AA) reveals the latter's potential to strengthen disaster response by addressing pre‐existing inequalities and marginalised needs.
Ellie Edmond Shimmin, Emmanuel Raju
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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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