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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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Predicting Visual Spatial Relations in the Maltese Language [PDF]
, 2018 Also published in Symposium Melitensia Vol. 15 (2019) p. 115-126In this paper, the automatic detection of spatial prepositions between objects depicted in an image is studied.
Gatt, Albert +2 more
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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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On Italian spatial prepositions and measure phrases: reconciling the data with theoretical accounts
LinguisticsThe goal of this article is to offer new empirical evidence regarding the grammatical and semantic properties of Italian spatial prepositions, and to provide a theoretical account based on this evidence. We show that Italian has four grammatical types of
Ursini Francesco-Alessio, Wu Tong
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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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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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An approach ecolinguistics of prepositions portuguese
Cadernos de Letras da UFF, 2017 This article focuses on the study of prepositions from the Ecology of Spatial Relations (ERE) equivalent to what is presented in normative grammars, this way, the objective is to expose the ERE and contrasts it with the descriptions grammars do ...
Lajla Katherine Rocha Simião
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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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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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Narrative Horizons: Deliberate Derangement in Oceanic Climate Fiction
Future Humanities, Volume 4, Issue 1, May 2026.ABSTRACT Although we live in the Anthropocene—the geological age of humankind, wherein humans have measurably impacted the biosphere—we struggle to narrate the Anthropocene. In particular, we struggle to give narrative shape to its foremost feature: anthropogenic climate change.
Mark Celeste
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