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Frontiers in Psychology, 2021 In this article we propose a novel method to estimate the frequency distribution of linguistic variables while controlling for statistical non-independence due to shared ancestry. Unlike previous approaches, our technique uses all available data, from language families large and small as well as from isolates, while controlling for different degrees of
Jäger, Gerhard, Wahle, Johannes
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Mäetagused, 2023 The renowned philologist Nikita Tolstoi promoted revolutionary ideas not only in Russian but also in the worldwide Slavonic studies. He, together with Svetlana Tolstaia, established the Moscow school of ethnolinguistics, the methodology of which is ...
Irina Sedakova, Marina Valentsova
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The Russian prepositional TIPA and VRODE in online student discourse: evidence of attraction?
Linguistics, 2022 This article scrutinizes the use of two competing Russian prepositions, tipa and vrode ‘like, such as’, in online student discourse. Both are associated with the crosslinguistically attested grammaticalization of taxonomic nouns, with tipa having derived
Kolyaseva Alena
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THE SIGNIFICANCE OF ERRORS IN TRANSLATION DIDACTICS [PDF]
Social Sciences and Education Research ReviewThis article aims to shed light on the importance of errors in the field of translation didactics, since it has been widely recognized as an efficacious pedagogical instrument for teaching translation. In this context, we will emphasize the significance
Hamlili ISMAIL
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Interpretation of Emotions as a Key to Understanding Cultures
Armenian Folia Anglistika, 2015 Non-native speakers of a language cannot decode emotionally conditioned meanings of stationary sentences without background knowledge. The interpretation of semantically independent expressions cannot be separated from culture. The discovery of universal
Lianna Matevosyan
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Language Typology from the Perspective of Systemic Functional Grammar [PDF]
̒Ilm-i Zabān, 2023 Systemic functional grammar (SFG) is a theory which is very strong and so flexible that it addresses various research areas such as ‘language development in children’, ‘educational linguistics’, ‘computational linguistics’, and ‘clinical linguistics ...
Esmaeil Safaei Asl, Rezamoead Sahraei
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Acta Universitatis Agriculturae et Silviculturae Mendelianae Brunensis, 2014 The number of remarkable species on a locality is an important indicator of locality value. The ecological requirements of the rare species may help to target correct landscape management activities.
Jana Niedobová, Zdeněk Faltýnek Fric
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Typology, documentation, description, and typology [PDF]
Linguistic Typology, 2016 Typology, Documentation, Description, and Typology Marianne Mithun University of California, Santa Barbara Abstract If the goals of linguistic typology, are, as described by Plank (2016): (a) to chart linguistic diversity (b) to seek out order or even unity in diversity knowledge of the current state of the art is an invaluable tool for almost any ...
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LanguagesSouthern Min is generally known for not using classifiers [CL] for expressing definiteness/indefiniteness as it is associated with the bare classifier construction [CL N].
Qi Huang, Walter Bisang
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A Revised Typology of Place-Naming
Names, 2021 A functional and systematic typology of toponyms is an essential instrument for the toponymist wishing to investigate the naming practices and patterns of a region.
David Blair, Jan Tent
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