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Showing 1 to 20 of 57 for “"Adverbs"”.
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A Corpus-Based Study on the Portuguese Translations of English Adversative Coordinating Conjunctions and Adverbs in News Texts
… coordinating conjunctions and conjunctive adverbs are translated from English into Brazilian Portuguese through a parallel corpus built specifically for this research. The corpus is composed of 59 news articles extracted from the online versions of the British magazine <em>The …
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Keep an eye on stereotypes – the impact of gender stereotypes (toward humans and robots) on language processing
… aims were pursued: First, I investigated whether adverbs’ (Experiment 1 and Experiment 3) and main verbs’ (Experiment 2 and Experiment 4) gender-stereotypicality would guide participants’ visual attention to a target whose gender matched the adverbs’ or the main verbs’ gender-stereotypicality. …
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现代汉语执拗义评注性副词的 句法、语义和语用研究
In Mandarin Chinese, there are some commentary adverbs denoting obstinacy, such as yìng(硬) yìngshì(硬是) jiù(就) fēi(非) piān(偏) piānpiān(偏偏) and so on, which can not only emphasize the resolute attitude to doing something, but also be used to mark the counter expectation information. Taking them as …
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Vietos deiksės raiška šiaurės žemaičių kretingiškių šnektoje /
… and ten tas (-a); place deictic system of the adverbs of place consists of the proximal adverbs of place čia and šitai and the distal adverbs of place ten and tenai(s). 2. The choice of deictic words may depend not only on physical or psychological distance but also on the semantic features of …
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A General Semantic Model of Negation in Natural Language: Representation and Inference
… disjunction of complex determiners, adjectives, adverbs, common nouns, proper nouns, noun phrases, verbs, verb phrases, prepositions, and prepositional phrases can be represented and reasoned with. Areas of future research involve extending the model to handle modal operators, sentential adverbs, …
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Adverb placement : an optimality theoretic approach
… effects of these factors on the distribution of adverbs in English, French, and German. In Optimality Theory (Prince & Smolensky 1993), grammaticality is defined as optimal satisfaction of a hierarchy of violable constraints: for a given input, a set of output candidates are produced out of which …
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A Comparison of Selected Stylistic Features in Technical and Non-Technical Writing
… the ratio of nouns and verbs to adjectives and adverbs. Vigor was measured by the percentage of passive verbs, the percentage of nouns that are nominalized verbs, a comparison of the Noun-Word Quotient with the Verb-Word Quotient, and the ratio of nouns and verbs to adjectives and adverbs. …
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Erdvės raiška deiktiniais žodžiais virtualiose ekskursijose /
… the expression of space with deictic words (adverbs of place čia ʻhereʼ / ten ʻthereʼ and demonstrative pronouns šis ʻthisʼ / tas ʻthatʼ / anas ʻthatʼ) and their use in virtual tours. The study aims to determine what meanings and functions are gained in the researched contexts, to find out …
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Filling Up the Word: The Fulfillment Citations in Matthew’s Gospel
… A survey of the way in which “limit-adjectives/ adverbs” (adjectives/ adverbs, that convey a limit being reached, e.g., “all”) cluster around the FCs points in the same direction—towards the hypothesis that πληροῦν means “fill up” in the FCs as well.</p><p>A potential linguistic objection is then …
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Connective ties in discourse : three ERP-studies on causal, temporal and concessive connective ties and their influence on language processing
… to the processing of deictical sentential adverbs such as " gestern", yesterday, and " lieber", rather. These latter words do not have the property of signaling a certain discourse relation between two sentences, as connective ties do. Three questions were central to the work: * Do the …
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Getting /srs about tone tags
… tags, while related to other lexical items (e.g.,adverbs), seem to project their own syntactic category with a range of unique properties.</p>
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Syntactic edges and linearization
… scrambling, the scope and syntactic position of adverbs, depictive and resultative predicates, possessor constructions, and varieties of floating quantifiers, among others. It is argued that the domain of cyclic Spell-out must include the edge as well as the complement of a Spell-out domain.
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The syntactic side of Time: processing Adverb-Verb Temporal Agreement
… in the relation. The relation between temporal adverbs and verbs has been traditionally defined anaphoric in nature, since verbs can be bound to temporal antecedents (e.g. adverb) which allow to set a reference time that the event expressed by the verb must refer to. However, other accounts have …
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The friendly enemies: emergence effects in word choice for story generation responses to conceptual combinations
… they did contain more verbs, auxiliary verbs and adverbs, as identified by the Linguistic Inquiry and Word Count (LIWC) program, possibly indicating a potential for more action and description in stories generated from unusual prompts. The individual difference variables were not predictive of …
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Perspectives on fixedness: applied and theoretical
… to expressions in adverb role (<i>complex adverbs</i>) and found to be inappropriate. At the conceptual level, the salience of word meanings, grammatical roles, and cohesive relations signalled in expressions are examined. It appears that there is a relationship between the overall level of …
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The semantics of reduplication in Japanese
… author will also investigate some reduplicative adverbs in order to illustrate the semantic features they have in common with noun reduplication. The reduplicative forms dealt with here are the reduplication of a noun, of SONO (that) plus a noun and of a single number plus its numeral classifier. …
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The semantics of reduplication in Japanese
… author will also investigate some reduplicative adverbs in order to illustrate the semantic features they have in common with noun reduplication. The reduplicative forms dealt with here are the reduplication of a noun, of SONO (that) plus a noun and of a single number plus its numeral classifier. …
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A study in child thought, language and logic : observations of a six-year-old child, individually at home, and together with his play and school groups : experimental tests and analysis of observations, in accordance with the theories of Piaget
… on the sentence structure (number of adjectives, adverbs, conjunctions, etc.) used at different ages.<sup>2</sup> In the division of the year book referred to, on studies in language development, one hundred forty-three books are listed and various others referred to in the discussion of the …
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A transformational treatment of Indian English syntax
… passive, questions, expletive “there”, adverbs and deletions are also discussed. In Chapter III, questions, relatives, nominal modifiers, subject-verb agreement, the comparative and passive in Hindi and English are contrasted. The contrastive analysis is included in an attempt to show …
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