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Connectives in Igbo: A syntactic analysis of connectives in the Standard Igbo and the Nsukka dialect
This study provides a description of connectives in Igbo, focusing on the Standard Igbo and Nsukka dialect varieties. These connectives in Igbo are realised mainly through conjunctions and a few adverbials and previous works on connectives in Igbo have hugely focused on connectives in the Standard …
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New Connectives for the Infinitary Languages
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Result/inference discourse connectives in academic texts
Diplomová práce porovnává užívání rezultativních diskurzních konektorů ve dvou korpusech sestavených autorem - v korpusu vytvořeném z 43 literárních esejí českých vysokoškolských studentů oboru Anglistika-amerikanistika a v korpusu sestaveném z 34 odborných článků psaných rodilými mluvčími. Hlavním …
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Connectives and Causal Relatedness in Expository Text
The combined influence of causal connectives and varying levels of causal relatedness on online and offline comprehension of expository texts was investigated. The current hypothesis was that causal connectives would encourage elaborative processing and online generation of bridging inferences, …
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Discourse connectives and discourse structure in Mandarin Chinese
Discourse connectives are regarded as the main linguistic device for the writer to guide the reader's inference toward the texts. Conversely, the reader's interpretation of the logical flow of the discourse is largely based on the distribution of discourse connectives. My primary concern in this …
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Fuzzy logic: An analysis of logical connectives and their characterizations
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Swazi college students' mastery of English logical connectives in science
… students, on two parallel tests of logical connectives, based on Gardner's work, each consisting of the same 34 logical connectives, but different in presentation format compare? 2. Are there significant correlations between the item facilities obtained by the Swazi first year science …
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Modal Connectives and Intuitionistic Modal Logic With Respect to the Kripke Model
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Computer-aided categorisation and quantification of connectives in English and Arabic (based on newspaper text corpora).
… description of the textual functioning of connectives in English and Arabic. Particular emphasis is placed on the organisational force of connectives and their role in sustaining cohesion. The description is intended as a contribution for a better understanding of the variations in the …
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Basic types of clause complexes and discourse connectives: A comparative study between Chinese and English with pedagogical implications
… and the explicit and implicit discourse connectives associated with them. Its purpose is to find similarities and differences between the two languages, with the latter serving as a basis from which to predict possible areas of difficulty for Chinese learners of English.
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Η ΤΑΚΤΙΚΗ ΛΕΙΤΟΥΡΓΙΑ ΤΟΥ "ΑΝ ΚΑΙ" ΚΑΙ Η ΣΧΕΣΗ ΤΟΥ ΜΕ ΑΛΛΑ ΣΥΝΔΕΤΙΚΑ. ΣΗΜΑΣΙΟΛΟΓΙΚΗ ΑΝΑΛΥΣΗ
… ΑΦΟΥ (=SINCE) AND ΕΠΕΙΔΗ (=BECAUSE) ADVERBIAL CONNECTIVES, (2)THE CONTRASTIVE CONNECTIVE ΑΛΛΑ (=BUT) AND (3) OTHER CONCESSIVE CONNECTIVES (ΠΑΡΟΛΟ ΠΟΥ, ΕΝΩ). CRITERIA INDICATING THE SEMANTIC CHARACTER OF ORDINARY ΑΝ ΚΑΙ ARE: THE EMPHASIS ASSOCIATED WITH THE TRUTH OF THE MAIN CLAUSE, THE …
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Visualization of neuronal geometry in ventral nerve cord ganglia of Acheta domesticus
… tissue, continuous with the interganglionic connectives (Fig. A). Two or three principal lateral nerves extend from its sides. The ganglion is encased in a nucleated sheath, the neurilemma, which forms a continuous covering over the nerves and the connectives. The main cellular components of …
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Asymmetries in Presupposition Projection: Processing and Acquisition
… of how presuppositions project out of two binary connectives, if and or, by disentangling semantic presuppositions from additional processes. A series of behavioral experiments examine how English-speaking adults process presuppositional sentences in real time, and what children in the preschool …
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Assertibility and coordination: Analysing `and' and/or `or', some `some', but not so much `but', `not', `so', or `nor', nor `much'
… distinct uses of the English natural language connectives `and' and `or'. H.P. Grice famously claimed that `and' and `if' could be completely reduced to the truth-functional connectives `^' and ` ' plus his maxims, so this thesis partakes somewhat of the spirit of his project. However, it is …
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Impacts of cross-cultural contrastive rhetoric of academic writing in English and academic writing in students' L1s
… CCCR discussions demonstrated more active use of connectives and showed increased metacognition about the similarities and differences between English academic writing academic writing in their L1s.
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A visualized framework for representing uncertain and incomplete temporal knowledge
… on [KM1992] is proposed, supporting both logical connectives ‘∧’ and ‘∨’. In Chapter 3, it is shown all the other logical connectives can be derively defined. 2. Time relation diagram (TRD): A time relation diagram (TRD) is designed for representing temporal relations between time elements which …
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An investigation into the constitution of absolute value inequalities by Grade 12 students in a selection of Western Cape State schools as displayed in students' solutions to a baseline test problem
… the notion of order with regards to the logical connectives was maintained or disrupted and the third level categorized attempted solutions in terms of how the notion of order with regards to the order relations was maintained or disrupted. The results of this study confirm the general findings …
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A Relation-Algebraic Approach to L - Fuzzy Topology
… arrow categories with additional t − norm based connectives to define L - fuzzy topologies abstractly. In particular, this thesis will provide an abstract relational definition of an L - fuzzy topology, consider bases of topological spaces, continuous maps, and the first two separation axioms T0 …
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Why young children fail to understand ‘before’ and ‘after’
… and production of two contrasting temporal connectives - before and after - that signal the order of events in two-clause sentences, and to establish the reasons for difficulties with these linguistic devices. Chapter 1 reviews the literature that is considered relevant to the experimental …
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Algebraic aspects of propositional logic
… a variety of universal algebra in which logical connectives become algebraic operations and logical formulae are considered equal when they are logically equivalent. We then discuss algebraic varieties corresponding to various non-classical propositional logics. In particular, we consider the …
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