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Japanese Nouns Koto and No
This dissertation demonstrates that koto and no are syntactically always a noun and an indefinite pronoun respectively. The diverse uses of koto and no are accounted for by whether or not the speaker believes the addressee believes the speaker believes that a proposition or an open proposition …
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Syntactic Tones of Nouns in Bemba
… of the study. This study investigates tones of nouns in citation form and nouns when used in different grammatical contexts. Thus, a sample of 100 nouns were picked and used in different syntactic frames to show how the tonal patterns change in different grammatical environments. This study is a …
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Syntactic Tones of Nouns in Bemba
… of the study. This study investigates tones of nouns in citation form and nouns when used in different grammatical contexts. Thus, a sample of 100 nouns were picked and used in different syntactic frames to show how the tonal patterns change in different grammatical environments. This study is a …
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Three Subcategories of Nouns in Japanese
The proposed analyses have three theoretical implications. First, they directly bear upon Sells' (1996a) distinction between morphological and syntactic categories, arguing that NN, VN, and AN are morphological categories that project as DPs in the syntax. Second, they lead to the view that …
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A contextual analysis of compound nouns in Shona lexicography
… It is a contextual analysis of compound nouns found in Shona terminological dictionaries. The study specifically explores how lexicographers together with health, music, language and literature specialists make use of their knowledge about Shona cultural contexts in the creation of …
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Verbs and nouns in awake neurosurgery: needs and answers
Awake surgery is a surgical procedure applied to people with brain tumors. Patients are kept awake during surgery to perform language tasks during electrical stimulation of cortico-subcortical brain structures. When the application of electrical pulses to the brain repeatedly triggers errors, this …
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Verbs as nouns: empirical investigations on event-denoting nominalizations
… type of event nominalization, such as deverbal nouns derived by means of suffixes (Italian mutamento / mutazione, ‘change’, ‘mutation’, or English assignment, explosion) and their corresponding verbal nouns, e.g. infinitives (il mutare, ‘the changing’) or gerunds (exploding). These are usually …
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The Accentuation of Prefixed Nouns in Bulgarian and Russian
Nouns that resist explanation are assumed to have lexically assigned accent, i.e., their locus of stress is not determined by morphological, phonological, syntactic or semantic factors. Masculine prefixed nouns in Bulgarian, with the exception of those that have roots or prefixes that condition …
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Judgment of countability of English nouns by Korean EFL learners
… learners' judgments of countability of English nouns because a correct judgment of noun countability is a key factor for the appropriate use of English indefinite articles and noun phrases. To investigate the subjects' judgments of noun countability and how they are related to the use of English …
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Comparing incidental learning of nouns and verbs using eye movements
… that part of speech should be one such factor. Nouns and verbs differ in their syntactic and semantic roles. As a result of these differences, verbs are generally considered to be harder to process and harder to learn. Most incidental word learning studies are not appropriate for examining part …
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Talk about stuffs & things : the logic of mass & count nouns
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Linguistics and Philosophy, 1995.
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Nouns and classificatory verbs in Enga (New Guinea) : a semantic study
… of the features of the animate sub-set of Enga nouns. Since studies "of any sort in ethnozoology are rare" (Sturtevant 1964:120), I felt that this would provide a contribution to a neglected domain. The elicitation of semantic features of the animate nouns provided the first evidence of the Enga …
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Nouns and classificatory verbs in Enga (New Guinea) : a semantic study
… of the features of the animate sub-set of Enga nouns. Since studies "of any sort in ethnozoology are rare" (Sturtevant 1964:120), I felt that this would provide a contribution to a neglected domain. The elicitation of semantic features of the animate nouns provided the first evidence of the Enga …
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Extending Wikification: Nominal discovery, nominal linking, and the grounding of nouns
… studied but essential since the grounding of nouns enriches information for humans that read documents. In this thesis, we address those problems by extending the Illinois Cross-lingual Wikifier with nominal linking and sense disambiguation. We train a nominal detector with the dictionary …
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Donaudampfschifffahrtsgesellschaftskapitän: the effects of instruction on the L2 acquisition of German compound nouns
… it focuses on the learning of German compound nouns, which can often be a source of confusion for learners. It investigates the following key questions: (1) Which strategy of vocabulary instruction (explicit or implicit) allows students to correctly use compound nouns in German? (2) How well do …
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A Historical and Semasiological Study of Some Synonyms, Nouns, Verbs and Adjectives, Denoting "Pleasure"
University of Minnesota M.A. thesis. Major: English. 1 computer file (PDF): 65 pages
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Speaking Japanese: L1 and L2 grammatical encoding of case particles and adjectives/adjectival nouns
… processes for adjectives and adjectival nouns (both of which roughly correspond to English adjectives, but differ from each other in their morphosyntax), by using tip-of-the-tongue (TOT) experiments; and (2) case particle selection, by examining speech errors (e.g., L1 and L2 errors that …
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Morphological process feeding in the formation of old english nouns: Zero-derivation, affixation and compounding
… and 13,670 are complex. Within the complex nouns, 4,084 are derived (1,025 prefixed and 3,052 suffixed), 4,347 are compound and 1,239 are the result of zero-derivation. The second phase of the research accounts for the establishment of the relations between the different predicates, and …
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Variation in use of nouns as nominal premodifiers in advanced student writing across academic disciplines
… noun phrase complexity features, the use of nouns as nominal premodifiers is particularly challenging due to the informational density they enable, the variety of meaning relationships they can express, and their potential ambiguity (Halliday, 1989; Biber & Gray, 2011; Wisniewski, 1996). …
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Where are the cookies? Three-year-olds use number-marked verbs to anticipate upcoming nouns
This study examines the development of incremental parsing processes in language comprehension by testing 3-year-olds' use of a particular morphosyntactic dependency: number agreement between a subject and verb in English. Using a looking-while-listening paradigm, we show not only that children …
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