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The Adjectives of Yueqing
… a Southern Chinese variety, has a category of adjectives. It explores the morpho-syntactic properties of nouns, verbs and adjectives, and proposes that adjectival concepts are expressed by words that belong to the syntactic category of verbs in the language. It further examines the aspectual …
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Definitions and Lexical Organization of Adjectives: A Developmental Investigation
… association and definition, it is suggested that adjectives are supported by word association. Word associations seem to contribute to the content of definitions (as opposed to form). However, grammatical skill also appears to be involved. It is concluded that content and form are two distinct …
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Semantic Characteristics of English Adjectives Determined by Their Usage
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Towards a Transformational Account of Derived Adjectives in Russian
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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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Self-Reference Elicits Slower Recall for Personality Congruent Adjectives: An Item-Specific Processing Effect
… fact that people remember more personality trait adjectives in a memory test after making self-reference judgments, relative to other types of judgments (e.g., other-reference and semantics), has been attributed to greater elaborative (i.e., item-specific) and organizational (i.e., relational) …
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Speaking Japanese: L1 and L2 grammatical encoding of case particles and adjectives/adjectival nouns
… L2 speakers: (1) lexical retrieval 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 …
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The Comprehension of Spatial Adjectives by Children With Normal and Children With Deviant Language Development
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Evaluating the circular order structure and complementary of the Interpersonal Adjectives Scale in rating self and others
… of 346 undergraduate students. The Interpersonal Adjectives Scale was used to measure subjects' view of themselves and their closest friend. The evaluation of complementarity requires two steps; first, the validation of the circular order of the scales for rating self and other and second, the …
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A corpus-based analysis of adjective suffix rivalry in the english language /
The subject of this research paper is adjectives ending in -ic/-ical, -ive/-ory and -able/-ible. The aim is to analyse adjective doublets in the English Web Corpus and the OED. The objectives to achieve the aim include exploring theoretical insights into adjectives and suffix rivalry, exploring the …
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The acquisition of alternation in a second language
… which can be classified into three groups: adjectives that combine only with ser (e.g. famoso ‘famous’), adjectives combining only with estar (e.g. content ‘happy’) and adjectives that are compatible with both but where only one copula is felicitous ccording to the context (e.g. nervioso …
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Misappropriation of adjectives by Grade 7 non-native English language learners: A case study of four independent rural primary schools in Manombe Circuit, Mopani District
… highest number of errors, compared to errors on adjectives of quantity, possessive pronouns and adjectives of quality that recorded the least number of errors. The qualitative data showed that the errors made by the participants in this study were mostly morphological and errors on the formation …
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Graduate Students' Conceptions Of The Tenure-Track Hiring Process In Science, Technology, Engineering, And Math Fields.
… marital and parental status, and gendered adjectives used in letters of recommendation have been linked to women's success in STEM fields. Many graduate students studying in STEM fields are preparing for academic careers, and it is unclear if their preferences when making a tenure-track …
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Amount Superlatives and Measure Phrases
… fewest </em>as superlatives of quantificational adjectives (Q-adjectives), but argue that these are often embedded inside a covert measure construction, rather than directly modifying the overt noun. I also introduce novel data showing that the measure phrases that appear in overt pseudopartitive …
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Būdvardžių darybiniai sinonimai /
Derivative synonyms of adjectives are derivatives formed from the same underlying word with different derivative formatives and having the same derivative meaning and identical or very similar lexical meaning. The main aim of this paper is to analize the use of derivative synonyms of adjectives. …
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Prejudice and attitudes towards non-religious individuals with the influences of religious orientation
… between each group, as well as on specific adjectives. Correlation tests were run to determine whether religiosity was related to attitudes toward the individuals described in the vignettes. There was a statistically significant difference between group A and group B. There was also a …
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Non-verbal argument structure : evidence from Tagalog
… of non-verbal predicates (focusing primarily on adjectives) in Tagalog. Drawing on evidence from a variety of construction types (including Comparative, Existential, and Ellipsis constructions among others), I argue against the claim that adjectives differ from verbs in their ability to project …
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The continuum of response to blood/injury stimuli as demonstrated by autonomic reactivity and affect
… and after the video by rating affectively laden adjectives from three classes (neutral, fear, disgust). After the video, each subject’s fainting history and experience with B/I stimuli were gathered through use of an interview. The same information was collected from the subjects’ parents through …
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A Comparison of Selected Stylistic Features in Technical and Non-Technical Writing
… was measured by 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 …
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