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Showing 1 to 20 of 93 for “"demonstrative"”.
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Demonstrative clefts in spoken English
… focuses on one cleft type, namely on the demonstrative cleft; examples include (a) 'That's what I had in mind' and (b) 'That's what I thought'. The demonstrative cleft has received little attention in the literature, and this is reflected in its inconsistent classification (some believe it …
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The Blackfoot demonstrative system: Function, form, and meaning
… a comprehensive analysis of the Blackfoot demonstrative system. Previous research on Blackfoot (Uhlenbeck 1938, Taylor 1969, Frantz 2009) identifies sixteen morphemes that make up demonstrative words in the language. I propose a demonstrative template that takes into account the fixed …
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The Blackfoot demonstrative system: Function, form, and meaning
… a comprehensive analysis of the Blackfoot demonstrative system. Previous research on Blackfoot (Uhlenbeck 1938, Taylor 1969, Frantz 2009) identifies sixteen morphemes that make up demonstrative words in the language. I propose a demonstrative template that takes into account the fixed …
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L1 English L2 German learners' grammaticality judgments and knowledge of demonstrative pronouns
… This thesis explores the acquisition of German demonstrative pronouns by second language learners of German whose native language is English. Unlike German, which allows for both personal pronoun usage (er, sie, es etc.) and demonstrative pronoun usage (der, die, das etc.) to refer back to …
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Haec fortis sequitur illam indocti possident: A linguistic analysis of demonstratives in genres of early Latin fragments
<p>This study examines the claim that demonstratives are used more frequently in Latin comedies than in other genres (Karakasis, 2014; Palmer, 1975), as well as additional hypotheses regarding the use of demonstratives within this language. To examine these claims, I created a corpus composed of …
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Performance, Ritual and Messaging in Encomium Emmae reginae
… Emmae reginae primarily through the lens of demonstrative behaviour, which covers the gamut of actions from formal ceremonies to social rituals to individual acts of verbal and non-verbal communication. Chapter 1 establishes the need for a re-examination of the Encomium in light of the 2008 …
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Vietos deiksės raiška šiaurės žemaičių kretingiškių šnektoje /
… in earlier research: place deictic system of demonstrative pronouns consists of the proximal demonstrative pronouns šitas (-a) and šitai tas (-a) and the distal demonstrative pronouns tas (-a) and ten tas (-a); place deictic system of the adverbs of place consists of the proximal adverbs of …
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Replacing the Priest: Tradition, Politics, and Religion in Early Modern Irish Drama.
… argued the need for an Irish theatre that was demonstrative of the Irish people, returning to the literary traditions to the Celtic heritage. What resulted was a questioning of religion and politics in Ireland, specifically the Catholic Church and its priests. Yeat's own drama removed the …
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The Significance of Noun Phrase Word Order Variation in Kivunjo
… sequence of noun phrase elements; movement of demonstrative from its normal position (immediately after the head noun) to other positions and order of demonstrative in the positions before and after the head (locative) noun. The last one is repetition of the same demonstrative in the same …
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Erdvės raiška deiktiniais žodžiais virtualiose ekskursijose /
… (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 which deictic words dominate the virtual tours. …
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Referring expressions in Chinese and English discourse
… been identified and characterized. The distal demonstrative determiner nei `that' has an associative anaphoric use, encoding an entity whose referent is uniquely identifiable based on what Hawkins (1978, 1991) calls P-sets, association sets. This function of nei as an associative anaphor …
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Studies in Conical Form
… moment was developed through a series of demonstrative studies. The desired effect of a momentary appearance of a ray of light striking a reflective surface in a room based on the predicted relative position of the sun at set times determined the form, shape, proportions, and surface …
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The construction and evaluation of a test on the concepts of informal geometry
… predicting the degree of success of a student in demonstrative geometry.
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A Synthesis of Geometry and Light
… through a reflecting pool are shown using demonstrative and constructive means of descriptive geometry as both the design generator and poetic expression.The composition of the buildings reveals the play of light on form.
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TOPICS IN HAKHA LAI NOMINAL MARKING
… derived from the spatial deictic markers of the demonstrative paradigm, where they encode information about the spatial location of discourse referents in relation to speaker and addressee location. In non-demonstrative contexts, they mark discourse-level properties of nominal referents (e.g., …
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The Effects on Iron Status in Physically Active Females: Enhancing Beef Consumption through Interactive Cooking Classes and e-Cooking
… traditional interactive cooking group; 2) online demonstrative cooking group; or 3) control group. Intervention groups were instructed to consume an additional 3 servings (3 oz. each) of beef weekly during the 10 week duration. Control participants annotated beef consumption and diet normality on …
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A Generic Simulation-based Perioperative Decision Support Tool for Tactical Decision
… of the generic model: as decision tool and as a demonstrative tool. As a decision tool the model is used to compare numerous potential tactical decision options under consideration. As a demonstrative tool, the model is used to quantify the effect of poor practices on hospital performance. The …
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Consciousness, concepts and content
… it relates to concepts, first with a defense of demonstrative/recognitional accounts of phenomenal concepts (and a defense of the more general physicalist strategy in which they figure); and second, with the development of a partially conceptual account of perceptual experience.
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Les anaphoriques celui-ci et il
… of the French third person pronoun IL and the demonstrative pronoun CELUI-CI, which are interchangeable in some contexts, but not in others. Its main objective is to uncover the factors which, on the one hand, play a role in the use of both pronouns and, on the other, intervene in their …
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Pharmacovigilance study using Electronic Medical Records
… a lipid lowering drug, was used for demonstrative evaluation. The subjects were patients who were more than 40 years old and with prescription from a tertiary teaching hospital from January 1, 2001 to December 31, 2009. Sensitivity and positive predictive values of the method was 14.3 …
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