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Showing 1 to 20 of 1519 for “"nominal"”.
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Extending Wikification: Nominal discovery, nominal linking, and the grounding of nouns
… named entities, the detection and linking of nominals are relatively little 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 …
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TOPICS IN HAKHA LAI NOMINAL MARKING
… information to help interlocutors identify nominals, mark their discourse status, and highlight them for pragmatic purposes. Discourse deictics remain understudied, despite serving varied and complex functions. This work investigates Hakha Lai, a South Central (formerly Kuki-Chin) …
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A logical typology for nominal compounds
Semantic analysis of nominal compounds includes characterizing the semantic relationships implicit among the separate elements of nominal compounds. This thesis presents a typology for nominal compound that classifies the binary relationships implicit in nominal compounds according to their status …
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Construction morphology : issues in Akan complex nominal morphology
… language, has both regular and irregular complex nominals (CNs). However, previous studies of Akan nominals have been constructive in approach, mostly adhering to a strict form of the principle of compositionality and assuming that the morphological, phonological and semantic properties of CNs can …
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Subjectivity and Nominal Property Concepts in Mandarin Chinese
Thesis (Ph.D.) - Indiana University, Department of Linguistics, 2021
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Calculation of Notch Strains Under Multiaxial Nominal Loading
… to proportional and nonproportional multiaxial nominal loading. The method uses anisotropic plasticity theory to define a structural yield surface in nominal stress space that incorporates both the isotopic material properties and the anisotropic geometry factors of the notch, and accounts for …
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A study of nominal compounds in Sino-Japanese
Sino-Japanese is an important part of the Japanese language. It is unique in the sense that it has many properties the rest of Japanese does not have. This is due to the fact that Sino-Japanese is not native to the Japanese language, but is borrowed from the Chinese language centuries ago. As a …
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The Sinitic Nominal Phrase Structure: A Minimalist Perspective
… investigates the syntactic structures of Sinitic nominal phrases by means of a thorough study of lexical elements, such as numerals, classifiers, possessives, adjectives, and nouns, and functional elements, such as plural/collective markers, force particles, and modification markers. It is argued …
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Aspects of the syntax of Spanish nominal expressions
… with aspects of the grammatical structure of nominal expressions in Spanish, examined within the broad frame of notions, principles and assumptions constituting the Minimalist Program (MP). A central concern of the study is the major theoretical reconceptualization of nominal structure known …
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An experimental modification of the nominal group technique
The Nominal Group Technique (NGT) is a group decision making process which was developed to minimize the process losses of the traditional, interacting method. While proven to be superior to the widely-used interacting method by earlier research studies, NGT does not appear in the school …
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International Transmission Of U.s. Real, Nominal, And Financial Shocks
<p>This dissertation identifies real, nominal, and financial shocks in the U.S. and observes their effects on U.S. as well as G�macroeconomic variables. First, the real and nominal shocks in the U.S. are identified by using long-run implications of an open economy stochastic macroeconomic model, …
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Verbal and Nominal Properties in Deverbal and Process Nominals
In sum, this dissertation deals with the so-called mixed categories with a general mechanism of word-formation based on the single-engine syntactic approach coupled with a lexical decomposition. I show that the traditional idea that clustering certain properties are necessarily associated with …
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Essays on imperfect information, macroeconomic fluctuations, and nominal rigidities
… that buyers are imperfectly informed about their nominal valuation. I proceed in three steps. First, I develop a mechanism for price rigidities. My mechanism captures the notion that firms are reluctant to increase prices after an increase in demand or costs because it creates a disproportionate …
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Essays on nominal rigidities, bounded rationality, and macroeconomic policy
… I study the empirical relationship between nominal rigidities and the real effects of monetary policy. Nominal rigidities lie at the core of macroeconomics. The empirical evidence suggests that prices and wages adjust sluggishly to aggregate shocks, while theoretical models justify why and …
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Nominal exchange rates, commodity prices and central bank policy
… thesis consists of three independent chapters on nominal exchange rates. The first chapter adds to the forward bias puzzle by noting that while the exchange rate of a small commodity-exporting economy can be closely tied to commodity prices, a portfolio of commodity futures exhibits little if any …
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Universal quantification in the nominal domain in American Sign Language
… a description of universal quantification in the nominal domain in ASL. Using data I collected from eight deaf native ASL signers, I report various lexical, morphological, and syntactic strategies that signers use to encode universal quantification. These strategies include explicit marking of …
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Number matters: enhancing nominal number to facilitate subject-verb agreement
… learners’ difficulty in accessing the nominal number feature, which is encoded via the plural morpheme in English, influences their processing of S-V agreement.
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Nominal phrases in English and Japanese speakers' L2 Mandarin grammars
… second language (L2) acquisition of Mandarin nominal phrases by Japanese and English learners. Four nominal prope1iies shared by Mandarin and Japanese are the classifier projection (ClP), the incompatibility of . \ . the numeral-classifier phrase with the plural marker, adjectival possessives …
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Copular, nominal, and small clauses : a study of Israeli Hebrew
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Linguistics and Philosophy, 1987.
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Active Force Correction of Off-Nominal Structures Using Intelligent Scaffolding
The culmination of this research focuses on the area of structural support and stability as it relates to the field of large space structures. Fitting into the branch of in-space assembly, servicing, and manufacturing (ISAM), this topic covers essential subject matter areas of robotic manipulation, …
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