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Inferring New Vocabulary Using Online Texts
(Routledge, 2005)
**Please note that the full text is embargoed** ABSTRACT: Through small-scale sampling of relevant specialized texts to craft hands-on inferential vocabulary tasks, both students and teachers can benefit from corpus ...
Truth Is, Sentence-Initial Shell Nouns Are Showing Up Bare
(Palacký University, 2014)
**Please note that the full text is embargoed** ABSTRACT: In one subtype of English shell noun construction, the noun serves as the subject in a pre-clausal unit, e.g., “The thing is.” Shell noun NPs have mainly been ...
The Contingent Meaning of -ex Brand Names in English
(Edinburgh University Press, 2006)
**Please note that the full text is embargoed** ABSTRACT: The –ex string found in English product and company names (e.g., Kleenex, Timex and Virex), is investigated to discover whether this ending has consistent meaning ...
The functional range of bare singular count nouns in English
(John Benjamins, 2007)
**Please note that the full text is embargoed** ABSTRACT: One overlooked and highly polysemous English noun phrase form is the bare singular, i.e. a null determiner with a singular count noun complement. Occurring in all ...
Who builds it, who benefits? Deepening student and faculty knowledge about wikipedia’s scholarly value
(Springer Nature, 2023-02)
**Please note that the full text is embargoed** ABSTRACT: Students and faculty can jointly play a role in how Open Educational Resources are created and deployed by assigning students to expand Wikipedia pages. By producing ...
Semantic incorporation as an account for some bare singular count noun uses in English
(2009)
**Please note that the full text is embargoed** ABSTRACT: This work investigates inter-related syntactic and semantic issues concerning bare singular count nouns (BSCNs) in English. I explore differences in interpretation, ...
Diachronic Change in The Discourse Markers "Why" and "Say" in American English
(Peter Lang Verlag, 2006)
**Please note that the full text is embargoed** ABSTRACT: Generational variation and contrasts in speech vs. writing are shown in usage of the discourse markers why and say across 20th century American English. Collocating ...
Stress management: Corpus-based insights into vernacular interpretations of "stress"
(Equinox, 2013)
**Please note that the full text is embargoed** ABSTRACT: Examination of the term stress in naturally occurring vernacular prose provides evidence of three separate senses being conflated. A corpus analysis of 818 instances ...
Health Literacy: A Single Meaning or Three Senses Conflated?
(Instituto Interuniversitario de Lenguas Modernas Aplicadas de la Comunidad Valenciana (IULMA), 2008)
Activity Implicatures and Possessor Implicatures: What Are Locations When There Is No Article?.
(Chicago Linguistic Society, 1993)