Journal articles: 'Semantic variation'

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Hasan, Ruqaiya. "Semantic variation and sociolinguistics." Australian Journal of Linguistics 9, no. 2 (December 1989): 221–75. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/07268608908599422.

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von Heusinger, Klaus, and Helen de Hoop. "Semantic aspects of case variation." Lingua 121, no. 1 (January 2011): 1–2. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.lingua.2010.07.004.

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King, Ed, and Meghan Sumner. "Indexical variation affects semantic spread." Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 135, no. 4 (April 2014): 2425. http://dx.doi.org/10.1121/1.4878064.

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Matthewson, Lisa. "Pronouns, Presuppositions, and Semantic Variation." Semantics and Linguistic Theory 18 (October 3, 2008): 527. http://dx.doi.org/10.3765/salt.v18i0.2505.

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Deal, Amy Rose. "Countability distinctions and semantic variation." Natural Language Semantics 25, no. 2 (February 9, 2017): 125–71. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11050-017-9132-0.

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Divers, John. "Philosophical Issues from Kripke’s ‘Semantical Considerations on Modal Logic’." Principia: an international journal of epistemology 20, no. 1 (September 22, 2016): 01. http://dx.doi.org/10.5007/1808-1711.2016v20n1p01.

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http://dx.doi.org/10.5007/1808-1711.2016v20n1p1In ‘Semantical Considerations on Modal Logic’, Kripke articulates his project in the discourse of “possible worlds”. There has been much philosophical discussion of whether endorsement of the Kripke semantics brings ontological commitment to possible worlds. However, that discussion is less than satisfactory because it has been conducted without the necessary investigation of the surrounding philosophical issues that are raised by the Kripke semantics. My aim in this paper is to map out the surrounding territory and to commence that investigation. Among the surrounding issues, and my attitudes to them, are these: (1) the potential of the standard distinction between pure and impure versions of the semantic theory has been under-exploited; (2) there has been under-estimation of what is achieved by the pure semantic theory alone; (3) there is a methodological imperative to co-ordinate a clear conception of the purposes of the impure theory with an equally clear conception of the content the theory; (4) there is a need to support by argument claims about how such a semantic theory, even in an impure state, can fund explanations in the theory of meaning and metaphysics; (5) greater attention needs to be paid to the crucial advance that Kripke makes on the precursors of possible-worlds semantics proper (e.g. Carnap 1947) in clearly distinguishing variation across the worlds within a model of modal space from variation across such models and, finally, (6) the normative nature of the concept of applicability, of the pure semantic theory, is both of crucial importance and largely ignored.

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Locatell, Christian. "Temporal Conjunctions and Their Semantic Extensions: The Case of in Biblical Hebrew." Journal of Semitic Studies 65, no. 1 (2020): 93–115. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jss/fgz040.

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Abstract Past analyses of have tended toward descriptive taxonomies or proposals of a highly abstract semantic core. Taxonomic approaches have the strength of descriptive rigour while proposals of an abstract core have the strength of offering a coherent analysis of its various uses. However, the former offer little or no explanation for the semantic variation of , and the latter simply attribute such variation to context. This paper argues that the best analysis of (or any such polysemous word) will both account for real variation in meaning without simply attributing it to context, and will also explain the principled connection between seemingly unrelated uses. Utilizing insights from cognitive semantics and grammaticalization theory, this paper will argue that temporal spans an internally complex semantic category, the various points of which served as the source for semantic extensions into its causal and conditional uses.

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Vinogradova, S. A. "COGNITIVE AND SEMANTIC VARIATION OF ADJECTIVES." Kognitivnye Issledovaniya Yazyka 25 (2016): 249–54. http://dx.doi.org/10.20916/2071-9639-2016-25-249-254.

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ADEGBIJA, EFUROSIBINA. "Lexico-semantic variation in Nigerian English." World Englishes 8, no. 2 (July 1989): 165–77. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-971x.1989.tb00652.x.

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BAMIRO, EDMUND O. "Lexico-semantic variation in Nigerian English." World Englishes 13, no. 1 (March 1994): 47–60. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-971x.1994.tb00282.x.

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Chierchia, Gennaro. "Mass nouns, vagueness and semantic variation." Synthese 174, no. 1 (November 3, 2009): 99–149. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11229-009-9686-6.

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Jónsson, Jóhannes Gísli. "Two types of case variation." Nordic Journal of Linguistics 36, no. 1 (May 2013): 5–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0332586513000103.

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Building on data from Icelandic, this article argues that there are two kinds of case variation, formal and semantic. The first type features lexical case as one of the variants whereas the second type involves structural vs. inherent case. The semantic effect found with the latter kind of variation follows from the semantic requirements associated with inherent case and these may cut across different uses of the same verb. It is also shown how the weak status of disappearing lexical case manifests itself in the grammar of Icelandic and Faroese.

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Kovshova, Maria L., and Pavel S. Dronov. "Variability of Russian phraseological units with personal names." Russian Language Studies 20, no. 3 (September 30, 2022): 269–83. http://dx.doi.org/10.22363/2618-8163-2022-20-3-269-283.

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The topic of variability is one of the most demanded in the field of phraseology, since the interrelation of variability and stability is the essential characteristic of phraseological expressions as reproducible language expressions. The relevance of the research is the need to study the trends of phraseological changes, including new approaches to systematizing these changes, which requires the development of methods and techniques of analyzing different types of variability. The aim is to analyze the phenomenon of phraseological variation on the material of phraseological units with anthroponyms, identify types of variation of anthroponyms as parts of phraseological units, describe the traditional and occasional nature of changes and determine the boundaries between variations and autonomous units. With the help of analytic-descriptive method, semantic analysis of dictionary definitions, contextual analysis and corpus method, the role of anthroponymic component in the semantics and structure of phraseological units and the significance of this component variation for changing phraseological units and defining them as variants or autonomous units are characterized. The usual and occasional nature of variation is shown. The following types of variation of the component-anthroponym are identified and examined in detail: variation of forms (onym or its forms); lexical variation (onym/onym; onym/appellative; no lexical variation of onym); syntactic variation. The first type is represented by phonetic, word-formation, morphological, structural variation of the units. Lexical variation is manifested, as a rule, in the substitution of assonant names, including names with gender inversion. Syntactic variation associated with quantitative changes in onyms leads to figurative and structural-semantic changes, modification of the unit, its convergence with phraseological schemes. The analysis of the impact of certain changes in the anthroponymic component on the semantic identity of phraseological units allows to determine the status of phraseological units as variants or autonomous units. The study shows that the anthroponym within phraseological units of different types is a representative component in describing the phenomenon of phraseological variation. In the future, the types of variation of the anthroponym identified may classify the types of Russian phraseological units variation, as well as identify the specificity of variation of phraseological units in other languages.

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Sohn, Sunghwan, Yanshan Wang, Chung-Il Wi, Elizabeth A. Krusemark, Euijung Ryu, Mir H. Ali, Young J. Juhn, and Hongfang Liu. "Clinical documentation variations and NLP system portability: a case study in asthma birth cohorts across institutions." Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association 25, no. 3 (November 30, 2017): 353–59. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jamia/ocx138.

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Abstract Objective To assess clinical documentation variations across health care institutions using different electronic medical record systems and investigate how they affect natural language processing (NLP) system portability. Materials and Methods Birth cohorts from Mayo Clinic and Sanford Children’s Hospital (SCH) were used in this study (n = 298 for each). Documentation variations regarding asthma between the 2 cohorts were examined in various aspects: (1) overall corpus at the word level (ie, lexical variation), (2) topics and asthma-related concepts (ie, semantic variation), and (3) clinical note types (ie, process variation). We compared those statistics and explored NLP system portability for asthma ascertainment in 2 stages: prototype and refinement. Results There exist notable lexical variations (word-level similarity = 0.669) and process variations (differences in major note types containing asthma-related concepts). However, semantic-level corpora were relatively homogeneous (topic similarity = 0.944, asthma-related concept similarity = 0.971). The NLP system for asthma ascertainment had anF-score of 0.937 at Mayo, and produced 0.813 (prototype) and 0.908 (refinement) when applied at SCH. Discussion The criteria for asthma ascertainment are largely dependent on asthma-related concepts. Therefore, we believe that semantic similarity is important to estimate NLP system portability. As the Mayo Clinic and SCH corpora were relatively homogeneous at a semantic level, the NLP system, developed at Mayo Clinic, was imported to SCH successfully with proper adjustments to deal with the intrinsic corpus heterogeneity.

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Goddard, Cliff. "Semantic molecules and semantic complexity." Review of Cognitive Linguistics 8, no. 1 (June 2, 2010): 123–55. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/rcl.8.1.05god.

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In the NSM approach to semantic analysis, semantic molecules are a well-defined set of non-primitive lexical meanings in a given language that function as intermediate-level units in the structure of complex meanings in that language. After reviewing existing work on the molecules concept (including the notion of levels of nesting), the paper advances a provisional list of about 180 productive semantic molecules for English, suggesting that a small minority of these (about 25) may be universal. It then turns close attention to a set of potentially universal level-one molecules from the “environmental” domain (‘sky’, ‘ground’, ‘sun’, ‘day’, ‘night’ ‘water’ and ‘fire’), proposing a set of original semantic explications for them. Finally, the paper considers the theoretical implications of the molecule theory for our understanding of semantic complexity, cross-linguistic variation in the structure of the lexicon, and the translatability of semantic explications.

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Guy, Gregory R. "Lexical Phonology and the Problem of Variation." Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society 19, no. 1 (June 25, 1993): 171. http://dx.doi.org/10.3765/bls.v19i1.1512.

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Goltakova, Zalina Akhmytovna. "LEXICAL-SEMANTIC VARIATION IN BILINGUALS’ WRITTEN LANGUAGE." Philological Sciences. Issues of Theory and Practice, no. 8-1 (August 2018): 86–91. http://dx.doi.org/10.30853/filnauki.2018-8-1.20.

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LASSITER, DANIEL. "Semantic Externalism, Language Variation, and Sociolinguistic Accommodation." Mind & Language 23, no. 5 (November 2008): 607–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-0017.2008.00355.x.

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Li, Paul Jen-kuei. "Semantic Shift and Variation in Formosan Languages." Language and Linguistics 15, no. 4 (July 2014): 465–77. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1606822x14531897.

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Clark-Joseph, Adam D., and Brian D. Joseph. "Linguistics meets economics: Dealing with semantic variation." Proceedings of the Linguistic Society of America 5, no. 2 (June 9, 2020): 67. http://dx.doi.org/10.3765/plsa.v5i2.4794.

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We explore here what happens in conversation when listeners encounter variation as well as change in semantics. Working within a general Gricean framework, and in ways somewhat akin to the “Cheap Talk” model of Crawford and Sobel (1982) and the “Rational Speech Act” model of Goodman and Frank (2016), we develop here a transactional view of communicative acts, based largely on insights drawn from economics. Taking a novel perspective, we build on what happens when communication misfires rather than examining what makes for successful communication. We see this effort as a demonstration of the utility of taking an economic perspective on linguistic issues, specifically the analysis of communicative acts.

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Chierchia, Gennaro. "Partitives, Reference to Kinds and Semantic Variation." Semantics and Linguistic Theory 7 (November 3, 1997): 73. http://dx.doi.org/10.3765/salt.v7i0.2792.

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Goossens, Vannina. "polysémie des noms d'affect." Travaux neuchâtelois de linguistique, no. 50 (June 1, 2009): 147–61. http://dx.doi.org/10.26034/tranel.2009.2872.

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The work presented in this article is a study of the polysemy of affect nouns in which we focus on regular variation of senses. We will try to point out the linguistic characteristics of this type of semantic variations and to determine if it gives rise to significant groups of nouns. We make the assumption that these variations of senses do not all have the same semantic status and that their characterization would give rise to elements of semantic structuration of a class of names.

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Sköldberg, Emma. "När faktorer lyser med sin frånvaro: om några typer av betydelsevariation hos svenska idiom." HERMES - Journal of Language and Communication in Business 18, no. 35 (March 8, 2017): 119. http://dx.doi.org/10.7146/hjlcb.v18i35.25819.

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In this paper, I explore certain types of semantic variation that recur in 36 Swedish idioms when used in contemporary newspaper material (slightly more than 33.7 million running words). The semantic analysis of the idioms is inﬂ uenced by studies of lexemes. The idioms are described according to the principle of factor analysis, meaning that I have attempted to differentiate semantic factors that can be considered building blocks in the internal semantic structure constituting the conventionalized meaning of the idioms. Deﬁ nitions of the expressions were then based on the semantic factors. One type of variation entails the manifestation of a speciﬁ c semantic factor in certain cases when the idiom is used. Other times, the relevant factor is absent. In a different type of variation, one particular semantic factor is replaced by another. The study reported here should be useful in a variety of ways, including as a basis for comparison between how semantic variation appears in different types of ﬁ xed phrases and lexemes.

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MEHL, SETH. "Light verb semantics in the International Corpus of English: onomasiological variation, identity evidence and degrees of lightness." English Language and Linguistics 23, no. 1 (August 24, 2017): 55–80. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1360674317000302.

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This study employs corpus semantic techniques to examine the semantics of light verbs and light verb constructions (LVCs) in Singapore English, Hong Kong English and British English via their respective components in the International Corpus of English (ICE; Greenbaum 1996). The study investigates onomasiological variation (see Geeraerts et al.1994) by identifying selection preferences in natural use between light verb constructions and their related verb alternatives. In addition, identity evidence is forwarded as a valuable corpus semantic tool, in which instances of naturally occurring language data resemble classic identity tests for polysemy. Via a close reading and manual semantic analysis of thousands of instances of light make, take, give and their semantic alternatives, this study finds remarkable consistency across the three varieties of World Englishes (WEs) in onomasiological preferences, even in extremely nuanced features of LVCs. Onomasiological evidence and identity evidence also suggest the new finding that the three light verbs and their constructions exhibit degrees of lightness, and that these degrees of lightness are extremely consistent across regional varieties.

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KAKSIN, ANDREY D. "WORDS DENOTING WRESTLING IN KHAKAS AND TUVIN LANGUAGES (ON THE ORIGIN OF THE WORD KüRES / HүREš)." Theoretical and Applied Linguistics, no. 4 (2020): 84–93. http://dx.doi.org/10.22250/2410-7190_2020_6_4_84_93.

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The article analyzes the possibilities of word variation in the development of the semantic (lexical) system of language. The necessity of this study is determined by the fact that in Khakass and Tuva linguistics there are not enough works devoted to development patterns of categorical semantics of the word. The article defines how the meaning of words found in proto-languages is advanced at further stages of language development. The obtained results demonstrate that the original words with the semantics in question already existed in the Old-Turkic era. Their semantic development is characterized by its own logic: the vector is set by the inner form of an ancient root (kүš, küs); during affixation (küres, hүreš), the choice of the motivating root is observed. The hypothesis is proven that for different Turkic languages, the vector can be either “the same” or different. In the second case, the distinctive lines, although visible enough, extend within certain limits: even with a sufficiently strong deviation from a given line of variation, they maintain a deep bond with the semantics of the original root...

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Scontras, Gregory. "Accounting for counting: A unified semantics for measure terms and classifiers." Semantics and Linguistic Theory 23 (August 24, 2013): 549. http://dx.doi.org/10.3765/salt.v23i0.2656.

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This paper develops and extends the semantic account of morphological number marking in the presence of numerals from Scontras (2013). The account handles variation in patterns of number marking along two dimensions: cross-linguistically, between languages that either necessitate or prohibit singular morphology in the presence of numerals greater than ‘one’, and within one and the same language: English. The proposed semantics accounts for both sorts of variation by assuming flexibility in the selection of the measure relevant to the one-ness presupposition of the morphological singular form. The system also provides an explanation for the Slobin-Greenberg-Sanches Generalization, which states that no classifier language has obligatory number marking: by aligning the semantics of counting in both number marking and classifier languages, and by assuming that nouns in classifier languages denote kinds, the semantic contribution of number marking is necessarily redundant in classifier languages. A system of obligatory number marking only surfaces in languages where it delivers otherwise unrecoverable information about the number of intended referents.

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Nokkonen, Soili. "The semantic variation of NEED TO in four recent British English corpora." International Journal of Corpus Linguistics 11, no. 1 (February 20, 2006): 29–71. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/ijcl.11.1.03nok.

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This paper explores the various meanings/uses of NEED TO, a semi-modal of obligation and necessity, in two spoken and two written corpora of British English from the 1950s to the 1990s. Previous corpus-based studies indicate that its overall usage has increased, but there is clearly a gap in research on its semantics. This corpus-driven inductive investigation applies the traditional semantic concepts of root and epistemic meaning to the corpus data. The results suggest that NEED TO covers all the possible meanings/uses, both root and epistemic, of a modal of obligation and necessity. Consequently, it is a possible rival of MUST and HAVE TO in affirmative contexts. However, the traditional analysis leaves out the instances where NEED TO expresses internally motivated compulsion. This is accounted for in recent cross-linguistic studies which rearrange the non-epistemic field. Their insights are taken into consideration, and a synthesis concerning the semantic profile of NEED TO is suggested.

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Vinogradova, S. A. "Discourse-semantic variation of relative adjectives in English." Sibirskiy filologicheskiy zhurnal, no. 63 (June 1, 2018): 218–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.17223/18137083/63/19.

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Amriddinova, Nazira Shamsiddinovna. "EXTRA-LINGUISTIC REASONS FOR SEMANTIC VARIATION OF PHRASEOLOGISMS." Theoretical & Applied Science 101, no. 09 (September 30, 2021): 652–54. http://dx.doi.org/10.15863/tas.2021.09.101.84.

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Francez, Itamar, and Andrew Koontz-Garboden. "Semantic variation and the grammar of property concepts." Language 91, no. 3 (2015): 533–63. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/lan.2015.0047.

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Jackman, Henry. "Semantic intuitions, conceptual analysis, and cross-cultural variation." Philosophical Studies 146, no. 2 (August 2, 2008): 159–77. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11098-008-9249-6.

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Hawkins, John A. "A Semantic Typology Derived from Variation in Germanic." Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society 12 (May 15, 1986): 413. http://dx.doi.org/10.3765/bls.v12i0.1839.

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Goddard, Cliff. "The conceptual semantics of numbers and counting." Functions of Language 16, no. 2 (October 22, 2009): 193–224. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/fol.16.2.02god.

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This study explores the conceptual semantics of numbers and counting, using the natural semantic metalanguage (NSM) technique of semantic analysis (Wierzbicka 1996; Goddard & Wierzbicka (eds.) 2002). It first argues that the concept of a number in one of its senses (number1, roughly, “number word”) and the meanings of low number words, such as one, two, and three, can be explicated directly in terms of semantic primes, without reference to any counting procedures or practices. It then argues, however, that the larger numbers, and the productivity of the number sequence, depend on the concept and practice of counting, in the intransitive sense of the verb. Both the intransitive and transitive senses of counting are explicated, and the semantic relationship between them is clarified. Finally, the study moves to the semantics of abstract numbers (number2), roughly, numbers as represented by numerals, e.g. 5, 15, 27, 36, as opposed to number words. Though some reference is made to cross-linguistic data and cultural variation, the treatment is focused primarily on English.

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Bentley, Delia. "Grammaticalization of subject agreement on evidence from Italo–Romance." Linguistics 56, no. 6 (November 27, 2018): 1245–301. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/ling-2018-0022.

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AbstractIn this paper we consider the grammaticalization of subject agreement adducing first-hand synchronic evidence from presentational VS constructions in Italo-Romance dialects. While the existing literature has placed emphasis on the pragmatic properties of the controller, we explore its semantic properties. We argue that variation in subject agreement can only be fully captured with reference to an independently established semantic scale of subjecthood that is based on the position of arguments in semantic representation, and hence on their lexical entailments.Unaffected actoris the default controller in accusative alignment. The patterns of dialect microvariation arise, in our analysis, from variation in macrorole assignment in presentational focus. Our proposal formalizes at the discourse-semantics-syntax interface the idea that, in presentational VS constructions, the core argument S may be treated as part of the predicate, thus failing to control grammatical subject agreement. This happens in presentational focus because the predication is about an implicit topic. The latter can trigger a type of pronominal agreement that is comparable to Bresnan and Mchombo’s (Bresnan, Joan & Sam A. Mchombo. 1987. Topic, pronoun and agreement in Chichewa.Language63. 741–782) anaphoric agreement. This study provides robust arguments in support of an understanding of subject agreement as the grammaticalization of semantic-relation contrasts, as well as pragmatic-role distinctions.

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Salman Obead AL-MAAITAH, Mkhled. "THE SEMANTIC AUTHENTICATION FROM ALBAIDHAWI STRUCTURAL SEMANTIC." RIMAK International Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences 03, no. 03 (March 1, 2021): 209–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.47832/2717-8293.3-3.18.

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The resources of language differ in terms of their morphology and types; therefore, there are contradictory views about theresources in relation to the morphological from as well as the nature of structures and meaning, which results from the structural diversity for each resource, resulting in a functional and semantic variation. This is not accepted as a justification for the issue of verbal commonality,semantic or linguistic synonym or as a type of multiple dialects. Therefore, each team of grammarians or interpreters, regardless their linguistic visualizations, demonstrate this differencein structure according to their particular views, and that was reflected on the pronunciation and semantic counterparts in the linguistic structure. In this research, whichis taken from the PhD, we attempt to connect those different forms based on the obvious evidence and the lexical and linguistic indicators, in that fifteen morphological structures are addressed as a part of the study’. The research introduced the sufficient examples for the semantic authentication from the Holy Quran, in which we illustrated the impact of morphological structures in determining the functional and linguistic meanings for the pronounced words as well as the impact of the interpretations provided by interpreters, such as Al-Baidhawi, in particular.

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Bowman, Sean, Kostas Daniilidis, and George Pappas. "Robust Object-Level Semantic Visual SLAM Using Semantic Keypoints." Field Robotics 2, no. 1 (March 10, 2022): 513–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.55417/fr.2022018.

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Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) has traditionally relied on representing the environment as low-level, geometric features, such as points, lines, and planes. Recent advances in object recognition capabilities, however, as well as demand for environment representations that facilitate higher-level autonomy, have motivated an object-based Semantic SLAM. We present a Semantic SLAM algorithm that directly incorporates a sparse representation of objects into a factor-graph SLAM optimization, resulting in a system that is efficient, robust to varying object shapes and environments, and easy to incorporate into an existing SLAM pipeline. Our keypoint-based representation facilitates robust detection in varying conditions and intraclass shape variation, as well as computational efficiency. We demonstrate the performance of our algorithm in two different SLAM systems and in varying environments.

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Kashkin, E., and Daria Mordashova. "Polysemy and grammaticalization of verbs of throwing: evidence from Hill Mari." Acta Linguistica Petropolitana XVI, no. 1 (August 2020): 494–520. http://dx.doi.org/10.30842/alp2306573716115.

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The paper deals with verbs of throwing in Hill Mari (Finno-Ugric). The data were collected in fieldwork mainly by elicitation, as well as by analyzing the corpus of transcribed oral narratives. First of all, two dominant lexemes of this semantic field are taken into account. These lexemes display clear differences in their Aktionsart properties. The differences between the lexemes with regard to a number of parameters previously proposed in typology are investigated, their relevance is evaluated. New parameters for their opposition are put forward. In addition, the article discusses the peripheral verbs of adjacent semantic fields (destruction and distribution in space). The correlations between more general distributive semantics of the peripheral lexemes and their semantic content in the contexts of throwing are considered. Special attention is paid to the grammaticalization of dominant verbs of throwing in complex verb constructions and to the analysis of their distributional constraints. Both the similarities between the constructions (participant with a semantic role of Patient, semantics of destruction) and the diff erences between them (constraints on plurality) are studied. Data on complex verb constructions are also discussed in the light of the cross-linguistic variation in the semantic shifts typical of the domain under consideration

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KHOLODON, O. M. "STUDY OF VERBS AND THEIR MEANINGS IN UKRAINIAN DIALECTS: A LINGUOGEOGRAPHICAL APPROACH." Movoznavstvo 315, no. 6 (December 17, 2020): 32–42. http://dx.doi.org/10.33190/0027-2833-315-2020-6-003.

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Ukrainian dialectal verb lexicon and semantics are mapped near other dialectal vocabulary at phonetic, morphological, lexical and syntactic levels in a number of linguogeographical sources. The problem of presentation of verb lexicon and semantics is demonstrated on the example of several linguogeographical works that can be divided into two groups. Works of the first group provide information about lexical verb variation. In these works the verb semes are mapped, e.g. Ukrainian dial. ʽhowl (about wolves)ʼ, ʽmeow (about cats)ʼ, ʽto meetʼ, Ukrainian-Slovakian ʽverbs that indicate cooking of leaven (for bread, etc.)ʼ, ʽto sow (hemp, flax)ʼ, ʽto comb the fiber on the brushʼ and Transcarpathian verb phraseology — the seme ʽa person (sick, drunk or in a normal state) sleeps so hard that nobody can wake him (e.g. спит, йак на глуха́н’у; спит, йак на глу́шу; спит’ глу́пно). The second group consists of works that provide information about lexical and different types realizations of verbs. Near other maps about lexical implementation of verb semes the authors give semantic maps, e.g., maps Middle Dnieper and Steppe лаˈтати [тʼ], Eastern Polissian кресати (that has meanings ʽto make fire with a flintʼ, ʽto make fire with a silicon lighterʼ, ʽto beat stone against stoneʼ, ʽto cut down a branchʼ, ʽto fell the woodʼ, ʽto hewʼ, ʽto cutʼ, ʽto go quicklyʼ, ʽto dance intensivelyʼ, ʽto sap with passionʼ, ʽto forge a sapʼ, ʽto swearʼ). It is established that in the atlas, dedicated to the special study of links between Carpatho-Ukrainian and Southern Slavic languages, verb lexicon is presented on lexical, semantic maps and verb spreading maps that contain the information about verb presence in the settlement. A linguogeographical source that represents Slavs’ traditional spiritual culture and presents names of actions related to interpersonal contacts, different feelings and emotions, marital relations, etc. is revealed. These names are presented on lexical, semantic, motivational and nominative verb maps. Analyzing the phenomenon of verb semantic variation, P.Yu. Gritsenko mapped the semantic structure of the dialectal verb at the supra-dialectal level and on the basis of distinguishing separate semes from the integral meaning of syntagma тереˈбити + Object he identified semantic subcomplexes. The study outlines vistas of further research into Ukrainian dialectal verbs and their semantics.

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Xu, Huaiyuan, Xiaodong Chen, Huaiyu Cai, Yi Wang, Haitao Liang, and Haotian Li. "Semantic Matching Based on Semantic Segmentation and Neighborhood Consensus." Applied Sciences 11, no. 10 (May 19, 2021): 4648. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/app11104648.

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Establishing dense correspondences across semantically similar images is a challenging task, due to the large intra-class variation caused by the unconstrained setting of images, which is prone to cause matching errors. To suppress potential matching ambiguity, NCNet explores the neighborhood consensus pattern in the 4D space of all possible correspondences, which is based on the assumption that the correspondence is continuous in space. We retain the neighborhood consensus constraint, while introducing semantic segmentation information into the features, which makes them more distinguishable and reduces matching ambiguity from a feature perspective. Specifically, we combine the semantic segmentation network to extract semantic features and the 4D convolution to explore 4D-space context consistency. Experiments demonstrate that our algorithm has good semantic matching performances and semantic segmentation information can improve semantic matching accuracy.

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Ullah, Zafar, and Muhamamd Farooq Aalam. "Coinage of Code Meshed Numlianlect in BS English NUML Students' Informal University Discourse: A Plurilingual Study." Global Social Sciences Review VII, no. II (June 30, 2022): 10–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.31703/gssr.2022(vii-ii).02.

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The first time such a newly emerged linguistic variety has been documented at NUML, Islamabad. This language variation means morphological, semantic, connotative deviations from standard linguistic norms. Contact linguistics, code meshing, diversified linguistic backgrounds and their colloquialism play their vital roles in shaping Numlianlect of BS English. The research problem faced by learners of super standard language is that they do not comprehend the newly code meshed discourse in the informal settings of NUML. So, this research raises questions about the exploration of linguistic variations, their formulation process and their denotative and connotative semantic shades. To answer these questions, qualitative and survey-based research design has been employed. The collected data have been analyzed with Labov and Weinreich’s Variation Theory (1960). Major findings reveal that students mix English, Punjabi, Sindhi, Pashto and Urdu words to produce variant code-meshed linguistic patterns. Connotation, semantic shades and contexts of words have been changed by students.

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Colleman, Timothy. "The semantic range of the Dutch double object construction." Constructions and Frames 1, no. 2 (December 10, 2009): 190–220. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/cf.1.2.02col.

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Just like its English counterpart (cf. Goldberg 1995), the Dutch double object construction is a prime example of a highly polysemous argument structure construction, with a basic ‘X causes Y to receive Z’ sense and several extended meanings which depart from the prototype in various respects and to varying degrees. This paper provides a corpus-based overview of the semantic structure of this construction, following the multidimensional approach to constructional semantics advocated in Geeraerts (1998). On the basis of Stefanowitsch & Gries’s (2003) “collexeme analysis” method, we will identify the verbs which most typically realize the investigated construction in a one-million-word newspaper corpus. These verbs will be shown to instantiate extensions along various dimensions of semantic variation. Several of these semantic extensions are paralleled in English, while others are not.

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Perek, Florent, and Martin Hilpert. "A distributional semantic approach to the periodization of change in the productivity of constructions." International Journal of Corpus Linguistics 22, no. 4 (December 1, 2017): 490–520. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/ijcl.16128.per.

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Abstract This paper describes a method to automatically identify stages of language change in diachronic corpus data, combining variability-based neighbour clustering, which offers objective and reproducible criteria for periodization, and distributional semantics as a representation of lexical meaning. This method partitions the history of a grammatical construction according to qualitative stages of productivity corresponding to different semantic sets of lexical items attested in it. Two case studies are presented. The first case study on the hell-construction (“Verb the hell out of NP”) shows that the semantic development of a construction does not always match that of its quantitative aspects, like token or type frequency. The second case study on the way-construction compares the results of the present method with those of collostructional analysis. It is shown that the former measures semantic changes and their chronology with greater precision. In sum, this method offers a promising approach to exploring semantic variation in the lexical fillers of constructions and to modelling constructional change.

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Zacharakis, Asterios, Konstantinos Pastiadis, and Joshua D. Reiss. "An Interlanguage Study of Musical Timbre Semantic Dimensions and Their Acoustic Correlates." Music Perception 31, no. 4 (December 2012): 339–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/mp.2014.31.4.339.

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A study of musical timbre semantics was conducted with listeners from two different linguistic groups. In two separate experiments, native Greek and English speaking participants were asked to describe 23 musical instrument tones of variable pitch using a predefined vocabulary of 30 adjectives. The common experimental protocol facilitated the investigation of the influence of language on musical timbre semantics by allowing for direct comparisons between linguistic groups. Data reduction techniques applied to the data of each group revealed three salient semantic dimensions that shared common conceptual properties between linguistic groups namely: luminance, texture, and mass. The results supported universality of timbre semantics. A correlation analysis between physical characteristics and semantic dimensions associated: i) texture with the energy distribution of harmonic partials, ii) thickness (a term related to either mass or luminance) and brilliance with inharmonicity and spectral centroid variation, and iii) F0 with mass or luminance depending on the linguistic group.

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Mathonsi, N. N. "Semantic variation and change in the Greater Durban Area." South African Journal of African Languages 19, no. 4 (January 1999): 227–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02572117.1999.10587401.

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Mathonsi, N. N. "Semantic variation and the notion of polysemy in Zulu." South African Journal of African Languages 29, no. 1 (January 2009): 87–95. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02572117.2009.10587319.

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Clopper, Cynthia G. "Effects of dialect variation on the semantic predictability benefit." Language and Cognitive Processes 27, no. 7-8 (September 2012): 1002–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/01690965.2011.558779.

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Moghaddasi, Hamid, Farkhondeh Asadi, Azamossadat Hosseini, and Zahra Ebnehoseini. "E-Health: A Global Approach with Extensive Semantic Variation." Journal of Medical Systems 36, no. 5 (November 24, 2011): 3173–76. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10916-011-9805-z.

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Sumner, Meghan, and Reiko Kataoka. "Effects of phonetically-cued talker variation on semantic encoding." Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 134, no. 6 (December 2013): EL485—EL491. http://dx.doi.org/10.1121/1.4826151.

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LINDSTRÖM, LIINA, and VIRVE-ANNELI VIHMAN. "Who needs it? Variation in experiencer marking in Estonian ‘need’-constructions." Journal of Linguistics 53, no. 04 (January 9, 2017): 789–822. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0022226716000402.

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In this paper, we tackle the twin issues of obligatoriness of semantic arguments and variation in their expression through a study of Estonian constructions denoting need. The variation under investigation consists in the choice of case-marking, between adessive and allative case, as well as the option to omit the oblique argument. We extracted and coded ‘need’-constructions from spoken and written corpora and used non-parametric classification methods for analysis. We found high rates of oblique experiencer omission in these constructions (nearly 60% across corpora). The most important predictors of overt expression of the experiencer in our models were participant-internal modality and the presence of nominal complements, meaning that both semantic and syntactic factors are relevant. The choice between two overt cases is affected by person, complement type, and referential distance. Topical experiencer arguments do not show the subject-like tendency to be omitted more often, but they are more likely to be marked with adessive case, suggesting that adessive is more grammaticalised as a structural, non-nominative, argument-marking case than the more semantic allative case. Our findings show that oblique, semantic arguments may be frequently omitted, and both semantic and syntactic factors may affect variation in case-marking.

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McGinnis, Martha. "Variation in the phase structure of applicatives." Linguistic Variation Yearbook 2001 1 (December 31, 2001): 105–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/livy.1.06mcg.

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This paper argues that a substantial amount of the variation in the grammatical properties of applicative constructions arises from structural differences between two main types, identified by Pylkkänen (2000) as high and low applicatives. High applicatives take an NP specifier and a VP complement, while low applicatives take an NP specifier and an NP complement. The two types of applicatives differ in their lexical-semantic and transitivity properties, as well as in their A-movement properties under raising or passivization, and in their phonological phrasing. It is proposed that these differences arise from a difference in phase structure, where phases are syntactic domains that play a role in semantic and phonological interpretation.

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