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Time frame as a determinant of accessibility of anaphoric demonstratives in Classical Arabic 时间框架对古典阿拉伯语回指指示语可及性的影响

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Topics in Linguistics Pub Date : 2018-12-01 DOI: 10.2478/topling-2018-0010

Samer Jarbou

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Morphological taxonomy in the present-day generative framework: A case study of English and Czech nominalization 现代生成框架中的形态分类学:英语和捷克语名词化的个案研究

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Topics in Linguistics Pub Date : 2018-12-01 DOI: 10.2478/topling-2018-0007

Ludmila Veselovská

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Semantic representation of similes (based on the Ukrainian, English and Polish languages). 明喻的语义表示(基于乌克兰语、英语和波兰语)。

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Topics in Linguistics Pub Date : 2018-06-01 DOI: 10.2478/topling-2018-0002

M. Oleniak

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The development of verbal morphology and word order in an Indonesian-German bilingual child: A case study 印尼-德国双语儿童言语词法和语序的发展:个案研究

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Topics in Linguistics Pub Date : 2018-06-01 DOI: 10.2478/topling-2018-0003

N. L. P. S. Adnyani, N. L. S. Beratha, I. W. Pastika, I. N. Suparwa

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Conceptualization and representation of the passing of time in Spanish phraseology: A gender study 西班牙语短语中时间流逝的概念化和表征:性别研究

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Topics in Linguistics Pub Date : 2018-06-01 DOI: 10.2478/topling-2018-0001

Enrique Gutiérrez Rubio

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The framing of climate change discourse by Statoil 挪威国家石油公司气候变化话语框架

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Topics in Linguistics Pub Date : 2018-06-01 DOI: 10.2478/topling-2018-0004

Oleksandr (Alexander) Kapranov

引用次数: 7

Metaphorical modelling in the case of cosmetic companies’ image development 化妆品企业形象发展中的隐喻建模

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Topics in Linguistics Pub Date : 2018-06-01 DOI: 10.2478/topling-2018-0006

O. Ivantsiv

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Acquisition of meaning in bilingual children: Interference, translation and errors 双语儿童意义的习得：干扰、翻译与错误

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Topics in Linguistics Pub Date : 2018-06-01 DOI: 10.2478/topling-2018-0005

E. Klapicova

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“And this is the view from outside my window”: On text and image interplay in university website blogs “这是我窗外的景色”：论大学网站博客中的文本和图像相互作用

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Topics in Linguistics Pub Date : 2017-12-20 DOI: 10.1515/topling-2017-0012

Renáta Tomášková

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Metaphorical profile of distress in English media discourse 英语媒介话语中痛苦的隐喻特征

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Topics in Linguistics Pub Date : 2017-12-20 DOI: 10.1515/topling-2017-0010

Anna Verbytska

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