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The syntactic variety and semantic unity of the V de resultative construction in Mandarin Chinese 普通话中 V de 结果结构的句法多样性和语义统一性

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Poznan Studies in Contemporary Linguistics Pub Date : 2024-05-27 DOI: 10.1515/psicl-2023-0042

Wenshan Li

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A multi-dimensional analysis of corporate blogs 企业博客的多维分析

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Poznan Studies in Contemporary Linguistics Pub Date : 2024-05-21 DOI: 10.1515/psicl-2022-1080

Yang Wu, Hui Ren

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Metaphors across cultures 跨文化隐喻

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Poznan Studies in Contemporary Linguistics Pub Date : 2024-05-16 DOI: 10.1515/psicl-2023-0035

Hassan Banaruee, Danyal Farsani, Omid Khatin-Zadeh, Zahra Eskandari

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Complexity trade-off in morphosyntactic module: suggestions from Japanese dialects 形态句法模块的复杂性权衡：来自日本方言的建议

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Poznan Studies in Contemporary Linguistics Pub Date : 2024-05-09 DOI: 10.1515/psicl-2023-0054

Wenchao Li, Haitao Liu

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A survey of Polish ASR speech datasets 波兰 ASR 语音数据集调查

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Poznan Studies in Contemporary Linguistics Pub Date : 2024-03-01 DOI: 10.1515/psicl-2023-0019

Michał Junczyk

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Investigating the effects of late sign language acquisition on referent introduction: a follow-up study 调查手语学习后期对参照物引入的影响：一项后续研究

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Poznan Studies in Contemporary Linguistics Pub Date : 2024-02-21 DOI: 10.1515/psicl-2022-1024

Cansu Gür

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“Gap” matters: reflections on the notion of “gap” of relative clauses "间隙 "很重要：对相对从句 "间隙 "概念的思考

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Poznan Studies in Contemporary Linguistics Pub Date : 2024-02-20 DOI: 10.1515/psicl-2022-1032

Tong Wu, Yaohua Luo, Renfei Xiao

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Tense mismatches in Korean gapping and bare ko-coordination: an experimental study 韩语咬字和裸ko配合中的时态错配：一项实验研究

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Poznan Studies in Contemporary Linguistics Pub Date : 2024-01-26 DOI: 10.1515/psicl-2023-0012

Jeong-Seok Kim, Duk-Ho Jung, Jee Young Lee, Su-Hyuk Yoon

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Infinitival clauses with dative subjects: goal-oriented directedness in space and time 附加主语的不定式从句:在空间和时间上的目标导向

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Poznan Studies in Contemporary Linguistics Pub Date : 2023-11-27 DOI: 10.1515/psicl-2022-1066

Egor Tsedryk

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A panoramic view of acceptability judgments in Polish generative linguistics 波兰语生成语言学中可接受性判断的全貌

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Poznan Studies in Contemporary Linguistics Pub Date : 2023-11-27 DOI: 10.1515/psicl-2022-1067

Paulina Łęska-Bayraktar, Sylwiusz Żychliński

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