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... adjectives with several antonymous pairs , womanly / manly , feminine / masculine , wom- anish / mannish . This dichotomy makes sense to most speakers of English , and without it familiar portions of PUD would be exposed as meaningless ...
... adjectives with several antonymous pairs , womanly / manly , feminine / masculine , wom- anish / mannish . This dichotomy makes sense to most speakers of English , and without it familiar portions of PUD would be exposed as meaningless ...
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... adjectives , nominals , and adverbs . The flexibility of the passive increases its usefulness . Adjectives are said to modify a noun . Cognitively , in terms of what modify means to our interpretive processes , adjectives change the ...
... adjectives , nominals , and adverbs . The flexibility of the passive increases its usefulness . Adjectives are said to modify a noun . Cognitively , in terms of what modify means to our interpretive processes , adjectives change the ...
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Unlearning the Lies of the Fathers' Tongues Julia Penelope. passives as attributive adjectives , that there's no evidence for a suppressed agent , and that such structures are merely adjectives , period . That we are subliminally aware ...
Unlearning the Lies of the Fathers' Tongues Julia Penelope. passives as attributive adjectives , that there's no evidence for a suppressed agent , and that such structures are merely adjectives , period . That we are subliminally aware ...
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Speaking Freely: Unlearning the Lies of the Fathers' Tongues Julia Penelope No preview available - 1990 |
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