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It might be inferred that these leaders experience significant gaps in several key cognate areas.
There is an interesting but short section on the local adaptive value of cultural rules including dialects and cognate words.
The difference between voiced and unvoiced cognate consonants in the initial position appears to be highly dependent upon voice-onset-time.
Besides, even when the new meanings of existing words were calqued on cognate words in other languages.
When you're done, you count up the number of cognates and compute the fraction of words that are cognate.
I am also working on a typology of cognate objects, which includes much data concerning cognate objects in African languages.
Although examples can easily be constructed, the subject they contain does not have the properties associated with cognate objects.
However, many linguists think he chose cognate terms too broadly to bolster his reconstruction.
Interferences with the amenities of land and personal injuries arising during the use of land are cognate subjects.
She has published on verb alternations like decausativization, cognate objects, and resultatives.
A cognate object is one whose sense incorporates the action or state represented by the clause.
His book deals with memes and other cognate subjects less frivolously and with much more academic rigour than I can muster.
Some contain a strip of adhesive amino acids that latch on to their cognate sequences like Velcro.
His supporting analyses of property, social structure, poverty, progress, inequality, and cognate topics were wide ranging and deep.
The separation of childbearing from domesticity leads to a need for extended families, which are primarily cognate kin groups.
However, in Chinese, not only can intransitives take cognate objects, transitives can also take cognate objects.
To Johnny the two missing screws seemed cognate with the sonographer's lack of manners and unshaven cheeks.
Augustine never studied Hebrew, though he understood words of Punic spoken by the peasants and well knew that it was a cognate Semitic language.
Other cognate bird species are so alike in appearance that even experienced birders have trouble identifying them with confidence.
If we recode our data into binary characters as Gray and Atkinson did, we have to create three characters, one for each cognate set.
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Examples from Classical Literature
And there is, if not an antipathy between the races, at least a dyspathy, if we may employ a cognate term, a sort of repulsive feeling.
A noun in this construction is called the cognate object of the verb and is in the objective case.
In the first sentence, the cognate object modifies the predicate verb as the adverb angrily would do.
The intransitive form derives from the transitive by dropping a generalized, customary, reflexive or cognate object.
If a free person is abducted, the fine shall be divided equally between his agnate and cognate heirs and the treasury.
The gifts are represented as being the direct product of, and cognate with, the grace bestowed.
The Chowanoc and Nottoway and other cognate tribes adjoining the Tuscarora may have been offshoots from that tribe.
A glade or valley in the wood was called a Dean, Dene, Denne, cognate with den.
Gifts similar or cognate his father had received, as also had his grandfather, his great-grandfather and so on ab initio.
Even otherwise they but enhance the sororal beauties of faiths which if cognate are quite distinct.
The object of a verb may be the direct object, the predicate objective, the indirect object, the cognate object.
That the Greek mind was apt in doing this is cognate to their idealizing turn in art.
Stout, valiant, now used euphemistically for fat, is cognate with Ger.
With bird nicknames may be mentioned callow, unfledged, cognate with Lat.
The adverbial sense to be wholly transferred to the cognate word.
The first syllable is cognate with mare and the second means servant.
The bank of a river or lake was called Over, cognate with Ger.
The Swedish form is gatlopp, in which gat is cognate with eng.
Dimple is a diminutive of dip, and cognate with dingle and dapple.
Geld, money, has no connection with gold, but is cognate with eng.
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