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35 unresolved questions extracted from the limitations and future-work sections of 2,065 Lexicography and Language Studies papers in our library. Each links back to the study that raised it.

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  • 20% of respondents highlighted insufficient grammatical tagging and limited multiword representation in certain electronic dictionaries, indicating the need for continued refinement of grammatical integration and annotation standards.

    DEVELOPMENT OF ELECTRONIC MEDICAL DICTIONARIES AND CORPUS RESOURCES: THE ROLE OF LEXICAL AND GRAMMATICAL COMPETENCE · 2026 · DOI

  • Considering the limited research in this area, the paper aims to explore the challenges in comparing phraseological units based on certain proverbs and sayings between English and Kazakh languages, emphasizing the need for a nuanced and contextually sensitive approach to enhance cross-cultural communication.

    ABOUT COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF PHRASEOLOGICAL EXPRESSIONS BETWEEN KAZAKH AND ENGLISH LANGUAGES · 2024 · DOI

  • The emission of NO from soils plays an important role for chemical reactions in the atmosphere in our simulations. Lower global mean NOx mixing ratios without SNOx lead to lower global O3 mixing ratios in the LT. The lower O3 mixing ratios result in lower OH concentrations. This results in an enhanced lifetime of NOx in regions with other dominating sources of NOx. Hence the NOx mixing ratios increases in some regions, despite lower emissions when SNOx is neglected in our NOBIONO simulation. This effect did not occur in the REDOTHER simulation, in which we comparably reduced the remaining surface NO emissions. From this it follows that although NOx is a short-lived tracer it indirectly influences chemical processes in regions with low SNOx through feedback with O3 and OH. By following the reaction chain up to PAN and HNO3, we detected a dominating role of SNOx compared to VOC in the mid-latitudes of the Southern Hemisphere. Also by following the reaction chain (SNOx→NOx→O3→OH), the magnitude of relative effects are shifted step by step to higher altitudes in the troposphere. Through reaction of NO with HO2, SNOx is directly involved in the production of OH. SNOx also has, through O3, an indirect influence on OH production. With OH formed by SNOx through these pathways, τCH4 is decreased considerably, and the influence of SNOx on the tropospheric oxidizing efficiency is considerable, approximately 10%. Reducing the other surface NO emissions by the same amount only lead to an increase of 4% in τCH4. The notable modelled influence of SNOx on directly and indirectly related trace gases shown in this work supports further efforts to improve the parameterization of SNOx in CTMs, as also proposed by Jaegl´e et al. (2005).

    Methods of word-formation in modern english: The syntactic method · 2024 · DOI

  • The year 2022 saw the launch of Endangered and Lesser-Studied Languages and Dialects, a new series by Brill with an aim to focus on the description and documentation of "poorly studied languages and dialects around the world", with a particular focus on Japan and the Asia-Pacific region (https://brill.

    Making Room for Japonic in General Linguistics · 2023 · DOI

  • AbstractResearch on collocations in the Croatian language has mostly been directed towards issues relating to linguistics and lexicography, while research on their use is scarce and mostly directed towards second language speakers (Burić & Lasić, 2012; Ordulj, 2016; Petrović, 2007).

    Factors of Collocation Attainment among Native Croatian Language Speakers/Čimbenici ovladanosti kolokacijama kod izvornih govornika hrvatskoga jezika · 2017 · DOI

  • The parallel corpora created by the ISS PAS Corpus Linguistics and Semantics Team break through the existing “canons” and allow scientists access to interlinked multilingual language resources – in the first phase limited to the languages of the three Slavic groups and the Lithuanian language.

    Języki słowiańskie i litewski w korpusach równoległych Clarin-PL · 2016 · DOI

  • The editors refer to Štekauer and Lieber (2005), noting the sparsity of studies on word formation in “smaller” languages and hoping to contribute to filling this gap for a selection of understudied South American languages.

    Word Formation in South American Languages ed. by Swintha Danielsen, Katja Hannss, and Fernando Zúñiga · 2016 · DOI

  • Reproduction of professions artist, doctor, chef and officer in English does not make any difficulties but some words’ incorrect reproduction (minister, judge, professor and soldier) can be explained by interference of French and Latvian as well as insufficient knowledge of English orthography and semantics of words in French.

    SEMANTIC BOUNDARIES OF PROFESSIONAL NAMES IN ENGLISH AND FRENCH IN THE CONTEXT OF A SECONDARY SCHOOL · 2015 · DOI

  • The specific goal of this conference was limited to an examination of the McCune-Reischauer system of romanization and its applications in the hope that certain recommendations would be made that might produce more uniform, more consistent, and simpler guide lines for those wishing to use this system to romanize Korean.

    Report of the Workshop Conference on Korean Romanization · 1980 · DOI

  • Despite considerable discussion of semantic features or components throughout the book, the 470LANGUAGE, VOLUME 53, NUMBER 2 (1977) reader remains uncertain exactly what role the notion of semantic feature plays in L's concept of semantic field or lexical set.

    Semantic fields and lexical structure (review) · 1977 · DOI

  • Future research should refine corpus annotation frameworks, expand the representation of complex grammatical phenomena, and empirically evaluate the impact of digital lexicographic tools on communicative competence in medical education.

    DEVELOPMENT OF ELECTRONIC MEDICAL DICTIONARIES AND CORPUS RESOURCES: THE ROLE OF LEXICAL AND GRAMMATICAL COMPETENCE · 2026 · DOI

  • The significance of this topic arises from the limited research conducted on English lexical borrowings, particularly regarding their quantity, content, scope, and the specific characteristics of their adaptation or assimilation into Kazakh.

    KAZAKH LANGUAGE AND BRITICISM · 2025 · DOI

  • Code glosses enhance coherence and reader comprehension by reformulat­ing or elaborating arguments, which is especially useful in legal texts, yet their use in such texts remains understudied compared to the academic genre.

    Code glosses in the European Union’s legislative documents · 2025 · DOI

  • This situation has resulted in the lack of consensus on key dimensions, leading to the fragmentation of terms and concepts due to the multitude of references.

    Terminology in Arabic Theatrical Dictionaries · 2025 · DOI

  • This research suggests that the verb "hüzünlen-" should be examined not only in Turkish but also in comparison with similar emotional expressions in other languages.

    Semantic and Pragmatic Analysis of a Turkish Sadness Verb Hüzünlen- · 2024 · DOI

  • One of the crucial reasons underlying the analysis conducted herein pertains to insufficiently explored mutual phraseological relations between Albanian and Serbian, coupled with a rather interesiting concept of existence of the neutral and context-dependent semantic fields.

    NEUTRAL AND CONTEXT-DEPENDENT PHRASEOLOGISMS CONTAINING A SOMATIC COMPONENT IN THE ALBANIAN LANGUAGE AND THEIR TRANSLATION EQUIVALENTS IN SERBIAN · 2024 · DOI

  • Such lexical units have not been previously studied, and the identification of their part-of-speech status may be challenging, as, for example, in the Komi electronic corpus (http://komicorpora.

    Адъективные дериваты деепричастий в коми языке [Derived Adjectives from Adverbial Participles in Komi] · 2023 · DOI

  • Balti has a handful amount of traditional pieces of literature in the form of books (Traditional Grammars, stories, and history) and even the available Balti literature have not been documented within the proper paradigm of linguistics.

    Description and Categorization of Balti Tense Markers · 2020 · DOI

  • The results confirm the original hypothesis and suggest that mnemonic lexicon as a linguistic reflection of the mnemonic faculty is an important and largely understudied element of the language – memory system.

    English Mnemonic Lexicon: Constituent Structure and Verbalization Potential · 2020 · DOI

  • The author will also discuss the need to add a fourth condition to Kripke's definition for proper names and why undertaking pragmatic and contextual analysis is warranted.

    Quantifying the Lemma Massa as a Proper-Name in the John and Massa Tales · 2019 · DOI

  • Calques, semi-calques, and lexical hybrids have been described in a quite satisfactory way; with reference to phraseology, however, theoretical and methodological discussions are still lacking.

    Frazeologiczne kalki, półkalki i hybrydy w mowie dwujęzycznej społeczności staroobrzędowców mieszkających w Polsce · 2019 · DOI

  • As a rule, such languages are understudied and not sufficiently documented, which greatly complicates the presentation of ethnocultural realia in a dictionary.

    Preserving Endangered Knowledge in a Dictionary: The Case of Ket · 2019 · DOI

  • High variability of the translations of some lexical bundles points to a lack of their stability in Lithuanian, which might be due to a number of reasons, including a lack of agreement among translators and a much shorter tradition of legal translation into Lithuanian.

    ES reglamentai: leksinių samplaikų vertimo iš anglų į lietuvių kalbą tendencijos · 2017 · DOI

  • It is hoped that this necessarily sketchy paper will serve as an encouragement to further studies of this interesting part of informal English lexicon.

    Zapożyczenia z języków Azji Wschodniej w angielszczyźnie potocznej · 2016 · DOI

  • This variety, though, is not explored by linguists or teachers, who could use it for written variation research and contextualized language culture classes.

    Lolcats and Lolspeak: the importance of the Internet culture for English professionals · 2012

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