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A close look at the metonymical constituent and the referent in (5), (9), and (10) shows that they share a common feature.

Metonymy and meaning construction in Persian nominal compounds: A close-up on one-part metonymical combinations

Thus, through a qualitative research technique, researchers should investigate the in-depth factors that explain why individuals choose a specific referent to evaluate their own PLS.

EFFECTS OF REFERENTS' GENDER AND HIERARCHICAL LEVEL ON EMPLOYEES' SATISFACTION WITH PAY

In Buzan and de Wilde's work, the referent object is defined as consisting of "things that are seen to be existentially threatened and that have a legitimate claim to survival." Taking into account Agency and the ideal type relationship between the securitizing actor and the target audience, the "things" referred to in Buzan and de Wilde's definition would ideally be part of or close to both the entities' system of values and beliefs, being something important for both of them.

Securitizing "The Other": A case study on Israeli and Palestinian institutional discourses

Here, [NP.sub.x][I.sub.y] stands for a token y of the instantiations of the natural property ([NP.sub.x]), which is assumed to causally regulate our uses of "good" in the right way and which thus is its alleged referent. This property meets the causal regulation requirement by causing the core uses of "good" in every normal context of use.

Non-naturalism and reference

Milk intake was ascertained as answering "yes" ("no": referent) to the question, "have you been a regular (five times per week) milk drinker for most or all of your life, including childhood?" Blood lead concentration (micrograms per deciliter), and BMI were used as continuous variables [exception: see Supplemental Material, Table S1, presented as quartiles (lead), or by weight category (BMI)].

Association of perfluoroalkyl substances, bone mineral density, and osteoporosis in the U.S. population in NHANES 2009-2010

The delimitation of the diverse referent contents should ensure that they are all clearly different; each with characteristics which differentiate them from the others.

Guidelines based on validity criteria for the development of multiple choice items/Directrices para el desarrollo de items de eleccion multiple basadas en validez

This is the direct consequence of the fact that proximal demonstratives presuppose that the referent is known to the speaker (this has to do with the experience that the things and persons that are close to the speaker are in fact the ones that are known to him/her).

On the article-like use of the indefinite determiners jedan and neki in Croatian and other Slavic languages/0 upotrebi i funkciji neodredenih determinatora jedan i neki kao clanova u hrvatskom i drugim slavenskim jezicima (Izvorni znanstveni radovi)

Total athletic identity, self-referent athletic identity and social referent athletic identity were all significantly associated with associated with amount of exercise, life satisfaction, and positive and negative affect.

Athletic identity mediates between exercise motivation and beneficial outcomes

Once we settle a content (relative to a referent assignment), there is no way of shifting the expression's value unless we shift its referent.

Analyticity and context-sensitivity. On Gillian Russell's account of truth in virtue of meaning

Indefinite reference, on the other hand, does not include the addressee's familiarity with file referent of the NP.

Re-examining the relationship between the subject agreement morpheme and (in)definiteness in Northern Sotho/Herondersoek van die verwantskap tussen die onderwerpkongruensie-morfeem en (on) bepaaldheid in Noord-Sotho

He argued that simulacra are images that do not accurately correspond to a referent. Rather, they either mask the absence of a reality, or they simply do not correspond to anything at all but are taken as truth (Baudrillard, 1994).

The untruth of truth: A suggestion for teaching in the information age

To summarize, the LAW, a number of referent ideals, turns out to be the basis for our lower order laws that we experience in every day life: all the way from the parking ticket to the judgments of the Supreme Court.