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Fronting in Old Catalan: Asymmetries between Narration and Reported Speech1
Transactions of the Philological Society, Volume 123, Issue 1, Page 1-28, March 2025.Abstract This article explores the distribution, syntax, and information structure of XVS clauses in the narrative text and the reported speech of a thirteenth‐century Old Catalan chronicle, the Llibre dels Fets. It is shown that XVS occurs mainly within reported speech and in embedded clauses.
Afra Pujol i Campeny
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International Journal of Applied Linguistics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Translating local research into English as a lingua franca (ELF) connects local scholarship with global readership, but this process remains constrained by language barriers. Large language models (LLMs) offer advanced accessible solutions, but their responsible integration into academic translation requires a deeper understanding of the ...
Yueyue Huang, Yao Yao, Dechao Li
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International Journal of Applied Linguistics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This exploratory study investigated lexicogrammatical features associated with grade‐based differences in a corpus of 304 business papers taken from an upper‐level undergraduate course at a large North American university. Using five natural language processing tools, 719 candidate linguistic variables were analyzed for their relationship with
Randy Appel +2 more
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Giving a Voice to Survivors: A Critical Discourse Analysis of Women's Narratives of Sexual Violence
International Journal of Applied Linguistics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Sexual violence constitutes a pervasive global issue, disproportionately affecting women and girls and resulting in serious health consequences, making it essential to give a voice to survivors. This study employed the transitivity model to analyse the discourse of women survivors, focusing on how they recount and interpret their experiences ...
Marta Badenes Sastre +2 more
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L2 Chinese Grammatical Acquisition and Processing: A Substantive and Methodological Review
International Journal of Applied Linguistics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study presents a systematic review of 92 empirical studies on Chinese as a second language (CSL) in grammatical processing and development, synthesizing their substantive foci and methodological characteristics. The results reveal consistent scholarly attention to cross‐linguistic topics, with less focus on features that are distinctively
Shaohua Fang, Yi Xu, Jiani He, Jia Wang
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Situating Genre in Task‐Informed Second Language Writing Research
International Journal of Applied Linguistics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper, a review of task‐informed second language writing research examining the effect(s) of various genres—in particular argumentative genres—on the linguistic complexity of written L2 performance, traces the treatment of genre in such studies.
Mark D. Johnson
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International Journal of Applied Linguistics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study examines how epistemic commitment is temporally and syntactically staged across journal tiers in life‐science research writing. Drawing on a 2.3‐million‐word corpus of 320 publications in biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology, it compares higher‐tier journals with a SCImago Journal Rank (SJR) value of 2.000 or above ...
Ezra Alexander
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International Journal of Applied Linguistics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study compared human‐adapted and ChatGPT‐simplified texts across three prompting strategies (general, example‐based, and instructive) using 51 authentic English‐language newspaper articles. Lexical complexity (density, diversity, and sophistication) and syntactic complexity (five length‐ and subordination‐based indices) were analyzed ...
Eun Young Kang
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The Theological Poetics of Pauline κένωσις in Patristic Authors: A Dialogue with Michael C. Magree☆
International Journal of Systematic Theology, EarlyView.Abstract This review engages in dialogue with Magree's methodological assumptions (literary, rhetorical, philosophical and theological) and approach to the history of reception of this critically important Pauline passage (Philippians 2:7) and then provides a critical assessment of the textual evidence for his contention that Origen of Alexandria ...
Margaret M. Mitchell
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From Simplicity to the Filioque: A Proposal
International Journal of Systematic Theology, EarlyView.Abstract I will defend the position that trinitarian metaphysics relying on a strict theory of divine simplicity has a significant ecumenical advantage over other approaches to trinitarian theology. Specifically, it can help us resolve disputes around the filioque irenically.
James Dominic Rooney
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