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A Bird's Eye View of English Grammar: Connecting the Dots in Two Dimensions

TESOL Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract Over the past few decades, discussions on grammar instruction have primarily focused on teaching methodologies, such as whether grammar should be taught explicitly or implicitly, and whether the focus should be on form or forms. This paper, however, shifts the focus to grammar itself, aiming to provide a “shape” for pedagogical grammar.
Akira Tajino, Yoshitaka Kato
wiley   +1 more source

Gender Differences in the Communication Styles of Vice-Chancellors: A Case Study of Professor (Mrs.) Rita Akosua Dickson and Professor Kwasi Obiri-Danso [PDF]

E-Journal of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences
This study explored gender differences in the communication styles of Vice-Chancellors in their investiture speeches. Adopting the Deficit Theory model, we compared the speeches of Professor (Mrs.) Rita Akosua Dickson (RAD), the current Vice-Chancellor ...
Esther Serwaah Afreh, Obed Atta-Asamoah
doaj   +1 more source

Linguistic Variation across Instructional Segments in International Teaching Assistants' Discourse: A Corpus‐Based Analysis

TESOL Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract This study investigates internal linguistic variation in the instructional discourse of international teaching assistants (ITAs) by segmenting their mini‐lecture performances into four discourse types: introduction, lecture, conclusion, and audience interaction.
Heesun Chang, Hector Rivera
wiley   +1 more source

The Information Structure of Adverbial Clauses in Chinese Discourse [PDF]

Taiwan Journal of Linguistics, 2006
This study investigated adverbial clauses in spoken as well as written Chinese discourse. The adverbial clauses in the spoken data were categorized into (i) initial clauses that occur in the initial position with respect to their linked material across ...
Yu-Fang Wang
doaj  

Topic extraction from adverbial clauses

Borealis: An International Journal of Hispanic Linguistics, 2016
This paper offers new data to support findings about Topic extraction from adverbial clauses. Since such clauses are strong islands, they should not allow extraction of any kind, but we show here that if the appropriate conditions are met, Topics of the ...
Carlos Rubio Alcalá
doaj   +1 more source

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
wiley   +1 more source

Expectations in Incremental Discourse Processing [PDF]

, 1997
The way in which discourse features express connections back to the previous discourse has been described in the literature in terms of adjoining at the right frontier of discourse structure.
Cristea, Dan, Webber, Bonnie Lynn
core   +5 more sources

Vulgar Minimisers in English and Spanish1

Transactions of the Philological Society, EarlyView.
Abstract In this paper, we investigated whether vulgar minimisers form a natural class in English and Spanish by evaluating (i) their similarities and differences with respect to non‐vulgar minimisers and (ii) whether vulgar minimisers are inherently negative in these languages.
Ángel L. Jiménez‐Fernández, Susagna Tubau   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

Exploring Subordinate Clauses In The Story Of An Hour

IJOTL-TL (Indonesian Journal of Language Teaching and Linguistics)
This is a brief analysis of subordinate clauses found in Kate Chopin’s The Story of an Hour. Three types of clauses were identified according to their function within the complex sentences to which they belong.
Wa’özisökhi Nazara
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From Nominalisation to Passive in Old Tibetan: Reconstructing Grammatical Meaning in an Extinct Language1

Transactions of the Philological Society, EarlyView.
Abstract Based on an analysis of the Old Literary Tibetan corpus—a corpus of the oldest documented Tibetic language—the present study provides evidence that literary Tibetan v3 verb stems (commonly termed ‘future’) initially encoded passive voice. New arguments put forward in this article range from Trans‐Himalayan nominal morphology to early Tibetan ...
Joanna Bialek
wiley   +1 more source