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Competing motivations for the ordering of main and adverbial clauses [PDF]
, 2005 This article examines the ordering distribution of main and adverbial clauses. Using corpus data from spoken and written English, it is shown that the positioning of finite adverbial clauses vis-à-vis the main clause varies with their meaning or function:
Diessel, Holger
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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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A Basic Description and Analytic Treatment of Noun Clauses in Nigerian Pidgin
Nordic Journal of African Studies, 2006 This paper presents descriptions and analyses of noun clauses attested in my data of Nigerian Pidgin English as spoken in the southern Nigerian city of Port Harcourt.
Kelechukwu U. Ihemere
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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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Relative Clauses, Adverbial Clauses, and Information Flow in Discourse [PDF]
, 1994 This paper compares discourse functions of relative clauses and adverbial clauses to information flow, primarily in Korean and English written texts. It shows how their functions in discourse are responsive to syntactic orders and information flow, e.g.,
Hwang, Shin Ja Joo
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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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The Subjunctive Mood in Giryama and Tanzanian Nyanja
Studia Orientalia Electronica, 2020 This paper presents a study of the Subjunctive in the Bantu languages of Giryama in Kenya (E72a) and Nyanja in Tanzania (N201), and explores its distribution in the two languages.
Nancy Jumwa Ngowa, Deo S. Ngonyani
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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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Acerca de las oraciones pseudorrelativas y oraciones relativas de varios tipos
Neophilologica, 2012 This paper discusses Spanish pseudo-relative clauses, and other types of relative clauses that do not fit the classic distinction between defining and non-defining relatives. The analysis takes into account syntactic, semantic, and information structure
Jadwiga Linde-Usiekniewicz
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Word Predictability as a Measure of Second Language Proficiency
Language Learning, EarlyView.Abstract This study introduces predictabilityBERT, a novel metric for assessing second language (L2) proficiency based on the predictability of word choices in learner language production. Using BERT (Devlin et al., 2019), we calculated the conditional probability of each word in a text given its surrounding context.
Langdon Holmes +3 more
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