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Sweet as – The [ADJ + as] intensifier construction in Māori English/Aotearoa English

open access: yesWorld Englishes, EarlyView.
Abstract We introduce the Waikato Māori English Conversation (MEC) corpus, which consists of 43 dyadic conversations between 49 young adults who self‐recorded informal conversations with close friends, in their own homes, with no topic of conversation specified (83 hours of dialogue; nearly 800,000 words).
Andreea S. Calude, Hēmi Whaanga
wiley   +1 more source

A shift in writer identity: teacher reflections on how their sense of self as writers informs practice

open access: yesLiteracy, Volume 60, Issue 2, May 2026.
Abstract This paper explores the experiences and reflections of primary teachers who participated in a UK collaborative professional development that focussed on developing teacher‐writer identity through online writing workshops. The notion that teachers who identify as writers better understand their pupils as writers is central to the study; however,
Kerry Assemakis   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Congruencies in the language of the letters of the Radonjić family serdars and governors of Montenegro (1706- 1828)

open access: yesRasprave Instituta za Hrvatski Jezik i Jezikoslovlje, 2016
The letters of the Radonjić serdars and governors of Montenegro, written in the 18th century and the first three decades of the 19th century, greatly reflect the situation in the local dialectal base. This research compares the original versions of these
Miloš Krivokapić
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The Intertwined Development of Atayal Oral Language, Emergent Reading and Identity Among Indigenous Young Children in a Bilingual Book Project

open access: yesReading Research Quarterly, Volume 61, Issue 2, April/May/June 2026.
This study highlights a collaborative initiative with Atayal tribal leaders to co‐develop books at two levels of difficulty that feature recurring and supportive grammatical structures. Across the two levels, some books shared similar sentence structures; others did not. Findings demonstrate that the intervention successfully reinforced the intertwined
Ching‐Ting Hsin   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

The mark of the dispositional: Broad, Ramsey and Wittgenstein

open access: yesPhilosophical Investigations, Volume 49, Issue 2, Page 212-235, April 2026.
Abstract This paper reconstructs a trajectory of theoretical influence on the concept of disposition among C.D. Broad, F.P. Ramsey and L. Wittgenstein. The central thesis is that the form of dispositionalism Wittgenstein criticizes in his post‐Tractarian philosophy—particularly in relation to belief, meaning and understanding—corresponds closely to the
Alice Morelli
wiley   +1 more source

The influence of tense in adverbial quantification [PDF]

open access: yes, 2004
We argue that there is a crucial difference between determiner and adverbial quantification. Following Herburger [2000] and von Fintel [1994], we assume that determiner quantifiers quantify over individuals and adverbial quantifiers over eventualities ...
Endriss, Cornelia, Hinterwimmer, Stefan
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‘Just Love Us, We'll Do the Rest’. Competing Repertoires of Agrarian Anti‐Environmentalism

open access: yesSociologia Ruralis, Volume 66, Issue 2, April 2026.
ABSTRACT Agrarian mobilisations no longer target solely public authorities, legislation and its economic and professional consequences. They are now increasingly structured to respond to other social movements and produce a structured discourse aimed at public opinion.
Sylvain Brunier, Baptiste Kotras
wiley   +1 more source

Expletive Constructions and Agreement in Labeling Theory

open access: yesStudia Linguistica, Volume 80, Issue 1, April 2026.
ABSTRACT In this paper, I explain how agreement occurs in English expletive constructions, in accord with recent work in the Minimalist Program. I develop a proposal that relies on feature unification and probe‐goal agreement, as well as the notion that internal merge of arguments generally applies freely.
Jason Ginsburg
wiley   +1 more source

Lability in Hittite and Indo‐European: A Diachronic Perspective

open access: yesStudia Linguistica, Volume 80, Issue 1, April 2026.
ABSTRACT Lability is defined as the possibility of a verb to enter a valency alternation without undergoing any change in its form. Labile verbs were common in ancient Indo‐European languages, including Hittite, which mostly features anticausative lability, with reflexive and reciprocal lability being less prominent.
Guglielmo Inglese
wiley   +1 more source

Identifying neuropathologic disease in primary progressive aphasia using narrative speech

open access: yesAlzheimer's &Dementia, Volume 22, Issue 3, March 2026.
Abstract INTRODUCTION We present an application of artificial intelligence to narrative speech with the primary objective of predicting neuropathologic disease underlying primary progressive aphasia (PPA). METHODS Using natural language processing toolkits, features were extracted from transcribed narratives of the Cinderella story.
Daniel B. Gutstein   +12 more
wiley   +1 more source

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