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Referential and visual cues to structural choice in visually situated sentence production [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
We investigated how conceptually informative (referent preview) and conceptually uninformative (pointer to referent’s location) visual cues affect structural choice during production of English transitive sentences.
Garrod, Simon   +3 more
core   +3 more sources

Persian Deixis in the Flow of Conversation

open access: yesStudia Linguistica, Volume 79, Issue 3, Page 469-488, December 2025.
ABSTRACT This study investigates the two demonstratives in Persian conversation, namely the proximal een, “this,” and distal oun, “that,” and their plural forms, that constitute the bulk of Persian pronominal and adnominal demonstratives functioning as anaphoric, deictic, discourse‐deictic and recognitional. The data from which these demonstratives are
Hossein Shokouhi
wiley   +1 more source

Constraints in contact: Animacy in English and Afrikaans genitive variation – a cross-linguistic perspective

open access: yesGlossa, 2017
This paper builds on the observation that the animacy effects we find in English genitive variation are part of a larger cross-linguistic pattern as reflected in possession splits based on animacy (Koptjevskaja-Tamm 2001, 2002; Stolz et al.
Anette Rosenbach
doaj   +2 more sources

Wind’s Animacies

open access: yesMedia+Environment
This is an article about wind, dust, and their relations to life. It is a meditation on the liveliness of wind and airborne particles as they are experienced on the ground; in cultural texts including film, poetry, and oral history; and in the medium of satellite imagery.
openaire   +2 more sources

From hierarchies to features : person splits and direct-inverse alternations [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
In the recent literature there is growing interest in the morpho-syntactic encoding of hierarchical effects. The paper investigates one domain where such effects are attested: ergative splits conditioned by person. This type of splits is then compared to
Alexiadou, Artemis   +1 more
core  

Metaphorical patterns in Anthropocene fiction [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
This article explores metaphorical language in the strand of contemporary fiction that Trexler discusses under the heading of ‘Anthropocene fiction’ – namely, novels that probe the convergence of human experience and geological or climatological ...
Caracciolo, Marco   +2 more
core   +1 more source

The language of an inanimate narrator

open access: yesOpen Linguistics, 2018
We show by means of a corpus study that the language used by the inanimate first person narrator in the novel Specht en zoon deviates from what we would expect on the basis of the fact that the narrator is inanimate, but at the same time also differs ...
Trompenaars Thijs   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

An introduction to time-resolved decoding analysis for M/EEG

open access: yes, 2019
The human brain is constantly processing and integrating information in order to make decisions and interact with the world, for tasks from recognizing a familiar face to playing a game of tennis.
Carlson, Thomas A.   +2 more
core  

From \u3ci\u3eHeo\u3c/i\u3e to \u3ci\u3eZir\u3c/i\u3e: A History of Gender Expression in the English Language [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
With the growing presence of the LGBTQ+ community on the global stage, the matter of gender has been rushed to the forefront of the public consciousness.
Robinson, Brodie
core   +1 more source

Animacy Detection in Stories

open access: yes, 2015
Contains fulltext : 142488.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Open Access)
Karsdorp, Folgert   +3 more
openaire   +4 more sources

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