An Account of Opinion Implicatures [PDF]
While previous sentiment analysis research has concentrated on the interpretation of explicitly stated opinions and attitudes, this work initiates the computational study of a type of opinion implicature (i.e., opinion-oriented inference) in text.
Deng, Lingjia, Wiebe, Janyce
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Enlarged arguments in Bantu : evidence from Chichewa [PDF]
This paper re-examines two types of constructions that have featured in the discussion of possessor ascension in Bantu: one type – an applicative construction – is associated with alienable possession, and the other – non-applicative – is associated with
Simango, Silvester Ron
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Assessing Intervention Effects in Sentence Processing: Object Relatives vs. Subject Control. [PDF]
Delgado J, Raposo A, Santos AL.
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The Dative Alternation in English [PDF]
In English, there is a dative lexical alternation between a prepositional dative (PD) and a double object dative (DOD): I gnoe a book to lohn alternates with I gaae lohn a book. However, the dative alternation in English is more complex than this appears.
Wolfe-Quintero, Kate
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The emergence of social order in everyday interacting: re-conceptualizing a venerable sociological concept in light of conversation analysis. [PDF]
Arundale RB.
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Nominalization in Rawang [PDF]
This paper discusses the various forms, origins, and uses of nominalization in the Rawang (Rvwàng) language, a Tibeto-Burman language of northern Myanmar, with data taken mainly from naturally occurring ...
LaPolla, Randy J.
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Serial verb construction in Cantonese-speaking preschool children with and without language impairment [PDF]
Serial verb construction (SVC) is very productive in Cantonese and it develops actively in the preschool years. Little is known about the development of SVC of children with language impairment (LI).
Chan, Ka-yee, 陳嘉儀
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Time course of effective connectivity associated with perspective taking in utterance comprehension. [PDF]
Tokimoto S, Tokimoto N.
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Foreground and background text in retrieval [PDF]
Our hypothesis is that certain clauses have foreground functions in text, while other clauses have background functions and that these functions are expressed or reflected in the syntactic structure of the clause.
Järvinen, Timo, Karlgren, Jussi
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The acquisition of the English dative alternation by Russian foreign language learners [PDF]
Ditransitive verbs include a “recipient” and a “theme” argument (in addition to the subject). The choice of putting one argument before the other (i.e., either recipient-theme, or theme-recipient) is associated with multiple discourse-pragmatic factors ...
Baten, Kristof +2 more
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