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The hapax / type ratio

International Journal of Corpus Linguistics, 2022
This article addresses one of the lesser-known productivity measures, namely the hapax / type ratio (HTR). Through a case study involving the Dutch semi-copula raken (“attain”), it is shown that the HTR more or less stabilizes from a certain sample size
Niek Van Wettere
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Copula Absence in Samana English: Implications for Research on the Linguistic History of African-American Vernacular English

American Speech, 1997
L'A. examine les deux hypotheses concurrentes avancees pour expliquer le developpement historique de l'anglais vernaculaire afro-americain (AAVE), l'hypothese dialectologiste et l'hypothese creoliste, et presente de nouvelles donnees provenant de l'anglais parle a Samana, en Republique Dominicaine, afin d'evaluer ces deux hypotheses.
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Exploring the conceptualisation of locative events in French, English, and Dutch: Insights from eye-tracking on two memorisation tasks

Yearbook of the German Cognitive Linguistics Association, 2022
The present study addresses the influence of language on the conceptualisation of locative events (e.g., the bottle on the table) in French, English, and Dutch which differ greatly in their habitual encoding of locative events.
Mégane Lesuisse
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14. Linguistic and social predictors of copula use in Galician Spanish

2007
Although the two copular verbs,serandestar‘to be’, have been the subject of extensive debate in theoretical linguistics (Fernández Leborans 1999), less in known about how the use of these two verbs varies from one Spanish-speaking region to another. The sociolinguistic research conducted to date (de Jonge 1993; Díaz-Campos & Geeslin 2004; Gutiérrez
Kimberly L. Geeslin, Pedro Guijarro-Fuentes   +1 more
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A Historical Linguistic Study Of The Copula In The Japanese Language.

1974
PhD ; Linguistics ; University of Michigan, Horace H. Rackham School of Graduate Studies ; http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/191123/2/7510234 ...
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Defining the envelope of linguistic variation: The case of “don't count” forms in the copula analysis of African American Vernacular English

Language Variation and Change, 1997
ABSTRACTEver since Labov, Cohen, Robbins, and Lewis's (1968) pioneering study, it has been commonplace to set aside certain tokens in analyzing variability in the English copula as “don't count” (DC) forms. These cases are most often occurrences of the copula that exhibit categorical behavior (as with the full copula in clause-final position), as well ...
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Performance estimation of honeynet system for network security enhancement via copula linguistic

2023
Honeypots are computer systems that deceive cyber attackers into believing they are ordinary computer systems designed for invasion, when in fact they are primarily designed to collect data about attack methods, resulting in better protection and defense against malicious actors. As a result, developing reliability metrics for measuring the performance,
Salihu Isa, Muhammad, Wu, Jinbiao, Yusuf, İbrahim, Sanusi, Abdullah   +3 more
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Sociolinguistic Analysis with Missing Metadata? Leveraging Linguistic and Semiotic Resources Through Deep Learning to Investigate English Variation and Change on Twitter

Applied Linguistics
This paper highlights a language and sign-based computational solution to the problem of missing social metadata on Twitter (now, ‘X’): demographic prediction using Deep Learning.
W. D. Gonzales
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There is more about existentials: Agreement and case assignment in Serbian and Lithuanian

Journal of Slavic Linguistics
: This paper examines the properties of existential constructions in Serbian and Lithuanian. Existential constructions share some interpretive properties with locative constructions, in that both express a proposition about the existence or the presence ...
Alberto Frasson, Elena Vaikšnoraitė
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Securing affiliation and managing disagreement: Epistemic primacy claims in group-based L2 oral assessments

Applied Linguistics
This study explores the use by examinees of claims of epistemic primacy, in the form of noun-copula clause constructions, as devices through which to perform the social action of disagreeing during group-based, task-oriented second language oral ...
Michael Stephenson, Spencer Hazel
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