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Cross-Linguistic Variation in the Meaning of Quantifiers: Implications for Pragmatic Enrichment [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2019 One of the most studied scales in the literature on scalar implicatures is the quantifier scale. While the truth of some is entailed by the truth of all, some is felicitous only when all is false.
Penka Stateva +5 more
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Correction by Focus: Cleft Constructions and the Cross-Linguistic Variation in Phonological Form [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2021 A challenging issue of cross-linguistic variation is that the same syntactic construction may appear in different arrays of contexts depending on language.
Markus Greif +2 more
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The Degree Semantics Parameter and cross-linguistic variation [PDF]
Semantics and Pragmatics, 2015 The standard degree analysis of gradability in English holds that the function of degree morphology, such as the comparative, measure phrases, and degree adverbs, is to bind a degree variable located in the lexical semantics of gradable predicates.
M. Ryan Bochnak
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Cross-linguistic analysis of discourse variation across registers
NJES: Nordic Journal of English studies, 2015 The present study deals with variation in discourse relations in different registers of English and German. Our previous analyses have been concerned with the systemic contrasts between English and German, cf.
Kerstin Kunz +1 more
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Interactions Among Morphology, Word Order, and Syntactic Directionality: Evidence from 55 Languages [PDF]
EntropyThis study investigates interactions among morphology, word order, and syntactic directionality across 55 languages from 11 families. We quantify morphological richness (moving-average mean size of paradigm), word order flexibility (entropy), and ...
Wenchao Li, Haitao Liu
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Cross-linguistic variation in the expression of ignorance
IsoglossThis article examines the properties of epistemic indefinites (EIs) when pluralized, focusing on the following puzzle: while ignorance is expressed by both singular and plural EIs in a number of languages, e.g.
Eric Mathieu, Simone Diana Zamarlik
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Languages, 2022 This paper surveys the strategies that the Contrastive, Typological, and Translation Mining parallel corpus traditions rely on to deal with the issue of target language representativeness of translations.
Bert Le Bruyn +6 more
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Cross-linguistic variation in imperfectivity [PDF]
Natural Language & Linguistic Theory, 2014 The paper examines variation in the interpretations of imperfectives in Slavic, Romance, and Je (Mẽbengokre). It develops a core modal analysis for an imperfective operator (IMPF) within situation semantics, coupled with language-specific constraints formally encoded in modal bases.
Arregui, Ana +2 more
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Introduction: Tense and Aspect across Languages
Languages, 2023 Variation across languages has always fascinated linguists, but in the past, cross-linguistic variation has mostly been investigated in form-related subdisciplines (phonetics/phonology, morphology, syntax) [...]
Bert Le Bruyn, Henriëtte de Swart
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Introduction special issue: marking the truth: a cross-linguistic approach to verum
Zeitschrift für Sprachwissenschaft, 2023 This special issue focuses on the theoretical and empirical underpinnings of truth-marking. The names that have been used to refer to this phenomenon include, among others, counter-assertive focus, polar(ity) focus, verum focus, emphatic polarity or ...
Jordanoska Izabela +2 more
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