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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, Penka Stateva, Arthur Stepanov, Viviane Déprez, Ludivine Emma Dupuy, Anne Colette Reboul   +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, Stavros Skopeteas, Stavros Skopeteas   +2 more
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Cross-linguistic variation in the expression of ignorance

Isogloss
This 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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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 Variation in Spoken Discourse Markers

, 2022
This chapter aims to analyze the variation in use and functions of a broad bottom–up selection of discourse markers across four languages from different typological families, namely French and Spanish (Romance), English (Germanic), and Polish (Slavic).
Degand, Liesbeth, Broisson, Zoé, Crible, Ludivine, Grzech, Karolina   +3 more
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Cross-linguistic variation in the neurophysiological response to semantic processing: evidence from anomalies at the borderline of awareness. [PDF]

Neuropsychologia, 2014
Tune S, Schlesewsky M, Small SL, Sanford AJ, Bohan J, Sassenhagen J, Bornkessel-Schlesewsky I.   +6 more
europepmc   +2 more sources

Parallel Corpus Research and Target Language Representativeness: The Contrastive, Typological, and Translation Mining Traditions

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, Martín Fuchs, Martijn van der Klis, Jianan Liu, Chou Mo, Jos Tellings, Henriëtte de Swart   +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, Rivero, María Luisa, Salanova, Andrés   +2 more
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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, Kocher Anna, Bendezú-Araujo Raúl   +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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