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The double modal construction in English world wide
World Englishes, EarlyView.Abstract The dual foci of the present study of double modals are their semantic characteristics and their distribution across regional varieties of English world wide. Tokens were extracted from GloWbE:Blogs, a database whose great size and informal tenor facilitated the investigation of this low‐frequency non‐standard feature. Double modals were found
Peter Collins, Adam Smith
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The Saussurean sign revisited. Accounting for form-meaning mismatches in Construction Grammar
, 2016 Since the early days of grammatical description, the relation between form and meaning in linguistic units and the nature of the linguistic primes have been hotly debated issues. F. de Saussure (1916/1995) defined the linguistic sign (i.e. an association
Van Goethem, Kristel +3 more
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The [ADJ + as] intensifier construction in Māori English/Aotearoa English
World Englishes, EarlyView.Abstract We introduce the Waikato Māori English Conversation (MEC) corpus, which consists of 43 dyadic conversations between 49 young adults who self‐recorded informal conversations with close friends, in their own homes, with no topic of conversation specified (83 hours of dialogue; nearly 800,000 words).
Andreea S. Calude, Hēmi Whaanga
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, 2011 In line with recent work extending the constructional approach to dialogic constructions (e.g. Fried, 2009; Linell, 2009), we argue that constructional analysis can be profitably extended to larger-than-the-sentence chunks representing conventionalized ...
Antonopoulou, E., Nikiforidou, K.
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English address terms in Australian, British and North American English on Twitter/X
World Englishes, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study analyses address terms on Twitter/X across three English‐speaking regions: Australia, the United Kingdom and the United States. Using a random sample, we examine the frequency and regional distribution of address forms, including @‐mentions, vocatives, titles, kinship terms and greetings.
Martin Schweinberger, Amir Sheikhan
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From constructional expansion to constructional explosion: the case of transparent free relatives
, 2013 From constructional expansion to constructional explosion: the case of transparent free relatives In their outline of the English NP, Payne & Huddleston (2002:436-439) distinguish a slot for what they call peripheral modifiers. This slot hosts adverbial
Van de Velde, Freek
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Grammatical structures in mathematics: a personal view
Teaching Statistics, Volume 48, Issue S1, Page S47-S52, Summer 2026.Abstract The ability to read, write, and speak mathematics is critical to students becoming comfortable with statistical models and skills. Faster development of those skills may act as encouragement to further engage with the discipline. Vocabulary has been the focus of scholarship in existing literature on the linguistics of mathematics and ...
Tess O'Brien
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Formal grammars pursue the goal of describing the syntax and semantics of natural languages by using a grammatical formalism that can be interpreted computationally. The Lexical Constructional Model (LCM) (Ruiz de Mendoza Ibáñez & Mairal-Usón, 2008, 2011;
Rodríguez-Juárez, Carolina
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Speech and Language Markers of Bipolar Disorder: Challenges and Opportunities
Bipolar Disorders, Volume 28, Issue 5, August 2026.ABSTRACT Background Clinicians aspire to predict the emergence of Bipolar Disorder (BD) in a timely manner. To accomplish this, markers reflecting mental states that can be gathered non‐invasively and at large scale are needed. Here, we systematically evaluate evidence relating speech‐based markers to mood states in BD.
Farida Zaher +4 more
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Studia Linguistica, Volume 80, Issue 2, August 2026.ABSTRACT Word‐final position is widely recognized as a structurally weak and restricted domain, yet languages differ strikingly in how they regulate segments and clusters at the right edge. While some systems categorically prohibit final consonants, others allow only a subset of segments, and still others impose process‐based adjustments such as final ...
Semra Baturay Meral
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