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Grammaticalization and 'lateral' grammaticalization, formalismand functionalism
Roberts and Roussou (2003) and van Gelderen (2011) analyse grammaticalization in Minimalism and argue that it involves ‘structural simplification’, which explains its cross-linguistic distribution. Simpson and Wu (2002) analyse ‘lateral’ grammaticalization, also within Minimalism.
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“There Are Places Full of Beauty”: Desettling High School Students' Scientific Writing
ABSTRACT This study contributes to desettling and expanding expectations about the forms of scientific language that belong in students' scientific writing. The primary empirical focus is the analysis of 52 high school student abstracts articulating community‐based investigations, submitted as part of their participation in a student conference in a ...
Alejandra Frausto Aceves
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Syllable Complexity and Morphological Synthesis: A Well-Motivated Positive Complexity Correlation Across Subdomains. [PDF]
Easterday S +3 more
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ABSTRACT This study investigates the outcomes of the implementation of a first grade unit incorporating multiple modes of representation and genre‐based pedagogy to support writing instruction in the genre of sequential explanations. At the end of a 6‐day unit investigating the structure and functions of carnivorous plants, 47 first graders completed a
Rachel E. Wilson, Leslie U. Bradbury
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ABSTRACT In the Chinese kimchi industry, manufacturers employ product names, photographs, and logistical strategies to promote their kimchi's “Koreanness.” So, what makes their kimchi “Korean,” and how does its Koreanness formulate kimchi's commodity value?
Heangjin Park
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The Grammaticalization of Numeral ‘One’ in Slavic: From Quantification to (Non-) Referentiality
The article presents a corpus-based investigation of the distribution and interpretation of ‘one’ + N combination in six Slavic languages (Russian, Ukrainian, Czech, Serbian, Macedonian, and Bulgarian).
Daria Seres
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Tense-aspect-mood marking, language-family size and the evolution of predication. [PDF]
Gil D.
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Shared Grammaticalization [PDF]
This book offers fresh perspectives on “shared grammaticalization”, a state whereby two or more languages have the source and the target of a grammaticalization process in common. While contact-induced grammaticalization has generated great interest in recent years, far less attention has been paid to other factors that may give rise to shared ...
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Grammaticalization in sign languages
AbstractThis article considers the factors and processes associated with grammaticalisation in sign languages. It provides commentaries on the methodological challenges diachronic sign language research is faced with and describes selected grammaticalisation phenomena that we take to be modality-independent.
Pfau, R., Steinbach, M.
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Contrastive Self‐Categorization as a Resource for Defending Cultural Stereotypes
This study explores how speakers defend morally sanctionable cultural stereotypes from challenges in adult second language classrooms. Within the conversation analysis and membership categorization analysis frameworks, I examine two extended video‐recorded class discussions in which students maintain face‐threatening, stereotypical portrayals of ...
Nadja Tadic
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