The syntax of orientation shifting: Evidence from English high adverbs [PDF]
, 2014 This paper reviews new data supporting the inclusion of a Speech Act Phrase in the left periphery. Illocutionary and evidential adverbs in English shift orientation from speakers in declarative sentences to addressees in yes-no interrogative sentences ...
Woods, Rebecca
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Speech acts and the communicative functions of emojis in LIHKG online discussion forum amid COVID-19. [PDF]
Front Psychol, 2023 Yu C, Tay D, Jin Y, Yuan X.
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Ontological Dependence, Spatial Location, and Part Structure [PDF]
, 2019 This paper discusses attributively limited concrete objects such as disturbances (holes, folds, scratches etc), tropes, and attitudinal objects, which lack the sort of spatial location or part structures expected of them as concrete objects.
Moltmann, Friederike
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A Commitment-Theoretic Account of Moore's Paradox [PDF]
Moore’s paradox, the infamous felt bizarreness of sincerely uttering something of the form “I believe grass is green, but it ain’t”—has attracted a lot of attention since its original discovery (Moore 1942). It is often taken to be a paradox of belief—in
Woods, Jack
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Sentence mood constitution and indefinite noun phrases [PDF]
, 2013 Sentence mood in German is a complex category that is determined by various components of the grammatical system. In particular, verbal mood, the position of the finite verb and the wh-characteristics of the so called 'Vorfeld'-phrase are responsible for
Lohnstein, Horst
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COMMISSIVE ILLOCUTIONARY ACT ACROSS LANGUAGES: JAVANESE AND MANDARESE [PDF]
, 2016 Commissive is one of illocutionary acts which mean the speaker commits a certain action in the future. This study examines the realization of commissive of promising across languages in Indonesia (Javanese and Mandarese). The method used in this study
Sari, Intan Mustika +3 more
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Testing the interface hypothesis: the acquisition of English indirect questions by L1 speakers of Omani Arabic. [PDF]
Heliyon, 2022 Ahmed A, Lenchuk I.
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SYNTAX STRUCTURE OF ADJECTIVE PHRASE COMPARISON INJAVANESE LANGUAGE [PDF]
, 2016 The measurement of adjective comparison level in the Javanese language is becoming benchmark or yardstick of why language users choose adjective vocabulary with a special selection. Syntactically Javanese language speakers feel more solid in saying by
Saifuddin , Saifuddin +1 more
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(NON)-DETERMINING THE ORIGINAL SPEAKER: REPORTATIVE PARTICLES VERSUS VERBS [PDF]
, 2013 This work argues that the Basque reportative particle omen contributes to the propositional contents of the utterance, and it is not an illocutionary force indicator, contrary to what seems to be suggested by the standard view on omen. The results of the
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The interpretation of [+distal] in demonstratives and complementizers. [PDF]
Linguistics, 2023 Staps C, Rooryck J.
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