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Deverbal nominalizations in Ktunaxa
Zeitschrift für Wortbildung, 2020 This paper presents an overview on deverbal nominalizations from Ktunaxa, a language isolate spoken in eastern British Columbia, Canada. Deverbal nominalizations are formed uniformly with a left-peripheral nominalizing particle k (Morgan 1991).
Terrance Gatchalian
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TESOL Quarterly, EarlyView.Abstract Writing is crucial in tertiary education, yet enhancing the complexity of academic writing presents significant challenges for second language (L2) learners. This study explores the potential of dialogue journal writing (DJW), an interactive and low‐stress classroom activity, to enhance writing complexity among novice L2 writers.
Barry Lee Reynolds +2 more
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Mechanisms of harmony and the ordering of word order: consistencies and inconsistencies in language change and acquisition [PDF]
The thesis is based on the learning of word-orders in a cross-lingUistic and historic perspective. In linguistics, a certain hannony is expected in word order. X-bars of a language are supposed to be right-branched or left-branched..
Gonitzke, Markus
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Variation in the educated spoken Arabic of Jordan with special reference to aspect in the verb phase [PDF]
, 1978 In a theoretical framework where variation is accorded a central role in language analysis, the educated spoken Arabic of Jordan (ESAJ) is recognized as a viable variety in the Arabic continuum, intersecting with modern standard Arabic (MSA) and the ...
El-Hassan, Shahir Ata
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The ‘Galilean Style in Science’ and the Inconsistency of Linguistic Theorising
, 2011 Chomsky’s principle of epistemological tolerance says that in theoretical linguistics contradictions between the data and the hypotheses may be temporarily tolerated in order to protect the explanatory power of the theory.
Kertész, András, András Kertész
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Syntactic architecture and its consequences I: Syntax inside the grammar
, 2020 This volume collects novel contributions to comparative generative linguistics that “rethink” existing approaches to an extensive range of phenomena, domains, and architectural questions in linguistic theory.
Massam, Diane +35 more
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Preboundary lengthening and articulatory strengthening in Korean as an edge-prominence language
Laboratory PhonologyThis study examined preboundary lengthening and other kinematic characteristics of articulatory gestures in CV.CV and CV.CVC before prosodic boundaries in Korean. Preboundary lengthening was found to be extended to initial syllables in both CV.CVand
Jonny Jungyun Kim +2 more
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TESOL Quarterly, EarlyView.Abstract This study investigates internal linguistic variation in the instructional discourse of international teaching assistants (ITAs) by segmenting their mini‐lecture performances into four discourse types: introduction, lecture, conclusion, and audience interaction.
Heesun Chang, Hector Rivera
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Determination: a universal dimension for inter-language comparison : (preliminary version)
, 1976 The basic idea I want to develop and to substantiate in this paper consists in replacing – where necessary – the traditional concept of linguistic category or linguistic relation understood as 'things', as reified hypostases, by the more dynamic concept ...
Seiler, Hansjakob
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JęzykoznawstwoAcculturation is the process of adapting to a new culture, in which members of a minority group—such as immigrants—combine elements of their native values and behavioural norms with those of the dominant culture in the L2 speaking country.
Aleksandra Matysiak, Julita Woźniak
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