What makes a multimodal construction? Evidence for a prosodic mode in spoken English
Frontiers in CommunicationTraditionally, grammar deals with morphosyntax, and so does Construction Grammar. Prosody, in contrast, is deemed paralinguistic. Testifying to the “multimodal turn,” the past decade has witnessed a rise in interest in multimodal Construction Grammar, i ...
Claudia Lehmann
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Harmony, Head Proximity, and the Near Parallels between Nominal and Clausal Linkers [PDF]
, 2010 This paper puts forward a notion of harmonic word order that leads to a new generalisation over the presence or absence of disharmony: specific functional heads must cross-linguistically obey this notion of harmony absolutely, while for other categories ...
Philip, J
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Spatial demonstratives, perceptual space, and linguistic diversity [PDF]
, 2011 versus extrapersonal space; object location ...
Coventry, Kenny +2 more
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In Search of the Regional Diversification of Latin: Changes of the Declension System According to the Inscriptions. [PDF]
, 2013 In order to discover chronological and/or geographical differences in the Latin of the Roman Empire, this paper analyses the distributional structures of the nominal morphosyntactic ‘errors’ which have been to date recorded from Latin inscriptions and ...
Adamik, Béla
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Linguistics and interdisciplinary initiatives at Colorado: Obstacles and opportunities [PDF]
, 1998 published or submitted for publicationis peer ...
Menn, Lise
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Say Oui to We : A Longitudinal Analysis of Pronouns and Articles in French and English [PDF]
, 2019 Modern English only uses gender in personal, reflexive, and possessive third person singular pronouns. Modern English also does not use gendered articles, which extends to not assigning an arbitrary gender to inanimate objects.
Wilkes, Colleen
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Zu den regionalen Besonderheiten der portugiesischen Sprache in Angola und Moçambique im Vergleich zum europäischen Protugiesisch und ihre Bedeutung für den Sprachmittler [PDF]
, 1989 Endruschat, Annette, Leiste, Doris
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, 2005 Research on child language acquisition would benefit from the availability of a large body of syntactically parsed utterances between parents and children. We consider the problem of generating such a ``treebank'' from the CHILDES corpus, which currently
Laakso, Aarre
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A note on non-canonical passives : the case of the get-passive [PDF]
, 2008 In many languages, a passive-like meaning may be obtained through a noncanonical passive construction. The get passive (1b) in English, the se faire passive (2b) in French and the kriegen passive (3b) in German represent typical manifestations.
Alexiadou, Artemis
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Analysis of Presurgical Language in Children with Posterior Fossa Tumours Relative to Postoperative Speech Outcomes: Findings from the European CMS Study. [PDF]
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