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Papers from the Austronesian Formal Linguistics Association 25

Journal of the Southeast Asian Linguistics Society, 2020
This is a collection of 7 articles from the AFLA 25 conference held in 2018. The papers cover a full range synchronic descriptions of Austronesian languages.
Henry Y. Chang, Hui-Chuan J. Huang
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Goal-Source Asymmetry and Russian Spatial Prefixes

Nordlyd: Tromsø University Working Papers on Language & Linguistics, 2007
In this paper, I draw on data from Russian to argue for the asymmetry between Goal and Source prepositional phrases. Source prepositional phrases are structurally ambiguous; they can occur both as arguments and adjuncts in certain syntactic contexts ...
Evgenia Markovskaya
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Nigerian English: History, functions and features

World Englishes, Volume 45, Issue 1, Page 7-18, March 2026.
Abstract This article offers a comprehensive overview of Nigerian English, a rapidly expanding variety of world Englishes, recognised as one of the fastest‐growing varieties of English globally in numerical terms. This article has four aims. First, it discusses the historical developments of English in Nigeria with reference to the events that led to ...
Kingsley O. Ugwuanyi, Sopuruchi Christian Aboh   +1 more
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Simultaanse kakskeelsusega 3- ja 4-aastaste laste grammatilised oskused eesti keeles

Eesti Rakenduslingvistika Ühingu Aastaraamat, 2019
Artikkel otsib vastust küsimusele, kas ja mille poolest sarnaneb simultaanselt eesti ja vene keelt omandavate 3- ja 4-aastaste laste (N = 82) lauseloome ja sõnavormide kasutusoskus eesti keeles sama vanade eesti ükskeelsete eakohase arenguga (N = 499) ja
Merit Hallap, Marika Padrik
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On the Interplay between Strategic Competence and Language Competence in Lecturing through English

Educazione Linguistica Language Education, 2020
The present contribution is part of a wider research project whose overall goal is to define the construct of language-teaching methodology interface in lecturing through English. This paper aims at exploring the interplay between the use of pragmatic
Bier, Ada
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Indexing Power Through Self‐Reference: Electoral Margins and the Use of Běnxí Among Taiwanese Parliamentarians

Journal of Sociolinguistics, Volume 30, Issue 1, Page 56-69, February 2026.
ABSTRACT This study examines how Taiwanese members of parliament (MPs) deploy self‐referring expressions—specifically, the formal first‐person singular běnxí—to negotiate their institutional standing and project political power. By operationalizing access to objective power using the margin of victory (MoV) as one possible proxy, the research shows ...
Tsung‐Lun Alan Wan
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Mapping the Field of Effective Teaching and Interventions for Children With Reading Difficulties: A Systematic Tertiary Review, Qualitative Meta‐Synthesis, and National Survey

Reading Research Quarterly, Volume 61, Issue 1, January/February/March 2026.
Some jurisdictions have many fewer children who struggle with reading than other jurisdictions, as these graphs from our research paper illustrate. Robust research evidence shows that for children with reading difficulties multiple component teaching is more effective than synthetic phonics foremost.
Dominic Wyse, Rosanne Esposito, Emma Sumner, Emily Ranken   +3 more
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Children's Experiences of Communication in Everyday Life Following Posterior Fossa Tumour Surgery—A Sense of Belonging While Navigating Reality

International Journal of Language &Communication Disorders, Volume 61, Issue 1, January/February 2026.
ABSTRACT Background Posterior fossa tumours (PFT) are the most common childhood brain tumours, and children treated for these tumours are at increased risk of persistent speech, language and/or communication difficulties. Such difficulties have often been described in association with the postoperative complication cerebellar mutism syndrome (CMS), but
K. Persson, I. Tiberg, D. Boeg Thomsen, Å Fyrberg, C. Castor   +4 more
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Morphosyntax aspects of ditransitive constructions with the verb DAR ‘to give’ in Portuguese Sign Language [PDF]

Linguística, 2016
In this study we analyze some morphosyntactic aspects of the verb DAR ‘to give’ in LGP (Portuguese Sign Language) in simple declarative sentences, in particular, two properties: (i) the position of the arguments regarding the verb and (ii) the agreement ...
Celda Choupina, Ana Maria Brito, Fernanda Bettencourt   +2 more
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The Acquisition of Mayan Morphosyntax

Kansas Working Papers in Linguistics, 2002
This paper assesses predictions for the acquisition of Mayan verbal inflections derived from structural, comparative and metrical theories. The structuralist theory of Wexler (1998) fails to predict K'iche' (Kiche) children's use of the language's ...
Pye, Clifton
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