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English supplementive ing-clauses and their German and Swedish correspondences
, 2018 This paper investigates English supplementive ing-clauses (e.g., Hitler exploded, demanding examples.) in German and Swedish contrast. The material consists of popular non-fiction originals and their translations from the Linnaeus University English ...
Ström Herold, Jenny +6 more
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Nigerian English research: Developments and directions
World Englishes, Volume 45, Issue 1, Page 182-198, March 2026.Abstract This article describes the progress made by scholars over a period of more than five decades in the field of Nigerian English studies. It will thus serve as a useful tool for those researching in this field; and apparently there has been no such attempt to date to review the research landscape of Nigerian English in order to show its key ...
David Jowitt, Kingsley O. Ugwuanyi
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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 +1 more
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Multiword Discourse Markers Across Languages: A Linguistic and Computational Perspective
International Journal of Applied Linguistics, Volume 35, Issue 4, Page 2078-2090, November 2025.ABSTRACT Discourse markers (DMs) are linguistic expressions that convey different semantic and pragmatic values, managing and organizing the structure of spoken and written discourses. They can be either single‐word or multiword expressions (MWE), made up of conjunctions, adverbs, and prepositional phrases.
Elena‐Simona Apostol +9 more
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Journal of Software: Evolution and Process, Volume 37, Issue 8, August 2025.This study detects ambiguities in functional requirements. Preprocessing extracts tokens and applies NLP tasks. SpanBERT handles anaphoric ambiguity, while NER (Named Entity Ruler) and pattern matching identify coordination ambiguity and missing conditions.
Fiza Talha, Touseef Tahir, Talha Nadeem
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ДЕПИКТИВИТЕ ВО ЗБИРКАТА РАСКАЗИ МОЈОТ МАЖ ОД РУМЕНА БУЖАРОВСКА
, 2022 Unlike the modifiers in the noun phrase, which express relatively long-lasting, more immanent features, the depictives attribute to the referent a feature which is current in the interval of the event and they are part of the sentence structure.
Петревски, Бојан +1 more
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International Journal of Applied Linguistics, Volume 35, Issue 3, Page 1482-1494, August 2025.ABSTRACT While previous research has established nominal complexity as a key indicator of grammatical complexity, its multi‐dimensional manifestation in constrained varieties remains underexplored. This study investigates the distribution of complex nominal structures in constrained spoken English varieties, specifically English as a Second Language ...
Jiaxin Chen, Yao Yao, Dechao Li
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TESOL Quarterly, Volume 59, Issue 2, Page 874-906, June 2025.Abstract The purpose of this study is to analyze the grammatical complexity features of international teaching assistants' (ITAs) mock‐teaching presentations and to compare the distributions of these features to those found in the Oral English Proficiency Test (a local ITA assessment), university classroom teaching, conversation, and academic writing ...
Heesun Chang, Amin Raeisi‐Vanani
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Syntactic complexity and writing quality in assessed first-year L2 writing
, 2019 This study explores the relationship between syntactic complexity and writing quality in assessed source-based research papers produced by ESL undergraduate writers in a first-year writing course through a combination of holistic and fine-grained ...
Casal, J. Elliott +3 more
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International Journal of Language &Communication Disorders, Volume 60, Issue 3, May/June 2025.ABSTRACT Background Assessing spoken discourse during aphasia clinical examination is crucial for diagnostic and rehabilitation purposes. Recent approaches have been developed to quantify content word fluency (CWF) and informativeness of spoken discourse without the need to perform time‐consuming transcription and coding. However, the accuracy of these
Reem S. W. Alyahya
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