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Beyond accuracy: The development of syntactic complexity in middle school Spanish immersion
Foreign Language Annals, Volume 57, Issue 3, Page 844-866, Fall 2024.Abstract Language immersion programs seek to develop multilingual, multiliterate individuals able to engage with academic content. Studies of immersion students' language development provide details regarding language proficiency and accuracy, yet they generally do not address how features of written, academic language, for example, syntactic and ...
Mandy R. Menke
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English prepositional passive constructions [PDF]
, 2007 An empirical overview of the properties of English prepositional passives is presented, followed by a discussion of formal approaches to the analysis of the various types of prepositional passives in HPSG.
Tseng, Jesse
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Language Learning, Volume 74, Issue 3, Page 672-706, September 2024.Abstract This study examined the relationship of linguistic complexity, captured using a set of lexical richness, syntactic complexity, and discoursal complexity indices, to second language (L2) learners’ perception of text difficulty, captured using L2 raters’ comparative judgment on text comprehensibility and reading speed. Testing materials were 180
Xiaopeng Zhang, Xiaofei Lu
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Commonsense morality and contact with value
Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, Volume 109, Issue 1, Page 410-430, July 2024.Abstract There seem to be many kinds of moral duties. We should keep our promises; we should pay our debts of gratitude; we should compensate those we've wronged; we should avoid doing or intending harm; we should help those in need. These constitute, some worry, an unconnected heap of duties: the realm of commonsense morality is a disorganized mess ...
Adam Lovett, Stefan Riedener
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On the origin and history of the English prepositional type a-hunting: a corpus-based study
, 1996 The aim of this paper is twofold: in the first place, an analysis on the origin and historical development of the English prepositional phrase a-hunting is provided.
Núñez Pertejo, Paloma
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Exploring Children's L2 Disciplinary Literacy Through a Multimodal Science Project in a CLIL Context
TESOL Quarterly, Volume 58, Issue 2, Page 628-663, June 2024.Abstract This study explores the ways in which young second language learners in an intact fourth‐grade content and language integrated (CLIL) science class drew on the affordances of multiple semiotic resources including language, images, sound, movement, etc., to construct disciplinary knowledge in the context of a multimodal project on machines ...
Yvette Coyle, Julio Roca de Larios
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Subordination as distinct from embedding: evidence from english and arabic
, 1991 Subordination and embedding are two processes of forming non-simple sentences in different languages. But these two processes have been used interchangeably to describe structures which are not really of the same status.
Thalji,Abdel-Majid Ibrahim M.
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A distance distributing prepositional numeral* [PDF]
, 2007 Across the languages of the world we find a construction where a preposition combines with a numeral and a noun. The properties of this construction are best captured by the term distance-distributing prepositional numeral.
Gryllia, Stella
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Prepositional Phrases as Complements in Prepositional Phrases [PDF]
, 2018 The paper explores the instances where a prepositional phrase has its headword complemented by another prepositional phrase. Typically, grammars explaining this phenomenon focus primarily on either spatial or temporal (as extensions of the spatial ...
Zgonc, Matjaž, Matjaž Zgonc
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A syntactic-semantic analysis of English (non)-dativizable constructions in the production of a set of 2L1 English/Spanish simultaneous bilingual twins [PDF]
, 2016 This paper analyzes the syntactico-semantic factors which trigger Dative shift in English dativizable verbs, i.e. those verbs that allow alternation between double object and prepositional complement constructions.
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