The Quotative System of Nigerian English [PDF]
, 2022 This thesis explores the ways speakers of Nigerian English (NE) re-create their own speech and the speech of others in narrative discourse using different quotatives.
Ibrahim, Jalaludeen
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Le programme sociopragmatique des grammaires de constructions, bilan et perspectives. [PDF]
, 2011 International audienceUnder the influence of cognitive linguistics, construction grammars make no principled distinction between semantics and pragmatics.
Desagulier, Guillaume
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And then I was like, “No way!”: A variationist study of be like in young Cape Town speech [PDF]
, 2023 Over the last two decades, the adoption of the quotative be like has emerged as one of the prominent examples of ongoing historical changes in English. This has been documented internationally, but the degree to which this change has taken place in South
Horn, Elizabeth
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Auslan and Matukar Panau:A modality-agnostic look at quotatives [PDF]
, 2023 Investigations of quotatives are essential for understanding how humans talk about talking. However, comparison of quotatives and other communicative phenomena have been hampered by theoretical paradigms that privilege Western, spoken, conventionalised ...
Barth, Danielle +2 more
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Pragmatic uses of demonstratives in Cirebon Javanese conversation [PDF]
, 2014 This study examines demonstratives in the variety of Javanese spoken in the region of Cirebon, on the north coast of the province of West Java. After introducing the demonstrative paradigms found in Cirebon Javanese, this study analyses their functional ...
Ewing, Michael C.
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Variation isn't that hard: Morphosyntactic choice does not predict production difficulty. [PDF]
PLoS One, 2021 Gardner MH +3 more
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The Particle Jako ("Like") in Spoken Czech: From Expressing Comparison to Mobilizing Affiliative Responses. [PDF]
Front Psychol, 2021 Oloff F.
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Language contact in Gibraltar English: A pilot study with ICE-GBR [PDF]
, 2017 The variety of English used in Gibraltar has been in contact with a number of European languages, such as Spanish, Italian, Hebrew and Arabic (Moyer, 1998: 216; Suárez-Gómez, 2012: 1746), for more than 300 years.
Loureiro-Porto, Lucía +1 more
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Recursion in language:a layered-derivation approach [PDF]
, 2011 This paper argues that recursion in language is to be understood not in terms of embedding, but in terms of derivational layering. A construction is recursive if part of its input is the output of a separate derivational layer.
Zwart, Jan-Wouter
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Making Referents Seen and Heard Across Signed and Spoken Languages: Documenting and Interpreting Cross-Modal Differences in the Use of Enactment. [PDF]
Front Psychol, 2022 Vandenitte S.
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