At-issueness in direct quotation: the case of Mayan quotatives [PDF]
, 2019 In addition to lexical verbs of saying, many languages have more grammaticized means for reporting the speech of others. This paper presents the first detailed formal account of one such device: quotative morphemes in Mayan languages, with a focus on ...
AnderBois, Scott
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Purpose-encoding strategies in Kambaata [PDF]
, 2010 International audienceThe Highland East Cushitic language Kambaata employs five different purpose-encoding strategies. Purpose clauses can be headed by switch reference-sensitive purposive verb forms or by dative-marked verbal nouns.
Treis, Yvonne
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Perception, cognition, and linguistic structure: The effect of linguistic modularity and cognitive style on sociolinguistic processing [PDF]
, 2015 The Interface Principle posits that morphosyntactic variation does not elicit the same kinds of perceptual reactions as phonetic variables because “members of the speech community evaluate the surface form of language but not more abstract structural ...
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Vigilance Mechanisms In Interpretation: Hermeneutical Vigilance [PDF]
, 2016 The mind has developed vigilance mechanisms that protect individuals from deception and misinformation (Sperber et al. 2010). They make up a module that checks the reliability and believability of informers and information.
Padilla Cruz, Manuel
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Pronominal subjects in Peninsular Spanish and European Portuguese : semantics, pragmatics, and formulaic sequences [PDF]
, 2012 The expression of pronominal subjects by independent subject pronouns is considered optional in both Peninsular Spanish (PS) and European Portuguese (EP). The present dissertation examines and compares the factors affecting the expression vs. omission of
Posio, Pekka
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Deontic modal use in American English [PDF]
Master of ArtsDepartment of Modern LanguagesMary CoppleModality, a concept for which linguists have struggled to come to an agreed-upon, comprehensive definition, has been the subject of many linguistic studies over the last several decades.
Haskell, Janae
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A French Fairy Tale Corpus syntactically and semantically annotated. [PDF]
, 2012 International audienceFairy tales, folktales and more generally children stories have lately attracted the Natural Language Processing (NLP) community. As such, very few corpora exist and linguistic resources are lacking. The work presented in this paper
El Maarouf, Ismaïl, Villaneau, Jeanne
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ĐộNG Từ "WASH", "CLEAN" TRONG TIếNG ANH Và "RửA, "GIặT", Và "CHùI", "CHà", "XạC" TRONG TIếNG VIệT
Tạp chí Khoa học Đại học Cần Thơ, 2011 Mỗi ngôn ngữ là một bức tranh về thế giới khách quan và bức tranh thế giới của mỗi dân tộc sẽ phản ánh cách nhìn, cách tri nhận về thế giới của cộng đồng ngôn ngữ đó. Chẳng hạn, để chỉ hành động ?loại bỏ bụi bẩn, vết nhơ của một đối tượng?, tiếng Anh có hai động từ ?wash?
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New quotatives in Finnish and Estonian languages [PDF]
, 2015 http://www.ester.ee/record=b4492755 ...
Teptiuk, Denys
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“And I was like ‘ah yeah, what are they talking about?’” – The use of quotatives in New Zealand English [PDF]
, 2010 Research in recent years has shown that the use of quotatives such as say, think and be like is an important narrative tool in English interactions.
Terraschke, Agnes
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