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Hemispheric efficiency during the day: the influence of circadian preference and time-of-day on verbal and visuospatial tasks [PDF]
Frontiers in PsychologyIntroductionCognitive performance fluctuates daily due to the interaction between circadian and homeostatic processes, which may differently activate the two hemispheres.
Federica Giudetti +3 more
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Reciprocals and Semantic Typology [PDF]
, 2011 Reciprocals are an increasingly hot topic in linguistic research. This reflects the intersection of several factors: the semantic and syntactic complexity of reciprocal constructions, their centrality to some key points of linguistic theorizing (such as Binding Conditions on anaphors within Government and Binding Theory), and the centrality of ...
Evans, Nicholas +3 more
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Journal of Language and Literature, 2021 This paper investigates the quantitative distribution (type and token frequencies, and type-per-token ratio [TTR]) of motion verbs found in English and Indonesian versions of the novel Twilight (Meyer, 2005; Sari, 2008).
Gede Primahadi Wijaya Rajeg +1 more
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Talking About Temperature and Social Thermoregulation in the Languages of the World
International Review of Social Psychology, 2021 The last decade saw rapid growth of the body of work devoted to relations between social thermoregulation and various other domains, with a particular focus on the connection between prosociality and physical warmth.
Maria Koptjevskaja-Tamm, Dmitry Nikolaev
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State predicatives: conceptions, classifications, problems
Проглас, 2021 The study aims at presenting the predicatives of state in linguistic research. The existing descriptions of the predicatives expressing state are analyzed in the context of the semantic typology predicatives with a view of their structure and the scope ...
Maria Todorova; Valentina Stefanova; Tsvetana Dimitrova
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Semantic Typology and Spatial Conceptualization [PDF]
Language, 1998 This project collected linguistic data for spatial relations across a typologically and genetically varied set of languages. In the linguistic analysis, we focus on the ways in which propositions may be functionally equivalent across the linguistic communities while nonetheless representing semantically quite distinctive frames of reference.
Pederson, E. +5 more
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Up right, not right up: Primacy of verticality in both language and movement
Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 2022 When describing motion along both the horizontal and vertical axes, languages from different families express the elements encoding verticality before those coding for horizontality (e.g., going up right instead of right up).
Véronique Boulenger +7 more
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The Agreement Hierarchy and (generalized) semantic agreement
Glossa, 2023 Agreement systems often allow alternatives: This family has/have lost everything. Therefore typology requires a means for generalizing over them. Instances like PLURAL live are frequently termed ‘semantic agreement’ (vs.
Greville G. Corbett
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The Catalogue of Semantic Shifts: 20 Years Later
Russian journal of linguistics: Vestnik RUDN, 2018 The article summarizes the goals and the current state of the Catalogue of sematic shifts (CSSh), its primary notions being those of a semantic shift , which is understood as a relation of cognitive proximity between two linguistic meanings, and a ...
Anna A Zalizniak
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The semantic typology of visually grounded paraphrases
Computer Vision and Image Understanding, 2022 Visually grounded paraphrases (VGPs) are different phrasal expressions describing the same visual concept in an image. Previous studies treat VGP identification as a binary classification task, which ignores various phenomena behind VGPs (i.e., different linguistic interpretation of the same visual concept) such as linguistic paraphrases and VGPs from ...
Chenhui Chu +5 more
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