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Searching for insubordination: An analysis of ləbo in Lamaholot [PDF]

, 2015
In this paper, we present a description and analysis of ləbo ‘although’ in Lamaholot of eastern Indonesia, which is a subordinating conjunction that expresses a concessive relation between main and subordinate clauses.
Nagaya, Naonori
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Metalinguistic Knowledge and Language Ability in University-Level L2 Learners [PDF]

, 2007
Existing research indicates that instructed learners' L2 proficiency and their metalinguistic knowledge are moderately correlated. However, the operationalization of the construct of metalinguistic knowledge has varied somewhat across studies ...
Alderson, Anderson, Anderson, Bachman, Bialystok, Bialystok, Butler, Carroll, Carroll, Carroll, Carroll, Clapham, Collentine, Colman, de Bot, DeKeyser, DeKeyser, Dirven, Dreyer, Durrell, Durrell, Dörnyei, Dörnyei, Elder, Elder, Ellis, Ellis, Ellis, Ellis, Ellis, Erlam, Field, Green, Hatch, Hu, Hulstijn, Karen Roehr, Klapper, Macaro, McDonough, Nagata, O’Malley, Pallant, Paradis, Ranta, Renou, Robinson, Robinson, Robinson, Sawyer, Skehan, Skehan, Skehan, Skehan, Sorace, Swan, Taylor, Westney   +57 more
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Measuring Syntactic Complexity in Spoken and Written Learner Language: Comparing the Incomparable? [PDF]

, 2014
Spoken and written language are two modes of language. When learners aim at higher skill levels, the expected outcome of successful second language learning is usually to become a fluent speaker and writer who can produce accurate and complex language in
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On the oppositions that underlie the distinctions displayed by Russian causal clauses

Linguistics, 2022
This article studies Russian causal clauses employing formal contrasts that causal clauses manifest crosslinguistically. I explore two approaches that have been proposed to account for such contrasts: the coordination-subordination approach and the ...
O. Pekelis
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Gramatyka historyczna języka polskiego Witolda Mańczaka na tle innych podręczników akademickich

LingVaria, 2017
Witold Mańczak’s Gramatyka historyczna języka polskiego (‘Historical Grammar of Polish’) as Compared to Other Academic Textbooks Professor Witold Mańczak authored many academic textbooks, mostly concerning Romance languages, but also a historical grammar
Krystyna Kleszczowa
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A Corpus-Based Comparison of Syntactic Complexity in Spoken and Written Learner Language

Canadian Journal of Applied Linguistics, 2022
Despite writing and speaking being related activities, their end-products are entirely different. However, previous studies have not shown consistency in terms of grammar use in these two modes.
Shinjae Park
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Notes on sentential connections (predominantly) in Portuguese

Journal of Portuguese Linguistics, 2005
In this article, we discuss a general typology of inter-sentential connections involving an explicit connective, including but no limited to subordination and coordination.
João Andrade Peres, Salvador Mascarenhas   +1 more
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Guglielmo INGLESE, Subordination and Sentence Connectives in Old Hittite. A Corpus-based Study of Clause Linkage Strategies in Hittite, München : LINCOM Studies in Indo-European Linguistics 49, 2016, 230 pages. ISBN : 978-3-8628-8734-7

, 2020
Martin Taillade
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The Effects of Task Repetition on Child EFL Learners’ Oral Performance

Canadian Journal of Applied Linguistics, 2021
While the role of task repetition has received much attention in task-based research, few studies have examined how exact task repetition affects the performance of child second language learners.
Bo Sun, A. Révész
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Refusing to Endorse. A must Explanation for Pejoratives. [PDF]

, 2018
In her analysis of pejoratives, Eva Picardi rejects a too sharp separation between descriptive and expressive content. I reconstruct some of her arguments, endorsing Eva’s criticism of Williamson’s analysis of Dummett and developing a suggestion by ...
B Cepollaro, C Hom, C Hom, C Hom, E Picardi, G Frege, I Maitra, K Bach, M Dummett, M Kissine, M Sainsbury, MK McGowan, MK McGowan, P Schlenker   +13 more
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