Some natural languages grammatically allow different types of changing word orders, such as object scrambling and topicalization. Scrambling and topicalization are more related to syntax and semantics/phonology, respectively.
Shinri Ohta +2 more
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Fiberoptic‐guided tracheal intubation under precise anesthesia and topicalization with spontaneous respiration preservation for an uncooperative patient with severe postburn mentosternal contracture [PDF]
Airway management of patients with difficult airways is a challenge to the anesthesiologists and awake tracheal intubation is the recommended strategy.
Zhi Wang +5 more
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Split topicalization as remnant movement: the case of Jordanian Arabic
This paper empirically and theoretically investigates the syntax of split topicalization in Jordanian Arabic, a previously undiscovered phenomenon. The results of a large-scale acceptability judgment task (n = 463) reveal that Jordanian Arabic displays ...
Eman M Khalaf
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Syntactic structures in motion: investigating word order variations in verb-final (Korean) and verb-initial (Tongan) languages [PDF]
This study explored sentence processing in two typologically distinct languages: Korean, a verb-final language, and Tongan, a verb-initial language. The first experiment revealed that in Korean, sentences arranged in the scrambled OSV (Object, Subject ...
Katsuo Tamaoka +7 more
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Topicalization in Japanese Cooking Discourse
A topic-wa-phrase is analyzed here in written recipes and the corresponding spoken instructional cooking discourse. Despite the possible assumption that the topic phrase is not used in recipes, the analysis shows that ingredients of a recipe are ...
Shimojo Mitsuaki
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Evaluating Formal Analysis Results on the basis of Typological Facts of the Language [PDF]
Linguistic research carried out in formal theoretical frameworks, such as Generative Approaches, often show high degree of falsifiability due to their precise data observations and mathematical foundations.
Mozhgan Homayounfar
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Analysis of the Translation of Marked and Unmarked Syntactic Structures in Mousavi Garmaroodi's Translation of Jihad's Sermon based on Lambrekt's Theory [PDF]
The marked information structure is one of the topics addressed by functional linguists which has also attracted the attention of translation theorists.
Hamed Sedghi +3 more
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Greek Topicalization: How do properties move?
This paper argues that Greek topicalization is an A’-movement dependency which is headed by a property-denoting phrase (i.e., of type <e,t>), dislocated to a left peripheral topic position (spec,TopicP). Crucially, at the syntax-semantics interface,
Renos Georgiou
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Contrasting contrastive-topicalization strategies
This paper offers a comparison and preliminary analysis of ‘topicalization’ strategies in German, Basque, and English. I argue that Basque and English topics at the left periphery are dislocated elements resumed by pronominal correlates, a configuration
Dennis Ott
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Stenting for lower tracheal stenosis is a tricky situation and for the safe conduct of anesthesia, it is imperative to maintain spontaneous respiration. Airway topicalization is routinely recommended for anticipated difficult airway.
Kriti Chaudhary +3 more
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