In this paper, we draw on data from world languages teachers (English, Spanish and French, in particular) to explore and unpack binaries encountered i... [more]
Decades of research has investigated the heterogeneity of English among speakers of various linguistic and cultural backgrounds, but there still remai... [more]
This study explores the issue of language use in native and non-native speakers of French by taking an in-depth look at contextualization. By doing so, we introduce a novel approach for rethinking the issue of language use and context with second language
Using the controversial 1998 Karla Faye Tucker execution and its local newspaper coverage as an illustration, this paper investigates the applicability of the notion of discourse pattern (Ostman, 1999) in a situation where, at first sight, the well-known,
Examination of marks on a bone from Blombos Cave reveals that they were intentionally engraved and there is evidence of bone working techniques at the site. Engraved designs have also been identified on pieces of ochre from Blombos Cave, suggesting such e
Languages with case concord sometimes require that at least one case-concord element in the NP be inflected for case, while others may be uninflected. Focusing primarily on Serbo-Croatian, we review some variants of this case realization requirement in di
An attempt is made to gain a general understanding of how referential hierarchy phenomena work morphosyntactically. Languages with and without morphological case turn out to adopt rather different strategies for dealing with the demands that referential h
In German, oblique Cases (dative and genitive) require morphological licensing while structural Cases (nominative and accusative) do not. This difference can be captured by assuming that in German, NPs bearing oblique Case have an extra structural layer K
This paper examines the mappings among morphological case, grammatical functions and thematic roles, focusing on dative as a place where the mapping between the morphosyntax and semantics is often assumed to be particularly regular. Evidence is provided f
It has often been observed in the literature that the presence of a morphological case system tends to correlate with certain syntactic phenomena such as relatively free argument order or the occurrence of nominal complements of adjectives. This paper pro
The dominating proposal in generative grammar is that fixed positions in a phrasal structure universally encode information relating to semantic combination: Merge is assumed to be the unique, universal means of combination. Apparent departures from this
Just as the false comma in this sentence, shows punctuation can influence sentence processing considerably. Pauses and other prosodic cues in spoken language serve the same function of structuring the sentence in smaller phrases, However, surprisingly lit
The difficulties which the impact of theory sometimes creates for practitioners is not always evident to language theoreticians. In the present paper, we would like to examine the theoretical difficulties we have encountered in our attempt to develop a cr
In this paper. seven experiments are described in which the effect of contrast categories on the within-category structure of superordinate and basic level natural language concepts was studied. intension-based and extension-based predictors originating f
Fluent speech contains few pauses between adjacent words. Cues such as stress, phonotactic constraints, and the statistical structure: of the input aid infants in discovering word boundaries. None of the many available segmentation cues is foolproof. So.
Formal language techniques have been used in the past to study autonomous dynamical systems. However, for controlled systems, new features are needed to distinguish between information generated by the system and input control. We show how the modeling fr
This article explores a German philosophy of metaphor, which proposed a close link between the body and the mind as the basis for metaphor, debunked the view that metaphor is just a decorative rhetorical device and questioned the distinction between the l