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Two past forms inducing conjectural or non-intrusive questions Open Linguistics Pub Date : 2024-03-11 Makoto Kaneko
This study argues that conjectural or non-intrusive questions are not only conveyed by future forms, as often discussed, but may be induced, combined with contextual factors, by past forms. Conjectural and non-intrusive questions are, respectively, uttered when the addressee is assumed as ignoring the answer and when she isn’t forced to answer. What is claimed to be conjectural or non-intrusive includes
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Framing victimhood, making war: A linguistic historicizing of secessionist discourses Open Linguistics Pub Date : 2024-03-10 Adeiza Isiaka
As separatist yearnings resurge and gain traction in Nigeria, the agency of language and digitality in spreading dissident discourses has come under scrutiny. In this study, I investigate the linguistic-historical dimension of the Biafran movements, exploring the rhetorical frames by which the actors curate ethnic victimhood and sustain the secessionist struggle. Drawing on a corpus of memoiristic
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The sound of the Italian comic book: Representing noises, senses, and emotions across 80 years Open Linguistics Pub Date : 2024-02-27 Pier Simone Pischedda
This article will describe the long-time use of sound symbolic forms (including ideophones and interjections) in Italian Disney comic book publications, from the 1930s until recent times. This is achieved through the diachronic analysis of ∼4,700 entries coming from a corpus of sound symbolic forms as compiled by the author, taken from 210 Disney stories. Each of the entries was classified according
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Describing smell: A comparative analysis of active smell lexicon in Estonian and German Open Linguistics Pub Date : 2024-01-24 Karin Zurbuchen, Ene Vainik
This article reports on smell lexicon in two genetically unrelated languages, Estonian and German with the primary aim to compare cognitively salient and actively used smell terms and preferred lexical strategies. Two consecutive field experiments were carried out by interviewing 43 native speakers of both languages. The results are discussed against the background of anthropologically and cognitively
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Informed decision making in translating assessment scales in Physical Therapy Open Linguistics Pub Date : 2024-01-08 Mihai Robert Rusu
This article focuses on medical translation as a timely and accurate transfer of scientific knowledge and practical information alike and as a way of transforming knowledge into action. More specifically, it delves into the mechanisms underlying informed decision making in translating assessment scales in Physical Therapy. The main challenge lies in achieving precision and accuracy when dealing with
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The pitfalls of near-mergers: A sociophonetic approach to near-demergers in the Malaga /θ/ vs /s/ split Open Linguistics Pub Date : 2023-12-29 Álvaro Molina García
The near-merger hypothesis has served to explain many situations where other explanations have not sufficed, including mainly those where apparently completed mergers have been reversed. However, the situation in the city of Malaga (Spain) calls for a critical review of the main pitfalls of this hypothesis and for a sociolinguistic reorganisation of sound change to allow for near-demergers. The present
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Address forms in Tatar spoken in Finland and Estonia Open Linguistics Pub Date : 2023-12-26 Orsolya Sild
Tatar minorities have lived in Finland and Estonia as a multilingual diaspora for more than a century. This study explores how the different generations of Tatars living in Finland and Estonia perceive polite forms of address, focusing on the choice of informal and formal second-person pronouns and the use of kinship terms. The research material includes 7 h 20 min of semi-structured interviews conducted
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The effects of recalling and imagining prompts on writing engagement, syntactic and lexical complexity, accuracy, and fluency: A partial replication of Cho (2019) Open Linguistics Pub Date : 2023-12-22 Syed Muhammad Mujtaba, Barry Lee Reynolds, Yang Gao, Rakesh Parkash, Xuan Van Ha
This replication study examined the effects of writing prompt type on second language (L2) learners’ writing performance. Fifty undergraduate academic and professional writing course pupils wrote narrative essays about a past event (recalling group/high formulation demand condition) or a future event (imagining group/high conceptualization demand condition). Writers completed a freewriting draft and
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Multilingualism in the Romanian translation of C. N. Adichie’s Purple Hibiscus: Sociolinguistic considerations Open Linguistics Pub Date : 2023-12-22 Mona Arhire
This article investigates the translation of multilingual fiction from English into Romanian by setting it under the lens of the novel Purple Hibiscus by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. The novel comprises three language varieties spoken by the Nigerian Igbo ethnic group. Bearing distinct sociocultural features, the interlingual transfer of the three language varieties (Nigerian English, Nigerian Pidgin
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Theoretical implications of the prefixation of Polish change of state verbs Open Linguistics Pub Date : 2023-12-22 Anna Malicka-Kleparska
The text is devoted to a rarely described and analysed problem of a gap in the distribution of aspectual prefixes in Polish. Lexical prefixes do not appear as parts of word-internal morphology of synthetic change of state (COS) verbs suffixed with verbalizing morphemes -e-/-ej-, -ną-, and -owa-. The analysis presented below treats such COS verbs as homonymous pairs of lexical items. The telic homonym
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“You are certainly my best friend” – Translating adverbs of evidential certainty in The Picture of Dorian Gray Open Linguistics Pub Date : 2023-12-20 Daria Protopopescu
The present article focuses on the analysis of how adverbs of evidential certainty are translated into Romanian in Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray. Drawing on previous work, we argue that adverbs of certainty exhibit different interpretations function of their context of occurrence and their position in the clause. In this analysis, I am going to look at the different translation strategies
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Introduction to Lexical constraints in grammar: Minority verb classes and restricted alternations Open Linguistics Pub Date : 2023-12-20 Katherine Walker, Pegah Faghiri
This is an introduction to the Special Issue Lexical constraints in grammar: Minority verb classes and restricted alternations. In many languages, grammatical relations are subject to lexical constraints. These constraints can be manifested in different morphosyntactic domains, for instance, through deviation from canonical case frames or different argument indexation patterns. Other constructions
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Source and target factors affecting the translation of the EU law: Implications for translator training Open Linguistics Pub Date : 2023-12-19 Mihaela Cozma
By virtue of its very nature, the process of translating European legislation presents certain particularities that any translator working in this domain must be aware of. These particularities are mainly related to the manner in which the EU law is drafted, to the categories of people representing its intended audience, and to what is understood by the concept of equivalence. All these aspects determine
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Cuteness modulates size sound symbolism at its extremes Open Linguistics Pub Date : 2023-12-19 Dominic Schmitz, Defne Cicek, Anh Kim Nguyen, Daniel Rottleb
Despite the rapidly growing body of research on sound symbolism, one issue that remains understudied is whether different types of sensory information interact in their sound symbolic effects. The experimental study reported here consisted of two tasks and focused on one such potential interaction: size associations and cuteness. First, a forced-choice task was conducted in which size ratings were
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Integrating interview-based approaches into corpus-based translation studies and literary translation studies Open Linguistics Pub Date : 2023-12-19 Titela Vîlceanu
The article discusses the increasing role of corpus data in translation studies (a field that has developed several autonomous sub-fields striving for full recognition), including mediated interviews of literary translators as paratexts complementing textual analysis in the translated text circulation, appreciation, and evaluation. The question of corpus design should be envisaged in conjunction with
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Training easy-to-read validators for a linguistically inclusive society Open Linguistics Pub Date : 2023-12-16 Simona Șimon, Daniel Dejica-Carțiș, Marcela Alina Fărcașiu, Annamaria Kilyeni
Fostering the social inclusion of all its citizens, the European Union strives to create a linguistically inclusive society. Among the Erasmus+ projects funded by the European Union to achieve this goal is Train2Validate which proposes a research-based educational framework within which easy-to-read validators and facilitators are professionally trained to be able to officially work and produce high-quality
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Impact of gender on frequency of code-switching in Snapchat advertisements Open Linguistics Pub Date : 2023-12-16 Mohammad Almoaily
Although the phenomenon of code-switching has been a subject of interest to sociolinguists since the 1970s, to date, little research has been conducted on the impact of gender on the frequency of code-switching, especially in oral communication. The current study is an attempt to bridge this gap by comparing code-switching instances in Snapchat advertisements made by 40 Saudi influencers (20 males
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Frequency of prototypical acronyms in American TV series Open Linguistics Pub Date : 2023-12-16 Attila Imre
This article aims at studying acronyms found in captions of six American TV series, as most scholarly articles only discuss abbreviations and acronyms in specialized texts, including their titles and abstracts as well. Hence, in the introductory part, we present reasons to use shortened forms (both abbreviations and acronyms), and then we offer a very brief summary of major types of shortenings, differentiating
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Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale and the borders of Romanian translations Open Linguistics Pub Date : 2023-12-14 Mihaela Gavrilă
The present article proposes to focus on the reception of dystopian literature and the way in which the Romanian public resonated with it, paying particular attention to the translations of Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale. The article will discuss Atwood’s emphasis on borders, both literal and figurative, the combination of characters, cultures and languages that come to life as a result of those
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The quest for the ideal business translator profile in the Romanian context Open Linguistics Pub Date : 2023-12-13 Oana Adriana Duță, Cecilia Mihaela Popescu
An ideal translator profile is a crucial issue for both translation providers, who want to deliver impeccable performance, and translation beneficiaries, whose purpose is to obtain flawless services. In the context of Romanian higher education, two distinct educational profiles of providers are distinguished in the business translation market: graduates of Philology, who have been trained in translation
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On general extenders in literary translation and all that stuff Open Linguistics Pub Date : 2023-12-13 Nadina Vișan
The present article focuses on strategies for translating general extenders (GEs) from English into Romanian. Starting from the generally accepted definition of GEs as structures that extend utterances that are otherwise grammatically complete and that are placed in phrase- or clause-final position, I analyze samples of literary text and their respective (multiple) versions and investigate patterns
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Surprise questions in English and French Open Linguistics Pub Date : 2023-12-13 Agnès Celle
The aim of this article is to show that a specific type of non-canonical question, namely surprise questions, needs to be defined in its own right and differentiated from rhetorical questions. The communicative function of surprise questions is explained on the basis of three constructions – what the hell questions in English, qu’est-ce que questions, and c’est quoi ce N (i.e. an in situ interrogative
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Transnational audiovisual remakes: Suits in Arabic as a case study Open Linguistics Pub Date : 2023-12-09 Ibrahim Moh’d Darwish, Sara Al-Yasin
This study compares and contrasts the English and adapted (remade) Arabic versions of the American series Suits 2011 in terms of cultural, religious, and ideological aspects. The researchers compiled a parallel comparable corpus extracted from both versions. Data analysis shows that there are several similarities and differences between the source and the target versions of Suits in terms of the cast
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Metaphorical images in the mirror: How Romanian literary translators see themselves and their translations Open Linguistics Pub Date : 2023-12-09 Loredana Pungă
This study focuses on how 15 Romanian literary translators metaphorically conceptualize their own role and importance and the role and significance of their translations. The aim of the analysis is to see what kind of source text–target text and author–translator relationships the conceptual metaphors suggested reflect, to zoom in on the status of the translator and of the translated text that may
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On the uses of machine translation for education purposes: Attitudes and perceptions of Lithuanian teachers Open Linguistics Pub Date : 2023-12-07 Ramunė Kasperė, Vilmantė Liubinienė
Technology in the context of education is a subject of debate, from a very positive experience that promotes learning to a very negative one that prohibits the use of various smart devices, tools, programmes, and platforms in the classroom. The problem is how to find a balance between the two positions and how to encourage teachers to introduce possibilities of technologies to benefit the general education
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Geolinguistic structures of dialect phonology in the German-speaking Alpine region: A dialectometric approach using crowdsourcing data Open Linguistics Pub Date : 2023-12-06 Philip C. Vergeiner, Lars Bülow
The Alpine region stands out in the German-speaking world for its well-preserved traditional dialects, which continue to play a significant role in daily life. However, the vast geographical range of the Alpine region and the limitations imposed by national and regional borders have hindered comprehensive investigations of the entire Alpine area. To overcome these obstacles, this study utilizes crowdsourcing
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Leadership style by metaphor in crisis political discourse Open Linguistics Pub Date : 2023-11-25 Liudmila Arcimavičienė
This study aims to show how different political leaders ideologically position themselves in the discourse of ‘problem frame’ in their first national response to the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. To analyse the ideological nature of the ‘problem frame’, 17 leaders’ national lockdown speeches from different countries were collected and analysed within the theoretical framework of critical
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Reaching beneath the tip of the iceberg: A guide to the Freiburg Multimodal Interaction Corpus Open Linguistics Pub Date : 2023-11-17 Christoph Rühlemann, Alexander Ptak
Most corpora tacitly subscribe to a speech-only view filtering out anything that is not a ‘word’ and transcribing the spoken language merely orthographically despite the fact that the “speech-only view on language is fundamentally incomplete” (Kok 2017, 2) due to the deep intertwining of the verbal, vocal, and kinesic modalities (Levinson and Holler 2014). This article introduces the Freiburg Multimodal
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On the computational modeling of English relative clauses Open Linguistics Pub Date : 2023-10-26 Sandiway Fong, Jason Ginsburg
Even in this era of parameter-heavy statistical modeling requiring large training datasets, we believe explicit symbolic models of grammar have much to offer, especially when it comes to modeling complex syntactic phenomena using a minimal number of parameters. It is the goal of explanatory symbolic models to make explicit a minimal set of features that license phrase structure, and thus, they should
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Constructing the perception of ‘annoying’ words and phrases in interaction: An analysis of delegitimisation strategies used in interviews and online discussions in Finnish Open Linguistics Pub Date : 2023-10-21 Katri Priiki
This study examines the linguistic metadiscourse on expressions perceived as ‘annoying’ and the strategies used to justify this perception. Two different types of data are examined in which verbal hygiene is practised in interaction: language biography interviews and anonymous online discussions. In the examined datasets, the discussion begins with an explicit question regarding annoying words and
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Japanese national university faculty publication: A time trend analysis Open Linguistics Pub Date : 2023-09-11 Nicole Gallagher, Theron Muller
The dominance of English in academic discourses is well established, with increased English publication used to evidence its increasing use at the expense of national language publication. However, while English publication frequency has increased over time, few studies have examined how university faculties outside higher education’s Anglophone center have changed their language of publication frequency
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The declarative–procedural knowledge of grammatical functions in higher education ESL contexts: Fiction and reality Open Linguistics Pub Date : 2023-07-28 Emad A. S. Abu-Ayyash, Doaa Hamam
The present article purported to gain insights about English as a second language (ESL) learners’ knowledge of grammatical functions at the declarative and the procedural levels in the higher education context, and argued that the dialogue between the types of knowledge calls for more attention. The study utilised a Words-in-Sentences Test that was administered to 841 ESL students in seven colleges
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Irrealis-marked interrogatives as rhetorical questions Open Linguistics Pub Date : 2023-07-19 Colin Brown
I describe and compare two strategies to form rhetorical questions (RQs) in Sm’algyax (Tsimshianic). I show that one kind is isomorphic to ordinary, information-seeking questions, and is compatible with positive and negative answers, while the second is marked with irrealis morphology and only allows negative answers. I provide evidence from answerability and embedding to suggest that both types of
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Valency patterns of manner of speaking verbs in Croatian Open Linguistics Pub Date : 2023-07-15 Ivana Brač, Matea Birtić
Manner of speaking verbs denote the transfer of a message through speech, emphasizing the volume, intensity, comprehensibility, psychophysical condition of the speaker, and/or the impression that the speaker leaves on the hearer. In this article, verbs are semantically divided into four subclasses: 1. Verbs with emphasis on volume, 2. verbs of incomprehensible speaking, 3. verbs of meaningless speaking
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Changes and continuities in second person address pronoun usage in Bogotá Spanish Open Linguistics Pub Date : 2023-07-15 Víctor Fernández-Mallat, David Barrero
In this article, we provide further evidence that Bogotá Spanish is transitioning from being an extensively usted-using variety into one in which tú is preferred in informal interaction by analyzing survey data through a quantitative approach, and metalinguistic commentary through a qualitative approach. Our data show that tú is mainly thought of as a productive way to convey proximity. At the same
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Attitude dative (dativus ethicus) as an interpersonal pragmatic marker in Latvian Open Linguistics Pub Date : 2023-07-15 Andra Kalnača, Ilze Lokmane
Among varied syntactic and semantic functions of the dative case in Latvian, the attitude dative or dativus ethicus is a less studied one. As an optional pronominal clitic, it serves two broad functions: first, it expresses the speaker’s authority and affectedness of the speaker or the addressee in a speech-act situation, and second, it expresses the speaker’s stance towards the contents of the utterance
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Excursive questions Open Linguistics Pub Date : 2023-07-14 Tue Trinh, Itai Bassi
We present novel observations about types of questions which occur quite frequently in natural discourse but which have so far remained unanalyzed. These are questions about a question act. We then propose an account which derives the observations. Our account relies crucially on the assumption that speech acts are grammatically represented.
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“Multilingual islands in the monolingual sea”: Foreign languages in the South Korean linguistic landscape Open Linguistics Pub Date : 2023-06-27 Kapitolina Fedorova, Hye Hyun Nam
The article aims at analyzing data on the South Korean linguistic landscape, with a focus on multilingual practices and different dimensions of language use, sets of norms, and ideological constructs underling particular linguistic choices. It is based on the analysis of a data set of over 800 digital photos of various signs and advertisements as well as necessary metadata gathered in 2018–2020 in
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Between rhetorical questions and information requests: A versatile interrogative clause in Estonian Open Linguistics Pub Date : 2023-06-27 Marri Amon
This article investigates the pragmatic and functional aspects of an interrogative question pattern in Estonian: questions introduced by the adjective huvitav (‘interesting’). Despite appearances, this question is usually not used to elicit an answer in an information request. Instead, its uses vary from self-addressed to rhetorical questions, also allowing the addition of a biased (critical, ironical)
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Uncovering minoritized voices: The linguistic landscape of Mieres, Asturies Open Linguistics Pub Date : 2023-06-13 Alba Arias Álvarez, Sheryl Bernardo-Hinesley
Recent sociolinguistic studies have emphasized the role of the linguistic landscape (LL) in relation to languages and identity negotiation. The present study examines the presence of Asturian, a minoritized language spoken in the Principality of Asturies, in the LL of a town located in the center of Asturies: Mieres. Through qualitative analyses, data illustrate that Asturian has visibility not only
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State and university tensions in Baltic higher education language policy Open Linguistics Pub Date : 2023-06-13 Kerttu Rozenvalde, Birute Klaas-Lang, Nemira Mačianskienė
This article explores state and university language policy (LP) agents in Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania to illuminate their relationship and standpoints in higher education language management. Being interested in who stands for what and whose positions are legitimised, we study the higher education LPs of each state, language principles of universities, and public debates. We conceptualise active
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Lithuanian academic discourse revisited: Features and patterns of scientific communication Open Linguistics Pub Date : 2023-06-06 Anna Ruskan, Helen Hint, Djuddah Arthur Joost Leijen, Jolanta Šinkūnienė
Over the past several decades, there has been an increasing interest in academic discourse investigations with a specific focus on disciplinary, cultural, and generic aspects of academic text construction. Studies of Spanish, Italian, Greek, Portuguese, French, German, and Russian (inter alia) academic discourse have revealed not only the universal features characteristic of many writing cultures,
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Latinate terminology in Modern Greek: An “intruder” or an “asset”? Open Linguistics Pub Date : 2023-05-23 Panagiotis G. Krimpas
This article discusses Latinate Modern Greek (MG) terminology in the light of language planning, language contact, transliteration, registers, and speakers’ attitudes. It starts by describing sociolinguistic aspects of MG with respect to borrowing and proceeds with case studies of Latinate MG terms and their Greek-based synonyms from various science, arts, social, and technical fields. Focusing on
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Lexically driven patterns of contact in alignment systems of languages of the northern Upper Amazon Open Linguistics Pub Date : 2023-03-09 Rik van Gijn, Justin Case, Martine Bruil, Simon A. Claassen, Karolina Grzech, Nora Julmi
Despite ample attention in the literature for alignment patterns and case frames more generally, we know very little about how these elements of grammar spread from one language to another in a contact situation. Achieving a better understanding of this will help explain areal patterns in alignment and grammatical relation marking. In this contribution, we zoom in on a contact situation in the foothills
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Hedging with modal auxiliary verbs in scientific discourse and women’s language Open Linguistics Pub Date : 2023-02-16 Lindsay Susannah Schmauss, Kelly Kilian
This Critical Discourse Analysis examines hedging as a linguistic device at the intersection of scientific discourse and women’s language. Hedging has been identified as a marker of scientific discourse where it is valued for expanding dialogic space for the promulgation of knowledge. It is also a recognised marker of women’s common language, where it is purported to align with discriminatory gender
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Towards a unified representation of linguistic meaning Open Linguistics Pub Date : 2023-02-15 Prakash Mondal
Natural language meaning has properties of both cognitive representations and formal/mathematical structures. But it is not clear how they actually relate to one another. The central aim of this article is to show that properties of cognitive representations and formal/mathematical structures of natural language meaning, albeit apparently divergent, can be united, as far as the basic properties of
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Fluidity in argument indexing in Komnzo Open Linguistics Pub Date : 2023-01-31 Christian Döhler
This article addresses the verb morphology of Komnzo, a language of Southern New Guinea. It provides a description of verb indexing in Section 1, which is followed by a corpus analysis of a small class of verbs. Komnzo verb morphology encodes transitivity by distinct alignment patterns in the verb morphology, which I call ‘verb templates.’ Templates encode participant constellation, e.g. transitive
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Beliefs on translation speed among students. A case study Open Linguistics Pub Date : 2023-01-30 Rafik Jamoussi, Aladdin Al Zahran, Kais A. Kadhim
Novice translation graduates are often found to be slow translators. The fact that this deficiency is usually rectified through professional experience implies that initial performance issues are the outcome of a complex interplay of factors, which do not involve intrinsic abilities. Based on insights from cognitively oriented research on students’ beliefs about language learning and the impact these
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Factors in sound change: A quantitative analysis of palatalization in Northern Mandarin Open Linguistics Pub Date : 2023-01-27 Sha Liu
Factors in sound change are still a major subject of debate in the field of linguistics, with the frequency factor perhaps being the most controversial. The present article focuses on palatalization of the velars before high front vowels and glides in Northern Mandarin, because palatalization stretched for more than 100 years and can provide detailed information concerning its contour. Based on a statistical
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Restrictions on past-tense passives in Late Modern Danish Open Linguistics Pub Date : 2023-01-25 Sune Gregersen
This article investigates a case of lexical restrictions on a voice construction, specifically Danish past-tense passives. Present-Day Danish has both a periphrastic and an inflectional passive construction, but in the past tense, most ablaut (strong) verbs cannot form the inflectional passive (e.g. ∗ \ast skreves ‘was written’, ∗ \ast bares ‘was carried’). Various explanations for these restrictions
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“It’s way too intriguing!” The fuzzy status of emergent intensifiers: A Functional Discourse Grammar account Open Linguistics Pub Date : 2022-12-13 Carmen Portero-Muñoz
This article seeks to explore the function and linguistic status of non-central members of the class of “degree words,” focusing on specific cases in English and Spanish, namely, the English adverbs way and proper, the Spanish trendy phrase “Adj no, lo siguiente” and the adverb muy. These intensifiers will be explored in the light of the architecture of Functional Discourse Grammar (FDG), specifically
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Linguistic repercussions of COVID-19: A corpus study on four languages Open Linguistics Pub Date : 2022-12-07 Emmanuel Cartier, Alexander Onysko, Esme Winter-Froemel, Eline Zenner, Gisle Andersen, Béryl Hilberink-Schulpen, Ulrike Nederstigt, Elizabeth Peterson, Frank van Meurs
The global reach of the COVID-19 pandemic and the ensuing localized policy reactions provides a case to uncover how a global crisis translates into linguistic discourse. Based on the JSI Timestamped Web Corpora that are automatically POS-tagged and accessible via SketchEngine, this study compares French, German, Dutch, and English. After identifying the main names used to denote the virus and its disease
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Similatives are Manners, comparatives are Quantities (except when they aren’t) Open Linguistics Pub Date : 2022-12-01 Riccardo Giomi
This article proposes a fine-grained semantic analysis of similative and comparative constructions within the framework of Functional Discourse Grammar (FDG). The core idea is that, when used in their prototypical modifying functions, the two types of constructions are built upon two semantic frames that share an identical structure but differ as regards the semantic category that underlies the whole
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English evidential -ly adverbs in the noun phrase from a functional perspective Open Linguistics Pub Date : 2022-11-25 Lois Kemp, Kees Hengeveld
This article addresses the question of how the distribution and role of English evidential -ly adverbs in the noun phrase can be accounted for using the framework of Functional Discourse Grammar (FDG). Both adverbs and adjectives occurring in noun phrases are categorized in various ways. The results of the categorization offer insights into the distribution of these adverbs and adjectives. Four generalizations
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Editorial Open Linguistics Pub Date : 2022-11-25 Titela Vîlceanu, Daniel Dejica
This is an introduction to the Special Issue: Translation Times, edited by Titela Vîlceanu and Daniel Dejica.
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Modification and context Open Linguistics Pub Date : 2022-11-25 Daniel García Velasco
Functional Discourse Grammar (FDG) assumes a strict separation between representational and interpersonal meaning, which are captured in independent levels within the grammar, and utterance meaning, which arises in contexts of language use. This article argues that this division of labour is problematic for the treatment of modifiers in the noun phrase (non-subsective adjectives in particular), which
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Modification in Functional Discourse Grammar: State of the art and issues addressed Open Linguistics Pub Date : 2022-11-25 Evelien Keizer, Thomas Schwaiger, Elnora ten Wolde
This is an introduction to the Special Issue on Modification in Functional Discourse Grammar.
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American Spanish dizque from a Functional Discourse Grammar perspective Open Linguistics Pub Date : 2022-11-25 Hella Olbertz
This article discusses the diachronic development and the different uses of the reportative word dizque (diachronically based on diz que ‘she/he/it says that’) using data from Colombian and Mexican Spanish. The study presents a predominantly qualitative analysis of diachronic, twentieth- and twenty-first-century written data. The theoretical framework applied in this article is Functional Discourse
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Modification as a linguistic ‘relationship’: A just so problem in Functional Discourse Grammar Open Linguistics Pub Date : 2022-11-25 Elnora ten Wolde, Thomas Schwaiger
This study traces the relationship between two erstwhile separate linguistic elements, just and so, within the framework of Functional Discourse Grammar (FDG). In keeping with FDG’s form-oriented function-to-form approach, the study proceeds semasiologically by, first, examining the uses of relatively independent forms (i.e. the focus particle just modifying so as a degree word and a manner proform)
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Modifier-numeral word order in the English NP: An FDG analysis Open Linguistics Pub Date : 2022-11-25 Evelien Keizer
It is generally accepted that the order of elements within the English noun phrase is relatively fixed, and that, in the prefield, determiners (primary and secondary) precede modifiers. This article is concerned with a group of noun phrases exhibiting non-canonical word order, namely those cases in which a modifier precedes a numeral, such as a fabulous two years, a staggering 30 singles, that short