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A survey of Polish ASR speech datasets Poznan Studies in Contemporary Linguistics (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2024-03-01 Michał Junczyk
Access to speech datasets is essential for the effective use of modern ASR systems in low-resource languages like Polish. However, the lack of centralized information and metadata describing available datasets poses a significant challenge to researchers and practitioners. In this paper, we address this issue by presenting the most comprehensive survey of Polish ASR speech datasets to date. We manually
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Investigating the effects of late sign language acquisition on referent introduction: a follow-up study Poznan Studies in Contemporary Linguistics (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2024-02-21 Cansu Gür
The present study investigates the effects of late sign language acquisition on the linguistic strategies used in the first introductions of inanimate objects through comparisons between narrations produced by deaf signers exposed to sign language after early childhood (i.e., late signers) and those of deaf signers acquiring sign language from birth (i.e., native signers). According to the results
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“Gap” matters: reflections on the notion of “gap” of relative clauses Poznan Studies in Contemporary Linguistics (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2024-02-20 Tong Wu, Yaohua Luo, Renfei Xiao
This study aims to re-examine the essential notion of “gap” in the studies of relative clauses. Following Creissels’ (Creissels, Denis. 2006. Syntaxe générale: une introduction typologique. Paris: Hermès; Creissels, Denis. 2019. Remarks on the typology of noun-modifying clause constructions. Paper presented at the Conference of Complex Sentences, Central China Normal University, 26–29 July) discussion
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Tense mismatches in Korean gapping and bare ko-coordination: an experimental study Poznan Studies in Contemporary Linguistics (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2024-01-26 Jeong-Seok Kim, Duk-Ho Jung, Jee Young Lee, Su-Hyuk Yoon
Korean coordination allows non-final conjuncts to appear either without a tensed verb as in gapping (aka right-node-raising or right-peripheral ellipsis) or without a verbal tense morpheme as in bare ko-coordination. This study uses an acceptability judgment experiment designed to investigate whether tense mismatches degrade the acceptability of Korean gapping and bare ko-coordination with reference
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A note on the mixed properties of the nominal structure in Polish Poznan Studies in Contemporary Linguistics (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2023-11-27 Piotr Cegłowski
The aim of this paper is to highlight certain similarities between Polish and Bulgarian with respect to the selected NP/DP criteria compiled by Bošković (2012. On NPs and clauses. In Günther Grewendorf & Thomas Ede Zimmermann (eds.), Discourse and grammar: From sentence types to lexical categories, 179–242. Berlin: De Gruyter). In the course of the discussion, Negative Raising with idioms and quantifier
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A panoramic view of acceptability judgments in Polish generative linguistics Poznan Studies in Contemporary Linguistics (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2023-11-27 Paulina Łęska-Bayraktar, Sylwiusz Żychliński
This article aims to provide a concise overview of the most relevant topics concerning the implementation of acceptability judgments in generative research. The first part focuses on theoretical issues, including the reasons underlying the prevalence of acceptability judgments, the skepticism towards the wide use of informal judgments, the arguments for and against the continued use of informal data
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The syntax of two existential unaccusative verbs in Polish Poznan Studies in Contemporary Linguistics (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2023-11-27 Anna Bondaruk
The paper examines the syntax of two unaccusative verbs in Polish – ubyć. perf/ubywać.imperf ‘to disappear, to decrease’ and przybyć. perf/przybywać.imperf ‘to arrive, to increase’ – with a view to shedding light on the structure of existential unaccusatives. The two above-mentioned verbs appear in two distinct paradigms – the disappearance/motion verb and the existential one – both of which are taken
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Infinitival clauses with dative subjects: goal-oriented directedness in space and time Poznan Studies in Contemporary Linguistics (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2023-11-27 Egor Tsedryk
Infinitival clauses are known to represent a caseless domain for the subject. Nevertheless, Russian is often cited as an exception to this property. It has a so-called “dative-infinitive construction” (DIC), in which an overt subject appears in dative case. Dative morphology also appears in certain control environments, resurfacing on a semi-predicate, which has been taken as evidence of case presence
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From experiencer verbs to Agree-and-Move: a review of Bind Me Tender, Bind Me Do! Poznan Studies in Contemporary Linguistics (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2023-11-27 Bożena Rozwadowska
I provide an extended review of the monograph, focusing on issues that are connected with the experiencer puzzle. The insights presented in the book are presented chapter by chapter. The approach developed in the monograph is briefly summarized and critically evaluated as innovative and important, targeted at specialists in the generative syntax. Some drawbacks are highlighted. The theory presented
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“Mapping and projecting otherness in media discourse of the Russia–Ukraine war” Poznan Studies in Contemporary Linguistics (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2023-11-04 Marta E. Strukowska
This paper shows how otherness, having a negative representation potential, is covered in media discourse with a focus on the first day of the Russia–Ukraine war. In this article, I specifically investigate the representation of otherness that weaves the web of relations within the “us versus them” narrative espoused most strongly by Teun A. Van Dijk (1992. Discourse and the denial of racism. Discourse
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Marking and breaking phraseology in English and Polish: a comparative corpus-informed study Poznan Studies in Contemporary Linguistics (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2023-08-18 Łukasz Grabowski, Piotr Pęzik
In this corpus-informed cross-linguistic study, we focus on (1) ‘phraseology markers’ (PMs), which are recurrent and fixed word combinations used to demarcate instances of linguistic prefabrication, and (2) novelty markers (NMs), which are conventional expressions that mark novel phrasings of either new or familiar conceptualizations. Both classes of expressions have been largely neglected in phraseological
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Cartographic architecture of DP Poznan Studies in Contemporary Linguistics (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2023-08-18 Murdhy Alshamari
This article argues that DP in Hail Arabic is dominated by a C-domain, with C-layers, adducing empirical evidence from C-particles that interact with DP-internal material, ʔektɪn marking Topic and zad marking Contrastive Focus. Analyzing Construct State phenomenon, it is shown that ʔektɪn exclusively marks the possessum N. The possessor DP is marked without a C-particle. The mechanism of topicalizing
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The production of English monophthong vowels by Saudi L2 speakers Poznan Studies in Contemporary Linguistics (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2023-07-31 Ghazi Algethami
This study aims to describe the production of English monophthongs by nonnative Saudi speakers. It acoustically examined the production of English monophthongal vowels by Saudi second language (L2) speakers. Sixteen L2 participants produced twelve English monophthongs in carrier words. Comparable data were obtained in native Saudi Arabic and native Southern Standard British English to aid interpreting
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The role of lexical context and language experience in the perception of foreign-accented segments Poznan Studies in Contemporary Linguistics (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2023-07-25 Rubén Pérez-Ramón, María Luisa García Lecumberri, Martin Cooke
When faced with intelligibility problems, listeners resort to contextual information. The present study explores the use of lexical context by listeners when identifying segments with various degrees of foreign accent. Native English listeners identified words into which a single Spanish-accented segment from a 5-step continuum had been inserted. Listeners also identified vowel-consonant or consonant-vowel
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From verb to epistemic marker: bini in Hamedanian Persian Poznan Studies in Contemporary Linguistics (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2023-07-21 Mohammad Rasekh-Mahand, Fariba Sabouri
This paper provides data from a regional dialect of Persian, Hamedanian Persian, where a verb is grammaticalized to be used as epistemic modality marker, frequently used in interrogatives. The verb didan, objectively means ‘to see’, but subjectivized in many instances to mean ‘understand’. However, in this dialect, bini, originally the subjunctive second person singular form of the verb didan ‘to see’
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A tale of two tool(kit)s: from canonical antonymy to non-canonical opposition in the Qur’anic discourse Poznan Studies in Contemporary Linguistics (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2023-07-20 Hamada Hassanein
A number of discourse functions of canonical antonyms have been quantified and classified in English and across languages, each of which is associated with typical syntactic frames. Taking such a classification of canonical antonymy as an analytical toolkit, (Davies, Matt. 2012. A new approach to oppositions in discourse: the role of syntactic frames in the triggering of noncanonical oppositions. Journal
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Parasitic gap patterns and hierarchy preservation in German Poznan Studies in Contemporary Linguistics (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2023-07-17 Isaac Gould
This paper discusses how German parasitic gap data from various earlier publications illustrate two patterns of systematic grammatical variation in the language, which have not been previously identified as such in the literature. I show how Heck and Himmelreich’s (Heck, Fabian & Anke Himmelreich. 2017. Opaque intervention. Linguistic Inquiry 48. 47–97) analysis for one pattern, although not able to
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The perception–production link varies with stages of L2 development and vowel properties Poznan Studies in Contemporary Linguistics (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2023-04-24 Mi-Hui Cho, Shinsook Lee
This study investigates whether the perception–production link in phonological acquisition varies with stages of L2 development. It also examines whether the perception–production link for L2 vowels varies according to vowel properties, or whether the L2 vowels match or mismatch with L1 vowels. Korean learners of English in the UK were divided into more experienced and less experienced groups based
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The source of eventive implications of mental property adjectives and nouns in Polish Poznan Studies in Contemporary Linguistics (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2023-03-24 Anna Malicka-Kleparska
In Generative Linguistics of the past 40 years an ever increasing stress was put on the intricacies of the information load contributed by morpho-syntactic structure above the level of the root. Roots, seen as naked roots, entities without grammatical categories and arguments to be introduced into morpho-syntactic representations of clauses, contain basic encyclopaedic and phonological information
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Average or unique – Polish place-names and word-initial consonant groups Poznan Studies in Contemporary Linguistics (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2023-03-20 Krzysztof Jaskuła
Place-names occupy a special area in the vocabulary of the Polish language. Their shape occasionally differs to a greater or lesser extent from that of words which constitute the bulk of the lexicon. They have been investigated in terms of semantics and etymology by various linguists, but their phonological analysis is only occasionally provided. In this paper, word-initial consonant combinations found
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Segmental contributions to word recognition in Arabic sentences Poznan Studies in Contemporary Linguistics (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2023-03-16 Yahya Aldholmi, Anne Pycha
We examined the contributions of segment type (consonants vs. vowels) and segment ratio to word recognition in Arabic sentences, a language that has a nonconcatenative morphological system in which consonants indicate semantic information, while vowels indicate structural information. In two experiments (with a balanced vowel-to-consonant ratio in Experiment 1 and an imbalanced ratio in Experiment
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Lexicalisation of Polish and English word combinations: an empirical study Poznan Studies in Contemporary Linguistics (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2023-02-28 Marek Maziarz, Łukasz Grabowski, Tadeusz Piotrowski, Ewa Rudnicka, Maciej Piasecki
One of the main research questions concerning multi-word expressions (MWEs) is which of them are transparent word combinations created ad hoc and which are multi-word lexical units (MWUs). In this paper, we use selected corpus-linguistic and machine-learning methods to determine which lexicalization criteria guide Polish and English lexicographers in deciding which MWEs (bigrams such as adjective+noun
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Ra-centric constructions at Persian left-periphery: an RRG account Poznan Studies in Contemporary Linguistics (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2023-02-21 Farhad Moezzipour, Seyyed Ali Ostovar-Namaghi
Ra-marking in Persian has been a hotly debated topic over five decades. The postposition is primarily a definite marker of accusative objects in Standard Persian. However, the possibility for it to accompany indefinite accusative objects has paved the way for the emergence of further accounts such as ra being a marker of specificity, topicality, or identifiability. In colloquial Persian, the postposition
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The form of emotions: the phonetics and morphology of interjections in Hadza Poznan Studies in Contemporary Linguistics (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2023-02-17 Alexander Andrason, Andrew Harvey, Richard Griscom
The present article provides the first systematic analysis of the formal (phonetic and morphological) facet of interjections in Hadza. By using a prototype-driven approach to an interjective category and drawing on original evidence, the authors demonstrate that Hadza interjections closely comply with an interjective prototype. Hadza interjections meet most prototypical features and the exceptions
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The pragmatics of ‘it is well’ in Nigerian English Poznan Studies in Contemporary Linguistics (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2023-02-01 Foluke Olayinka Unuabonah, Oluwateniola Oluwabukola Kupolati
This paper explores the pragmatics of the comment clause, it is well, with a view to examining its origin, frequency, structural features, and extended discourse-pragmatic functions in Nigerian English, from a grammatical-pragmatic approach. The data for the study are collected from the Global Web-based English corpus (Davies, Mark. 2013. Corpus of Global Web-Based English: 1.9 billion words from speakers
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The impact of gestural representation of metaphor schema on metaphor comprehension Poznan Studies in Contemporary Linguistics (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2023-02-01 Omid Khatin-Zadeh, Jiehui Hu, Fernando Marmolejo-Ramos, Danyal Farsani
This study aimed to investigate how priming a metaphor by the gestural representation of its schema affects the understanding of that metaphor. In each of the two tests, different groups of participants were invited to judge the sensibility of the same 20 metaphors preceded by congruent versus incongruent gesture primes as compared to no prime. In the congruent gesture-prime conditions, each metaphor
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Thematic role mappings in metaphor variation: contrasting English bake and Spanish hornear Poznan Studies in Contemporary Linguistics (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2023-02-01 Montserrat Esbrí-Blasco, Ignasi Navarro i Ferrando
The present study investigates the scope of metaphors evoked by the culinary term bake in American English and its Peninsular Spanish equivalent hornear. The data analysed was extracted from the Corpus of Contemporary American English and the Corpus del Español: Web/Dialects. The target frames evoked and the frame elements involved in the metaphorical mappings were used to identify and analyse the
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Production of vowel reduction by Jordanian–Arabic speakers of English: an acoustic study Poznan Studies in Contemporary Linguistics (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2023-01-03 Mohammed Nour Abu Guba, Bassil Mashaqba, Samer Jarbou, Omar Al-Haj Eid
This study investigates the production of vowel reduction among Jordanian–Arabic speakers of English. Two groups of speakers, intermediate and advanced, and a control group of English native speakers were asked to read a story. The phonetic properties of reduced vowels, namely duration, intensity, F0, F1, and F2 were measured and compared as produced by the three groups. Results show that there were
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Croatian (mor)phonotactic word-medial consonant clusters in the early lexicon Poznan Studies in Contemporary Linguistics (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2022-12-29 Maja Kelić, Ana Matić Škorić, Marijan Palmović
This study investigates the emergence of (mor)phonological consonant clusters in L1 acquisition. Following the Strong Morphonotactic Hypothesis (SMH), distribution and preferability of word-medial consonant clusters in the corpus of three children acquiring Croatian were explored. VCCV and VCCCV clusters were extracted from the Croatian Corpus of Child Language. Subsequently, all word-medial clusters
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Active verbs with inanimate, text-denoting subjects in Polish and English abstracts of research articles in linguistics Poznan Studies in Contemporary Linguistics (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2022-12-28 Łukasz Wiraszka
This article is concerned with “abstract rhetors”, i.e. inanimate nouns used as subjects of active verbs, in Polish and English academic texts. The few existing studies that deal with abstract rhetors in Polish indicate that their use is limited in comparison with English in both quantitative and qualitative terms. However, no suggestions have been offered so far as to the potential factors that may
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Fragment questions in Chinese: At the syntax-pragmatics interface Poznan Studies in Contemporary Linguistics (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2022-12-10 Xiaolong Yang, Yong Zhou
Fragment questions (henceforth FQs) in Mandarin Chinese usually end up with the particle ne. In the literature (e.g. Wei 2013, 2016, 2018), Chinese ne is construed as functioning similarly to Koeran particle -yo and Chinese FQs are analyzed as a fronting-ellipsis phenomenon. Within the framework of Dynamic Syntax (Kempson et al. 2001; Cann et al. 2005), a parsing-based account of Chinese FQs is proposed
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English and Chinese existential constructions in contrast: A corpus-based semantic study Poznan Studies in Contemporary Linguistics (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2022-12-10 Qiaoyun Chen
This article contrasts existential constructions in English and Chinese in terms of semantic variability and dimensions of semantic variation, distribution of Definiteness Effect and existentiality on the basis of corpus instances and their contextual features. Exploratory and confirmatory analyses show that: (1) existential construction in English varies more widely than its Chinese counterpart; (2)
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The diachronic evolution of posture verbs in Chinese Poznan Studies in Contemporary Linguistics (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2022-12-10 Lin Xiao
The linguistic properties of the three most common verbs of posture, which express positions, such as zuò ‘sit’, zhàn ‘stand’, tǎng ‘lie’ have been thoroughly studied in a wide range of languages belonging to typologically different language families, but they have never been extensively investigated in Chinese. Our article traces the diachrony of these verbs from the Archaic Chinese period (5th -
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The intervention effect in suzhounese polar questions Poznan Studies in Contemporary Linguistics (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2022-12-10 Dawei Jin
The Suzhounese polar question exhibits intervention effects, manifested by the linearity constraint barring anti-topical expressions against c-commanding the polar particle. This paper proposes to derive the intervention pattern from two assumptions. Namely, the polar operator is interpreted higher than the C-domain Q operator, and topics project a secondary illocutionary act independently of the primary
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Discourse function of personal pronouns in a slavic pro-drop language: Evidence from Croatian L1 argumentative writing Poznan Studies in Contemporary Linguistics (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2022-12-10 Lidija Cvikić, Antonia Ordulj
At the discourse level, personal pronouns have been acknowledged as one of the most important features used to express writer visibility – involvement of the author in the text. Studies have shown that writer visibility depends on discourse type, cultural conventions, writer’s L1, etc. (Petch-Tyson 1998; Ädel 2001; Rodríguez, Vázquez and Guzmán 2011; Zolotova 2014). This paper investigates the discourse
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EMCAT-POL: A catalogue of 817 basic emotion terms in Polish Poznan Studies in Contemporary Linguistics (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2022-12-10 Halszka Bąk
This paper investigates the lexicalizations of prototypical basic emotion concepts in Polish. A catalogue of all words denoting basic emotions (anger, disgust, fear, sadness, surprise, joy) in Polish has been created to qualitatively and quantitatively explore the lexicalizations and to draw an ethnopsychological profile of Poles. The catalogue contains basic emotion terms and their synonyms in noun
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Imperfective aspect underspecified for number: Evidence from an eye-tracking during reading experiment Poznan Studies in Contemporary Linguistics (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2022-12-10 Dorota Klimek-Jankowska, Anna Czypionka, Joanna Błaszczak
In an eye-tracking during reading experiment we investigated the processing of ambiguous Polish imperfective verbs in contexts with disambiguating (‘frequently’ and ‘yesterday’) and neutral preceding adverbs. Grammatical number of NP objects was also manipulated. Verb regions received significantly longer regression path times when following a neutral compared to 'yesterday' contexts. This implies
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Final tensing and opacity in Podhale Goralian Poznan Studies in Contemporary Linguistics (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2022-12-10 Tomasz Łuszczek
This article discusses phonological generalisations concerning Podhale Goralian, a dialect of Polish spoken in southern Lesser Poland. It is argued that Podhale Goralian has a process called Final Tensing, which changes ɔ → o before word-final voiced consonants and glides. Final Tensing interacts with other rules of the dialect, leading to both major types of opacity: underapplication and overapplication
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The role of prevoicing, breathy-voicing and aspiration in the perception of breathy-voiced stops in Bangla Poznan Studies in Contemporary Linguistics (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2022-03-01 MD Jahurul Islam
Abstract This study investigated the role of prevoicing, breathy-voicing, and plain-aspiration in the perception of the voiced-aspirated stop category in Bangla. 31 native speakers of Bangla undertook two different perception experiments where they had to identify what stop category they can hear in forced-choice MCQ tasks. Each experiment presented 25 stimuli (repeated 3 times) that were artificially
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The handbook of translation and cognition Poznan Studies in Contemporary Linguistics (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2022-03-01 Xiaodong Liu
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Quantitative research methods in translation and interpreting studies Poznan Studies in Contemporary Linguistics (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2022-03-01 Hua Tan
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WEY and the structure of relative clauses in Nigerian Pidgin English Poznan Studies in Contemporary Linguistics (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2022-03-01 Mayowa Akinlotan
Abstract A comprehensive corpus-driven account of the internal structure, meaning and interpretation of relative clauses in Nigerian Pidgin English (NPE) is missing in the literature. Relativisation, including its process, strategies, constraints, structural patterning, meaning and interpretation, is an important syntactic structure in any language, and therefore is crucial to our understanding of
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Procedure of functional transposition analysis in the English language Poznan Studies in Contemporary Linguistics (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2022-03-01 Yurii Kovbasko
Abstract The paper presents an attempt to develop a procedure of researching functional transposition in English. Functional transposition is interpreted as a diachronicsynchronic functional process and its outcome, which presupposes the ability of lexical units, by means of grammaticalization and lexicalization and without application of any morphological and/or syntactical markers, to acquire and
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Perceptual mapping of linguistic variation in Saudi Arabic dialects Poznan Studies in Contemporary Linguistics (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2021-12-01 Yousef Al-Rojaie
Abstract This article provides a perceptual dialectology account of linguistic diversity in Saudi Arabia. Using the map-drawing and labeling task, the study examined the perceptions and ideologies of 674 speakers of Saudi Arabic dialects about the perceived boundaries of regional dialect varieties, as well as their social evaluation of and beliefs about the dialects. The analysis of the results as
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A sociolinguistic study of address terms in a Nigerian university’s staff club Poznan Studies in Contemporary Linguistics (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2021-12-01 Eyo O. Mensah
Abstract This article explores the sociopragmatic functions of address terms in social interactions at the University of Calabar Senior Staff Club. It takes into perspective the metalinguistic categories of address terms, their motivations, and the cultural and sociolinguistic parameters that determine their choice among Club members. The study is rooted in social identity theory and community of practice
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Between feature mapping and thematic prominence: Old english se-demonstratives and pronouns in discourse Poznan Studies in Contemporary Linguistics (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2021-12-01 Rafał Jurczyk
Abstract Old English se-demonstratives (which usually trace less salient referents) and personal pronouns (usually continuing previous topics) have frequently been taken to share a common pronominal property (e.g. Breban 2012; Epstein 2011; van Gelderen 2013, 2011; Kiparsky 2002; Howe 1996). This assumption holds despite their non-overlapping distribution which still remains a puzzle (cf. van Gelderen
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Some notes on central causal clauses in Venetian Poznan Studies in Contemporary Linguistics (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2021-12-01 Nicholas Catasso
Abstract The goal of this paper is to provide novel evidence in favor of an integration of Haegeman’s (2002) taxonomy of adverbial clause subordination by discussing some data from C-introduced causal constructs in Venetian, the Italo-Romance dialect spoken in the city of Venice. Haegeman’s model is based on a two-class categorization of adverbial structures into central clauses, in which matrix-clause
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What the frequency list can teach us about Turkish sign language? Poznan Studies in Contemporary Linguistics (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2021-12-01 Bahtiyar Makaroğlu
Abstract Recent studies on linguistics, cognitive science and psychology have shown that describing lexical frequency characteristics can answer many critical questions on language acquisition, mental lexicon and language use. Given the importance of corpus-based methodology, this study reports the preliminary findings from the objective lexical frequency list in TİD based on 103.087 sign tokens. This
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Engagement markers in research project websites: Promoting interactivity and dialogicity Poznan Studies in Contemporary Linguistics (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2021-12-01 Pilar Mur-Dueñas
Abstract Scholars are currently not only required to produce primary output, i.e. peer-reviewed research articles, chapters or books, which constitutes certified and legitimised knowledge (Puschmann 2015), but also to disseminate such output, which is frequently carried out digitally and in English. In this context it is the aim of this paper to gain insights into scholars’ digital discursive practices
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Against a uniform analysis of adnominal possessives in Jordanian Arabic: Evidence from nominal ellipsis Poznan Studies in Contemporary Linguistics (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2021-09-01 Mohammad Alhailawani
Abstract Arabic has two models of adnominal possession: the Construct State and the Free State. Despite their superficial differences, these constructions are traditionally given a uniform analysis, in which their base-generated structures are identical, with differences residing in the movement operations that affect the possessor and the noun. This paper argues against a uniform analysis, based on
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Markedness relation, identity avoidance, and clausal recursion in Mandarin Chinese Poznan Studies in Contemporary Linguistics (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2021-09-01 Yu-Ching Tseng
Abstract This paper uses optimality theory (OT) to account for the phenomenon of identity occurrence resulting from clausal recursion, which we argue is derived from syntactic embedding and syntactic adjunction. This paper shows that the interaction between faithfulness and economy constraints allows for the optional deletion of functional morphemes that occur repetitively. The syntactic process of
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Non-identical cognates yield facilitation in translation – does the way foreign vocabulary is learned affect its processing? Poznan Studies in Contemporary Linguistics (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2021-09-01 Agnieszka Lijewska,Hanka Błaszkowska
Abstract Cognates (words sharing form and meaning across languages, e.g. Polish–English FILM–FILM (identical cognates) or TUNNEL–TUNEL (non-identical cognates)) are processed faster than single-language words (cognate facilitation effect), which is modulated by a number of factors. Here, we extended the study reported by Lijewska and Chmiel (2015) and tested the influence of learning experience on
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Bracketing paradoxes: A dependency grammar analysis in terms of morph catenae Poznan Studies in Contemporary Linguistics (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2021-09-01 Timothy Osborne,Thomas Groß
Abstract This manuscript examines various types of bracketing paradoxes: classical “personal noun” constructions, parasynthetic compounds, agentive deverbal nouns, compound denominal adjectives, plural nouns with lexicalized modifiers, multiple auxiliary constructions, and German particle verb constructions. We argue that given a dependency-based view of both sentence and word structure, these bracketing
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The functions of the verb ‘to say’ in the Jordanian Arabic dialect of Irbid Poznan Studies in Contemporary Linguistics (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2021-06-01 Ekab Al-Shawashreh,Marwan Jarrah,Malek J. Zuraikat
Abstract This research investigates the functions of the verb ‘to say’ in the Jordanian Arabic dialect of Irbid (JADI). Relying on a 250,000-word corpus, we propose that the speech verb ‘to say’ in JADI has one main lexical function (i.e. introducing direct or indirect speech) in addition to three functions which the verb develops, i.e. expressing the speaker’s mental state, signalling indirect evidentiality
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English L3 acquisition in heritage contexts: Modelling a path through the bilingualism controversy Poznan Studies in Contemporary Linguistics (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2021-06-01 Eliane Lorenz,Tugba Elif Toprak,Peter Siemund
Abstract The current study adds to research investigating the influence of bilingualism on third language (L3) acquisition, more specifically the assumption that the two previously acquired languages enhance the acquisition of an additional language. We here rely on data from 1,409 bilingual (Russian-/Turkish-German) and monolingual (German) students of grades seven and nine, sampled in schools across
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Two palatovelar fricatives?! the case of the ich-Laut in German Poznan Studies in Contemporary Linguistics (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2021-06-01 Artur Konrad Kijak
Abstract This study concentrates on the alternation between two dorsal fricatives: [x] and [ç] in Modern Standard German. The primary source of data for the analysis include both native German words and loanwords. Moreover, the discussion encompasses some strictly related processes such as g-spirantization [g] > [x]/[ç], e.g. Ber[ç] ‘mountain’ and Ta[x] ‘day’, and coronalization [ç] > [ʃ], e.g. mi[ʃ]
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The effect of focus and the focus particle samo on the exclusion of contextual alternatives in Serbian Poznan Studies in Contemporary Linguistics (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2021-06-01 Ema Živković,Nina Sudimac
Abstract The goal of this paper is to investigate the relationship between focus and the inferences that listeners derive from utterances. While the function of focus is to generate a set of alternatives to the focused element, it can also evoke the implicature that the statement does not hold for the contextual alternatives, which is referred to as exhaustive meaning. Whether focus is exhaustive is
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A list of English–Turkish cognates and false-cognates Poznan Studies in Contemporary Linguistics (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2021-06-01 Levent Uzun,Umut M. Salіhoǧlu
Abstract This article presents a list of English–Turkish cognates and false cognates which was compiled from a corpus of over 80,000 words in dictionary entries. The list contains 2411 English words that are either cognates or false cognates in Turkish. It was revealed that there are at least 1287 cognates, excluding all proper nouns of people, places, and things; and 1124 false cognates, 96 of which
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Naming as doing: Identities, positioning, and ideologies in capital trials Poznan Studies in Contemporary Linguistics (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2021-06-01 Krisda Chaemsaithong
Abstract Adopting a socio-pragmatic view on linguistic choices, this study aims to show how proper names come to function as an ideologically-significant resource for identity construction, impression management, and the negotiation of meaning-making. Drawing upon twelve opening addresses from the penalty phase of capital trials, the research identifies the forms, functions and frequencies of the naming
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A grammatical construction in the service of interpersonal distance regulation. The case of the Polish directive infinitive construction Poznan Studies in Contemporary Linguistics (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2021-03-01 Agata Kochańska
Abstract The aim of the paper is to consider the pragmatic effects of the Polish (Proszę) ‘request1 SG. NON-PAST.’ + VINF construction in different contexts. The specific research problem is how these effects are related to the conceptual make-up of the construction. The framework for the analysis is the theory of cognitive grammar (cf. e. g. Langacker 1987, 1991, 2008, 2009). The analysis starts with