Linguistics Department

Antonymous Adjectives in Disyllabic Lexical Compounds in Mandarin: A Cognitive Linguistics Perspective

Zhang, Yuan; Kemmer, Suzanne (2015)

Corpus-based research into antonyms in English, Sweden and Japanese has gradually brought the lexical relation of antonymy into functional-cognitive linguistics in recent years. When antonymous adjectives are examined in ...

Front Matter, Volume 5, Fall 2014

Linguistics Department (2014)

Requesting the Context: A Context Analysis of Let Statement and If Statement Requests and Commands in the Santa Barbara Corpus of Spoken American English

Brown, Lynnelle Rhinier (2014)

This paper identifies two requestive forms in the Santa Barbara Corpus of Spoken American English, let statements and if statements, and the contextual conditions—linguistic, pragmatic, discourse and social—that co-occur ...

Using a Relational Database for Data Entry and Analysis

Koth, Anthony (2014)

If you have ever gotten lost in scribbles, rows, columns and highlighting while trying to use a spreadsheet or pen and paper for coding linguistic data, then a relational database is a tool for you. It offers a clean and ...

“I Love You But I Disagree”: Politeness and Politics in Computer-Mediated Discourse

Mauney, Samantha; Jeon, Lisa (2014)

In this paper we explore the possibility of new politeness paradigms in computer -mediated discourse on Facebook. Specifically, we examine the discoursal expectations, linguistic catalysts for ‘face-threatening acts’, and ...

Fast speech phenomena in Asante Twi

Nelson, Katherine (2014)

A descriptive study is utilized to examine fast speech phenomena in Asante Twi, a Niger-Congo language, focusing on three fast speech rules: vowel deletion, vowel alternation in modifiers, and fricative voicing between ...

Colloquial Singapore English never

Leong Xue Wei, Amelia (2013-11)

Negation in New Englishes has been a topic of great interest. However, although some general features of negation in New English varieties have been identified, few have investigated specific varieties and accounted for ...

The Typology of Uyghur Harmony and Consonants

Pattillo, Kelsie E. (2013-11)

Descriptions of Uyghur phonology are unclear as to whether or not the front and back consonant assimilation of velar and uvular stops is a harmonic process (Comrie 1997; De Jong 2007; Engesæth et al. 2010; Friedrich 2002; ...

You say potato, I say tatws: The terrain of linguistic coexistence in Wales

Griffin, Jeffrey L. (2013-11)

This study examines the linguistic coexistence in Wales of Welsh and English in public signage and other public spheres and the ongoing normalization of Welsh through a reorientation of the linguistic landscape. Concerted ...

Relative clauses in Asante Twi

McCracken, Chelsea (2013-11)

Relative clauses in Twi, a Niger-Congo language spoken in Ghana, have received little attention in the literature. I examine a corpus of naturally-occurring relative clauses, collected from a native speaker living in ...

Interrogative particles in Nakh-Daghestanian languages

Forker, Diana (2013-11)

This paper offers an analysis of interrogative particles in Nakh-Daghestanian languages, covering form, function and position of these particles in a wide range of languages. I show which particles occur in various question ...

Real-Time Trends in the Texas English Vowel System: F2 Trajectory in GOOSE as an Index of a Variety's Ongoing Delocalization

Hinrichs, Lars; Bohmann, Axel; Gorman, Kyle (2013-11)

A complex process of change is underway in the Central Texas English GOOSE vowel. Koops (2010) describes it as the simultaneous operation of two qualitatively different fronting processes. One is a feature of traditional ...