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Antonymous Adjectives in Disyllabic Lexical Compounds in Mandarin: A Cognitive Linguistics Perspective
(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 ... -
Applicative constructions and suppletive verbs in Hiaki
(2009-02-11)Several intransitive verbs of motion or posture in Hiaki exhibit verb-stem suppletion conditioned by the number of the subject. There are also a few suppletive transitive verbs conditioned by the number of the object. We ... -
Cognition, categorization and language: Cognitive Grammar meets Vantage Theory
(2009-02-11)Cognitive linguistics becomes more credible if it gains support from independent research on cognition. The study juxtaposes a cognitive linguistic model, Ronald W. Langacker's Cognitive Grammar (CG), with a model of ... -
Colloquial Singapore English never
(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 ... -
Complex predicates in Bangla: An event-based analysis
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Contrastive rhetoric of English and Persian written texts: Metadiscourse in applied linguistics research articles
(2009-02-11)The present study examines a corpus of ninety discussion sections of applied linguistics research articles, with the goal of analyzing different aspects of academic written discourse. Three types of texts were considered: ... -
Correlates of nonconfigurationality
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Defining complexity: Historical reconstruction and Nyulnyulan subordination
(2009-02-11)I use data from subordination strategies in Nyulnyulan languages (Non-Pama-Nyungan, Northern Australia) in order to investigate various alternative means of defining and quantifying 'complexity'. While Edmonds (1999) defines ... -
Diachrony of complex predicates in Japanese
(2009-02-11)This paper examines two types of complex predicates in Japanese from a diachronic perspective. The two-fold purpose is bring more diachronic data into the dialogue on complex predicates and to evaluate the claim by Butt ... -
Do psychological constructions in Persian involve complex predicates?
(2009-02-11)Constructions introduced in this work have been introduced as Impersonal/Subject-less in the Persian literature involving compound verbs. I explore them from the point of view of Psychological constructions and show that ... -
Fast speech phenomena in Asante Twi
(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 ... -
Food Metaphors in Tunisian Arabic Proverbs
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Front Matter
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Front Matter
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Front Matter, Volume 5, Fall 2014
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A functional approach to identifying compliment data
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Gender and Politeness: A Case Study on Advertising Discourse
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