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Applicative constructions and suppletive verbs in Hiaki
(Rice University, 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
(Rice University, 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
(Rice University, 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 ... -
A Comparative Study on Japanese and Chinese NMCs: A Semantic and Discourse Approach
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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
(Rice University, 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
(Rice University, 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
(Rice University, 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?
(Rice University, 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 ... -
Evaluative lexis in science: A corpus-based study in scientific abstracts
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Fast speech phenomena in Asante Twi
(Rice University, 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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Gender Variation, Indirectness, and Preference Organization in Threat Responses
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Here's a structure that's not so simple: Revisiting the acquisition of relative clauses
(Rice University, 2009-02-11)This study revisits the construction-based incremental account of relative clause acquisition presented in Diessel and Tomasello (2005) by reexamining the subset of presentational relative constructions (PRCs) from their ... -
Homorganic NC sequences in Kibena: Pre-nasalized consonants, consonant clusters, or something else?
(Rice University, 2009-02-11)In Bantu linguistics, one topic of great debate concerns the segmental status of homorganic NC sequences. Traditionally, on the basis of durational properties, the phonological behavior of such segments, and native speaker ... -
The House that God Built: Metaphorical Thinking in Alcoholics Anonymous
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How do native speakers of Russian evaluate yes/no questions produced by Finnish L2 learners?
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“I Love You But I Disagree”: Politeness and Politics in Computer-Mediated Discourse
(Rice University, 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 ... -
Interrogative particles in Nakh-Daghestanian languages
(Rice University, 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 ... -
Mokša Mordvin verbal negation described and compared with other Uralo-Altaic languages
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Narrative and past habitual sequences in Hausa
(Rice University, 2009-02-11)Based on the overall properties of narratives, Wald (1987) has proposed that past habitual sequences are conflated narratives and are only minimally different from single-event sequences. The aim of this paper is to test ... -
Negation in Metta
(Rice University, 2009-02-11)Recent typological studies of clausal negation not only focus on the basic standard negation strategies that languages use to negate declarative verbal main clauses but also discuss typology of asymmetric negation in ... -
Overlapping Identities: The Case of Japanese Immigrants in Cali, Colombia
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Prototypes and hyperspeech: Where are they in the grammar?
(Rice University, 2009-02-11)If languages are fundamentally symbolic systems, as it is assumed in cognitive linguistics, then it follows that what speakers learn in the course of language acquisition are symbolic systems. It is not unequivocally ... -
Real-Time Trends in the Texas English Vowel System: F2 Trajectory in GOOSE as an Index of a Variety's Ongoing Delocalization
(Rice University, 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 ... -
Relative clauses in Asante Twi
(Rice University, 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 ... -
Relativization in Shapsug Adyghe
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Reported speech and thought in Kavalan
(Rice University, 2009-02-11)One of the amazing characteristics of human language is self-reference, that is, referring to itself by means of itself. This language-with-language phenomenon is most evident in reported discourse, where speech, thought, ... -
Requesting the Context: A Context Analysis of Let Statement and If Statement Requests and Commands in the Santa Barbara Corpus of Spoken American English
(Rice University, 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 ... -
Scoring a hat trick: Nation, football, and critical discourse analysis
(Rice University, 2009-02-11)Media sport constitutes a significant arena within which discourses about national identities are continually articulated (Blain et al. 1993). This study analyses the football commentaries of the matches in which the Greek ... -
The Syntactic Causative Construction in Hupa (California Athabaskan)
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The syntax of hybrid verb/affix lexemes and clause fusion in Hiaki (Yaqui)
(Rice University, 2009-02-11)We argue that verb/affix hybrids in Hiaki (Yaqui) are subject to the same conditions on clause fusion (Rude 1996) as 'pure' affixal verbs in spite of their different distributional behavior. We show that all verbs involved ... -
Thematic progression and rhetoric in Sun and Times editorials: 1991-2008
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Tigrinya fronted copula constructions: Focus and evidence of speaker marking information relevant to hearer expectations
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'To be' and not 'to have' in Polish locationals
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The typology of motion verbs in Northern Vietnamese
(Rice University, 2009-02-11)Talmy's (1985) seminal work on motion verbs categorized languages as either verb-framed or satellite-framed depending on how the core schema 'motion' is mapped onto an expression. However, Vietnamese has motion verbs that ... -
The Typology of Uyghur Harmony and Consonants
(Rice University, 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; ... -
Using a Relational Database for Data Entry and Analysis
(Rice University, 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 ... -
volume 1 front matter
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What about 'be about'? Walking the tightrope between tense and aspect
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You say potato, I say tatws: The terrain of linguistic coexistence in Wales
(Rice University, 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 ...
