English plurals in Construction Morphology
This article demonstrates how the theory of Construction Morphology can account for both the regular and irregular plural forms of English nouns, while avoiding the problems Halle and Marantz have identified in the Extended Word-and-Paradigm Theory. The fact that Construction Morphology (CxM) allows representations ‘at varying degrees of abstraction’ (Goldberg 2013) enables it to account for the morphological structure of forms like oxen. The fact that it is non-derivational precludes incorrect forms like *oxens, while allowing correct forms like wives. (Source: Language Sciences)
Source: Language Sciences - October 12, 2019 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research
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Source: Language Sciences - September 27, 2019 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research
An empirical study of honorific mismatches in Korean
Publication date: September 2019Source: Language Sciences, Volume 75Author(s): Sanghoun Song, Jae-Woong Choe, Eunjeong OhAbstractWhile numerous studies have approached honorification mainly focusing on how honorific forms and features agree with each other in syntactic derivation, the present study focuses on mismatches between a referent and the verb that the referent depends on with respect to honorification. If Korean honorification is a syntactic phenomenon, the mismatches in honorification must be fully accounted for as syntactic agreement cannot be disobeyed in principle. However, either theoretical or empirical inqu...
Source: Language Sciences - September 20, 2019 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research
Systemic functional grammar as a tool for experimental stimulus design: new appliable horizons in psycholinguistics and neurolinguistics
Publication date: September 2019Source: Language Sciences, Volume 75Author(s): Piergiorgio Trevisan, Adolfo M. GarcíaAbstractSince their onset more than 50 years ago, both psycholinguistics and neurolinguistics have provided crucial breakthroughs for understanding the cognitive bases of language. Despite their major contributions, however, both fields have been undermined by a tradeoff between ecological validity (i.e., the degree to which tasks reflect the conditions of everyday communication) and experimental control (the manipulation of fine-grained variables, which is typically achieved by matching lists of decontext...
Source: Language Sciences - September 14, 2019 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research
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Publication date: November 2019Source: Language Sciences, Volume 76Author(s): Rachel Conway (Source: Language Sciences)
Source: Language Sciences - September 13, 2019 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research
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Source: Language Sciences - September 13, 2019 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research
Disjunctive/conjunctive/whatever: the development of Italian barra (‘slash’) as a non-exhaustive connective
Publication date: Available online 14 August 2019Source: Language SciencesAuthor(s): Ilaria Fiorentini, Emanuele MiolaAbstractThe paper investigates the use and functions of barra in Italian. Barra, the lexical realization of the punctuation mark < />, has recently come to be used also in online settings and in everyday speech. In written, formal contexts, this punctuation mark is mainly used for the expression of alternatives (also with an adjunctive sense). In contemporary Italian, however, it is developing a new function as a non-exhaustive connective. After describing the incipient grammaticalization of barra, the ...
Source: Language Sciences - August 15, 2019 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research
Exemplar-based compounds: The case of Chinese
Publication date: Available online 3 August 2019Source: Language SciencesAuthor(s): Giorgio Francesco Arcodia, Caterina MauriAbstractThe aim of this paper is to investigate a specific naming strategy, which is based on compounding and exemplification, examining data from Chinese. We will focus on what we will label ‘exemplar-based compounds’, i.e. compounds consisting of at least one lexeme denoting an exemplar of the category referred to by the whole compound. We propose that ‘exemplar-based’ compounds in Chinese be divided into two macro-types: (1) [exemplar1-exemplar2]category, in which the exemplars may or may ...
Source: Language Sciences - August 3, 2019 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research
The rise of right periphery either in English
Publication date: September 2019Source: Language Sciences, Volume 75Author(s): Debra Ziegeler, Eric Mélac, Volker GastAbstractThe history of either as a clause-final, right-periphery marker has seen little intensive research, apart from a few isolated studies such as Rullmann (2002) and Gast (2013). This is surprising, given the recent interest in parenthetical discourse items and the controversies surrounding their development (grammaticalization vs. pragmaticalization, and other debates). In the present study, it is first questioned whether right-periphery either (RP-either) could be categorized as a bona fide example o...
Source: Language Sciences - August 2, 2019 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research
The discursive construction of categories. Categorisation as a dynamic and co-operative process
Publication date: Available online 31 July 2019Source: Language SciencesAuthor(s): Eugenio GoriaAbstractIn this paper, I provide an account of categorisation intended as an action that participants carry out in conversation. As opposed to cognitive theories, which are mainly interested in how language structure can be explained with reference to the human conceptual system, discourse-based theories are interested in studying how linguistic resources are used to create categories on a locally relevant basis. Based on recent contributions within the latter framework, I provide in this article a preliminary overview of a corp...
Source: Language Sciences - August 1, 2019 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research
Ironic intentions in action and interaction
This article also offers a theoretical conceptualisation of a few non-prototypical interactional workings of irony and aspects of interlocutors' negotiating (non)ironic intentions in interactions. The problems addressed include misunderstandings, overtly pretended misunderstandings, and deception based on (non)ironic intentions. (Source: Language Sciences)
Source: Language Sciences - July 31, 2019 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research
Integrating the (dialogical) sign: or who's an integrationist?
Publication date: Available online 17 July 2019Source: Language SciencesAuthor(s): Adrian PabléAbstractThe present contribution is intended as a general reflection on what it might mean to be a ‘Harrisian integrationist’ (Harris 1996, 1998). This reflection is prompted by two recent articles by the dialogue scholars Edda Weigand (2018a) and Per Linell (2018), who both argue against what they perceive as a ‘hardline’ integrationist position. Linell, in turn, claims that his extended dialogism is an integrationism of a ‘moderate’ kind. Against this background I will contend that Linell’s integrationism and his...
Source: Language Sciences - July 19, 2019 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research
The Written Language Bias (WLB) in linguistics 40 years after
Publication date: Available online 21 June 2019Source: Language SciencesAuthor(s): Per LinellAbstractIn 2005 I published a comprehensive version of my monograph The Written Language in Linguistics: Its Nature, Origins and Transformations (London: Routledge), which made some scholars in linguistics to modify their basic approaches and meta-theories of language. In the present paper I make a few remarks on the trends. In particular I emphasise a few points that I did not mean to say in my prior work. Another section of this paper is devoted to Simon Borchmann's paper in this journal issue. Borchmann raises the important poin...
Source: Language Sciences - June 22, 2019 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research
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Source: Language Sciences - June 12, 2019 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research
Semantic evolution at the microscopic level: the case of suoyi
Publication date: July 2019Source: Language Sciences, Volume 74Author(s): Xiaochen Li, Mingyou XiangAbstractThis paper investigates the underlying mechanisms of the semantic changes of the Chinese resultative conjunction suoyi(所以,’so’). Previous research mainly probed into the regularities and mechanisms of semantic changes at the macroscopic level, whereas relatively fewer studies have investigated the microscopic level of this issue due to the lack of theoretical models capable of capturing minute semantic differences. This research probes into the regularity and the mechanisms at the microscopic level of semanti...
Source: Language Sciences - May 31, 2019 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research
