http://linguistlist.org Latest Diss Issues en-us Copyright 2008-2017 The LINGUIST List linguist@linguistlist.org linguist@linguistlist.org http://backend.userland.com/rss Tue, 20 Apr 2021 20:20:04 EST 60 http://linguistlist.org/images/lllogo-large.png http://linguistlist.org http://linguistlist.org/issues/31/31-2352.html http://linguistlist.org/issues/31/31-2352.html 2020-07-22T19:21:58Z This study deals with three groups of discourse markers in German: (i) disjuncts and attitudinal adverbials (henceforth ''perspectival adverbials''), (ii) focus particles (''paradigm-scanning adverbials'') and (iii) modal particles. The starting point of the analysis is the heuristic notion of ''Otherness at work'', i.e. the constitutive role of coexisting heterogeneous viewpoints: the three groups of discourse markers, each of which has the status of a functional class with recurring distributi http://linguistlist.org/issues/31/31-2351.html http://linguistlist.org/issues/31/31-2351.html 2020-07-22T19:21:58Z Bilingual preschool children are able to produce narratives that include structural features needed to create a story in both their languages. Whether simultaneous (acquiring two languages at home) or sequential (acquiring one language at home and another outside the home), they have access to both languages and are able to make use of both lexicons. How these two lexicons serve bilingual children when producing a narrative and how the children make use of them are two aspects of lexis in narrat http://linguistlist.org/issues/31/31-1798.html http://linguistlist.org/issues/31/31-1798.html 2020-07-22T19:21:58Z Often cited as one of the most salient indices of sociocultural meaning, “sentence-final expressions” (bunmatsu hyōgen) have long been a subject of analysis in Japanese linguistics. These units are a kind of what Bolinger and Sear (1981) more broadly refer to as an “audible gesture,” or a linguistic unit that conveys paralinguistic meanings, i.e. meaning that includes neither denotational nor propositional content. Named for their frequent and typical appearance at the end of utterances, in Japa http://linguistlist.org/issues/31/31-1366.html http://linguistlist.org/issues/31/31-1366.html 2020-07-22T19:21:58Z In this dissertation, I investigate word order and information structure in the light of recent developments within the minimalist program. I specifically pursue a principled explanation of word order within the biolinguistic perspective. In that sense, I entertain the thesis that all properties of the faculty of language contribute to a computationally efficient satisfaction of interface conditions. The language examined is Romeyka, the only Asia Minor Greek variety still spoken in the area his http://linguistlist.org/issues/31/31-1272.html http://linguistlist.org/issues/31/31-1272.html 2020-07-22T19:21:58Z This research is a first description of voice and emotion for European Portuguese. Based on studies for several languages (Finish, English, German), we studied voice related parameters varying according to the emotion expressed. The analysed parameters are related to F0, jitter, shimmer and Harmonic Noise Ratio (HNR). This is an all-embracing study that approaches voice and its relation/variation according to emotion. Three sources are considered: psychogenic voice pathology; emotion produced by http://linguistlist.org/issues/31/31-1271.html http://linguistlist.org/issues/31/31-1271.html 2020-07-22T19:21:58Z The primary objective of the current study is to investigate the role of L2 lexical (breadth and depth) and syntactic knowledge in L2 reading comprehension of adult Turkish EFL learners. Moreover, the study aims to find out the contribution of L2 lexical and syntactic knowledge to L2 reading comprehension of Turkish EFL students having different L2 reading proficiency levels. With these purposes, the data of the study were collected through a Reading Comprehension Test compiled from TOEFL, Vocab http://linguistlist.org/issues/31/31-1000.html http://linguistlist.org/issues/31/31-1000.html 2020-07-22T19:21:58Z Tlingit verbs appear to be single phonological words but they are constructed from a large number of distinct morphological elements that correspond to argument structure, event structure, aspect, mood, modality, tense, and qualia. Previous analyses have accounted for the verbal morphology of Tlingit with opaque position class template systems. These systems present the internal structure of verbs as arbitrary and do not address the many dependencies between elements. This dissertation argues th http://linguistlist.org/issues/31/31-538.html http://linguistlist.org/issues/31/31-538.html 2020-07-22T19:21:58Z This work sets to explore the motivation of young Pakistani students to learn English in the first year of their tertiary education. English is highly emphasized in education system and it is taught from grade one in Pakistan. The demand of English for the country‘s needs is never greater than current scenario as twenty first century is posing many different economic, political, and social challenges. In the meantime, motivation has always been acknowledged as a major factor for successful langu http://linguistlist.org/issues/31/31-537.html http://linguistlist.org/issues/31/31-537.html 2020-07-22T19:21:58Z This dissertation conceptualizes the value of English as multi-leveled and explores the dynamics between English and the social structures in international higher education in Cyprus. Furthermore, it represents the first investigation of English in both parts of Cyprus – the Republic of Cyprus, the EU member country in the south, and the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus, the occupied northern territory which is recognized only by Turkey. In assessing the value of English in these contex http://linguistlist.org/issues/31/31-335.html http://linguistlist.org/issues/31/31-335.html 2020-07-22T19:21:58Z Microblogs such as Twitter represent a powerful source of information. Part of this information can be aggregated beyond the level of individual posts. Some of this aggregated information is referring to events that could or should be acted upon in the interest of e-governance, public safety, or other levels of public interest. Moreover, a significant amount of this information, if aggregated, could complement existing information networks in a non-trivial way. This dissertation proposes a semi- http://linguistlist.org/issues/31/31-138.html http://linguistlist.org/issues/31/31-138.html 2020-07-22T19:21:58Z This study has focused on English and Spanish complex nominals (CNs) pertaining to wind power terminology. Such multiword terms are very frequent in general and specialized discourse, but they are a specific feature of the latter since knowledge is usually condensed in these structures. Although CNs have been widely studied, there are various aspects that require further research. These include the formation of complex structures in specialized language (e.g. wind power forecast error), their mo http://linguistlist.org/issues/30/30-4871.html http://linguistlist.org/issues/30/30-4871.html 2020-07-22T19:21:58Z Second language learners tend to follow a predictable pattern when they acquire vocabulary. More common words tend to be acquired before less frequent. However, we find that there is considerable variability within group patterns. Learning style is examined in this study to help understand why lexical variability can be found with seemingly similar learners. The central argument put forward in this thesis is that learning style can help to understand how L2 learners differ in their productive us http://linguistlist.org/issues/30/30-4667.html http://linguistlist.org/issues/30/30-4667.html 2020-07-22T19:21:58Z Abstract: This study, Documentation and Grammatical Description of Zaysete, deals with the language of Zayse people which is called in Zaysete. Zaysete is a little documented East Omotic language spoken by 21,000 native speakers in the Southern part of Ethiopia. This study has two purposes. The first one is documentation and the second is grammatical description. The documentation is used as the base for the grammatical description. The methods used to collect the data include elicitation, o http://linguistlist.org/issues/30/30-4466.html http://linguistlist.org/issues/30/30-4466.html 2020-07-22T19:21:58Z Existing research on the impact of sojourns abroad on identity and on the relation between study abroad, identity, and language learning shows a variety of, sometimes contradictory, results. While some scholars doubt that study abroad is a long and destabilizing enough type of mobility having a direct impact on the identities of the participants (e.g. Block, 2014), others claim that study abroad can trigger an ‘alteration’ or modification of the self, due to the need to live in a foreign languag http://linguistlist.org/issues/30/30-4439.html http://linguistlist.org/issues/30/30-4439.html 2020-07-22T19:21:58Z This dissertation revisits the question of the syntactic and semantic status of pronouns, incorporating new syntactic, sociolinguistic, and pragmatic data to support an analysis of n-to-D head movement in the nominal domain. The support for pronouns originating in n comes from predicative pronouns, including pronominal relative clauses (1) and depronominalizations (2). (1) he who is without sin (2) That person is a she. I compare predicative pronouns with variable grammatical restric http://linguistlist.org/issues/30/30-4391.html http://linguistlist.org/issues/30/30-4391.html 2020-07-22T19:21:58Z Measuring the semantic similarity and relatedness of words is important for many natural language processing tasks. Although distributional semantic models designed for this task have many different parameters, such as vector similarity measures, weighting schemes and dimensionality reduction techniques, there is no truly comprehensive study simultaneously evaluating these parameters while also analysing the differences in the findings for multiple languages. We would like to address this g http://linguistlist.org/issues/30/30-4287.html http://linguistlist.org/issues/30/30-4287.html 2020-07-22T19:21:58Z With the fast pace of globalization and the rise of encounters in digital spaces, CALL scholars have become increasingly interested in how digital tools mediate intercultural encounters. However, despite their evident success in connecting students from around the world, current online intercultural exchanges continue to present problems such a promotion of positive experiences over deep intercultural learning and lack of real-life value (O’ Dowd, 2018). In addition, digitally-mediated intercult http://linguistlist.org/issues/30/30-3900.html http://linguistlist.org/issues/30/30-3900.html 2020-07-22T19:21:58Z Modality concerns with the modifications and semantic changes, which the speaker makes in the proposition to indicate his/her commitment and assessment to the state of affairs. On the other hand, typology deals with the varieties in languages to achieve generalizations cross-linguistically. This thesis studies modality, as a semantic notion and typology, as mostly a formal category, in eleven New West Iranian languages, including Balochi (Bamposht), Gerashi, Gilaki (Shaft), Hawrami (Hawraman Tak http://linguistlist.org/issues/30/30-3845.html http://linguistlist.org/issues/30/30-3845.html 2020-07-22T19:21:58Z This dissertation is an analysis, assuming the framework of Minimalist Program, of the syntactic derivation of comparative correlative constructions (hereafter CCs for short) in Persian. It attempts to evaluate the theoretical adequacy of extant treatments of CCs and propose an alternative analysis to the prevailing adjunct approach. CC constructions exist cross linguistically. In Persian, a simplex CC sentence consists of two non-coordinated clauses; the lexical word harche (how much), which in http://linguistlist.org/issues/30/30-3736.html http://linguistlist.org/issues/30/30-3736.html 2020-07-22T19:21:58Z This thesis is concerned with spoken dialogue and the dynamic negotiation of meaning in English conversation. It serves two aims, one theoretical and the other practical. The theoretical aim is to further our understanding of the kinds of properties that influence the meaning of constructions in spoken dialogue and the role of underlying socio-cognitive processes. The practical aim is to compile a new corpus of spoken British English, the London–Lund Corpus 2, modelled on the same principles as