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Online teaching during Covid-19 Pandemic – challenges and solutions around the world Covid-19大流行期间的在线教学——全球的挑战和解决方案

Studies in Linguistics Culture and FLT Pub Date : 2022-12-12 DOI: 10.46687/xodk6156

Elena Bonta, Raluca Galița

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Awareness Of Word Analysability And Its Role In Expanding Learners’ Vocabulary 词汇分析意识及其在拓展词汇量中的作用

Studies in Linguistics Culture and FLT Pub Date : 2022-08-22 DOI: 10.46687/fjey5048

Ahmed Hamid Abdulrazzaq

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Revisiting constraints on postverbal argument coding and linearization in English goal ditransitive constructions 英语目的及物结构对后置论元编码和线性化的制约

Studies in Linguistics Culture and FLT Pub Date : 2022-08-22 DOI: 10.46687/gfsc7527

Bebwa Isingoma

{"title":"Revisiting constraints on postverbal argument coding and linearization in English goal ditransitive constructions","authors":"Bebwa Isingoma","doi":"10.46687/gfsc7527","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.46687/gfsc7527","url":null,"abstract":"The current study seeks to revisit the analysis that attributes the infelicity, in all varieties of English, of strings like (1) ‘*He gave the man it’ and (2) ‘*He gave to him it’ to “the clash between the topical character of the pronoun ‘it’ and the focality associated with end position in English”, in addition to the “breach of the short-before-long principle” (Siewierska & Hollmann, 2007: 86f.) The string in (1) is a double object construction (DOC), while that in (2) is a prepositional construction (PPC). In contradistinction to the above constraints, the present study shows that the pronoun ‘it’ can felicitously appear in the end position in DOCs, as in e.g. “He gave him it” (cf. Huddlestone, 2002: 248), besides the fact that the so-called ‘short-before-long principle’ is clearly violated in that sentence without rendering it ungrammatical. Hence, end position and the “breach of the short-before-long principle” are not tenable constraints. Thus, the current study maintains that for a DOC to accommodate a personal pronoun theme, its goal argument must be realized as a lexically unstressed constituent (cf. Antilla, 2008), specifically as a pronoun (e.g. He gave him it). On the other hand, postponing a personal pronoun theme in the PPC is not possible (e.g. *He gave to him it) because a postponed theme involving non-heavy NP shift is only possible if it is a nominal constituent, since nominal constituents are both contrastively and lexically stressable (cf. Antilla et al., 2010), as in e.g. He gave to him the book – a construction that has been reported to occur in the northern dialect of British English (cf. Siewierska & Hollmann, 2007). Any attempt to postpone a personal pronoun theme will render the sentence ungrammatical (e.g. *He gave to him it), even where there is an unequivocally contrastively stressable pronoun like ‘them’ (e.g.*He gave to him them), since, while ‘them’ is no doubt contrastively stressable, it is not lexically stressable. Both lexical stressability and contrastive stressability are a requirement for this kind of postponement.","PeriodicalId":34330,"journal":{"name":"Studies in Linguistics Culture and FLT","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-08-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89638525","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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The potential of contrastive analysis in the study of discourse 对比分析在语篇研究中的潜力

Studies in Linguistics Culture and FLT Pub Date : 2022-08-22 DOI: 10.46687/yrol6006

Boryana Kostova

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The use of Google forms as supplementary learning material for the ESP class. 使用Google表单作为ESP课程的辅助学习材料。

Studies in Linguistics Culture and FLT Pub Date : 2022-08-22 DOI: 10.46687/vhrp9644

Olivia Chirobocea-Tudor

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Unpacking modified idiomatic expressions in Kenyan political discourse: A cognitive linguistic perspective 从认知语言学的角度分析肯尼亚政治话语中修饰的习惯表达

Studies in Linguistics Culture and FLT Pub Date : 2022-08-22 DOI: 10.46687/qcdq4857

George Ouma Ogal, Eliud Kiruji Kirigia, Victor Ondara Ntabo

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Post-Brexit Britain and Socioeconomic Distress in Ali Smith’s Autumn 阿里·史密斯的秋天中的脱欧后的英国和社会经济困境

Studies in Linguistics Culture and FLT Pub Date : 2022-04-17 DOI: 10.46687/znja7084

Mihaela Culea, Andreia-Irina Suciu

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Language Competences amidst Corporatization, Digital Technologies, and Learning English for Specific Purposes 在公司化、数字技术和特殊目的英语学习中的语言能力

Studies in Linguistics Culture and FLT Pub Date : 2022-04-17 DOI: 10.46687/xkom9595

T. Stefanovic, Ana Kazanegra-Velickovic, Neda Nikolic

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The Use of Conjunctions Among L1 Luganda Speakers of English 母语卢甘达人的连词使用

Studies in Linguistics Culture and FLT Pub Date : 2022-04-17 DOI: 10.46687/dlfb1456

Dorica Deborah Mirembe, Bebwa Isingoma

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Legitimation Strategies to Enchant the New American “War On Terror”: Implications in Ben Affleck’s Testimony 美国新“反恐战争”的合法化策略:本·阿弗莱克证词的启示

Studies in Linguistics Culture and FLT Pub Date : 2022-04-17 DOI: 10.46687/ybgr8804

Hana Riani

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