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Clause and predicative constituents in an Austronesian language: Lampung language 南岛语的从句和谓语成分:楠榜语

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Topics in Linguistics Pub Date : 2020-12-01 DOI: 10.2478/topling-2020-0010

Afrianto, E. Sujatna, Nani Darmayanti, F. Ariyani, Jessamine Cooke-Plagwitz

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New evidence on the Pseudorelative-First Hypothesis: Spanish attachment preferences revisited 伪相对优先假说的新证据:西班牙依恋偏好的重新审视

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Topics in Linguistics Pub Date : 2020-06-01 DOI: 10.2478/topling-2020-0002

Borja Alonso-Pascua

引用次数: 4

Discrimination of Uncategorized-Categorized and Uncategorized-Uncategorized Greek consonantal contrasts by Russian speakers 俄语使用者对未分类分类和未分类希腊语辅音对比的辨析

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Topics in Linguistics Pub Date : 2020-06-01 DOI: 10.2478/topling-2020-0005

G. Georgiou

{"title":"Discrimination of Uncategorized-Categorized and Uncategorized-Uncategorized Greek consonantal contrasts by Russian speakers","authors":"G. Georgiou","doi":"10.2478/topling-2020-0005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2478/topling-2020-0005","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract The purpose of this study is to investigate the discriminability of two different assimilation types, the Uncategorized-Categorized (UC) and the Uncategorized-Uncategorized assimilation (UU) (Best and Tyler, 2007), as reflected in the discrimination accuracy and reaction times towards non-native contrasts by Russian speakers. The discriminability of these assimilation types varies in the literature. To this purpose, the same Russian speakers who evaluated Greek consonantal contrasts as UC and UU types in an assimilation test of a previous study completed an AXB discrimination test in this study to detect the discriminability of these assimilation types. The findings demonstrated that most of the UU non-overlapping (UU-N) types, and specifically those with focalized-focalized responses, were more accurately discriminated and had faster RTs than the UC non-overlapping (UC-N) type. However, one UU-N type with clustered-clustered responses did not differ in terms of discrimination accuracy and reaction times with the UC-N type. It is suggested that despite having the same overlapping parameters (non-overlapping), UU types might be more discriminable than UC types with respect to consonants. Also, similarity of uncategorized phones with other assimilated phones (e.g., focalized, clustered, dispersed) might shape the UC-UU type relationship. Finally, it is assumed that the discriminability of UC-UU types might be consonant-specific.","PeriodicalId":41377,"journal":{"name":"Topics in Linguistics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2020-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48254434","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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A further argument for a syncretic analysis of DOM and dative in Spanish 对西班牙语中DOM和与格进行综合分析的进一步论证

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Topics in Linguistics Pub Date : 2020-06-01 DOI: 10.2478/topling-2020-0004

Carlos Muñoz Pérez

引用次数: 1

Slovak ‘no’ and its pragmatic meanings and functions in relation to prosody 斯洛伐克语的no及其与韵律相关的语用意义和功能

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Topics in Linguistics Pub Date : 2020-06-01 DOI: 10.2478/topling-2020-0001

Lucia Mareková, S. Benus

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On the comprehension of metonymical expressions by Arabic-speaking EFL learners: A cognitive linguistic approach 从认知语言学角度看阿拉伯语学习者对转喻表达的理解

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Topics in Linguistics Pub Date : 2020-06-01 DOI: 10.2478/topling-2020-0003

Aseel Zibin, A. R. Altakhaineh, E. Hussein

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Aspectual coding asymmetries: Predicting aspectual verb lengths by the effects frequency and information content 方面编码不对称:通过影响频率和信息内容预测方面动词长度

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Topics in Linguistics Pub Date : 2019-12-01 DOI: 10.2478/topling-2019-0009

M.P.R. Richter, G. Celano

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“The authors have wasted their time...”: Genre features and language of anonymous peer reviews “作者浪费了时间……:类型特征和匿名同行评议的语言

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Topics in Linguistics Pub Date : 2019-12-01 DOI: 10.2478/topling-2019-0010

Tatyana Yakhontova

{"title":"“The authors have wasted their time...”: Genre features and language of anonymous peer reviews","authors":"Tatyana Yakhontova","doi":"10.2478/topling-2019-0010","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2478/topling-2019-0010","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract The anonymous peer review is an unpublished pre-publication review which evaluates research articles submitted to journals. This type of a review plays a special role in the genre landscape of Anglophone research by ensuring its appropriate quality and ethical standards. By performing this role, the peer review also realizes a didactic potential, as it motivates researchers to improve their investigations. This paper extends the existing research on the anonymous peer review and aims to deepen our understanding of this genre by analysing the overall functional organization of peer review texts and their prominent linguistic features shaped by three communicative functions ‒ “gatekeeping”, evaluative, and didactic. It also attempts to compare the characteristics of peer reviews in two research fields ideologically and epistemologically distant from each other ‒ applied linguistics and applied mathematics. The methodological framework of the study combines Swales’s move analysis and a functional stylistic perspective developed within the East European linguistic context. The analysis has revealed a three-move structure of review texts and disclosed the roles of interpersonal markers, evaluative lexis and four types of directives in the realization of the communicative functions of the genre. The typologies of reviewers’ comments and evaluative acts in reviews have also been suggested. Furthermore, the study has brought to light some quantitative and qualitative differences between the texts in two disciplines. It is anticipated that awareness of the linguistic conventions of anonymous peer reviews analysed in the paper will help researchers to perceive this genre as a valuable source of professional assistance and enlightenment.","PeriodicalId":41377,"journal":{"name":"Topics in Linguistics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2019-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43674478","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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Discourse studies: Between social constructionism and linguistics. A critical overview 话语研究:在社会建构主义与语言学之间。关键概述

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Topics in Linguistics Pub Date : 2019-12-01 DOI: 10.2478/topling-2019-0006

Piotr Cap

{"title":"Discourse studies: Between social constructionism and linguistics. A critical overview","authors":"Piotr Cap","doi":"10.2478/topling-2019-0006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2478/topling-2019-0006","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This paper gives a critical overview of the analytical approaches dominating the field of discourse studies in the last three decades, from the perspective of their philosophical and formative bases: social constructionism and linguistics. It explores different conceptions of the theoretical nexus between these two bases leading to the emergence of three distinct yet complementary strands of thought (i-iii). The paper starts with poststructuralist views of discourse salient in (i) Laclau and Mouffe’s Discourse Theory. Laclau and Mouffe’s assumption that no discourse is a closed entity but rather transformed through contact with other discourses is taken as the introductory premise to present a large family of (ii) critical discourse studies, characterized as text-analytical practices explaining how discourse partakes in the production and negotiations of ideological meanings. Finally, the paper discusses (iii) three recent discourse analytical models: Discourse Space Theory, Critical Metaphor Analysis and the Legitimization-Proximization Model. These new theories take a further (and thus far final) step towards consolidation of the social-theoretical and linguistic bases in contemporary discourse studies. The empirical benefits of this consolidation are discussed in the last part of the paper, which includes a case study where the new models are used in the analysis of Polish anti-immigration discourse.","PeriodicalId":41377,"journal":{"name":"Topics in Linguistics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2019-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41479809","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}

引用次数: 8

A comprehensive corpus-based analysis of “X Auxiliary Subject” constructions in written and spoken English 基于语料库的英语写作和口语“X辅助主语”结构综合分析

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Topics in Linguistics Pub Date : 2019-12-01 DOI: 10.2478/topling-2019-0007

Carlos Prado-Alonso

{"title":"A comprehensive corpus-based analysis of “X Auxiliary Subject” constructions in written and spoken English","authors":"Carlos Prado-Alonso","doi":"10.2478/topling-2019-0007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2478/topling-2019-0007","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This paper describes a corpus-based analysis of subject-auxiliary inversion in both spoken and written English. The focus of the analysis is Chen’s (2013) X Auxiliary Subject construction (XASC), where X codes the fronting of a constituent which triggers the inversion of the auxiliary and the subject, as in “Never has trade union loyalty faced a more baffling test” or “What did he do?” On the basis of a statistical analysis using corpora of written and spoken English, it is argued that the distribution of XAS inversion, in the interrogative mood, is related to the degree of an addressor’s involvement in a text. It will be shown that, in the interrogative mood, the more involvement in a text, the more XAS inversions are to be expected. It is also argued that XAS inversions in interrogative clauses can be seen to serve as discourse markers through which an addressor’s involvement is coded in written and spoken English discourse. The analysis will also show that XAS inversions in the declarative mood also serve an interpersonal function, this, however, being inherently tied to the clause-linking function performed by the construction. Furthermore, the data will show that the distribution of XAS inversions in declarative clauses is related to the degree of informational content of the texts in which these inversions occur.","PeriodicalId":41377,"journal":{"name":"Topics in Linguistics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2019-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46221689","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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