{"title":"Telicity in Article-less Languages","authors":"Kyumin Kim","doi":"10.17002/sil..64.202207.23","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17002/sil..64.202207.23","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41887,"journal":{"name":"Concentric-Studies in Linguistics","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-07-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77275074","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}
{"title":"A corpus-pragmatics approach to evaluation in professor reviews","authors":"Mei-ching Ho","doi":"10.1075/consl.21010.ho","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/consl.21010.ho","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 This study takes a corpus pragmatics approach to investigate the use of evaluative language in professor reviews,\u0000 focusing on how review writers express evaluation through recurrent four-word sequences and the pragmatic functions of these\u0000 sequences in positive and negative reviews on the website, RateMyProfessors.com. Based on an analysis of a 2.9-million-word corpus of free text comments, the findings indicate\u0000 that positive reviews used more 4-grams, and more varied types, than negative ones. The 4-word sequences were found to carry out\u0000 four pragmatic functions: attitudinal evaluation, reader engagement, referential expression, and discourse organization. While a\u0000 similar distribution of the main functional categories was observed among the top 100 4-grams in both review types, with\u0000 evaluative clusters being most predominant, distinctive intra-genre variations were found in the ways review writers employed\u0000 different functional sub-categories. For example, positive reviews relied heavily on hedged suggestion 4-grams to engage readers,\u0000 whereas negative reviews used directive 4-grams for the same purpose. These findings suggest the important role of multi-word\u0000 sequences in the understanding of evaluative resources in professor reviews of different valence types.","PeriodicalId":41887,"journal":{"name":"Concentric-Studies in Linguistics","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-05-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"59384984","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}
{"title":"Autistic traits, working memory, and L2 prosodic boundary detection","authors":"C. Kuo","doi":"10.1075/consl.21040.kuo","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/consl.21040.kuo","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 This study aims to examine the roles of second language (L2) learners’ autistic traits and\u0000 working memory capacity in detecting prosodic boundaries. Forty-six learners of English with Mandarin as\u0000 their native language completed questionnaires on personality and cognitive assessment – an Autism-Spectrum Quotient questionnaire\u0000 (AQ) and a Working Memory questionnaire (WM). They also completed a Rapid Prosody Transcription (RPT) task in which they were\u0000 asked to mark prosodic boundaries produced by Barack Obama in recordings of his Weekly Address. The results revealed that autistic\u0000 traits and working memory capacity were positively correlated with each other, and attention to detail was the\u0000 primary predictor for the detection of boundary tones. These findings provide insight into L2 learners’ detection\u0000 of prosodic boundaries along the autistic traits and working memory capacity continuum and further indicate that EFL instructions\u0000 should take individual differences into consideration when assessing L2 learners’ performance in listening or comprehension\u0000 tasks.","PeriodicalId":41887,"journal":{"name":"Concentric-Studies in Linguistics","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-05-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46853547","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}
{"title":"The constructionalization of antonymous compounds","authors":"Xiaolong Lu","doi":"10.1075/consl.21012.lu","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/consl.21012.lu","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 In modern Chinese, the adverb chi-zao is regarded as an adjective-adjective compound, with\u0000 morphemes chi ‘late’ and zao ‘early’ as extreme poles in a gradable temporality. The formation\u0000 of chi-zao as an antonymous compound has not received much attention from a diachronic construction grammar\u0000 perspective. This study reports on the historical change of chi-zao as evidence showing the interplay of\u0000 antonymous compounds and constructionalization in modern Chinese. Based on corpus analysis, I found that the formation of\u0000 chi-zao as a lexical construction inherits from previous changes but emerges instantaneously in Pre-Modern\u0000 Chinese, where its form has been condensed and its meaning has been bleached to indicate subjectivity. Three arguments shed light\u0000 on the model of constructionalization: (1) constructionalization at the compound level can be associated with three motivations:\u0000 subjectivity, frequency, and metaphor; and (2) the operation of constructionalization is at work not only at the sentential and\u0000 phrasal level but also at the morphological level of compound word formation in Chinese; (3) rhetoric as an output of language use\u0000 plays a part in the development of constructionalization in relation to antonymous compounds.","PeriodicalId":41887,"journal":{"name":"Concentric-Studies in Linguistics","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-05-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47887456","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}
{"title":"The syntax of nominal modification and complex noun phrases in Siwkolan Amis","authors":"Wei-Cherng Sam Jheng","doi":"10.1075/consl.21014.jhe","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/consl.21014.jhe","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 This work investigates the syntax of nominal modification involving the linker a in Siwkolan\u0000 Amis, one of the dialects of Amis, an Austronesian language spoken in Taiwan. Based on the two observed types of NP-ellipsis\u0000 patterns and the formal licensing condition, I argue that Amis displays two types of modification. Modifiers in direct\u0000 modification are functional heads projecting extended functional projections of NP, whereas those in indirect modification are\u0000 modifier phrases base-generated at [Spec, ModP]. This distinction adds weight to J. Wu’s\u0000 (2003) view that relative clauses and description-denoting modifiers marked by -ay are clausal\u0000 modifiers that have a full-fledged CP structure from a cartographic perspective. Furthermore, I argue that a\u0000 projects the Modifier Phrase (ModP) and is a modificatory clitic endowed with a [+mod] feature that attaches to a head\u0000 element moving from a lower head position to form a morphological word. Very much in line with Philip (2012), the proposed analysis suggests that a is endowed with an interpretative profile in\u0000 marking a modification relation between an extended functional projection (a modifier phrase) and a dependent word (a modified\u0000 noun) in the nominal domain. Issues involved in dealing with the structure of Amis complex noun phrases are discussed.","PeriodicalId":41887,"journal":{"name":"Concentric-Studies in Linguistics","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-05-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45945107","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}
{"title":"English Imperative Clauses and Inflection: A Diachronic Approach","authors":"Dajung Kim","doi":"10.17002/sil..63.202204.87","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17002/sil..63.202204.87","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41887,"journal":{"name":"Concentric-Studies in Linguistics","volume":"30 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-04-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"75078151","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}
{"title":"A Study on the Effective Pedagogy of Chinese Ba Construction for Korean Learners, Based on Construction Grammar Approach","authors":"Tae-eun Kim, Jeeyoung Park","doi":"10.17002/sil..63.202204.183","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17002/sil..63.202204.183","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41887,"journal":{"name":"Concentric-Studies in Linguistics","volume":"33 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-04-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89312373","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}
{"title":"Similarity on Tagalog Vowel Alternation: A Weighted Constraint Analysis","authors":"TeriAnJoy Magpale","doi":"10.17002/sil..63.202204.19","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17002/sil..63.202204.19","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41887,"journal":{"name":"Concentric-Studies in Linguistics","volume":"06 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-04-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85850187","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}
{"title":"Plural and Honorific Feature Percolation of the Subject-Verb(al Predicate) Agreement","authors":"Doo-Won Lee","doi":"10.17002/sil..63.202204.105","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17002/sil..63.202204.105","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41887,"journal":{"name":"Concentric-Studies in Linguistics","volume":"110 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-04-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87718198","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}
{"title":"Syntactic Word Order and Verbal Prefixes in Old Japanese (possible diachronic typological perspective)","authors":"Yekaterina Shmaevskaia","doi":"10.17002/sil..63.202204.51","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17002/sil..63.202204.51","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41887,"journal":{"name":"Concentric-Studies in Linguistics","volume":"30 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-04-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88142885","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}