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What women want: Teaching and learning pronouns in Ngarrindjeri 女人想要的:教和学习恩伽林杰里语的代词

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Australian Journal of Linguistics Pub Date : 2021-10-02 DOI: 10.1080/07268602.2022.2027867

M. Gale, Angela Giles, Jane Simpson, Rob Amery, David Wilkins

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Elastic language in academic emails: Communication between a PhD applicant and potential supervisors 学术电子邮件中的弹性语言：博士申请人与潜在导师之间的沟通

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Australian Journal of Linguistics Pub Date : 2021-07-03 DOI: 10.1080/07268602.2021.1958749

Peyman G. P. Sabet, Samran Daneshfar, Grace Zhang

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Constraints on subject elision in northern Australian Kriol: Between discourse and syntax 北澳Kriol语主语省略的制约:话语与句法之间

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Australian Journal of Linguistics Pub Date : 2021-07-03 DOI: 10.1080/07268602.2021.1962807

Connor Brown, Maïa Ponsonnet

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The argument structure of the bă construction in Mandarin Chinese: Decontextualized and contextualized perspectives 汉语普通话动词构式的论点结构:非语境化与语境化的视角

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Australian Journal of Linguistics Pub Date : 2021-07-03 DOI: 10.1080/07268602.2021.1971157

Xiujin Yu, Yi Li, Hui Zhang

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Ongoing change in the Australian English amplifier system 澳大利亚英语放大器系统的持续变化

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Australian Journal of Linguistics Pub Date : 2021-04-03 DOI: 10.1080/07268602.2021.1931028

M. Schweinberger

{"title":"Ongoing change in the Australian English amplifier system","authors":"M. Schweinberger","doi":"10.1080/07268602.2021.1931028","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/07268602.2021.1931028","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This study takes a corpus-based approach to investigating ongoing change in the Australian English adjective amplifier system based on the Australian component of the International Corpus of English (ICE). The paper analyzes changes in amplifiers across apparent time, with special attention being placed on amplifier–adjective–bigram frequencies, to provide insights into cognitive mechanisms underlying lexical replacement. Specifically, the paper analyzes why the innovative variant really was successful in replacing the traditional amplifier very, while other rivals (e.g. so or pretty) were not. Lexical diversity scores and distinctive collexeme analyses confirm that, in contrast to other rival variants, really specializes on and collocates with a few high-frequency adjectives (HFAs) while being dispreferred by low frequency adjectives. The results of a mixed-effects regression analysis show that the use of really is socially stratified with young speakers preferring really over other variants. In addition, the multivariate analysis shows that the replacement of very by really is a female-dominated change and that the use of really is enhanced by priming. The paper argues that collocating with HFAs leads to deeper entrenchment which, in turn, serves as an advantage in situations where speakers choose between rivalling innovative variants.","PeriodicalId":44988,"journal":{"name":"Australian Journal of Linguistics","volume":"41 1","pages":"166 - 194"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2021-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41495023","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Putting time in context: There is no causal link between temporal focus and implicit space–time mappings on the front–back axis 把时间放在语境中:时间焦点和前后轴上的隐式时空映射之间没有因果关系

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Australian Journal of Linguistics Pub Date : 2021-04-03 DOI: 10.1080/07268602.2021.1920885

Yutian Qin

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Fricative contrasts and neutralization in Marri Tjevin Marri Tjevin中令人回味的对比与中和

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Australian Journal of Linguistics Pub Date : 2021-04-03 DOI: 10.1080/07268602.2021.1957774

John Mansfield, I. Green

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A tale of two genres: Engaging audiences in academic blogs and Three Minute Thesis presentations 这是一个两种类型的故事:在学术博客和三分钟论文演讲中吸引观众

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Australian Journal of Linguistics Pub Date : 2021-04-03 DOI: 10.1080/07268602.2021.1918630

H. Zou, Ken Hyland

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Entity- vs. event-existentials: A new typology 实体与事件存在:一种新的类型

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Australian Journal of Linguistics Pub Date : 2021-04-03 DOI: 10.1080/07268602.2021.1957775

Yong Wang

{"title":"Entity- vs. event-existentials: A new typology","authors":"Yong Wang","doi":"10.1080/07268602.2021.1957775","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/07268602.2021.1957775","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Different classifications of existential clauses (ECs) have been proposed in the literature, including structural classifications, classifications according to the source construction and classifications according to the functions performed by ECs. However, no serious attempt has been made to typologize ECs according to the semantic nature of the most essential element of the construction, i.e. the existent. In this regard, this study recognizes two types of existentials: entity- and event-existentials. The latter is a much-ignored category, though it is an important one that has implications for some of the controversial issues in the literature. For example, it can be correlated to the controversy over the NP analysis or the small clause analysis of the coda. It is argued that these two analyses are not alternatives to each other; rather they are suited to the two types of ECs respectively, i.e. the NP analysis to entity-existentials and the small clause analysis to event-existentials. Further, it is shown that this new typology also has relevance for the two semantic restrictions on ECs, i.e. the definiteness effect mainly concerns entity-existentials, and the predication restriction event-existentials.","PeriodicalId":44988,"journal":{"name":"Australian Journal of Linguistics","volume":"41 1","pages":"195 - 219"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2021-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45605574","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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The cognition of caused-motion events in Spanish and German: An Agentive Cognitive Construction Grammar analysis 西班牙语和德语对引起动作事件的认知：代理认知结构语法分析

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Australian Journal of Linguistics Pub Date : 2021-01-02 DOI: 10.1080/07268602.2021.1888279

S. Torres-Martínez

{"title":"The cognition of caused-motion events in Spanish and German: An Agentive Cognitive Construction Grammar analysis","authors":"S. Torres-Martínez","doi":"10.1080/07268602.2021.1888279","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/07268602.2021.1888279","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT In this paper, I present a comparative analysis of caused-motion events (involving placement, removal, causation and transfer) in Spanish and German within an emerging Cognitive Construction Grammar theory of mind and language. The aim of this article is to offer a syntactic account by which argument structure information is required to understand the encoding of transferred object/target path in these languages. The core theoretical observation is that the spatial representation of events of transfer and placement is reliant on embodied patterns of constructional attachment (constructional attachment patterns) that are not attributable to typological differences such as particle or monomorphemic verbal encoding of target path. This insight can be summarized as follows: typologically different languages encode caused-motion information in an argument structure construction, while the specific semantics of verbs encode stance, object, shape, weight and target path structure. In Spanish, verbal object–path encoding does not require the use of specific placement markers, since speakers identify the form and shape of objects encoded by specific verbs. In German, object shape and form, as well as path, are encoded by specific particles, prefixes and base verbs. The conclusion is that both argument structure and verbal meaning are required to understand the way speakers perceive and further conceptualize reality through language.","PeriodicalId":44988,"journal":{"name":"Australian Journal of Linguistics","volume":"41 1","pages":"33 - 65"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2021-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/07268602.2021.1888279","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44353434","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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