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The theme-recipient alternation in Chinese: tracking syntactic variation across seven centuries 汉语主-受者交替:追踪七个世纪的句法变化

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Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory Pub Date : 2021-12-06 DOI: 10.1515/cllt-2021-0048

Yi Li, Benedikt Szmrecsanyi, Weiwei Zhang

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引用次数: 3

Investigating genre distinctions through discourse distance and discourse network. 通过语篇距离和语篇网络考察语类差异。

IF 1.6 2区文学

Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory Pub Date : 2021-11-01 DOI: 10.1515/cllt-2020-0064

Kun Sun, Rong Wang, Wenxin Xiong

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Modelling incipient probabilistic grammar change in real time: the grammaticalisation of possessive pronouns in European Spanish locative adverbial constructions 实时模拟早期概率语法变化：欧洲西班牙语位置状语结构中所有格代词的语法化

IF 1.6 2区文学

Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory Pub Date : 2021-10-25 DOI: 10.1515/cllt-2021-0030

Matti Marttinen Larsson

引用次数: 4

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Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory Pub Date : 2021-10-01 DOI: 10.1515/cllt-2021-frontmatter2

引用次数: 0

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IF 1.6 2区文学

Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory Pub Date : 2021-09-30 DOI: 10.1515/cllt-2021-frontmatter3

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Primed progressives? Predicting aspectual choice in World Englishes "进步人士?预测世界英语的体位选择

IF 1.6 2区文学

Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory Pub Date : 2021-09-28 DOI: 10.1515/cllt-2021-0012

Paula Rautionaho, M. Hundt

引用次数: 3

Transitivity on a continuum: the transitivity index as a predictor of Spanish causatives 连续体上的及物性：作为西班牙语因果关系预测指标的及物性指数

IF 1.6 2区文学

Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory Pub Date : 2021-09-27 DOI: 10.1515/cllt-2021-0019

Gustavo Guajardo

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引用次数: 1

Switch-reference and its role in referential choice in Mbyá Guaraní narratives. 转换参照及其在mby<s:1> Guaraní叙事中参照选择中的作用

IF 1 2区文学

Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory Pub Date : 2021-05-07 eCollection Date: 2021-11-01 DOI: 10.1515/cllt-2020-0028

Guillaume Thomas, Gregory Antono, Laurestine Bradford, Angelika Kiss, Darragh Winkelman

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Alternations emerge and disappear: the network of dispossession constructions in the history of English 交替出现和消失:英语历史上的剥夺结构网络

IF 1.6 2区文学

Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory Pub Date : 2021-05-06 DOI: 10.1515/cllt-2020-0074

Eva Zehentner

引用次数: 1

Exploring semantic differences between the Indonesian prefixes PE- and PEN- using a vector space model 利用向量空间模型探索印尼语前缀PE-和PEN-之间的语义差异

IF 1.6 2区文学

Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory Pub Date : 2021-04-09 DOI: 10.1515/cllt-2020-0023

Karlina Denistia, E. Shafaei-Bajestan, R. Baayen

引用次数: 6