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An exploratory analysis of code-switching and borrowing in a corpus of Zimbabwean English 津巴布韦语英语语料库中语码转换和借用的探索性分析

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Lingua Pub Date : 2025-09-30 DOI: 10.1016/j.lingua.2025.104037

Faith Chiedza Chapwanya, Joanine Hester Nel

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The development of copula/affirmative response marker polysemy in Chinese and other languages in China 汉语和其他语言中连词/肯定反应标记词多义词的发展

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Lingua Pub Date : 2025-09-29 DOI: 10.1016/j.lingua.2025.104028

Haiping Long

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Gradient perception of geminate consonants in Arabic: a perceptual study of durational thresholds 阿拉伯语双元音的梯度感知：持续阈值的感知研究

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Lingua Pub Date : 2025-09-19 DOI: 10.1016/j.lingua.2025.104039

Abdullah Alfaifi

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Linguistic and social selectivity in phonetic imitation: Evidence from North Korean refugees in Seoul 语音模仿中的语言和社会选择性：来自首尔朝鲜难民的证据

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Lingua Pub Date : 2025-09-18 DOI: 10.1016/j.lingua.2025.104038

Hwanmin Jung , Grace E. Oh , Jeong-Im Han

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The reverse influence of L3 on the expressions of caused state change events in the L1 of Mandarin Chinese learners L3对汉语普通话学习者L1中引起状态变化事件表达的反向影响

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Lingua Pub Date : 2025-09-11 DOI: 10.1016/j.lingua.2025.104036

Yinxia Wei, Xinyi Guo

{"title":"The reverse influence of L3 on the expressions of caused state change events in the L1 of Mandarin Chinese learners","authors":"Yinxia Wei, Xinyi Guo","doi":"10.1016/j.lingua.2025.104036","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.lingua.2025.104036","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>With the previous predominance of a focus on forward transfer in motion event expressions, current research has overlooked the exploration of reverse transfer of third language (L3) regarding caused state change (CSC) events in the first language (L1). Based on an animated event description task, this study explores the reverse influence from L3 to L1 in CSC expressions, comparing 33 Mandarin–English learners with 66 Mandarin–English–Japanese learners of low and high proficiency. The findings reveal that: (1) All participant groups exhibited significant adherence to satellite-framed language (S-language) features in their lexicalization patterns, predominantly adopting causal compactness conceptual splicing patterns. (2) Both L3 (Japanese) typological features and proficiency exert inverse effects on L1 (Mandarin Chinese) CSC expressions. The former prompts Mandarin–English–Japanese learners to focus more on event results, and increased proficiency leads to reduced semantic fineness in result descriptions. (3) Cross-group comparisons of CSC events expression reflect the dynamic interplay between language systems. The similarities demonstrate the privileged role of L1, while the differences illustrate the reverse effects of Japanese typological features and proficiency.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47955,"journal":{"name":"Lingua","volume":"327 ","pages":"Article 104036"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2025-09-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145049854","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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Regional variation in conventional expressions: a comparative study of Mandarin in Mainland China and Taiwan 习惯用语的地域差异：中国大陆与台湾普通话的比较研究

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Lingua Pub Date : 2025-09-04 DOI: 10.1016/j.lingua.2025.104035

Fengming Liu , Xiaoying Liles

{"title":"Regional variation in conventional expressions: a comparative study of Mandarin in Mainland China and Taiwan","authors":"Fengming Liu , Xiaoying Liles","doi":"10.1016/j.lingua.2025.104035","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.lingua.2025.104035","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This exploratory study investigated regional variation in conventional expressions between two varieties of Mandarin, a pluricentric language, spoken in Mainland China and Taiwan. A timed aural-oral Discourse Completion Task was conducted, and over 9,000 oral responses were collected from 152 L1 speakers in Mainland China and Taiwan. This study adopted the Variational Pragmatics framework and conducted pragmatic analysis at three levels: speech act, pragmatic strategy, and the actional level, specifically focusing on the linguistic realizations of conventional expressions. The results showed that although conventional expressions embody high alignment in these two regions at the speech act level, regional variation was observed at the pragmatic strategy level, the actional level, and in some cases at both levels. At the pragmatic strategy level, speakers in the two regions used different semantic formulas, realized through distinct expressions, to perform the same speech act. At the actional level, while the distribution and production rates of conventional expressions were similar across the two regions, regional variation manifested in two ways: “variation across expressions” and “variation within expressions.” This study provides empirical data to the field of variational pragmatics by examining Mandarin varieties and sheds light on regional pragmatic similarities and differences between these intra-cultural varieties.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47955,"journal":{"name":"Lingua","volume":"326 ","pages":"Article 104035"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2025-09-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144988251","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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Sundanese verbal groups: Towards a systemic functional linguistic description 巽他语语群：走向系统功能语言描述

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Lingua Pub Date : 2025-09-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.lingua.2025.104027

Lungguh A. Bangga

{"title":"Sundanese verbal groups: Towards a systemic functional linguistic description","authors":"Lungguh A. Bangga","doi":"10.1016/j.lingua.2025.104027","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.lingua.2025.104027","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This paper focuses on the description of verbal groups in Sundanese, a Malayo-Polynesian language of West Java, Indonesia, from a Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL) perspective. Verbal groups in Sundanese are described in relation to their functions in the clause, their interactions with other systemic options at group rank, and their morphology at word rank. It begins by reviewing relevant descriptions of Sundanese verbs. Drawing on SFL theory, verbal groups are then interpreted in relation to their co-textual (discourse semantics) and contextual (register and genre) features. In particular, the paper reveals the contribution of verbal groups to interpersonal and experiential meanings at clause rank. Interpersonally, verbal groups in Sundanese play a role in the negotiation of information and goods-and-services, realise the <span>mood, modality</span> and <span>polarity</span> systems implicated in the tenor of discourse within the context. Experientially, they contribute to the expression of different types of experience in ideational discourse semantics, providing resources for construing the events and states implicated in the field of discourse within context.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47955,"journal":{"name":"Lingua","volume":"326 ","pages":"Article 104027"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2025-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144922021","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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Reframing Chinese verb patterns through a chunk-based approach: a case study of legal judgments 基于组块的汉语动词模式重构：以判决书为例

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Lingua Pub Date : 2025-08-29 DOI: 10.1016/j.lingua.2025.104024

Chengwen Wang , Yu Wang , Miao Zhou , Endong Xun

{"title":"Reframing Chinese verb patterns through a chunk-based approach: a case study of legal judgments","authors":"Chengwen Wang , Yu Wang , Miao Zhou , Endong Xun","doi":"10.1016/j.lingua.2025.104024","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.lingua.2025.104024","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The interaction between lexis and grammatical patterns, known as lexicogrammar, plays a crucial role in describing a word’s usage characteristics and profiles. Lexico-grammatical pattern extraction and further analysis are essential for understanding language features and usage characteristics, particularly in analyzing how words function within specific textual contexts. Given that verbs constitute the syntactic and semantic core of Chinese sentences, investigating verb patterns is crucial, as various grammatical elements frequently co-occur with verbs to form stable and high-frequency patterns, making such research both feasible and necessary for a comprehensive understanding of Chinese linguistic structures and meaning construction. Previous methods of pattern extraction largely rely on linear concordance analyses, which often fail to capture deeper structural relationships, resulting in inaccurate or misleading collocations. To overcome these limitations, this study introduces a chunk-based annotation approach using Chinese legal judgments as a representative case study. We developed a framework to segment predicate chunks into finer-grained sub-chunks, thereby enabling precise extraction of verb patterns. Employing collostructional analysis, we quantitatively assessed the association strength between verbs and their grammatical patterns and identified preferred verb patterns. The findings demonstrate a strong preference for pre-verbal patterns, aligning closely with genre-specific requirements for factual precision and contextual specificity in legal texts. Additionally, distinct pattern preferences emerge across various semantic verb categories (e.g., existential, saying, action), providing empirical insights into the syntactic and functional dimensions of Chinese verb usage. This research contributes to corpus-based studies on the interaction between lexical items and grammatical patterns, and deepens the understanding of the factors influencing verb usage in Chinese.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47955,"journal":{"name":"Lingua","volume":"326 ","pages":"Article 104024"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2025-08-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144914005","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 production of the subjunctive in child heritage Spanish: an examination of early acquired contexts 儿童遗产西班牙语中虚拟语气的产生：早期习得语境的考察

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Lingua Pub Date : 2025-08-23 DOI: 10.1016/j.lingua.2025.104026

Laura Solano-Escobar

{"title":"The production of the subjunctive in child heritage Spanish: an examination of early acquired contexts","authors":"Laura Solano-Escobar","doi":"10.1016/j.lingua.2025.104026","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.lingua.2025.104026","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The present study examined the production of the subjunctive among 30 child heritage speakers, 30 monolingual children, 15 immigrant parents and 15 monolingual parents in two early acquired deontic predicates that differ in selection type (predicates of volition and reported commands, including <em>querer</em> “to want” and <em>decir</em> “to say/tell”). Additionally, it explored the role of chronological age, proficiency, language exposure and language use on the production of the subjunctive. The results obtained via a sentence completion task showed high rates of subjunctive use among the heritage children. Nonetheless, the heritage children differed from the other groups in the production of alternative responses. Results also showed a significant role of chronological age and proficiency in the probability of subjunctive use. The more proficient and the older the children were, the more they produced the subjunctive. Individual results showed variability in the children’s performance with some children exhibiting categorical use of the subjunctive and others showing variable use of it. The study argues for protracted development stemming from the interaction between age and proficiency. It also highlights the importance of considering individual variability in morphosyntactic acquisition, as such variability reflects the dynamic and individualized nature of bilingual development.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47955,"journal":{"name":"Lingua","volume":"326 ","pages":"Article 104026"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2025-08-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144891984","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 motivations and limits of Mandarin contact-induced evolution: A case study of Xiaoling Junhua in contact with Min dialects in Hainan 普通话接触诱发进化的动机与局限——以海南闽方言接触中的小灵君华为例

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Lingua Pub Date : 2025-08-22 DOI: 10.1016/j.lingua.2025.104025

Chuntao Liu

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