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Constructional variation, grammaticalization, and constructional network of extreme degree resultatives in Mandarin: A quantitative analysis 构变、语法化与汉语极端结果语构网的定量分析

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Lingua Pub Date : 2025-07-19 DOI: 10.1016/j.lingua.2025.104017

Yuanmeng Liu , Na Liu , Fuyin Thomas Li

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Cultural conceptualisations of karma in American, Indian, and Hong Kong varieties of English 美国、印度和香港英语中因果报应的文化概念

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Lingua Pub Date : 2025-07-18 DOI: 10.1016/j.lingua.2025.104010

Yanyan Zhang , Ruoyan Cui

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Resolving homophonous ambiguity in Mandarin adverbs: Contextual constraints and bidirectional optimization 汉语副词同音歧义的消解：语境约束与双向优化

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Lingua Pub Date : 2025-07-14 DOI: 10.1016/j.lingua.2025.104007

Yu-Ching Tseng

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Pragmatics of second person address variation in New Zealand Sign Language 新西兰手语中第二人称称呼变化的语用学研究

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Lingua Pub Date : 2025-07-11 DOI: 10.1016/j.lingua.2025.104009

Rachel McKee , Mireille Vale , George Major , Sara Pivac Alexander , Miriam Meyerhoff

{"title":"Pragmatics of second person address variation in New Zealand Sign Language","authors":"Rachel McKee , Mireille Vale , George Major , Sara Pivac Alexander , Miriam Meyerhoff","doi":"10.1016/j.lingua.2025.104009","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.lingua.2025.104009","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Expansion of contexts and purposes for the use of New Zealand Sign Language (NZSL) and the affordances of online video communication modes have led to the emergence of new genre features which have not yet been described. Focusing on contemporary online informative videotexts in NZSL, we take a variationist pragmatics lens to examining variation in second person address between index-finger and whole-hand pointing forms. Forms of address are significant in the construction of social relations between speakers and addressees, having the potential to index dimensions of status, social distance and speaker stance. This study used mixed methods to investigate the use and social indexicality of a whole-hand pronominal variant in NZSL, including analysis of its distribution and associated factors in a dataset of online videotexts and data from other genres and time periods. Metapragmatic insight of NZSL signers about contextual and social motivations for the use of whole-hand pointing address enriches our interpretation of observations in the video data. In addition to confirming that the whole-hand form of address is a modern usage, participants identified four other associations with this form: genre, mode, politeness, and Māori context. We conclude that the typical use of whole-hand address in these informative online videos is a feature re-mediated from in-person public speaking contexts, which is now associated with and replicated in the online modality of this public address genre.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47955,"journal":{"name":"Lingua","volume":"325 ","pages":"Article 104009"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2025-07-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144597441","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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An Experimental Investigation into Voice Mismatches in Pseudogapping: Insights from Acceptability Judgments and Processing 伪窃听中语音不匹配的实验研究：来自可接受性判断和处理的见解

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Lingua Pub Date : 2025-07-03 DOI: 10.1016/j.lingua.2025.104006

Sang-Hee Park , Jungsoo Kim

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Projecting incongruity in turn and action: the TCU-medial particle ha in Chinese conversation 轮流与行动的不协调投射：汉语会话中的tcu -中间粒子ha

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Lingua Pub Date : 2025-07-03 DOI: 10.1016/j.lingua.2025.103999

Yaxin Wu , Ying Hu , Elliott M. Hoey

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How animacy impacts word order in Austrian Sign Language (ÖGS): Evidence from sentences with inanimate subject arguments 有生命性如何影响奥地利手语的语序（ÖGS）：来自无生命主语论证的句子的证据

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Lingua Pub Date : 2025-07-02 DOI: 10.1016/j.lingua.2025.104003

Julia Krebs

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Language interference in Mandarin Chinese-English simultaneous interpreting: insights from multi-dimensional syntactic complexity 汉英同声传译中的语言干扰：来自多维句法复杂性的洞察

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Lingua Pub Date : 2025-06-30 DOI: 10.1016/j.lingua.2025.104005

Rui Xie , Yao Yao , Wenkang Zhang , Andrew K.F. Cheung

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Lexical-semantic and morphological co-development in L2 Chinese: a complex network approach 二语汉语词汇、语义和形态的共同发展：一个复杂的网络研究方法

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Lingua Pub Date : 2025-06-26 DOI: 10.1016/j.lingua.2025.104004

Jian Li , Heng Chen

{"title":"Lexical-semantic and morphological co-development in L2 Chinese: a complex network approach","authors":"Jian Li , Heng Chen","doi":"10.1016/j.lingua.2025.104004","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.lingua.2025.104004","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Using a complex network approach, this study explores the co-development of lexical-semantic knowledge and morphological awareness in second language (L2) Chinese learners. By tracking specific network metrics—such as the steady decline in density (ND) alongside non-monotonic shifts in weighted average degree (WAD) in the lexical-semantic networks, and the persistent rise in average degree (AD) in the word-formation networks—across three proficiency levels, we show how learners move from breadth-focused vocabulary growth toward deeper semantic integration, while their characters show enhanced compounding productivity and cohesive morphological linking. A strong correlation between these two competences is observed, with pivotal characters serving as critical links between the networks. While lexical-semantic knowledge and morphological awareness in L2 Chinese learners co-develop with increasing proficiency, they remain distinct from those of native Chinese speakers. These findings underscore the necessity of integrated, targeted, and stage-specific instructional strategies to facilitate the development of learners’ lexical competence. The study also provides practical insights for teaching Chinese as a foreign language (TCFL) through quantitative and visual analyses of L2 development.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47955,"journal":{"name":"Lingua","volume":"325 ","pages":"Article 104004"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2025-06-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144490974","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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Is there a polarity-prominent language? A typological perspective on Dagaare verbal systems 有没有一种极端突出的语言？Dagaare语言系统的类型学研究

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Lingua Pub Date : 2025-06-24 DOI: 10.1016/j.lingua.2025.103988

Isaac N. Mwinlaaru

{"title":"Is there a polarity-prominent language? A typological perspective on Dagaare verbal systems","authors":"Isaac N. Mwinlaaru","doi":"10.1016/j.lingua.2025.103988","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.lingua.2025.103988","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>To date, the three-tier typology of verbal systems into tense-prominent, aspect-prominent and mood-prominent proposed by Shankara Bhat at the end of the twentieth century seems to have stuck. The present study reveals a novel type of prominence in Dagaare (Niger-Congo: Mabia/Gur), namely polarity prominence. The study shows that distinctions in <span>tense</span>, <span>mood</span> and <span>modality</span> are cast in terms of <span>polarity</span>. First, the tense category of <span>futurity</span> makes positive and negative distinctions in both future and non-future. Second, indicative and imperative moods are essentially distinguished by polarity markers unique to each mood, and the sub-types of each mood are shades of polarity. This polarity-based mood distinction extends beyond the verbal domain to the domain of clause final particles and focus marking, establishing polarity concord between items of the verbal group and periphery elements of the clause. In addition, the interaction between <span>polarity</span> and <span>modality</span> enacts a cline of polarity from full positivity to full negation with a median modality in the mid region. The study also demonstrates that, although Dagaare verb morphology encodes perfective/imperfective aspectual distinction, <span>aspect</span> is not a competing candidate for prominence in the language. The study reveals that a robust empirical framework of prominence needs to go beyond verbal inflection and as well incorporate finiteness into the criteria of prominence.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47955,"journal":{"name":"Lingua","volume":"324 ","pages":"Article 103988"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2025-06-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144470601","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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