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Lingua Pub Date : 2025-11-01 Epub Date: 2025-09-18 DOI: 10.1016/j.lingua.2025.104038

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

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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 : 2025-11-01 Epub Date: 2025-09-30 DOI: 10.1016/j.lingua.2025.104037

Faith Chiedza Chapwanya, Joanine Hester Nel

{"title":"An exploratory analysis of code-switching and borrowing in a corpus of Zimbabwean English","authors":"Faith Chiedza Chapwanya, Joanine Hester Nel","doi":"10.1016/j.lingua.2025.104037","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.lingua.2025.104037","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This paper explores patterns of English-Shona code-switching and borrowing in a corpus of Zimbabwean English to determine the types, frequencies, and functions of these features. Results indicate that intrasentential code-switching was the most frequent type of switching followed by intersentential code-switching and then lexical borrowing. The least frequent type of switching was loanword adaptations. The analysis revealed that spoken registers had the highest frequency of switching compared to written registers. The informal and spontaneous nature of spoken registers were cited as motivations for the high frequency. Subsequently, multi-word switches occurring in the same place were attested more, which can be linked to their higher frequency of occurrence in public dialogues. Social functions, namely accommodation and solidarity, had the highest frequencies whilst switching at a time of vagueness or uncertainty was the second highest function of code-switching. Other functions of code-switching attested in the Zimbabwean English corpus, in the order of frequency, include repetition or reiteration, asking questions, identity marking, code-switching to show emotions, code-switching as discourse marking, clarification, and emphasis. Analyzing the functions of code-switching in the Zimbabwean English corpus and determining the frequency of each function is crucial for understanding the linguistic-, cognitive-, and sociocultural dimensions of bilingualism in Zimbabwe.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47955,"journal":{"name":"Lingua","volume":"327 ","pages":"Article 104037"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2025-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145221766","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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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 : 2025-10-01 Epub Date: 2025-07-02 DOI: 10.1016/j.lingua.2025.104003

Julia Krebs

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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 : 2025-10-01 Epub Date: 2025-08-22 DOI: 10.1016/j.lingua.2025.104025

Chuntao Liu

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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 : 2025-10-01 Epub 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":"2025-10-01","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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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 : 2025-10-01 Epub Date: 2025-07-03 DOI: 10.1016/j.lingua.2025.104006

Sang-Hee Park , Jungsoo Kim

{"title":"An Experimental Investigation into Voice Mismatches in Pseudogapping: Insights from Acceptability Judgments and Processing","authors":"Sang-Hee Park , Jungsoo Kim","doi":"10.1016/j.lingua.2025.104006","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.lingua.2025.104006","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This paper investigates the acceptability and processing of the pseudogapping construction, focusing on the puzzle of voice mismatch between the antecedent and elliptical clauses (e.g., <em>My problem will be looked into by Tom, but he won’t yours.</em>). While syntactic accounts predict ungrammaticality for such mismatches, semantic accounts suggest that they should be acceptable. Through two acceptability judgment experiments and a self-paced reading experiment, we examine how these mismatches interact with factors that are known to influence ellipsis: information structure and the syntactic complexity of the antecedent. Results of the acceptability judgment experiments indicate that voice mismatch consistently lowers acceptability, with its impact varying by interaction with information structure and antecedent complexity. The self-paced reading experiment further shows that voice mismatch leads to longer reading times both at and before the ellipsis site. In addition, information structure and antecedent complexity independently influence processing, with the latter also modulating the effects of voice mismatch. These findings suggest that pseudogapping is not entirely resistant to syntactic mismatches; however, its judgment and processing are shaped by factors beyond syntactic identity.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47955,"journal":{"name":"Lingua","volume":"325 ","pages":"Article 104006"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2025-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144549113","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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Placeholders in written language: The case of Japanese kō and otsu 书面语言中的占位符：日语中的kkui和otsu

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Lingua Pub Date : 2025-10-01 Epub Date: 2025-07-25 DOI: 10.1016/j.lingua.2025.104008

Tohru Seraku

{"title":"Placeholders in written language: The case of Japanese kō and otsu","authors":"Tohru Seraku","doi":"10.1016/j.lingua.2025.104008","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.lingua.2025.104008","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>A communicator is sometimes unable or unwilling to produce a particular expression. One of the lexical resources for overcoming such word-formulation difficulties is the use of placeholders like <em>whatchamacallit</em> and <em>you-know-what</em>. Whilst recent years have seen a proliferation of research on placeholders across diverse languages, prior studies have largely focussed on spoken language, with little attention paid to their use in writing. This paper reveals that Japanese has placeholders that appear almost exclusively in written language, predominantly in legal texts. First, we describe the distributional and grammatical properties of the placeholders <em>kō</em> and <em>otsu</em> through a theory-neutral analysis of data retrieved from <em>The Balanced Corpus of Contemporary Written Japanese</em>. Second, building on this descriptive foundation, we propose a cognitive account of their semantic and pragmatic aspects within the framework of Relevance Theory. We argue that <em>kō</em> and <em>otsu</em> encode procedural meaning and demonstrate how specific interpretations, both explicit and implicit, arise from the interaction among procedural meaning, contextual assumptions, and pragmatic principles. The present work advances the scholarship of placeholders by providing the first detailed account of placeholders in written language and by developing a semantic–pragmatic integrated approach to their contextual interpretation.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47955,"journal":{"name":"Lingua","volume":"325 ","pages":"Article 104008"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2025-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144703949","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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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 : 2025-10-01 Epub Date: 2025-06-30 DOI: 10.1016/j.lingua.2025.104005

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

{"title":"Language interference in Mandarin Chinese-English simultaneous interpreting: insights from multi-dimensional syntactic complexity","authors":"Rui Xie , Yao Yao , Wenkang Zhang , Andrew K.F. Cheung","doi":"10.1016/j.lingua.2025.104005","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.lingua.2025.104005","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Simultaneous interpreting (SI), a cognitively demanding task that requires real-time language comprehension and production, is influenced by source speech complexity. While extensive research has utilized mean dependency distance (MDD) to examine interpreted language, the interaction between MDD and genre in SI remains underexplored. Through the lens of cross-linguistic interference, this study investigates the influence of MDD in Mandarin Chinese source speech on the syntactic complexity of English output in SI, with a focus on the moderating effect of genre. We used the Presser Corpus, a parallel corpus of professionally interpreted press conferences that encompasses six sub-corpora across three genres: economics, healthcare, and politics/governance. The results reveal that the MDD of the source speech strongly affects the syntactic complexity of the SI output, especially at the clausal level. Pairwise comparisons indicated that the relationship between source speech MDD and syntactic complexity in interpreted outputs exhibits genre-dependent variability, as significant positive correlations were discovered in healthcare and politics/governance genres. These findings provide insights into the interplay of dependency distance and genre in shaping task difficulty and cognitive effort in Mandarin Chinese–English SI. The results have theoretical and practical implications for interpreter training and professional practice.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47955,"journal":{"name":"Lingua","volume":"325 ","pages":"Article 104005"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2025-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144513764","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 investigation of nominal copular sentences in three reading paradigms: Acceptability judgments, self-paced reading, and eye-tracking 名词常用语在可接受性判断、自定节奏阅读和眼球追踪三种阅读模式下的研究

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Lingua Pub Date : 2025-10-01 Epub Date: 2025-07-31 DOI: 10.1016/j.lingua.2025.104019

Veronica D’Alesio , Anna Teresa Porrini , Matteo Greco , Andrea Moro

{"title":"An investigation of nominal copular sentences in three reading paradigms: Acceptability judgments, self-paced reading, and eye-tracking","authors":"Veronica D’Alesio , Anna Teresa Porrini , Matteo Greco , Andrea Moro","doi":"10.1016/j.lingua.2025.104019","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.lingua.2025.104019","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This work aims to investigate the elaboration of (nominal) copular sentences in three different experimental paradigms involving a reading task: an acceptability judgment, a self-paced reading and an eye-tracking experiment. Nominal copular sentences (NCs), such as <em>[<sub>DP1</sub> The picture of the wall] is [<sub>DP2</sub> the cause of the riot],</em> represent a challenging phenomenon for, at least, two reasons: (i) they can be distinguished in two subtypes, namely <em>canonical</em> and <em>inverse</em> NCs, related to the different order of the DPs (respectively, [DP<sub>subject</sub> <em>is DP</em><sub>predicate</sub>] in canonical form vs. [DP<sub>predicate</sub> <em>is DP</em><sub>subject</sub>] in inverse form); (ii) these two subtypes are associated with one and the same type of string [DP is DP], although their underlying structure is completely different. Our results show that no differences emerge in the off-line paradigm, i.e. in the acceptability judgments. On the other hand, the self paced-reading task and the eye-tracking experiments show an asymmetry between these two types of NCs, with higher processing costs for inverse NCs. More specifically, the DP<sub>subject</sub> is looked at more often and for longer times in inverse NCs. Moreover, when comparing the DP<sub>subject</sub> to the DP<sub>predicate</sub> in postverbal position in the eye-tracking experiment, sentence structure resulted as a good predictor for total reading time and regression path duration, even after taking into account the length and frequency of the words used. These results strongly support the hypothesis that syntactic structure is a primary factor in generating a different reading pattern between the same string of lexical types of items.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47955,"journal":{"name":"Lingua","volume":"326 ","pages":"Article 104019"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2025-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144749758","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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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 : 2025-10-01 Epub 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":"2025-10-01","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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