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Constructing Arabic Reading Comprehension Datasets: Arabic WikiReading and KaifLematha
Neural machine reading comprehension models have gained immense popularity over the last decade given the availability of large-scale English...
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Im/Politeness in Translated Press Discourse
The chapter considers a translation-mediated im/Politeness (Tim/po) model of interaction accommodating the translator as mediator, who can interfere...
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Ezafe, PP and the nature of nominalization
In the paper we argue that the English VP/NP structures in (i) a-d have exact counterparts in the i(ranian)Persian PP/NP structures in (ii) a-d,...
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What’s in an agent?
This article investigates the morphological diversity of agent nouns (ANs) in French. It addresses the questions of which nouns form a semantically...
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From Language to Languaging
This chapter discusses ontologies of language as a normative noun, a performative verb and a political marker of (un)belonging, highlighting the...
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‘Ways of Being’ Online: The Case of an Ultrarunning Group
This chapter is based on the research procedures presented and discussed in the previous chapter. In this chapter, I present my findings from Phase...
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Humour
This chapter presents what is arguably the first review of the linguistics of humour studies for stylisticians. We explain how ambiguity,...
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Transformation Process
In the following, we will first present a formal representation of the semantic hierarchy of minimal propositions that is generated by our proposed...
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On Krifka’s “Nominal Reference, TemporalConstitutionandQuantification in Event Semantics”
Krifka, in his paper “Nominal reference, temporal constitution and quantification in event semantics”, provides the first formal mereological...
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Exploring Verbal Uncanny Valley Effects with Vague Language in Computer Speech
Interactions with speech interfaces are growing, helped by the advent of intelligent personal assistants like Amazon Alexa and Google Assistant. This...
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Multiple annotation for biodiversity: develo** an annotation framework among biology, linguistics and text technology
Biodiversity information is contained in countless digitized and unprocessed scholarly texts. Although automated extraction of these data has been...
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Representing Processes: Actions, States and Events in Poetry
This chapter will examine how poetry uses textual choice to represent processesRepresenting processes through the verbal element of their...
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Online Worldreviewer Language Spaces (OWLS): Integrating Decolonizing Technology and Heritage Language Pedagogy in TESOL
Technology is not neutral; it is an extension of a knowledge system. A fundamental issue in discussing the role of technology in Teaching English to...
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Towards a theory of morphosyntactic focus marking
Based on six detailed case studies of languages in which focus is marked morphosyntactically, we propose a novel formal theory of focus marking,...
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Generic conjunctivitis
Generic sentences involving phrasal conjunctions present a prima facie problem for the standard theory of generics according to which they express...
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Literature Review
This chapter presents an overview of the related theories and concepts to build a theoretical framework for the study. As mentioned in Chap....
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Contemporary Poetry and Textual Meaning
This book aims to contribute to our knowledge about language and specifically about the language of a specific kind of text, the lyric poemLyric...
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Sapir’s Form-Feeling and its Historical Context
According to Sapir, cultural structures or “patterns” cannot be consciously accessed in all their intricacy. However, an intimation of the inter-unit...
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Cognitive Grammar
This chapter starts with an overview of cognitive linguistics and cognitive stylistics before focusing exclusively on Cognitive Grammar as a...
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Semantic Lexical Error Analysis
The importance of lexis in written translation and how formal lexical errors could affect the quality and clarity of the Saudi English major...