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Type-shifting in headless relative clauses
Research on the (in)definiteness of bare nouns has developed various proposals regarding which type-shifters exist in human language and which...
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On Partee’s “Noun Phrase Interpretation and Type-Shifting Principles”
Montague’s classic article “The Proper Treatment of Quantification in Ordinary English” (PTQ, 1973) treated all NP occurrences as quantificational....
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Corpus-Based Quantitative Analysis on Hedges and Shifting
This chapter deals with corpus-based quantitative analysis on hedges and shifting. In the first place, it briefly introduces how to run the...
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Force shift: a case study of Cantonese ho2 particle clusters
This paper investigates force shift, a phenomenon in which the canonical discourse conventions, or force, associated with a clause type can be...
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On Chierchia’s “Reference to Kinds Across Languages”
This chapter introduces the core aspects of the theory of variation proposed in Chierchia (Nat Lang Semant 6(4):339–405, 1998). Focusing primarily on...
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Stratification effects without morphological strata, syllable counting effects without counts – modelling English stress assignment with Naive Discriminative Learning
Stress position in English words is well-known to correlate with both their morphological properties and their phonological organisation in terms of...
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Cognitive Aspects of Pragmatic Disorders
The study of the cognitive substrates of pragmatic disorders is a relatively recent development in clinical pragmatics. This development has been...
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Superstructure and Cohesion in the Narratives of Jakarta Sign Language Signers
This chapter deals with the narrative structure and connecting elements of narrative discourse in Jakarta Sign Language (JakSL). Two research...
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The pragmatics and syntax of pronoun preposing
Preposed pronouns have a dual role of both connecting the utterance to the context and serving as its starting point. While central to understanding...
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Language and late modernity: An archaeology of statal narratives of multilingualism in the Philippines
This analysis examines an archaeology of statal narratives as they relate to the multilingual linguistic milieu of the Philippines since independence...
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Theorising Language and Dialect Death
This chapter provides a detailed account of the various factors (internal, external, extralinguistic) that condition language variation and change,...
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On the nature of role shift
Attitude role shift is a sign language strategy to report someone else’s utterance or thought. It has been analyzed either as a kind of demonstration...
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Quantifying into wh-dependencies: multiple-wh questions and questions with a quantifier
Questions with a quantificational subject have readings that seemingly involve quantification into questions (called ‘ QiQ ’ for short). In particular,...
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Umigon-lexicon: rule-based model for interpretable sentiment analysis and factuality categorization
We introduce umigon-lexicon, a novel resource comprising English lexicons and associated conditions designed specifically to evaluate the sentiment...
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The heterogeneity and interrelationships among theory of mind, executive function, and reading comprehension deficits in Hong Kong Chinese children with Autism
Reading comprehension difficulties exhibited by children with autism are related to executive function (EF) and theory of mind (ToM) deficits....
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Morphology
Morphology can be defined as the material realization of morphemes. At first glance, it is about the internal structure of words, but it also...
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Relation between executive function and early language and literacy development in Bengali, Chinese, and Hindi
Positive associations have been found between executive function (EF) and language skills in young children. However, the relations between specific...
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Key language, cognitive and higher-order skills for L2 reading comprehension of expository texts in English as foreign language students: a systematic review
This systematic review addressed the following question: Which are the relations between L1 and/or L2 foundational and upper-level language skills,...
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Cultural influences on the relation between executive functions and academic achievement
The purpose of this study was to examine which of the components of executive functions (EF)—inhibition, shifting, and working memory—predict reading...
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Anaphoric definiteness marking in Korean: focusing on subject definites
This article takes a close look at subject anaphoric definites in Korean, with the goal of identifying (i) the distribution of anaphoric bare nouns...
