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Teaching Chinese Heritage Children in New Zealand to Read Chinese Characters in a Community School Through a Progressive Character Reading Method
Chinese heritage language education has occurred in New Zealand for about 70 years. Such education is important given that those identifying as...
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Plural events and the progressive particle in Dalad Chinese, and the final-over-final condition
This paper examines a special progressive marker
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On the relative chronology of the II regressive and the progressive palatalizations of Common Slavic
This article examines one of the oldest conundra of Slavic historical linguistics, namely the relative chronology of the II regressive and the...
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Definite descriptions of events: progressive interpretation in Ga (Kwa)
This paper demonstrates that the progressive interpretation in Ga is an effect of the interaction between the imperfective aspect and a definite...
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Reported Speech in Opinion Newspaper Articles and Political Speeches: An English/Spanish Contrastive Approach
This paper sets forth an analysis of reporting verbs in a self-compiled 400,000-word corpus evenly divided into discourse domains (opinion newspaper...
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The Use of the English Progressive Form in Discourse: An Analysis of a Corpus of Interview Data
The form and meaning of the English progressive have received a great deal of attention in linguistic and corpus-linguistic literature. The...
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Halliday and Chinese Linguistics: The Full Circle
This book is a progressive exposition on Halliday's academic thought and its origins by the renowned linguist Hu Zhuanglin, based on 30 years of...
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Narrating the Cinderella Story in Adults with Primary Progressive Aphasia
The language of adults with non-Alzheimer’s dementias is still relatively unexplored. This is problematic given that, in the absence of definitive...
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Sentiment Analysis
In this chapter, we analyze differences in emotional tone in the media portrayal of Jews and Judaism in the West and of Muslims and Islam in the West...
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Examining morphosyntactic representations in EFL written narratives among L1 Hebrew and Arabic-speaking 6th graders
The present study examined elicited written English as a foreign language (EFL) narratives produced by 6th grade Hebrew and Arabic speakers in their...
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Literary Digital Stylistics in Translation Studies
This book presents a systematic literary comparison of the retranslations by adopting a mixed-method and bottom-up (inductive) approach by develo**...
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Comprehension of grammatical aspect markers le and zai in a diverse sample of Mandarin-exposed preschool children with autism spectrum disorder
Vulnerability of morphosyntactic production, including grammatical aspect, has been identified in at least some children with autism spectrum...
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Connecting Grammatical Person, Humanness, and Discourse Functions: Always Progressives as a Case Study
Because they reflect such important pragmatic and cognitive aspects of discourse, grammatical person and humanness merit special consideration in the...
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‘My space trips from Chimoio’: Notes About Space and Temporality in Sampling
This chapter aims to think about sampling, space, and temporality, starting from the metaphor of beat making as a space journey. The notion came up...
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Towards an Understanding of Micro-variations: Decoding the Hierarchical Module of Variation and the Correlates of Mappila Malayalam
Language variation always indicates a social meaning attached to it, and this indexical process eventually contributes to the progression of...
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Compound Sentences
The chapter starts with a review of simple sentences, aka independent clauses, to introduce their antipole – compound sentences and their major...
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Not Another Book About Male Violence Against Women!
Thus, by using language as an entry point into the study of media and society and, through an analysis of the representation of male violence against...
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‘Anyone Who Isn’t Against Us Is for Us’: Science Fiction Translated from English During the Kádár Era in Hungary (1956–89)
Focusing on translations from English, the chapter gives an overview of the initally ideology-driven, but later more pragmatic cultural policy of the...
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The grammaticalization cycle of the progressive
A well-attested phenomenon in morpho-semantic change is known as the progressive cycle , which depicts a directed and cyclic pathway of a grammatical...
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Neo-Davidsonian ontology of events
Recent Neo-Davidsonian accounts of the semantics of progressive constructions of action verbs (‘John is building a house’) reflect an ontological...