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0000-0002-9978-0689
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University of Alberta
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Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 03-2005
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH
Date: 22-07-2004
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 02-02-2022
DOI: 10.1002/WCS.1592
Abstract: The three human at‐rest postures of sitting, standing, and lying are basic, recurring features of human behavior and may reasonably be called primary postures. The three postures share the property of being stable through time, but they are also differentiated in terms of their overall shape, their physiological properties, and typical associated behaviors such as the association of sitting with social interaction, and lying with sleeping. The experiential realities of the three postures underlie and motivate a range of cross‐linguistic phenomena involving morphemes with meanings of “sit”, “stand,” and “lie”. The relevant linguistic phenomena include higher frequencies of occurrence compared with other kinds of posture verbs and differential behavior with respect to some morphosyntactic patterns involving notions such as agentivity. The posture morphemes can also be the source for a variety of semantic extensions reflecting experiential realities of the postures, such as the extension of “lie” to mean “sleep” in some languages. Extensions also include grammaticalizations of the posture morphemes to locative and aspectual markers which reflect the temporal stability and spatial fixedness of the postures themselves. This article is categorized under: Linguistics Cognitive Linguistics Linguistics Language in Mind and Brain
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH
Date: 1976
Publisher: DE GRUYTER MOUTON
Date: 31-12-1993
Publisher: Peoples' Friendship University of Russia
Date: 2018
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Date: 06-2017
Publisher: IGI Global
Date: 2010
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-61520-773-2.CH018
Abstract: It is well-known that first person pronouns have a particularly important role to play in conversation. “Online diary” style of writing is less well understood and the role of first person pronouns in that style invites further study. In this chapter the authors explore these pronouns in UK and US online diaries, paying particular attention to frequency and collocational relations. In previous corpus-based studies of English genres, first person pronouns have tended to be considered as one larger set without differentiation. The authors find, on the contrary, that the differences between these forms can be very revealing in the way they distinguish online diary style of writing from other genres such as conversation and fiction writing. The findings underline the need to respect inflectional variants of lemmas as objects of study in their own right.
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
Date: 15-02-1998
DOI: 10.1075/TSL.36
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
Date: 16-11-2009
DOI: 10.1075/ARCL.7.02NEW
Abstract: This paper considers a number of linguistic properties of English SIT, STAND, and LIE which are argued to be the cardinal posture verbs of English. The distinctiveness of just these three posture verbs is evidenced by their relatively high frequency within the class of posture verbs in English and matched by grammaticalization facts in other languages. The paper considers the difficulty of differentiating action and state senses of these verbs and explores the use of posture verbs with inanimate subjects. It is argued that human experiential realities of posture motivate a number of these facts.
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 20-03-2017
DOI: 10.1111/TOPS.12263
Abstract: Corpus surveys have shown that the exact forms with which idioms are realized are subject to variation. We report a rating experiment showing that such alternative realizations have varying degrees of acceptability. Idiom variation challenges processing theories associating idioms with fixed multi-word form units (Bobrow & Bell, 1973), fixed configurations of words (Cacciari & Tabossi, 1988), or fixed superlemmas (Sprenger, Levelt, & Kempen, 2006), as they do not explain how it can be that speakers produce variant forms that listeners can still make sense of. A computational model simulating comprehension with naive discriminative learning is introduced that provides an explanation for the different degrees of acceptability of several idiom variant types. Implications for multi-word units in general are discussed.
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
Date: 24-09-2002
DOI: 10.1075/TSL.51
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH
Date: 26-09-2017
Abstract: Shanghainese is an extremely topic-prominent language with many topic markers in competition with one another, often without any obvious basis for the selection of one topic marker over another. We explore the influence of five variables on the five most frequent topic markers in a corpus of (spoken) Shanghainese: topic length, syntactic category of the topic, function of the topic, comment type, and genre. We carry out a multivariate statistical analysis of the data, relying on a polytomous logistic regression model. Our approach leads to a satisfying quantification of the role of each factor, as well as an estimate of the probabilities of combinations of factors, in influencing the choice of topic marker. This study serves simultaneously as an introduction to the polytomous package (Arppe 2013) in the statistical software package R.
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
Date: 31-12-2019
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 1986
Publisher: Brill
Date: 27-04-2021
DOI: 10.1163/23526416-20201178
Abstract: This study investigates the nature of the semantic differences between collexemes of singular child and plural children in a corpus of American fiction. Collexemes in three specific syntactic slots are investigated: adjectives in the attributive position, nouns grammatically possessed by child’s and children’s , and present participial forms of verbs in the position immediately to the right of child / children . The approach relies on Distinctive Collexeme Analysis to establish statistically significant differences, revealing a surprising variety of semantic distinctions not usually acknowledged in discussions of the singularity vs. plurality of count nouns. Finally, an attempt is made to relate the key findings to broader cognitive and behavioural realities.
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH
Date: 1973
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
Date: 24-01-2022
Abstract: When collected methodically through elicitation experiments, invented ex les prompted by a cue word provide evidence for how speakers think about that word. This study explores characteristics of Mandarin chī ‘eat’ sentences obtained through an elicitation experiment and SMS, newspaper, and fiction corpora. Our findings support the view that invented ex les collected methodically represent a valuable data type with its own characteristics worthy of attention and analysis.
Publisher: Oxford University PressOxford
Date: 26-02-2004
DOI: 10.1093/ACPROF:OSO/9780199266500.003.0004
Abstract: This chapter explores the extent to which the structure of ‘give’ clauses may be motivated by cultural and cognitive factors. It identifies three categories of the ‘give’ phenomena which are discussed in turn: (a) aspects of ‘give’ clause structure which are determined by a broad cognitive principle and have substantial cross-linguistic and cross-cultural variety (b) aspects of ‘give’ clause structure which reflect an orientation or perspective but with significance in a larger culture and are culture- and language-specific (c) and aspects of ‘give’ clause structure which have a special significance within a particular language system, but do not reflect larger cultural, non-linguistic values.
Publisher: Project MUSE
Date: 2011
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 1974
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH
Date: 2006
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 1988
Publisher: Lesya Ukrainka Volyn National University
Date: 28-12-2020
DOI: 10.29038/EEJPL.2020.7.2.GEE
Abstract: Corpus-based research on idiomatic variation has shown that idioms can be utilized with an extensive range of variation, including the possibility of idioms occurring with adjectival modification (e.g. make rapid headway), lexical variation (e.g. the calm/lull before the storm), and partial forms (e.g. birds of a feather [flock together]). Previous experimental research eliciting variation within idioms has tended to focus on unintended ‘slips of the tongue’, or errors in production. To date, no experimental study has explored the creativity that speakers can employ when using idioms. This study, by contrast, aims to elicit conscious and spontaneous productions of idiomatic variation, exploring just how creative speakers can be when using idiomatic expressions. Participants were asked to create headlines for newspaper snippets using provided idioms. They were explicitly told that the expression did not have to be exact and that they could be as creative as they wanted. The headlines for each idiom and each speaker were then examined. Variational patterns are observed for both idioms and speakers. For instance, some idioms (e.g. jump on the bandwagon) typically occur with partial forms, lexical variation, and/or adjectival modification whereas other idioms (e.g. call the shots) are predominantly used in their canonical form. Similarly, some speakers (e.g. Speaker 14037) demonstrated considerable flexibility and playfulness when using the expressions, while other speakers (e.g. Speaker 14020) preferred minimal, if any, modification to the idioms. These results not only converge with previous corpus-based findings, but they also highlight the in idual differences between speakers, as well as reveal how creative and innovative speakers can be when using idiomatic expressions.
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
Date: 20-02-2009
DOI: 10.1075/TSL.84
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
Date: 2008
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