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3 days ago · This paper aims to show that properties of cognitive/conceptual representations and formal-logical structures of linguistic meaning can be inter-translated, recast, transformed into one another, and so united together, even though cognitive/conceptual representations and formal-logical structures of linguistic meaning are apparently distinct in ...
17 hours ago · Abstract. In formal work on the meaning of English, intonation with expressive, or (allegedly) emotive, meaning has received little attention, and has been treated as separate from compositional meaning. I argue against this based on data from Japanese, showing that expressive intonation can be part of compositional meaning, hence ...
3 days ago · A recent study unveils the brain regions sensitive to different types of linguistic information.
4 days ago · The dative alternation has been extensively studied in the world’s languages, and the meanings of the verbs participating in the alternation have been shown to play a key role in determining its argument realization options. The present paper presents a multiple distinctive collexeme analysis approach to the dative alternation in Mandarin Chinese, which involves a choice of one of five ...
1 day ago · Negation is an important concept in natural language but we still know relatively little about the cognitive and neural mechanisms underpinning negation. Combining behavioral and neurophysiological data, this study shows that humans first interpret negated adjectives as affirmative and later modify their interpretation towards, but never exactly as, the opposite meaning.
3 days ago · Stefan Th. Gries. In the last few decades, much work in corpus linguistics has attempted to discover, and then interpret, differences in the frequencies of use of linguistic elements (words, patterns, constructions, discourse features, etc.). It is probably fair to say that such studies were particularly frequent in (i) learner corpus research ...
4 days ago · Courses in linguistics cover the methods of analyzing language, roles of languages in societies, word formation processes, mechanisms of producing speech sounds, as well as broader skills such as systematic observation and description, and communicating clearly.
