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Figure–Ground Spatial Relationships in Finnish Sign Language Discourse

2020

AbstractThis study is about expressing spatial relationships between Figure and Ground in Finnish Sign Language discourse and shows that the variation in this expression is primarily discourse dependent. The main findings are, first, that Ground mainly precedes Figure whether the Figure is new or a known referent within the discourse; the reverse order is possible only when the Figure is known. Second, the lexical signolla(‘have’) appears more frequently in expressing spatial relationships with a new Figure and less frequently with a known Figure but never in a construction with Figure preceding Ground; the formoli(‘had’), referring to the past, appears only in Figure preceding Ground const…

"So you're saying": the interrogation of Jordan Peterson

2021

<p class="p1">In this article, I analyse the infamous Cathy Newman interview with Jordan Peterson on the 16th of January 2018 and subsequent viewer comments on Channel 4's YouTube channel. My first hypothesis is that Newman's frequent attribution of statements to Peterson using the now notorious "so you are saying" gambit (YSG) is what triggered outrage among Peterson's followers, which, in turn, generated media interest. My second hypothesis is that the interview is best understood as a series of Face threats by Newman on Peterson using the YSG. To ascertain if my hypotheses are true, I performed corpus linguistic analyses on the interview and comments to provide objective descriptio…

Denboratik kausara: -nez gero kausazko lokailuaren garapenaz

2019

LABURPENA Lan honetan -nez gero atzizki multzoaren garapena dugu aztergai, lehen testuetatik hasi eta gaurdaino. Denbora lokailuetatik sortu diren beste kausazko lokailu asko bezala, -nez gero batez ere mintza-ekintzak eta antzekoak justifikatzeko erabiltzen da. Hala ere, kausa neutroagoak adierazteko ere erabiltzen da. Gaztelaniaz ez bezala, menpeko perpausaren kokagunea ez da aldatu azken mendeotan eta funtzio informatiboan ere ez dugu aldakuntza handirik ikusten. Sumatzen dugun garapen nagusia da beharbada edukizko kausazko neutroetan maizago erabiltzeko joera. Oro har, -nez gero kausazko menderagailuak, gazt. ya que-rekin baino, antz handiagoa du fr. puisque eta ing. since lokailuekin. …

Constructed Action, the Clause and the Nature of Syntax in Finnish Sign Language

2017

AbstractThis paper investigates the interplay of constructed action and the clause in Finnish Sign Language (FinSL). Constructed action is a form of gestural enactment in which the signers use their hands, face and other parts of the body to represent the actions, thoughts or feelings of someone they are referring to in the discourse. With the help of frequencies calculated from corpus data, this article shows firstly that when FinSL signers are narrating a story, there are differences in how they use constructed action. Then the paper argues that there are differences also in the prototypical structure, linkage type and non-manual activity of clauses, depending on the presence or non-prese…

Researching pronunciation learning strategies: An overview and a critical look

2018

Disparate goals that learners might have in learning second or foreign language pronunciation and the scant classroom time that can be dedicated to teaching this target language subsystem dictate that learner autonomy is of vital importance in this case and adept use of pronunciation learning strategies (PLS) can be viewed as key to the development of this attribute. Surprisingly, research on these strategies is scarce, mainly focusing on the identification and classification of PLS, diverse instruments are used for data collection and the findings are inconclusive. The paper provides an overview of the available research on PLS with respect to their identification, learners’ preferences co…

STANCE BUNDLES IN ENGLISH-TO-POLISH TRANSLATION: A CORPUS-INFORMED STUDY

2018

In this paper, we make an attempt to improve the textual fit of English-to-Polish translation of a peculiar type of multi-word units known in corpus linguistic literature as lexical bundles (Biber et al. 1999). Inspired by a study conducted by Grabar and Lefer (2015), we used the English-Polish parallel corpus Paralela (Pezik 2016) and the National Corpus of Polish (NKJP) to extract and explore the use - in terms of frequency distributions - of the Polish equivalents of selected English lexical bundles expressing attitudinal and epistemic stance. More precisely, we used the NKJP corpus to check whether the Polish equivalents are typical of contemporary Polish as found in native texts. The r…

4. starptautiskā klasiskās filoloģijas biennāles konference ANTIQUITAS VIVA 2012: ΠΑΙΔΕΙΑ – izglītība un izglītošanās antīkajā pasaulē, vērtību manto…

2012

The conference is financially supported by the Hellenic Ministry of Education and Religious Affairs, Culture and Sports and the University of Latvia. --- Support for Conference Proceedings by ERAF Project Support for the international cooperation projects and other international cooperation activities in research and technology at the University of Latvia No. 2010/0202/2DP/2.1.1.2.0/10/APIA/VIAA/013

Antiquitas Viva: studia classica, 5

2019

Copia sententiarum verborumque Latinorum Caroli Müchlenbach

1845

LU Filoloģijas un filozofijas fakultātes bibliotēkas pirmskara perioda inventāra grāmatas

2022

Latvijas Universitātes (LU) Filoloģijas un filozofijas fakultātes bibliotēkas pirmskara perioda inventāra grāmatas, salīdzinot ar pārējo LU struktūrvienību bibliotēku inventāra grāmatām, sniedz vispilnīgāko vēsturisko informāciju. Tās ne tikai uzskaita fakultātes bibliotēkas krājumu, bet var tikt izmantotas kā pavediens uz savstarpēji saistītu informāciju par starpkaru perioda un Universitātes dzīvi. Fiksētā informācija par iegādes avotiem (pirkšana/ziedošana, iesaistītās personības), grāmatu un periodisko izdevumu uzskaitījumā gadu gaitā vērojamās izmaiņas attiecībā uz tendencēm studiju procesa nodrošināšanas tematikas ziņā vai prioritātēm grūtos apstākļos - tas viss ir bagātīgs vēsturiskā…