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From visual perception to evidentiality: A functional empirical approach to se ve que in Spanish
2019
Abstract The Spanish sequence se ve (que) presents intricate functional polysemy, including constructionalization as an evidential. The present paper investigates its different formal-functional combinations and degrees of specialization as an evidential construction. The following questions were addressed: (1) How many different senses can be distinguished in the sequence se ve (que) and what are their respective frequencies? (2) How do these senses correlate with the morphosyntactic behavior of the sequence se ve (que)? (3) Which senses of se ve (que) are more closely related to each other, and how does the evidential construction relate to this polysemous network? The semantic and formal…
Lexical verbs in a medical case-report wordlist
2018
Clinical case reports or clinical cases (CRs) are, perhaps, the most widely read text type in medicine, since they contain a detailed description of the patient’s medical history and symptoms and thus furnish ample teaching material for physicians-in-training. For non-native speakers of English in medicine, autonomous learning is often restricted because of a lack of medical lexicon, poor academic vocabulary, and weak lexical verb use. Here, we present the results of an investigation of lexical verbs: their distribution, classification, and contextual use in the different sections of the genre CRs. We suggest that lexical verbs with contextual use should be included in medical dictionaries …
Secondary grammaticalization and the English adverbial -ly suffix
2015
Author's version of an article in the journal: Language sciences. Also available from the publisher at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.langsci.2014.10.003 This paper discusses the secondary grammaticalization of the English adverbial -ly suffix and makes claims about the concept of secondary grammaticalization. Secondary grammaticalization is defined as the development of a new grammatical function in an already grammatical element. It is shown that the development of the -ly suffix involves a number of the processes which are associated with grammaticalization, e.g. paradigmatization, specialization, obligatorification, subjectification, layering and persistence. However, none of these proces…
Relación entre el grado de certeza y los valores de F0 y duración silábica en algunos adverbios terminados en -mente
2014
espanolLos nueve adverbios analizados en este articulo (‘exactamente’, ‘indudablemente’, ‘efectivamente’, ‘evidentemente’, ‘obviamente’, ‘seguramente’, ‘posiblemente’, ‘probablemente’, ‘supuestamente’) evaluan la certeza del enunciado al que se adjuntan; en tal sentido, el principal objetivo de este articulo es observar la relacion entre el grado de certeza y el grado de marcacion fonica observable en los valores de F0 y de duracion silabica. Para ello, se han recogido 126 archivos de audio procedentes de corpus de espanol espontaneo (Corpus Val.Es.Co, COLA, Corpus de Referencia de la Lengua Espanola Contemporanea), se han transcrito con el programa PRAAT y, posteriormente, se han analizado…
Function Words Constrain On-Line Recognition of Verbs and Nouns in French 18-Month-Olds
2013
In this experiment using the conditioned head-turn procedure, 18-month-old French-learning toddlers were trained to respond to either a target noun (“la balle”/the ball) or a target verb (“je mange”/I eat). They were then tested on target word recognition in two syntactic contexts: the target word was preceded either by a correct function word (“une balle”/a ball or “on mange”/they eat), or by an incorrect function word, signaling a word from the other category (*“on balle”/they ball or *“une mange”/a eat). We showed that 18-month-olds exploit the syntactic context on-line to recognize the target word: verbs were recognized when preceded by a personal pronoun but not when preceded by a dete…
Optimal reciprocals in German Sign Language
2003
Unlike most spoken languages, German Sign Language (DGS) does not have a single means of reciprocal marking. Rather, different strategies are used, which crucially depend on phonological (one-handed sign vs. two-handed sign) and morphosyntactic (plain verb vs. agreement verb) properties of the underlying verb. Moreover, with plain verbs DGS shows dialectal variation. Altogether there are four different ways of realizing reciprocal marking in DGS. In this paper, we compare a rule-based analysis for the reciprocal data (based on Brentari’s 1998 feature hierarchy) to an optimality-theoretic analysis. We argue that an OT-account allows for a more straightforward explanation of the facts. In par…
Effects of finding the speech-language pathologist likeable on postlaryngectomy speech intelligibility outcomes
2021
<b><i>Introduction:</i></b> Speech-language pathologists (SLPs) work with patients after total laryngectomy (TL) to regain verbal communication. The influence of the quality of the therapeutic relationship on the success of TL voice rehabilitation in terms of speech intelligibility is not known. Finding each other likeable is an important factor in establishing and maintaining interpersonal relationships in everyday life. The fit of therapist and client is relevant to the therapeutic relationship. The purpose of this study therefore was to assess the association between the degree of SLPs’ likeability ratings and postlaryngectomy speech intelligibility. <b><…
La expansión del afijo velar /G/ en catalán entre los siglos XIII y XV
2020
espanolEn este trabajo, analizamos la expansion del afijo velar /ɡ/ en catalan, que pasa a ser la marca de una subclase de verbos de la segunda conjugacion. La velar procedia inicialmente o bien de la consonante final del tema de presente: dico > dic ‘digo’, o bien de la consonantizacion de la marca aspectual de los verbos con perfecto fuerte en -ui-: dēbuit > dec >> degue ‘debio’. La propagacion del afijo se produce desde las formas del tema de presente hasta las formas del tema de perfecto y viceversa. Para justificar esta extension, nos basamos en el concepto de exaptacion (Lass 1990), que se define como la reutilizacion de material morfologico no funcional, que pasa a desarrollar una nu…
Cortesía verbal y competencia lingüística : la petición cortés como tradición discursiva
2017
Muchas técnicas de atenuación lingüística están estrechamente ligadas a estrategias de cortesía verbal. Un clásico en este contexto son las preguntas del tipo ¿Puedes pasarme el pan, por favor? que funcionan como petición cortés. La cuestión central es cómo esta conocida técnica de la petición cortés puede ser situada en el sistema de la competencia lingüística según Eugenio Coseriu. Resulta preciso aclarar si se trata de tradiciones idiomáticas que pertenecen al saber lingüístico o si se trata de una tradición discursiva y cultural que se realiza en una o varias lenguas, pero que no forma parte de estas lenguas. En el campo de la atenuación lingüística y de la cortesía verbal esta diferenc…
De l’infinitive de perception dans la pratique traductologique
2019
Nous prenons pour objet d’etude l’Infinitive de Compte rendu de Perception (ICP), cette construction infinitive qui, regie par un verbe de perception comme "voir", "regarder", "entendre", "ecouter" ou "sentir", se compose a la fois d’un syntagme nominal et d’un verbe a l’infinitif completifs ("j’entends "les oiseaux" "chanter""). Le cadre dans lequel nous nous interesserons ici a l’ICP est celui de la traduction, en l’occurrence du francais vers le polonais. Cette structure, si commune en francais, n’existant pas en polonais, en effet, la langue slave ne compte pas moins de huit traductions differentes effectives (c’est-a-dire observables dans les corpus), dont la plus frequente s’avere la …