Cognitive linguists and psychologists have often argued that language is best understood as
an association network; however while the network view of language has had a significant …

This chapter discusses popular non-parametric methods in corpus linguistics: conditional
inference trees and conditional random forests. These methods, which allow the researcher …

Until recently, theoretical linguists have paid little attention to the frequency of linguistic
elements in grammar and grammatical development. It is a standard assumption of (most) …

The objectives of this paper are to identify the metadiscourse devices used by English
learners at the different levels of language acquisition established by the Common …

This study investigates the extent to which there is individuality in how structural variation is
conditioned over time. Earlier research already classified the diachronically unstable gerund …

In the study of the word-formation process of conversion, one particularly difficult task is to
determine the directionality of the process, that is, to decide which word represents the base …

Komo, an endangered Koman language spoken in Western Ethiopia, features a system of
vowel assimilation commonly referred to as 'advanced tongue root'(ATR) harmony. Prior …

In one type of Relative Clause Extraposition (RCE) in English, a subject-modifying relative
clause occurs in a displaced position following the matrix VP, as in: Some options were …

This chapter focuses on the importance of teaching pragmatic competence in English as a
medium of instruction. In order to identify if teachers who use English as a medium of …

he aim of this paper is to provide a quantitative-based research on the linguistic properties
that favor the use of cleft sentences in Italian and English. he empirical analysis relies on a …