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Pearl, Lisa – Language Learning and Development, 2022
Poverty of the stimulus has been at the heart of ferocious and tear-filled debates at the nexus of psychology, linguistics, and philosophy for decades. This review is intended as a guide for readers without a formal linguistics or philosophy background, focusing on what poverty of the stimulus is and how it's been interpreted, which is…
Descriptors: Language Acquisition, Learning Processes, Syntax, Semantics
Habib Abdesslem; Abhinan Wongkittiporn – Arab Journal of Applied Linguistics, 2024
This study examined givenness in discourse via passive constructions in research articles. While it is commonly held in grammar books and grammar classes that the passive voice is the counterpart of the active voice, the present study argues that Argument movement in passive constructions can act as a syntactic device contributing to sound…
Descriptors: Journal Articles, Research, Morphemes, Grammar
Kongcharoen, Pong-ampai; Thummanuruk, Wannasiri – THAITESOL Journal, 2023
This research investigated three synonymous adjectives "perfect," "flawless," and "impeccable" in terms of meaning, degree of formality, collocations, and grammatical patterns. The three synonymous adjectives were scrutinized through the Corpus of Contemporary American English (COCA). The findings suggested that these…
Descriptors: Computational Linguistics, Phrase Structure, Form Classes (Languages), Morphemes
Dilin Liu; Jie Qin – Modern Language Journal, 2024
This systematic review synthesizes the literature (involving 62 empirical studies) regarding the effectiveness of cognitive linguistics-inspired language pedagogies (CL-ILPs) on second language (L2) learning. It begins with an overview of the main theoretical tenets of cognitive linguistics followed by a description of the data selection, coding,…
Descriptors: Psycholinguistics, Teaching Methods, Grammar, Semantics
van Rijt, Jimmy; de Swart, Peter; Coppen, Peter-Arno – Research Papers in Education, 2019
Teaching grammar has always constituted a major part of language education in curricula around the world, although it has also been heavily debated. Most of the debate on grammar teaching focused on the rationales for teaching it, rather than on the linguistic content that should be taught. At the same time, there appears to be a renewed interest…
Descriptors: Native Language Instruction, Grammar, Teaching Methods, Linguistic Theory
Alghazo, Sharif; Al Salem, Mohd Nour; Alrashdan, Imran; Rabab'ah, Ghaleb – Online Submission, 2021
Stance is a feature of academic writing that refers to how writers interact and engage with their readers by means of linguistic devices. This study focuses on the grammatical devices--and semantic distinctions thereof--that are employed by academic writers of English to express stance in research article abstracts in the areas of applied…
Descriptors: Grammar, Research Reports, Semantics, Academic Language
Li, Lexi Xiaoduo – SAGE Open, 2022
This study demonstrates how native and learner corpora can enhance modal verb treatment in English-as-a-foreign-language (EFL) textbooks used in mainland China. Data analysis compares modal verbs in the textbook and native corpus by referring to distributional features, semantic functions and co-occurring constructions; and the analysis of the…
Descriptors: Verbs, Computational Linguistics, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Al-Jarf, Reima S.; Mingazova, Nailya G. – Online Submission, 2020
This study analyzed the textbooks titled "Arabic for Non-native Speaking Children", Level I by Zakirov, Mingazova, and Mukhametzyanov (2011), and "Arabic for Non-Native Speaking Children", Level II by Mingazova, Zakirov, and Mukhametzyanov (2013) which are used to teach Arabic as a foreign language (AFL) to elementary school…
Descriptors: Semitic Languages, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Grammar
Ordem, Eser; Bada, Erdogan – Online Submission, 2016
The dominance of syntactic studies in linguistics has caused lexis and grammar to be perceived as two distinct categories. With introduction of the paradigm of cognitive linguistics, the studies in syntax have been replaced by those in lexis and concepts. Semantics has come to the fore through the studies in cognitive linguistics, and there has…
Descriptors: Phrase Structure, Grammar, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Ebbels, Susan – Child Language Teaching and Therapy, 2014
This article summarizes the evidence as regards the effectiveness of therapy for grammar for school-aged children with language impairments. I first review studies focusing on specific areas of grammar (both expressive and receptive targets) and then studies aiming to improve language more generally, several of which focus more on the…
Descriptors: Intervention, Grammar, Language Impairments, Expressive Language
Ormel, Ellen; Crasborn, Onno – Sign Language Studies, 2012
This article contains a literature review of evidence of large prosodic domains that correspond to syntactic units such as a clause or a sentence. In particular, different phonetic nonmanual cues that may relate to clause or sentence boundaries are discussed in detail. On the basis of various ideas and views in the literature, we also describe two…
Descriptors: Video Technology, Sentences, Cues, Sign Language
Koga, Kant – Online Submission, 2010
Language attracts everyone on earth. That is because we have and use language. Although there are some minority languages that have limited expressions such as the lack of writing systems in "Aynu itak" and "Shona" languages, they can effectively express their emotion and thought with their languages. In addition, every human being can acquire…
Descriptors: Generative Grammar, Sentences, Semantics, Grammar
Tsuchida, Takehiro – Online Submission, 2010
The fact that English non-count abstract nouns such as knowledge are compatible with the indefinite article a/an is not only perplexing for second language (L2) learners of English but also troublesome for both native and non-native English teachers. This paper does research on this curious phenomenon of English grammar to clarify its mechanism…
Descriptors: Semantics, Nouns, Grammar, English (Second Language)
Jafari, Azita; Sedigh Ziabari, Roya – Online Submission, 2008
In broad terms, this paper is concerned with adjunct construction in Persian, which is an Indo-Iranian Language. During the recent century, specially in its final decades, different researches have been done about adjuncts and adjunction among different languages, but despite the fact that they are very important in Persian language, no attempts…
Descriptors: Sentences, Semantics, Form Classes (Languages), Grammar

Mittwoch, Anita – Journal of Linguistics, 1990
Explores the fit between syntax and semantics by addressing the following questions: (1) To what extent is the distribution of bare infinitive complements semantically motivated? and (2) What is the function of infinitival to? (46 references) (GLR)
Descriptors: Function Words, Grammar, Language Research, Semantics