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Download full textJouini, Kamel – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2019
In this paper, I provide an analysis of 'verbless' sentences in Arabic (mainly, the Standard variety, SA) in light of the claims of the feature-based probe-goal-Agree system of Chomsky (2001, 2004) and such assumptions as held by Biberauer et al. (2010) about probe-goal Agree relations being parameterized according to the feature-structure of…
Descriptors: Verbs, Semitic Languages, Structural Analysis (Linguistics), Morphemes
Direct linkBieswanger, Markus – Multilingua: Journal of Cross-Cultural and Interlanguage Communication, 2015
In 2005, Klaus P. Schneider published a fascinating article with the title "'No problem, you're welcome, anytime': Responding to thanks in Ireland, England, and the U.S.A." Adopting the then emerging and now established framework of variational pragmatics, Schneider's pioneering paper presents the results of a study on differences…
Descriptors: Language Variation, Pragmatics, English, Task Analysis
Marsden, Heather; Whong, Melinda; Gil, Kook-Hee – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2018
This paper presents an experimental study of the rarely explored question of how input through instruction interacts with L2 acquisition at the level of modular linguistic knowledge. The investigation focuses on L2 knowledge of the English polarity item "any," whose properties are only partially covered by typical language-teaching…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Linguistic Input
Liu, Zhengyuan – English Language Teaching, 2012
Idiom variation is a ubiquitous linguistic phenomenon which has raised a lot of research questions. The past approach was either formal or functional. Both of them did not pay much attention to cognitive factors of language users. By putting idiom variation in the framework of linguistic subjectivity, we have offered a new perspective in the…
Descriptors: Figurative Language, Guidelines, Grammar, Language Usage
Davydova, Julia – World Englishes, 2012
The major objective of the study is to develop a framework allowing for the systematic investigation of the institutionalised varieties and performance varieties of English (also known as learner Englishes). This involves a detailed description of the forms of English spoken in India and in Russia as well as discussion of sociolinguistic histories…
Descriptors: Language Usage, Sociolinguistics, Foreign Countries, Comparative Analysis
Mahboob, Ahmar – World Englishes, 2009
In this paper we will explore the nature of English as it is used in one Muslim country and argue that, far from being a colonizing language, English used in Pakistan reflects Islamic values and embodies South Asian Islamic sensitivities. Through analysis of the current discourses on the politics of the English language and a study of Pakistani…
Descriptors: Muslims, Foreign Countries, Islam, English (Second Language)
