The Syntax-Semantics Group will be meeting on Monday, February 17 at 3pm in Room 117 of the 成人大片 linguistics department. Online participants can join with this link:聽https://mcgill.zoom.us/meeting/register/16ZiB1ATRMGSUxbkGOJGvw. George Bennett (成人大片 University) will be discussing 鈥淎rgument Structure in Mainland Scandinavian pancake sentences.鈥 Here is George鈥檚 abstract: Prototypical 鈥榩ancake sentences鈥 are copula sentences involving a subject (e.g., ‘pancakes’) and […]
2024. vi, 237 pp.
Table of Contents
Editorial
Foreword
Marco Bril & Kristel Doreleijers | pp.鈥115鈥116
Articles
Met zonder jas and other antonym errors in the spontaneous speech of Dutch children
Jacqueline van Kampen | pp.鈥117鈥132
When words sail through the desert: The Songhay layer in Wolof
Corentin Bourdeau & Luis Miguel Rojas-Berscia | pp.鈥133鈥150
Dialect variation in Dutch manner adverbs: Stilletjeser or stillertjes as comparative?
Lex Cloin-Tavenier | pp.鈥151鈥17
2025. iii, 200 pp.
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Articles
Multifunctionality and contextual realization: A case study in Yixing Chinese
Xuhui Hu & J. Joseph Perry | pp.鈥1鈥42
No-Reversal Constraint and beyond: Word-internal language mixing in Anatolia
Faruk Akku艧 | pp.鈥43鈥85
Tap/trill variation and change across generations of Spanish-Creole bilinguals in San Andr茅s, Colombia
Falcon Restrepo-Ramos | pp.鈥86鈥122
Microvariation in verbal rather
Jim Wood | pp.鈥123鈥167
Passive without mo
2024. v, 192 pp.
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Introduction
Corpus linguistics and second language studies
Dilin Liu, Xiaofei Lu & Isaiah W. Yoo | pp.鈥193鈥197
Articles
How do constructions with modal verbs develop in second language learners of English?
Ute R枚mer-Barron | pp.鈥198鈥226
Linguistic complexity development in the writings of Chinese EFL learners across three proficiency levels
Zhihong Wang, Lianrui Yang, Ying Chen & Xukui Li | pp.鈥227鈥266
Examining longitudinal changes in
2024. v, 143 pp.
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Introduction
Young language learners and the intercultural domain: Emerging perspectives
Sandie Mour茫o & Rapha毛lle Beecroft | pp.鈥127鈥148
Articles
鈥淚 want children to see that their languages are respected鈥: Perspectives on world language learning from pre-primary teachers in the United States
Veronika Timpe-Laughlin, Lorraine Sova & Michelle Kim | pp.鈥149鈥172
Intercultural encounters through two picturebooks in the lower primary EFL classr
2024. iii, 131 pp.
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Articles
Mothers adjust their demonstrations based on children鈥檚 imitation task performance
Kaori Nagata & Kazuo Hiraki | pp.鈥125鈥145
Play bows by dogs in dog-human play
Robert W. Mitchell | pp.鈥146鈥166
Embodiment matters when establishing eye contact with a robot
Kyveli Kompatsiari, Francesca Ciardo & Agnieszka Wykowska | pp.鈥167鈥189
Studying the detailed work of play using conversation analysis: Three case studies of pig interaction in
2024. v, 113 pp.
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Editorial
Naoko Taguchi & Zia Tajeddin | pp.鈥115鈥116
Thematic articles
Assessment and L2 pragmatics
Carsten Roever | pp.鈥117鈥130
Technology-enhanced pragmatic instruction
Marta Gonz谩lez-Lloret | pp.鈥131鈥146
Heritage learner pragmatics: Moving beyond monolingual norms
Yang Xiao-Desai & Ka F. Wong | pp.鈥147鈥167
Learner pragmatics in English-medium鈥慽nstruction courses at university: Current research and future avenues
Otilia Mart铆 & Ir
2025. vi, 116 pp.
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Article
Translanguaging: What is it besides smoke and mirrors?
Jeanine Treffers-Daller | pp.鈥1鈥26
Commentaries
Translanguaging and the sociolinguistics of 鈥榥aming a language鈥
Peter Auer | pp.鈥27鈥30
Translanguaging: Rebranding multilingual practices
Felix K. Ameka, Marianne Gullberg & M. Carmen Parafita Couto | pp.鈥31鈥35
Translanguaging and codeswitching
Ad M. Backus | pp.鈥36鈥40
Old whines in nuevas bouteilles
Raphael Berthele | pp.鈥
2025. iii, 179 pp.
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Articles
Perceptual confusion of Mandarin coda nasals in societal bilingualism
Ying Chen, Jiajing Zhang, Ran Meng, Xueqin Zhao, Jie Cui, Yaping Chen & Lei Wang | pp.鈥1鈥27
Mandarin posture verbs: Cardinality, patterns of usage, and constructional preferences
John Newman & Ying Zhang | pp.鈥28鈥54
Creating individual styles through discourse variation in Singapore Mandarin
Ming Chew Teo & Jingxia Lin | pp.鈥55鈥80
Response particles in Mandari
2024. iii, 179 pp.
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Articles
Loss of ergativity in Eastern Indo-Aryan languages
Sayantani Banerjee & Biswanath Dash | pp.鈥187鈥209
Analysis of the Chinese passive/disposal combined-occurrence constructions: A case study of the Bei-Ba constructions
Yue Chen | pp.鈥210鈥250
Temporal information in sentence-final particles: Tse and keh in Modern Shanghai Wu
Yan Jiang | pp.鈥251鈥280
Numerals in Koracha
Basavaraja Kodagunti | pp.鈥281鈥309
Cognitive, linguistic, a
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We would like to invite you to another Nordic Speech Research Forum webinar. The webinar takes place on Tue, Feb 18 at 16:00 - 17:00 (Helsinki/Eastern European Time EET; UCT+2). Join the webinar at https://jyufi.zoom.us/j/65558081185 or via our website www.jyu.fi/nsrf.
Pronunciation in L2 teaching for adult immigrants in Sweden
Senior Associate Professor Elisabeth Zetterholm, Link枚ping University
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The study of emotional expressions is rapidly growing, but many researchers overlook the dynamic and historical aspects of these expressions. This book proposes new methods for analyzing the diachronic evolution of emotional expressions within their sociohistorical contexts, focusing on Old English positive emotions. Combining cognitive linguistic and historical sociolinguistic approaches, it addresses the underrepresented study of emotions like happiness, love, and pride in Old English. By anal
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The graduate students in the Department of Linguistics at the University of Pennsylvania are proud to announce that registration for the 49th annual Penn Linguistics Conference (PLC49) is now open!
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The graduate students in the Department of Linguistics at the University of Pennsylvania are proud to announce that registration for the 49th annual Penn Linguistics Conference (PLC49) is now open!
Registration is now open! Prospective attendees can register for the conference using this link from now until registration closes on March 23, 2025: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/penn-linguistics-conference-49-tickets-1242678347389
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The International Linguistic Society is delighted to invite you to participate in the International Thematic Conference of Phonetic Research and Applications, Phonetics 2025 Hong Kong, to be held from 17-19 of September 2025 in Hong Kong. The primary aim of the conference is to advance key areas of phonetics, welcoming at the same time innovative approaches to phonetic research and applications.
The Phonetics 2025 Hong Kong thematic conference envisions a vibrant platform for collaboration an