Title of Dissertation / Thesis: AN INVESTIGATION OF EXCLAMATIVES IN ENGLISH AND JAPANESE: SYNTAX AND SENTENCE PROCESSING Hajime Ono, Ph.D, 2006 Dissertation / Thesis Directed By: Professor Howard Lasnik, Department of Linguistics This dissertation is a case study of the syntax of the left periphery, using exclamatives in English and Japanese. In the first part, I discuss exclamatives in Japanes...

Medical English (ME) is of paramount importance both in theory and practice, the need for professionals with high proficiency ME has increased due to COVID-19 pandemic. The EMP (English Purposes) teaching methods materials medical students have been widely discussed, while learning process non-medical ignored. Non-medical various difficulties reading literature because their different general a...

This paper assesses the evidence for nuU subjects in Old English, demonstrating that in the Old English gloss to the Lindisfarne Gospels subjects are omitted in a way not found in classical West Saxon texts. The obvious hypothesis that this difference is simply due to the nature of the text as a gloss of a Latin original, and thus teUs us nothing about the syntax of Old English is unlikely to b...

Studies of ultimate attainment in adult second-language (L2) acquisition report a disjunction between success in acquiring the syntax of the target language (TL), on the one hand, and persistent difficulties at the interfaces of syntax with other grammatical modules, e.g. discourse-pragmatics, on the other. However, there continues to be debate as to whether these difficulties arise from devian...

Each human language possesses a set of distinctive syntactic rules. Here, we show that balanced Welsh-English bilinguals reading in English unconsciously apply a morphosyntactic rule that only exists in Welsh. The Welsh soft mutation rule determines whether the initial consonant of a noun changes based on the grammatical context (e.g., the feminine noun cath--"cat" mutates into gath in the phra...

The purpose of this non-empirical study was to analyze the factors in L1 (Thai) that influence L2 learning (English) Thai learners. It consisted four sections. first one is an introduction. second introduction language and English language. third section illustrates differences syntax between English. Numerous supporting studies were reviewed, including a discussion whether languages have effec...

The syntax of English is largely a solved problem. Yet all natural language projects devote a large amount of their effort to developing grammars. The reason for this situation is that there is no very large, generally available grammar of English based on current technology-unification grammar. The solution is to develop a very broad-coverage National Resource Grammar in a unification formalis...

Abstract The shared-syntax account of bilingual syntactic representations suggests that similar structures from different languages are represented as one in the mind. In this study, we examined degree morpho-syntactic similarity needed for to be shared mind by comparing passive Greek and English. Contrary English, non-active morphology is not restricted passives “by phrase” considered marked. ...

purpose : design and establishment of persian near reading card for clinical use and practice methods : at first, card dimension, word and character size and specifications were calculated. then, english near reading card, richmond product inc, was considered as a template. context and syntax contribute to reading accuracy and efficacy of the richmond card was considered for designed persian ca...