Systemic functional grammar constructs a grammar for the purpose of text analysis to investigate how grammar is used as a means of making meaning. Grammatical metaphor is one of the language phenomena introduced by Halliday (2004) in the framework of functional grammar. The present work focuses on the application of Halliday’s metafunctional framework in health texts of English newspapers. The ...

Frequencies and discourse functions of grammatical subject types were investigated in a corpus of forty results and discussion sections selected from four disciplines (Applied Linguistics, Psychology, Chemistry, and Environmental Engineering). The results and discussion sections were selected from research articles that were published in 2008-2012 issues of prestigious high journals of ...

Assessment  of  grammatical  knowledge  is  a  rather  neglected  area  of  research  in  the  field with  many  open  questions  (Purpura,  2004).  The  present  research  incorporates  recent proposals  about  the  nature  of  grammatical  development  to  create  a  framework  consisting of dimensions of complexity, range and strength, and studies which dimension(s) can best predict the stat...

Aspect-based <span>sentiment classification is vital in helping manufacturers identify the pros and cons of their products features. In latest days, there has been a tremendous surge interest aspect-based sentiment (ABSC). Since it predicts an aspect term polarity sentence rather than whole sentence. Most existing methods have used recurrent neural networks attention mechanisms which fail...

We used a non-linguistic gender attribution task to determine how French and Spanish grammatical gender affects bilinguals’ conceptual gender. French-English and Spanish-English bilingual, as well as English monolingual adults were asked to assign a male or female voice to 32 color drawings depicting people, animals, and common objects. FrenchEnglish and Spanish-English bilinguals classified it...

This study aimed at investigating the effects of grammatical error correction on EFL learners’ accuracy. Twenty-two male and female senior students were chosen randomly to respond to a questionnaire investigating their beliefs about immediate grammatical error correction.  Actually, the study was conducted in order to answer this question: what is the effect of grammatical error feedback on stu...

This article is a contribution to the research on noun predication in Polish. More specifically, it focusses role of support verb (Vsup) verb-noun constructions. In this type structure, also called collocation, or conventionalized syntagma, collocated with an abstract noun. paper, Grażyna Vetulani discusses some crucial aspects Vsup Despite its apparently subordinated non-predicative role, brin...

Grammatical tenses contribute to the characterization of temporality that is present in different texts and discourses. This observation starting point reflection presented this paper. Thus, based on circulate with label ‘commentary’, we propose verify how linguistic marks (used forms constructions those texts) a description what (or could be) commentary. We start analysis are available corpus ...