In this paper, we investigate word order with the verb decir ‘say’ in two corpora of spoken Peninsular Spanish. This is particularly interesting because it has been observed to have a high frequency postverbal subjects previous studies. Beside features that influence optional subject-verb inversion, such as type subject, complement and sentence which appears, whether factors related residual V2...

Most work on sense disambiguation presumes that one knows beforehand — e.g. from a thesaurus — a set of polysemous terms. But published lists invariably give only partial coverage. For example, the English word tan has several obvious senses, but one may overlook the abbreviation for tangent. In this paper, we present an algorithm for identifying interesting polysemous terms and measuring their...

the present investigation was designed to study the production and comprehension of specific means for information highlighted by advanced iranian learners of english as a foreign language. the study focused on the discourse-pragmatically motivated variations of the basic word order such as inversion, pre-posing, it- and wh-clefts. after taking the nelson test, a homogeneous group was settled. ...

“word-order” is one of the most central concepts in ancient rhetoric and islamic ilm-al-balagha. this article attempts to compare this concept in these two rhetorical systems. in the first section, “word-order” as part of a more pervasive concept of “composition” is discussed. since dionysius of halicarnassus’ “on literary composition” represents the most comprehensive attitude to “word-order”,...