Young children learning Malayalam use morphological categories and inflections quite productively accurately in general. However, their utterances sometimes show the of extra material (or commission errors), revealing mismatches between adult child grammars. In this paper, we present a survey such errors that are observed longitudinally collected, spontaneous speech production data monolingual ...

Unlike Lexical Projections, Functional Projections (Extended Projections) are more of an ‘abstract’ in nature. Therefore, Functional Projections seem to be acquired later than Lexical Projections by the L2 learners. The present study investigates Iranian L2 learners’ acquisition of English Extended Projections taking into account their level of grammatical proficiency. Specifically, the aim is ...

The aim of this work is to analyse the concept of semi-sentence from a linguistic, formal and computational point of view. A semi-sentence can be characterised as a sentence which, from a grammatical perspective, is neither absolutely correct nor incorrect (in the sense that a speaker-listener of the language in which it is uttered understands it). This study focuses on: a characterisation of t...

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...

This project seeks to evaluate how successfully a new theory based on syntactic structure models the distribution of morphological case in Icelandic. This algorithm for case assignment will be tested against a traditional, grammatical-function-based theory on a large number of sentences from a corpus. Morphological case is a noun’s syntactic license to appear in its environment based on depende...