Parallel Corpus Research and Target Language Representativeness: The Contrastive, Typological, and Translation Mining Traditions

B Le Bruyn, M Fuchs, M van der Klis, J Liu, C Mo… - Languages, 2022 - mdpi.com
This paper surveys the strategies that the Contrastive, Typological, and Translation Mining
parallel corpus traditions rely on to deal with the issue of target language representativeness …

Nobody's perfect

A Bertrand, Y Aonuki, S Chen, H Davis, J Gambarage… - Languages, 2022 - mdpi.com
This paper challenges the cross-linguistic validity of the tense–aspect category 'perfect'by
investigating 15 languages from eight different families (Atayal, Brazilian Portuguese, Dutch …

Perfect-Perfective variation across Spanish dialects: a parallel-corpus study

M Fuchs, P González - Languages, 2022 - mdpi.com
To analyze crossdialectal variation between the use of a Present Perfect form (Pretérito
Perfecto Compuesto) and a Perfective Past form (Pretérito Indefinido) in Spanish, we make …

[HTML][HTML] What I Can Do with the Right Version of You: The Impact of Narrative Perspective on Reader Immersion, and How (in)Formal Address Pronouns Influence …

P Sánchez Carrasco, M Van Hoften, GJ Schoenmakers - Languages, 2024 - mdpi.com
Previous research has shown that readers experience stronger immersion while reading first-
person narratives than third-person narratives, but whether this difference in processing is …

On the acceptability of the not so dummy auxiliary 'do'in Dutch

C Sert, F Hubers, T Redl, H Hoop - Linguistics in the Netherlands, 2023 - jbe-platform.com
The auxiliary doen 'do'in standard Dutch is usually described as 'dummy'because it
supposedly adds nothing substantial to the meaning of the sentence. We argue, however …

'Articleless' languages are not created equal

J Liu, S Patil, D Seres, O Borik… - Proceedings of Sinn …, 2023 - ojs.ub.uni-konstanz.de
We adopt a translation corpus approach based on the first chapter of'Harry Potter and the
Philosopher's Stone'to evaluate Dayal's updated version of the neo-Carlsonian framework …

The theory of argument formation: between kinds and properties

J Liu, S Patil, H Schurr, D Seres… - Semantics and …, 2023 - journals.linguisticsociety.org
Abstract Chierchia (1998) developed a cross-linguistic extension to Carlsons seminal work
on bare nouns (BNs), producing the most influential theory of argument formation to date …

Past tense reference to future eventualities: A Reichenbachian approach

H Haans, H de Hoop - Linguistics in the Netherlands, 2023 - jbe-platform.com
The simple past in Dutch, as in many other European languages, is not necessarily used to
refer to a past eventuality. A Dutch example of a verb in simple past that does not refer to a …

Interpretation of Imperfective Past Tense in Spanish: How Do Child and Adult Language Varieties Differ?

I García-del-Real, A van Hout - Languages, 2022 - mdpi.com
Some studies on the L1 acquisition of aspect in various child languages have discovered
that imperfective aspect is acquired later than perfective aspect, whereas others find early …

[PDF][PDF] Nobody's Perfect. Languages 7: 148

A Bertrand, Y Aonuki, S Chen, H Davis, J Gambarage… - 2022 - academia.edu
This paper challenges the cross-linguistic validity of the tense–aspect category 'perfect'by
investigating 15 languages from eight different families (Atayal, Brazilian Portuguese, Dutch …