Vague category markers (hereafter VCMs), also known as general extenders, are a
pervasive phenomenon of spoken discourse. They include expressions such as and things …

General extenders are phrases like'or something','and everything','and things (like that)','and
stuff (like that)', and'and so on'. Although they are an everyday feature of spoken language …

Construction grammar (CxG) initially arose as a usage-based alternative to nativist
theoretical accounts of language, and remains to this day strongly associated with cognitive …

In second language acquisition, corpus linguistics (CL) enjoys prominence as a
methodology valuable for its descriptive power in the textual analysis of patterns. Within …

Business English and academic English may perhaps be thought of as areas of language
use requiring precision of expression and a quest for specific and unambiguous meaning …

In the Longman Grammar of Spoken and Written English (Biber et al., 1999), a new category
is identified in the grammar of the English phrase. In conversational data, the most frequent …

英语学习者话语中的通用延伸语已经成为模糊语言研究领域的一个热点议题.
现有研究主要集中在对学习者通用延伸语的中介语对比分析上, 对其他方面关注较少 …

This study examines the previously unattained research area of contemporary spoken
Turkish used in dyadic and multi-party interaction among young speakers of Turkish. For this …

The intention of this paper is to extend the empirical perspective on the functional acquisition
of lexical pragmatic marking in learner English. While previous analyses have mostly …

Elastic language is a phenomenon in linguistics that refers to how we stretch the meanings
of words, depending on the context in which they are used-for example many, about 20 …