Browsing Research in Language (2015) vol.13 nr 4 by Issue Date
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Effects of Word Class and Training Method on Vocabulary Learning in a Second Language
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2016-06-24)It is not fully known whether nouns or verbs are easier to learn in a second language. A noun learning advantage has been observed for children in many languages (e.g., Gentner, 1982), but few have examined whether mature ... -
Inter-Relations of Core Language, Pragmatic Language, and Social Competence in Preschoolers
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2016-06-24)Language skills provide preschoolers with the foundational skills needed to socially interact, but little is known about the relationship between specific language skills and broad constructs of social competence. Sixteen ... -
Classifier Constructions as Procedural Referring Expressions in American Sign Language
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2016-06-24)The present paper comments on signs of American Sign Language in the perspective of relevance theory. The main claim is that classifiers encode procedural instructions to help the addressee pick out the intended referent ... -
Incomplete Descriptions and the Underdetermination Problem
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2016-06-24)The purpose of this paper is to discuss two phenomena related to the semantics of definite descriptions: that of incomplete uses of descriptions, and that of the underdetermination of referential uses of descriptions. The ... -
The Position of Negative Adjectives in Aelfric’s Catholic Homilies I
Grabski, Maciej
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2016-06-24)
In Old English, negative adjectives, i.e. incorporating the negative prefix -un, are said to generally come in postposition to nouns (e.g. Fischer, 2001; Sampson, 2010). This paper investigates to what extent this general ...