Top Research Papers on Linguistics

The Linguistic DS and related tools are discussed, a tool, based on the GDA tag set, for semantic annotation of linguistic data in or associated with multimedia content.

A new benchmark to measure a language model's linguistic reasoning skills without relying on pre-existing language-specific knowledge is proposed and it is found that, while all analyzed models rank below 25% accuracy, there is a significant gap between open and closed models.

and farsighted understanding of the need for our organization. A further proof of the wisdom of our founders can be seen in the esteem or veneration we have inspired in others who have taken our group as a pattern for similar language associations. Another characteristic that identifies us as a venerable institution is our wealth of traditions. We are gathered together in Boston in our traditional annual meeting and, since the very beginning, these annual meetings have been an occasion for the friendly contacts between high-school and college teachers that our founders envisaged as one of the ...

This paper offers an insight into the ways nonlinguists perceive variation in Tuscan dialects by means of perceptual dialect maps, completed by 258 students from secondary schools across Tuscany. The 258 maps showed a detailed, lively and dynamic "common folk knowledge" with respect to linguistic variation. They represent the perceived space not only according to landscape or geographical borders, or according to traffic and economic flows, but also according to concrete linguistic variation.

In some sense I feel that much (but obviously not all) of current linguistic work displays a relapse to the spirit prevailing in pre-Chomskyan times. Linguistics is about describing language data. Period. Beyond this there is no deeper epistemological goal. Of course, those who became linguists because they like to play around with language data could not care less, because they can pursue their interests under any development of the field, nowadays possibly with less pressure and stress. Personally I felt that much of what I was offered to read in recent years was intolerably boring and that ...

Unlike some edited books, the volume under review is well-focused, as the main expert in the field of linguistic cycles is the editor herself, who opens it with a theoretically-minded contribution, in which the key concept of the book is explained and discussed. In fact, this book can be seen as the proceedings of the Workshop on the Linguistic Cycle organized by van Gelderen in 2008. Much of van Gelderen’s research is about economy relating to grammaticalization within the Minimalist Program. In particular, she proposes two principles, the Head Preference Principle and the Late Merge Principl...

The field of corpus linguistics is commonly regarded as a new approach to linguistics which has developed and become popular over the past forty years – since the development of computers. Like all new fields, however, its roots lie in earlier forms of the discipline. This paper addresses one of the forebears of this field, Charles C. Fries. He thought of himself simply as a linguist (not a corpus linguist); yet his theory and practice have much in common with current versions of corpus linguistics. Fries’s approach to linguistics and to the use of corpora in linguistics grew out of his backgr...

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The doctrines of transformational-generative grammar (as promulgated in 1957, with frequent later emendations) have on occasion been criticised, sometimes severely. Such criticism have, however, appeared mostly in article-form, and mostly in relatively inaccessible places. Discussions in bookform have been rare. In this book, the criticism offered by Professor Hall over more than twenty years have been brought together. They cover the range of linguistic structure (phonology, morphosyntax, and semantics), general theory, and the history of linguistics. In these essays, the many short-comings o...

This paper supposes to express linguistics generally in a simplified way and tries to do some minor contributions to the authorititive works General Linguistics written by R. H. Robins so that to make its theoratical and complicated expressions and principles of linguistics much more understandable for average people to some extent.

L'A. se pose ici la question de savoir ce que peut apporter, en termes de plus-value et de possibilites didactiques, une introduction a la linguistique sous forme electronique (telle qu'un CD-ROM) par rapport a la forme imprimee d'un ouvrage

In Corpus Linguistics and the Description of English Hans Lindquist offers another introductory book to corpus linguistics, but aims it specifically at ‘university students of English at intermediate to advanced levels who have a certain background in grammar and language but who have not had the opportunity to use computer corpora to any great extent’.

Linguistics tries to find out the rules that explain what language users know, so that we can understand how language works. People who know a language use it without thinking. They can use a language very well, and get it right nearly all of the time. But, if we ask them to tell us the rules of their language, they often find that they cannot because they have never had to think about it before. Most users of a language do not think in terms of ‘rules’ for their language and often do not stop to think about it. As sign linguists, we want to stop and think about language, most especially Briti...

By studying the history of a discipline, scholars often discover theories that can be adapted for contemporary linguistics. A notable example is linguistic relativity. It was made popular by Benjamin Lee Whorf in the early to mid 20th century before being dismissed by generative grammarians. This paper will explore the renewal of linguistic relativity starting in the late 20th century, its resurgence with the emergence of interdisciplinary research, and its growth in the current neo-Whorfianism. The response today to linguistic relativity demonstrates that relevant concepts will always have a ...

A language model database for language recognition capable of improving language recognition accuracy by considering not only general language model data but also user language modelData extracted from recognition related information which is related to a user.

: The study deals with the actual problems of the linguistic axiology. A special attention is drawn to the mechanisms of forming the value and evaluation components of the linguistic view of the world. A clear-cut differentiation of the value and evaluation as fundamental structures of the qualifying language thinking is put an emphasis on. In conclusion, an attempt is made to show the necessity of further investigation of the axiological substructure within the linguistic view of the world.

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This invited response to a piece by LaPolla, published in issue 39/2 of LTBA, addresses both LaPolla’s misrepresentations of the history of linguistics and his flawed understanding of historical linguistics. The history of linguistic thought with regard to the Tibeto-Burman or Trans-Himalayan language family vs. the Indo-Chinese or “Sino-Tibetan” family tree model is elucidated and juxtaposed against the remarkable robustness of certain ahistorical myths and the persistence of unscientific argumentation by vocal proponents of the Sino-Tibetanist paradigm, such as LaPolla.

A Linguistics Workbook is a supplement to L linguistics: An Introduction, sixth edition that provides exercises in morphology, phonetics, phonology, syntax, and semantics drawn from a wide variety of languages.

L'A. tente de cerner quels benefices apporte le fait de considerer la linguistique comme la biologie ou la psychologie. Cela peut etre fait de deux manieres: = de maniere ontologique, lorsqu'on reinterprete la linguistique de maniere a rendre le sujet etudie de nature biologique (ou psychologique), = de maniere methodologique, lorsqu'on fait de la linguistique de la meme maniere que les biologistes font de la biologie ou les psychologues de la psychologie. L'A. examine l'importance que joue la variation dans la linguistique consideree de ces deux manieres. Il fait pour cela appel a son experie...

The paper discusses the relations between linguistic fuzziness and linguistic communication and its application in linguistic communication from the aspects of literature, text, rhetoric and aesthetics.

This paper deals with some sociolinguistic problems in the case of modern Arabic. The author devoted much attention to demarcation between language and dialect. The Arabic koine ( fusha ) is used with numerous dialects by the native speakers. There are many differences in vocabulary, phonetics and grammar of these dialects. This fact produces diglossia among the native speakers of Arabic. National boundary is frequently a determinant of linguistic taxonomy. Meanwhile, the other determinant is a nation as cultural community.

The article deals with the notion of category and the linguists' operations for delimiting linguistic categories. A threefold organization is suggested that subdivides categories into features and features into values. Every word of natural language can be categorically described via a matrix of values that represent the implementation of features that, in their turn, are categorial properties. Since there exist many non-clear-cut cases, that is, items that may paradigmatically belong to more than one category, it is necessary to use both a functional and a formal approach in order to get a ca...

The article is devoted to the development of the foundations of a new branch of knowledge — linguoculturology, which emerged at the junction of linguistics and cultural studies and examines the manifestations of the culture of the people, which were reflected and fixed in the language. It shows how culture forms and organizes the thinking of a language personality, language categories and concepts, how one of the fundamental functions of language is carried out — to be a tool for creating, developing, storing and transmitting культурыобъектыcultural objects.It issuggested that vocabulary remai...

Lakoff (2002 [1996], Moral politics. How liberals and conservative think. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press) presents the Theory of Moral Politics (TMR), as based in the roles of metaphor in moral thinking in American Politics. Two distinct methods of data analysis, one social-psychological and one cognitive-linguistic, have been employed to empirically test Lakoff’s assertions on moral reasoning, but have yielded different results. We applied both methods to the same corpus of speeches to determine whether they would yield similar results and could thus be considered to be equally appr...

The complex relationship between data, theory, and representation is described with the aim of situating corpus-based research with respect to different linguistic theories, looking broadly at British and American traditions and paying particular attention to usage-based models of language.

Abstract Although structural linguistics has been much written and spoken about for three decades, the subject still arouses hot dispute. There is as yet no single opinion as to its methods nor even as to its expedience. The boundaries and possibilities of its application have not yet been definitely delineated. All this accounts for the highly contradictory evaluation of this trend in linguistics.

In his essay about Chomsky’s generative grammar Flach assesses the philosophically relevant doctrines of Chomsky’s linguistic theory. Generally, Flach considers those doctrines as philosophically relevant that are amenable or at least directly connective to a philosophic discipline.1 On the basis of his assessment, Flach declares the development of this theory a second linguistic turn in philosophy (LT2), stretching from the late 1950s through the 1960s.2 This verdict Chomsky owes to his discussion of the reciprocal epistemological relation between linguistics and philosophy.3 Flach observes t...

The aim of this paper is to introduce the papers in this Special Issue on "Functional Linguistic and Applied Linguistics", by giving necessary background information on Systemic Functional Linguism and AppliedLinguistics and on the relationships between these two disciplines.

The paper discusses the use of terms in the study of the philosophy of language and proposes to distinguish the two terms of Linguistic Philosophy and Philosophical Linguistics,leaving the latter specifically within the field of linguistics.It also talks about the relation between philosophical linguistics and general linguistics and analyses the requirements for the philosophical speculation of language.

This invited response to a piece by LaPolla, published in issue 39/2 of LTBA, addresses both LaPolla’s misrepresentations of the history of linguistics and his flawed understanding of historical linguistics. The history of linguistic thought with regard to the Tibeto-Burman or Trans-Himalayan language family vs. the Indo-Chinese or “Sino-Tibetan” family tree model is elucidated and juxtaposed against the remarkable robustness of certain ahistorical myths and the persistence of unscientific argumentation by vocal proponents of the Sino-Tibetanist paradigm, such as LaPolla.

The aim of this paper is to illustrate Eugenio Coseriu’s conception of linguistic norm considered as a descriptive term and to relate it a) to its place in Coseriu’s theory of language, b) to the history of linguistic thought, c) to normative conceptions in Coseriu’s theory, and d) to other concepts, mainly to that of discourse traditions (Koch 1997), largely discussed during the last years. I will depart from some general observations on Coseriu’s terminology and on his relationship with the work of Ferdinand de Saussure, showing how Coseriu develops his conception of norm in a discussion of ...

The present paper is an attempt to justify and explain the direction of present research in Ottawa on Computational manipulation of speech on the basis of a novel conception of linguistic organization.

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Linguistic sense is a psychological perception of the existence of the linguistic system,and a kind of psychological phenomenon of language,but not the linguistic capacity.Linguistic system exists in linguistic sense,manifesting as speech.Linguistic sense has the following characteristics such as empirical acquisitiveness,personal psychology,collective communicativeness,pre-rationality,subjective intuitiveness,sensibleness,and verifiable reality.The study of linguistic sense has both theoretical value and practical value.It should be put in a proper position in the study of linguistic theory.

The reason for its formation is ascribed to the shifts of the philosophical foci,and the milestone lies in the emergence of the analytical philosophy.Logic Positivism and Ordinary Language School account for the achievements in linguistic turn,and the former is regarded as the base of the formal language,and the latter paves the way for the natural language development.

The article outlines the structural period (usually spanning 1916 through 1957) in the history of the world linguistics while emphasizing its importance in the study of Slavic languages, especially Czech and Russian. Despite the fact that the structural epoch finished and was replaced by modern language theories its methods are still in use. Many of its terms and notions (functions, oppositions, neutralization of oppositions, etc.) are used by linguists of different schools and thus continue developing. The ideas of the Prague school and American descriptive linguistics are especially signific...

This book discusses Morphology and Syntax, Semantics, Phonology, and Phonetics: The Scientific Study of Human Language, which aims to explain the structure of language and the role of language professionals in society.

The author explains mainly the progressive elements of the theoretical foundations and methodological procedures of different times and schools (trends), and places them in the process which presents the course of development of linguistic theory as an organic whole.

Abstract In this article, I briefly explore how theoretical linguistics and philosophy are interconnected. I focus on three possibilities, and argue that the fields are most harmonious when utilised in critical reflection of a particular target, a format officially adopted in Theoretical Linguistics since 2002.

The study is concerned with a linguistic approach to the design of a new category of fuzzy (granular) models that are designed at the level of information granules and generate results in the same granular rather than pure numeric format.

Loanword use has dominated the literature on language contact and its salient nature continues to draw interest from linguists and non-linguists. Traditionally, loanwords were investigated by means of raw frequencies, which are at best uninformative and at worst misleading. Following a new wave of studies which look at loans from a quantitatively more informed standpoint, modelling “success” by taking into account frequency of the counterparts available in the language adopting the loanwords, we propose a similar model of loan-use and demonstrate its benefits in a case study of loanwords from ...

A guide to linguistics and TESOL related resources at the University of Adelaide Library Resources for LING 5112.

This paper attempts to probe into the relationship between linguistic research and linguistic evidence. A comparison is made between two major traditions in language research in terms of their use of linguistic evidence. Different from the mainstream Chomskyan approach, which argues that linguistics is a branch of cognitive psychology and that the description that is of greatest psychological relevance is the account of competence, not that of performance, an alternative tradition, represented by Halliday, regards the text as the object of linguistics along with the system. Examples from recen...

My subject is the linguistic personality in relation to linguistic competence for foreign languages.

The differences and exchange trends between formal linguistics and functional linguistics form the perspective of theoretical basis, objects of study and research methods are discussed.

Whether you are a theoretically oriented linguist or a practically minded language teacher, your basic observations and generalizations about language have to be empirically justifiable.

This paper describes how to use LA with naturally occurring texts that exemplify interesting target-language linguistic phenomena and describes how such texts can be semantically analyzed using a convenient semi-automatic document authoring interface, in effect adding them to LA’s standard semantic-based elicitation corpus.

The ultimate objective of our research is to gain a better understanding of man's mental capacities by studying the ways in which these capacities manifest themselves in language. Language is a particularly promising avenue because, on the one hand, it is an intellectual achievement that is accessible to all normal humans and, on the other hand, we have more detailed knowledge about language than about any other human activity involving man's mental capacities.