Chinese Demonstratives and Their Spoken Forms in a Conversational Corpus

Grammatical Difficulties when Translating Constructions "Verb-Adjective" from English to Azerbaijani Language

The article examines the grammatical difficulties that arise in translating participial constructions from English into Azerbaijani. The structural and functional features of participles in English and Azerbaijani are compared, and the main problems encountered in their translation are identified. In addition, the ways...

Phonological and Structural Organization of English Tongue-Twisters: A Corpus-Based Study

English tongue-twisters constitute phonologically constrained utterances whose production becomes difficult under conditions of repetition and increased speech rate. The present study investigates their phonological and structural organization using a user-compiled corpus containing 593 numbered records. The source mat...

Compound Prepositions in English

The article explains compound prepositions that are formed in various ways in English. Here, the syntactic-semantic and morphological features of prepositions are analyzed. The meaning and content-forming function of intratextual prepositions is explained in detail in the text given in the article. From the analysis, i...

Syntax Proposes, Prosody Decides: On Lithuanian Si

We develop a syntactic-prosodic account of the linearization of the Lithuanian reflexive si, which may appear as a prefix or a suffix. Syntax linearizes si as left-adjacent to the verb. If no other prefix is present, however, the prosodic component ensures si ends up suffixed to the base, so that it avoids the left e...

Modality in the Qurʾān

This book presents a pioneering linguistic study of modality in the Qurʾān. Although there is considerable research on modal expressions in modern Arabic, modality in Classical Arabic and the Qurʾān in particular have not been examined in a systematic linguistic framework. This volume helps fill this gap. Drawing on co...

How am I reading? Using a chatbot to evaluate prosodic cues in Italian L2