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| Description | Prosody: Semantics and Pragmatics | Kwd:1 Text:1 |
| Investigating the meaning of prosody and its contribution to utterance meaning, particularly focusing on the interaction of conceptual and procedural meaning |
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| Description | Verbs of Emotion and Impersonals in OE and ME | Kwd:1 Text:1 |
| This PhD project of mine is concerned with the links between syntax and semantics of OE and ME verbs of emotion, which often, but not always, occurred in impersonal constructions. |
| Historical Linguistics
Lexicography
Linguistics & Literature
Semantics
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| Description | English question tags | Kwd:1 Text:0 |
| My work (consisting of one book and several articles in French) deals with utterances that contain finite question tags in English. It is based on a corpus of both written and oral English. |
| Phonology
Semantics
Syntax
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| Description | Historical Thesaurus of English | Kwd:1 Text:0 |
| Examination of the development of the vocabulary of English in conceptual categories from Old English onwards |
| Historical Linguistics
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| Description | pragmatics | Kwd:1 Text:0 |
| My research is at the interface between pragmatics and other fields, mainly psycholinguistics (language of space, reference frames, manipulation) and language acquisition (CLIL) |
| Language Acquisition
Pragmatics
Psycholinguistics
Semantics
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| Description | Enantiosemy in Modern English | Kwd:1 Text:0 |
| The object of the research is enantiosemy as a variety of antonymy and polysemy and its peculiarities in Modern English.
Novelty and actual value of this work is determined by several factors. |
| Historical Linguistics
Semantics
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| Description | Count Nouns That Appear Without an Article | Kwd:1 Text:0 |
| Lacking expected morpho-syntax, this form is also pragmatically marked. Besides describing the forms use by native speakers, bare singular NPs can be tapped to help learners master English articles. |
| Applied Linguistics
Pragmatics
Semantics
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| Description | Ambiguity in American Health Discourse | Kwd:1 Text:0 |
| Monograph tracking two trends in vernacular discourse: lexical conflation (when the existence of two senses for the same word can lead speakers to confuse separate topics) and edible iconicity. |
| Semantics
Text/Corpus Linguistics
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| Description | CADOH (Corpus of American Discourses on Health) | Kwd:1 Text:0 |
| An on-going project to collect multiple genres of non-specialist speech and writing as a way to examine how vernacular terms on health are evaluated, circulated, and reinforced within society. |
| Discourse Analysis
Semantics
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| Description | The Discourse Markers Why and Say | Kwd:1 Text:0 |
| Diachronic examination contrasting their spoken use vs. occurrence in depicted conversations of fiction, collocation with different address forms, and speakers' sense of the words' productivity. |
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Pragmatics
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