Asking what can be a substantive word in natural language is closely related to asking what can be a lexical concept. However, studies on lexical concepts in cognitive psychology, philosophy and linguistics have little ...
Polarity items must, by definition, fit inside the scope of their licenser; items like any N, in addition, appear to require a c-commanding and overt licenser. It is argued that the relevant restriction refers to precedence, ...
It is true that, as is well known since Allan (1980), mass and count are best
seen as preferences rather than absolute values for lexical items; for instance,
clothes cannot be governed by a numeral, but it tolerates the ...
The relationship between group and individual has been explored within the variationist paradigm. In L1, group patterns of variation are replicated by the individual. Second language acquisition research is concerned with ...
Acquaviva, Paolo(University of York. Department of Language and Linguistic Science, 2009-05)
This paper examines the nature and content of morphological roots in relation to their syntactic context. A careful consideration of doublets, where the same root may take alternative noun - inherent features, leads to the ...
This paper investigates what is specifically nominal in lexical semantics and how it relates to nouns as morphosyntactic objects. Nouns are argued to refer primarily to kind-level sorts, which define categories of entities ...
This article will focus on the acquisition of sociolinguistic competence
by second language learners during a period of study abroad.
Various aspects of sociolinguistic competence will be discussed and some
of the ...
Fanning, Ursula(Società italiana per lo studio della modernità letteraria, 2011)
This article holds that the theme of the maternal, and of motherhood itself, constitutes a taboo in women’s autobiographical writing of the most feminist period in Italy’s history, immediately after 1968. In the first part, ...