A Cross-linguistic Look at Future Markers

Linguistic Phonetics: A Look into the Future

This paper exemplifies the need for collecting extensive experimental data on the languagedependent articulatory and acoustic characteristics of vowels and consonants. It reports data on constriction location for (alveolo)palatal consonants, and on the F2 frequency for allophonic realizations of different varieties of /l/, in several language groups.

A Cross-linguistic and Cross-cultural Study of Epistemic Modality Markers in Linguistics Research Articles

Epistemic modality devices are believed to be one of the prominent characteristics of research articles as the commonly used genre among the academic community members. Considering the importance of such devices in producing and comprehending scientific discourse, this study aimed to cross–culturally and cross-linguistically investigate epistemic modality markers as an important subcategory...

A cross-linguistic look at VP-ellipsis and verbal speech errors

This paper argues that consideration of spontaneous speech errors provides insight into cross-linguistic analyses of syntactic phenomena. In particular, I claim that differences in the distribution of non-parallel VP-Ellipsis constructions in English and German, as well as variation in the spontaneously-occurring verbal speech errors, is explained by a parametric analysis of variation in the in...

The Metagrammar Goes Multilingual: A Cross-Linguistic Look at the V2-Phenomenon

We present an initial investigation into the use of a metagrammar for explicitly sharing abstract grammatical specifications among languages. We define a single class hierarchy for a metagrammar which allows us to automatically generate grammars for different languages from a single compact metagrammar hierarchy. We use as our linguistic example the verbsecond phenomenon, which shows considerab...

Osteoporosis: A Look at the Future