This study examines the extent to which word recognition is influenced by the information of grammatical gender given by the French singular definite article (le/la). More specifically, the focus is on auditory word recognition when words are in the final noun phrase in a Subject Verb Object (SVO) sentence. We compared the gender effect with that of the semantic information of the verb in order...

unlike the languages we know, some of the arabic sentences form without any verbs. arab grammarians call these sentences, which contain a subject and a predicate without any linking verbs, nominal sentences. examining theses sentences indicates that their predicate is composed of one of the following words or structures: 1. noun, 2. prepositional phrase, 3. an adverb of time or place, 4. a nomi...

This study aimed at investigating the effects of grammatical error correction on EFL learners’ accuracy. Twenty-two male and female senior students were chosen randomly to respond to a questionnaire investigating their beliefs about immediate grammatical error correction.  Actually, the study was conducted in order to answer this question: what is the effect of grammatical error feedback on stu...

This paper examines F0 correlates of morphologically marked grammatical functions, in particular topic and subject, in spontaneous Japanese speech. Our data consist of F0 measurements of 7,106 nouns in the CallHome Japanese corpus of telephone conversations [4]. We find that topics exhibit higher peak F0 than subjects, contradicting information-structure accounts which predict that topics, whic...

A survey of the grammatical terminology, identification, and semantics of the object-complement construction in the Greek NT demonstrates that the treatment of this construction in the ma:jor grammars is inadequate. A rather extensive listing of NT examples of this construction supports the thesis that the object complement construction is semantically equivalent to the subject-predicate nomina...

The goal of this paper is to resolve an apparent mismatch between the morphology and grammatical function of the subject and object NPs of the North Russian (NR) and Lithuanian (Lith) nonagreeing constructions in (1-2) below. On the surface, this construction consists of i) a nonagreeing participle functioning as the main predicate, ii) a preverbal oblique (or PP) constituent, and iii) a nomina...

Communicative and active learning is recognized as a dominant didactic model in foreign languages teaching paradigm, wherein Content Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) seems to be very promising. The key principle of CLIL its dual focus: subject through language subject. focus lesson on the content, which students need not only understand learn, but interiorize language. Being placed specific ...

The article deals with the features of linguistic and cultural picture world representation on example Nigerian screenplays. authors research analyze cinematographic art which is reflection Nigeria national world, that subject to dominant influence British English language influence. In course work, key characteristics screenplays are revealed, viz. phenomenon called creolization forced adaptat...