This study intends to investigate the realizations and functional patterns of shell nouns in Applied Linguistics research articles.  To this end, fifty research articles in the field of Applied Linguistic were selected from Journal of English for Academic Purposes and journal of English for Specific Purposes published by Elsevier.  The articles were analyzed for the realizatio...

Cognitive linguistics has always been an important branch of linguistics, and during 20th century, experienced three revolutions: Saussure’s structuralism revolution, Chomsky’s TG cognitive functional linguistics’ revolution to Joe’s revolution. Time 21st Wang Yin, a famous professor in China, put forward revolutionary point about based on the research philosophy. He proposed new concept, Embod...

The approach to generative grammar originating with Chomsky (1957) has been enormously successful within linguistics. Seeing such success, one wonders whether a similar approach might help us understand other human domains besides language. One such domain is morality. Could there be universal generative moral grammar? More specifically, might it be useful to moral theory to develop an explicit...

Quantitative linguistics (QL) is a discipline of linguistics, that, using real texts, studies languages with quantitative mathematical approaches, aiming to precisely describe and explain, with a system of mathematical laws, the operation and development of language systems. Later in this review, we will address the relationship between QL and computational linguistics. Quantitative Syntax Anal...

The word cognitive has become very in. cognitive pragmatics (Nemeth 2001) and, ultimately, cognitive linguistics. How is cognitive linguistics different from simply linguistics? Contemporary literature suggests a variety of possible answers, but common to them all is an understanding that " languaging " is a cognitive activity (Clark 1996, Verschueren 1999), and since cognition is the essential...

This paper attempts to present the new approach to design sufficient number of systematic fuzzy linguistics in matrix form and map the Fuzzy Linguistic Variable Matrix, which contains linguistic terms, into numeric domain using Fuzzy Normal Distribution based on the Parabola-based Membership Function. Existing fuzzy set theory is difficult to design the systematic and sufficient fuzzy linguisti...