abstractthis study focused mainly on the shifts of the grammatical cohesion in texts translated from english into persian. it aimed to identify the grammatical cohesive devices (gcds) in st and tt separately, based on halliday and hassn's model (1976), determine the number of occurrences of gcds in two texts and finally, illustrate types of shifts of grammatical cohesion and strategies used in ...

In the present paper, the intonational realization of Request Action dialogue act in Polish map task dialogues is analyzed. The study is focused on the Request Action acts realized as single, well-formed intonational phrases. Basic pitch-related parameters are measured and discussed. Nuclear melodies are described and categorized, and some generalizations are formulated about their common reali...

The BI ( 比 )-structure, which highlights a contrasting characteristic between two items, is the key comparative sentence structure in Chinese. In this paper, we explore the methods of extracting the 6 constituents of the BI-structure. Previous studies are often restricted to probabilistic classification methods, where the feature used hardly embodies linguistic knowledge, therefore unintuitive....

the long-term efficacy of written grammar feedback (wgf) has escaped rigorous empirical investigation, partly due to its strong intuitive appeal. the few studies that have investigated the long-term effect of grammar correction have failed to find any positive long-term effects for wgf (truscott, 2007). nevertheless, a number of recent studies have reported a positive effect for wgf. the presen...

In this paper, we propose an approach for studying the semantic representations of comparison words and comparative constructions based on the framework of E-HowNet. Our objective is to determine how the semantic composition mechanism works. The proposed method establishes a mapping between grammatical structures and fine-grained event structures for comparative constructions. We encode the eve...

1http://www.di.unito.it/∼tutreeb/ Italian Treebank2 (VIT), and the ISST3. None of them is comparable in size with the English Penn Treebank. This limits the possibility to have reliable induced grammars for Italian. Initial studies have shown that probabilistic grammars induced on a small corpus have not impressive performances [5]. Building larger corpora is then needed. We have been working o...

the field of comparative analysis on persian and arabic grammars and in contrast to number and counted nouns discourses in both languages it is revealed that there is a numerical composition in either double-bases (simple) or triple- bases (it has counting conjunction or counting unit in persian and quantifier in arabic). this categorization may itself open some other new classes and lead to pu...

many researchers believe that grammatical terminology has no spontaneous influence in the procedure of language learning. this study is trying to say that if german grammar is to be translated to persian , the translator should take into consideration the differences between german and persian grammatical terminology . otherwise , the reader will face a serious challenge in comprehending the tr...

In this paper, I discuss the results of word-likeness rating experiments with Hebrew and English speakers that show that language users use their grammar in a categorical and a gradient manner. In word-likeness rating tasks, subjects make the categorical distinction between grammatical and ungrammatical – they assign all grammatical forms equally high ratings and all ungrammatical forms equally...