Abstract This paper presents and analyses the approach of Welsh recusant author translator Robert Gwyn ( c. 1545– 1600) to translation quotations from Bible Church Fathers as it is reflected in both his paratextual comments on translating regularities translational practice. locates literary work larger context Counter-Reformation activities Wales for an “unlearned” audience therefore forcefull...

the stories we tell about our lives unveil their content just as much as the lexical choices we make index a certain worldview, attitude, positionality, and relationship to reality. in essence, in narratives, individuals construct the self and denote personal identities. the available narrative identity studies have largely ignored the language employed by the bewitched while narrating their ex...

This  qualitative  study  investigates  the  uses  of  be  in  Contemporary  English.  Based  on  this  study, one  easy  claim  and  one  more  difficult  claim  are  proposed.  The  easy  claim  is  that  the  traditional distinction between be as a lexical verb and be as an auxiliary is faulty. In particular, 'copular-be', traditionally considered to be a lexical verb, is in fact a prototypi...

Early systems for word sense disambiguation WSD often depended on individual tailor made lexical resources hand coded with as much lexical information as needed but of severely limited vocabulary size Recent studies tend to extract lexical informa tion from a variety of existing resources e g machine readable dictionaries corpora for broad coverage However this raises the issue of how to combin...

The Abstract Much effort has been put into computational lexicons over tile years, and most systems give much room to (lexical) semantic data. However, in these systems, the effort put on tile study and representation of lexical items to express the umterlying continuum existing in 1) language vagueness and polysemy, and 2) language gaps and mismatches, has remained embryonic. A sense enumerati...

The notion of expectancy grammar as a key to understanding the nature of psychologically real processes that underlie language use is introduced by Oller (1979). A central issue in this notion is that expectancy generating systems are constructed and modified in the course of language acquisition. Thus, one of the characteristics of language proficiency is that it consists of such an expectancy...