In this study we analyze texts used in Russian Unified State Exam on English language. Texts that formed small research corpora were retrieved from 2 resources: official USE database as a reference point, and popular website used by pupils for USE training “Neznaika” (https://neznaika.pro/). The size of two corpora is balanced: USE has 11934 tokens and “Neznaika” - 11918 tokens. We share Biber’...

Introduction: To study sentence comprehension in Persian-speaking Patients with Aphasia considering the factors of complexity. Methods: In this cross-sectional study, the performance of 6 non-fluent aphasic patients were tested and their performance was compared to 15 matched control group. Comprehension of semantically reversible sentences was assessed using a binary sentence-picture matching...

A structural priming study examined whether the mapping between grammatical functions (e.g. subject) and thematic roles agent) persists across utterances. Specifically, we tested native Cantonese speakers are more likely to produce a standard subject–verb–object (SVO) active or passive sentence after repeating an in object–subject–verb (OSV) order where direct object (i.e. patient) is grammatic...

In Linguistik online 2021, I presented a four-level centre-periphery model of German syntax (with the categories “prototype”, “variants”, “competitive forms” and “free stylistic variation”) tested refined it on basis two well-researched grammatical phenomena, conditionality passive structures. present paper, this is applied to sentence types German, with comparative side glances at English Fren...

An imperative clause is understood as a construction in which the subject commonly filled by second person but it licitly dropped and verb that co-occurs with realized basic form Indonesian. active clause, on other hand, contains an obligatory subject, inflected meN verbal prefix, object makes sentence readily transformed into its passive counterpart. Given characteristic contrasts between Indo...

Abstract This paper argues that fragment question (FQ) in Mandarin Chinese is derived from topic movement and TP deletion, contributing to the growing body of evidence sentence fragments are syntactically full clauses ( Merchant 2004 ). Structurally, an FQ consists a topic-like constituent followed by particle ne , which functions as marker simultaneously. The argued move SpecTopP rather than S...