1 Morphology with or without Affixes The last few years have seen the emergence of several clearly articulated alternative approaches to morphology. One such approach rests on the notion that only stems of the so-called lexical categories (N, V, A) are morpheme "pieces" in the traditional sense—connections between (bundles of) meaning (features) and (bundles of) sound (features). What look like...

The present article is a corpus-driven investigation into deontic modality in the Lithuanian translations of EU legislation. It builds on data EUR-Lex2/2016 parallel corpus. discusses pivotal points and its realisation English Lithuanian. then presents corpus most frequent lexical bundles through which expressed subcorpus. discussion section analyses how source text were translated

It has been long known that the four lexical tones in Mandarin are subject to contextual variation in connected speech. Most of the contextual tonal variation reported to date (not including phonological variation such as tone sandhi) is assimilatory in nature. In this study, however. both assimilation and dissimilation arc found in contextual tonal variation in Mandarin. Four Mandarin spealcer...

The purposes of this corpus-driven study were to compare the use four-word lexical bundles between native English and Thai dissertation writings. Two language corpora, roughly 1,000,000 words apiece, gathered from dissertations in field Language Teaching written by both groups writers. Each corpus was subdivided into three sub-corpora, namely, Introduction, Methodology, Results Discussions sub-...