This paper traces the historical development of the Swedish Pseudo-Coordination construction with the posture verb sitta “sit”. In Swedish a small number of verbs, including posture verbs such as sitta, are used in coordination with another verb to convey that the described event has an extended duration or is in progress. Quantitative evidence from Swedish historical corpora suggests that the ...

This study investigates the importance of human evaluations of coherence in predicting human judgments of holistic essay quality. Of secondary interest is the potential for computational indices of cohesion and coherence to model human judgments of coherence. The results indicate that human judgments of coherence are the most predictive features of holistic essay scores and that computational i...

to study the causes of difficulties in understanding the german short story bypersian learners from the perspective of text linguistics first we have searchedthe factors of cohesion and coherence in german texts in a short story. then wehave checked its translations by the students and observed that these people arefamiliar with the grammatical structure of each sentence and the vocabulary ofth...

This paper reports a phenomenon supporting the hypothesis that the emergence of structure in the evolution of language was a staged process. To develop a grammatical structure it seems necessary to first have discrete constituents which can be the building blocks of a hierarchical system. By analysing observed speech we show that the development of a linear sequence of grammatical constituents ...

PURPOSE As children develop skills in writing across academic contexts, clinicians and educators need to have a fundamental understanding of typical writing development as well as valid and reliable assessment methods. The purpose of this study was to examine the progression of linguistic elements in school-age children's narrative and expository writing development. METHOD Narrative and expo...

The problem discussed in this study is the cohesion contained lyrics of song entitled Gajah album by Tulus. will be used as alternative teaching materials high school. purpose to describe album's songs and determine whether or not worthy being an material method descriptive qualitative. results found 59 data on grammatical lexical aspects which include references, substitutions, ellipsis, conju...