This study aimed at investigating the effects of grammatical error correction on EFL learners’ accuracy. Twenty-two male and female senior students were chosen randomly to respond to a questionnaire investigating their beliefs about immediate grammatical error correction.  Actually, the study was conducted in order to answer this question: what is the effect of grammatical error feedback on stu...

The study examines strategies multilingual children use to interpret grammatical relations, focusing on their two primary languages, Lajamanu Warlpiri and Light Warlpiri. Both languages use mixed systems for indicating grammatical relations. In both languages ergative-absolutive case-marking indicates core arguments, but to different extents in each language. In Lajamanu Warlpiri, pronominal cl...

Based on the actual uses of polysemous motion verb zǒu ‘walk’ in corpora Chinese texts from Old to Modern period, this paper argues that directed sense manner mainly derives pragmatic inference contexts and cognitive preference for conceptualization events. In addition, it is essential favorable morphosyntactic constructions language promote be lexicalized as verb’s lexical meaning. That is, sp...

We present the new online edition of a dictionary of Polish inflection – the Grammatical Dictionary of Polish (http://sgjp.pl). The dictionary is interesting for several reasons: it is comprehensive (over 330,000 lexemes corresponding to almost 4,300,000 different textual words; 1116 handcrafted inflectional patterns), the inflection is presented in an explicit manner in the form of carefully d...

The aim of the paper is to offer a critical evaluation of previous LFG accounts of Hungarian DPs containing derived complex event nominals and, by combining some aspects of some of these accounts, to propose a new and more principled analysis. My main assumptions and claims are as follows. There are two possessor forms and two [-o,-r] grammatical functions in the Hungarian DP: (SUBJ) and (POSS)...

Much of the research on sentence processing has focused on discovering universal principles to explain parsing preferences. Recent cross-linguistic work, however, suggests that processing is sensitive to distributional information about individual languages. Along these lines, we explore a constraint-based approach to processing, in which cross-linguistic variation is explained by the interacti...