Tag questions are a conspicuous feature of spoken Present-day English. In contrast to many other languages, where tags are generally realized by invariant forms (e.g. nicht wahr? in German, oder? in Swiss German, or n’est-ce pas? in French), the canonical English question tag is a reduced interrogative clause whose structure and lexical content is conditioned by the format of the anchor – or ho...

We present a set of stand-off annotations for the ninety thousand sentences in the spoken section of the British National Corpus (BNC) which feature a progressive aspect verb group. These annotations may be matched to the original BNC text using the supplied document and sentence identifiers. The annotated features mostly relate to linguistic form: subject type, subject person and number, form ...

In this paper we will apply to Korean the standard techniques which have been used to show that young children represent functional projections mainly for European languages. And what we find is the following: First, we suggest that the over-use of the default mood-inflection '-e' in the earliest speech of one Korean two-year old parallels root infinitive forms observed in other languages. Seco...

Evidentiality is one of the important issues in the recent studies of linguistic typology whereby the Korean evidentials are not so much talked about. In Korean the evidentiality is not so systematically represented as other grammatical categories such as tense or honorifics. But it does have some means for evidential expression. The past retrospective ending -deohas this function. And the 'say...

In contrast to other Modern Tibetan auxiliaries, the linguistic history of so-called ‘factual’ marker red cannot be traced. Two scholars have independently pointed occurrence in 15th-century Mi.la.ras.paḥi rnam.thar. all likelihood, this is result an editorial intervention. However, text reveals interesting distribution five different verba dicendi, ingeniously used by author text, help underst...

This study compared the sentence production abilities of individuals with Broca's and Wernicke's aphasia in an attempt to explore the extent to which impaired lexical retrieval impedes sentence production. The ability to produce active and passive reversible and non-reversible sentences was examined when varying amounts of lexical information was provided. The results showed that both Wernicke'...

The aim of this study was to uncover factors accounting for the ability of children with specific language impairment (SLI) to learn agreement morphemes in intervention. Twenty-five children with SLI who participated in a six-month intervention program focused on teaching third person singular -s or auxiliary is/are/was showed a wide range of use of the target morpheme after intervention. Regre...

The present investigation demonstrates that incremental sentence processing is guided by principles of minimal structure building. Event-related potentials (ERPs) to a local number mismatch between an auxiliary and a subsequent noun phrase revealed that the subject preference, a strategy known to be very robust during processing, can be overridden when information about a verb's valency (i.e., ...

In the following subsections we examine various properties of passives in which Danish, English, and German differ. We look at the morphological passive in Danish in Section 1.1, compare the personal and impersonal pas-sives in the three languages in Section 1.2, examine the possibility to promote the objects in passives of ditransi-tive constructions in Section 1.3. 1.1 Morphological and Analy...

The goal of this paper is to dìscuss idìolectal variabilþ in a regional Dutch variefy and Dutch dialects concerning word order in the twoand threeverb cluste¡ (right periphery) on the basis of two solid empirical studies; that is, (i) a corpus 33.5 hours ofrecorded spontaneous speech of67 speakers in the cþ of Heerlen in the southeastern part of the Netherlands and (ii) a corpus of wdtten relat...