Multilingualism has established itself as a separate area of research in linguistic studies for the two last decades. Therefore, present study aims at examining Algerian Multilingual students’ perceptions distance i.e., psychotypology, between their first Language Arabic and Second language French third English. It focuses on role psychotypology constraining factor cross-linguistic influence ac...

Following Swales’s  (1981)  works  on  genre  analysis,  studies  on  different  sections  of  Research Articles  (RAs)  in  various  languages  and  fields  abound;  however,  only  scant  attention  has  been directed toward abstracts written in Persian, and in the field of literature. Moreover, claims made by Lores (2004) regarding the correspondence of two types of abstracts with different ...

Epistemic modality devices are believed to be one of the prominent characteristics of research articles as the commonly used genre among the academic community members. Considering the importance of such devices in producing and comprehending scientific discourse, this study aimed to cross–culturally and cross-linguistically investigate epistemic modality markers as an important subcategory...

Abstract We investigated bidirectional cross-linguistic influence on motion event (ME) expressions in bilingual speakers of two typological different languages (Talmy’s typology), Spanish (as L1) and English L2). Specifically, we whether struggle to learn ME the L2, this process affects uses L1. Potential effects L2 proficiency AoA both L1 was also studied. elicited from 6-second video-clips we...