Clothing textiles come under the category of other commodities pursuant to the Foods and Other Commodities Act. They require neither notification nor marketing authorisation which means that the public authorities do not have information about individual textile auxiliaries or dyes used. The working group "Health Assessment of Textile Auxiliaries and Dyes" within the working group "Textiles" of...

Scholars have observed hedges in academic writing, yet the examination of students’ reflective feedback is scarcely found. During Covid-19 pandemic, both teachers and students face difficulty engaging themselves online classes. To figure out how show their attitude, among others, through feedback. One language features pivotal ‘hedge’, a pragmatic feature representing speaker’s tentativeness po...

Spencer (1991) and Sadler (1997) argue that there are two diierent phenomena that have been grouped together as`contracted auxiliaries'. On the one hand are the syllabic reduced auxiliaries that are unselective in what they attach to. On the other hand, there are nonsyllabic reduced auxiliaries that exhibit lexical idiosyncrasy, stem allomorphy, and word-internal phonological processes. Sadler ...

The productivity of lexical categories was studied longitudinally in a sample of 17 young hearing-impaired French-speaking children with cochlear implants. Age of implantation ranged from 22 months to 76 months. Spontaneous speech samples were collected at six-month intervals over a period of 36 months, starting at the one-word stage. Four general measures of their linguistic production (number...

This paper argues that evidential clitics in St’át’imcets (a.k.a. Lillooet; Northern Interior Salish) introduce quantification over possible worlds and must be analyzed as epistemic modals. We thus add to the growing body of evidence suggesting that the functions of encoding information source and encoding epistemic modality are not necessarily distinct. However, St’át’imcets evidentials differ...

When Old English appeared in a written form for the first time, it had already lost inflections like optative, hortative, perfective, passive, etc. Making up these morphological forms, started, again before was and preserved, using periphrastic expressions with modal auxiliaries, habban, beon/wesan, utan, ongan, Without having middle voice, used ‘impersonal’ ‘reflexive’ constructions (the singl...

THE GREAT importance of medical auxiliaries in primary medical care and in community health schemes is now being increasingly recognized by those who are involved in the planning of health services for developed and developing countries alike. Schemes employing very large numbers of auxiliaries are already well established in Russia1 and in China.2 The major need for auxiliaries is, in the firs...

This study is a corpus-based investigation of how epistemic stance signaled in medical discourse. In particular, we compiled discipline-specific corpus research articles from different fields medicine ranging anatomy to endocrinology explore particular resources are employed by authors index their level (un)certainty towards propositions. The the contained only results and discussion sections 1...

Abstract This Critical Discourse Analysis examines hedging as a linguistic device at the intersection of scientific discourse and women’s language. Hedging has been identified marker where it is valued for expanding dialogic space promulgation knowledge. It also recognised common language, purported to align with discriminatory gender norms that women should not impose their views but could be ...