To understand how daily usages can shape the gradual changes of both hěn, a prototypical intensifier in Mandarin Chinese, and the construction hěn X, the study aims to investigate the syntactic and semantic behaviors of hěn X constructions in spoken corpora. The conversational data from the NCCU Corpus of Spoken Chinese and a Taiwan Public Television show Bring Up Parents are extracted and anal...

Abstract This paper tackles issues that involve distinguishing clefts from other monoclausal focus constructions when describing the syntax of lesser-known languages. I concentrate on Tilapa Otomi, which is, morphologically speaking, most conservative language Otomi family Mexico (Oto-Pamean; Oto-Manguean). propose has (at least) two specialized constructions: one is a biclausal, and analyze as...

African American English (AAE) is a well-established dialect that exhibits a distinctive syntax, including constructions like habitual be. Using data mined from the social media service Twitter, the proposed senior thesis project intends to study the demographic distribution of a subset of AAE syntactic constructions. This study expands on previous sociolinguistic Twitter work (Eisenstein et al...

This article studies the function of Copular Predicate Constructions in everyday English conversation. We compare predicate adjective constructions (PA) and with a nominal containing an (PAN). ask whether attributive or presence noun PAN leads to difference two constructions. propose that most cases determines construction, leading many parallels usage between PA A comparison (PN), contrast, sh...