From a Systemic Functional perspective, Grammatical Metaphor (GM) as is taken to be a chief driving force in the discourse of different genres, an important adult language machinery for ideational meanings to be semantically cross-mapped and realized through a different form in the stratum of the lexico-grammar, in order to convey changed meanings and tinker with the discursive flow and develop...

In this study, we examine the strategies translators have at their disposal to render meaning of Dutch modal particles in Russian language. Modal are difficult translate because these words is abstract, highly context-dependent and sometimes open multiple interpretations. Based on parallel Dutch-Russian texts show which use express functions particle maar ‘but’ Russian. The very often omitted t...

Multilingual Natural Language Generation is an interesting and challenging field of Natural Language Processing. Automatic generation of texts in natural language could be viewed as a final part of automated translation process from one language to another. Alternative approach is given the chance with development of modern Natural Language Processing technologies, which concentrate the researc...

This dissertation is about the structure of temporal semantics and children’s acquisition of temporal language. It argues for the importance of investigating semantics both at the abstract level of linguistic structures and at the concrete level of the time-course of acquisition, as these two levels provide natural constraints for each other. With respect to semantics, it provides a computation...

This article reports on a contrastive study of the cognate nouns and verbs hope håp(e) that investigates their lexico-grammatical conditions use in English vs. Norwegian fiction texts football match reports. The complex dataset consists material from parallel corpus comparable An interesting finding is verb outnumbers noun texts, whereas both languages. Moreover, analysis lemmas suggests they h...

The developing grammatical competence in teaching Russian as a foreign language student at the stage of pre-higher education training is one most important tasks facing linguodidactics. success mastering depends on level competence. Knowledge grammar contributes to better language. article defines terminological status competence, examines its correlation with such categories linguistic communi...

Conceiving grammaticality as gradient poses problems for those traditional conceptions of grammar which assume that linguistic expressions can only be either grammatical or ungrammatical. That a sentence is, for instance, “grammatical to 75%” is a nonsensical statement from this point of view. In this tradition, generative grammar assumes the native speaker’s linguistic competence to be the sys...

A number of disparate approaches to language, ranging from cognitive linguistics to stochastic implementations of optimality theory, have challenged the classical distinction between knowledge of language and use of language. Supporters of such approaches point to the functional motivation of grammatical structure, language users’ sensitivity to the frequency of occurrence of grammatical elemen...