This thesis studies the information that an expression and its context contribute to ambiguity resolution, focusing on the syntactic, lexical, and referential levels, and on the English language. I adopt computational ...

This study is motivated by concerns about the adequacy of current corpus-based methods for the selection of vocabulary in studies of English for Academic Purposes (EAP) lexis. It is hypothesised that lists of general-academic ...

Human language is essentially multimodal in that speakers use multiple channels to convey meaning, including speech prosody and gesture (e.g. Mondada, 2016; Perniss, 2018). In the last decades, studies within the field of ...

Els pronoms clítics representen una de les idiosincràsies més singulars de la llengua catalana, tant pel seu polimorfisme com per les funcions sintàctiques i discursives que poden exercir en una oració. L’interès principal ...

A medida que el tamaño de un corpus aumenta, aumenta también el número de concordancias obtenidas al consultar una forma. Un número muy elevado de concordancias, de cientos o de miles, dificulta la sistematicidad de la ...

This paper attempts to give an account of the syntax of quotation from an LFG perspective. I claim that quotes are inserted at N’ positions by making use of a special phrase structure rule that makes the quote’s f-structure ...

Nowadays, we still witness many foreign language classrooms where traditional teaching methods do not enable students to further expand their communicative development. The aim of the sociocultural theory is “to develop a ...

L’estudi de frases fetes en espanyol, i per extensió en català, és un fet evident. Així ho demostren nombroses publicacions com les de Corpas, van Lawick, Casares o Zuluaga, entre d’altres.En aquest treball s’observa la ...

The aim of this Ph. D dissertation is to analyze, through qualitative methodologies, textbooks for learning Chinese as a Foreign Language (ChFL) for Spanish speakers. Special attention has been paid to one of the most ...

Words that belong to a semantic type, like location, can metonymically behave as a member of another semantic type, like organization. This phenomenon is known as regular polysemy. In Pustejovsky's (1995) Generative Lexicon, ...