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When focus goes wild: An empirical study of two syntactic positions for information focus
(Faculty of Humanities, John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin, Poland, 2015)
My goal in the present paper is to carry out an analysis of the syntactic and discourse properties of Information Focus (IF) in Southern Peninsular Spanish (SPS) and Standard Spanish (SS) varieties. Generally, it has ...
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On the role of vigilance in the interpretation of puns
(De Gruyter, 2015)
Humans are vigilant against deception and misinterpretation thanks to a set of cognitive mechanisms that monitor their interlocutors’ benevolence, credibility, competence and preferences, as well as the plausibility and ...
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Fostering EF/SL learners' meta-pragmatic awareness of complaints and their interactive effects
(Routledge, 2015)
This paper suggests a series of steps for teaching complaint behaviour in English. The production of complaints requires a meta-pragmatic awareness of their interactive value and functions, their different types and ...
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Towards a typology of focus: Subject position and microvariation at the discourse-syntax interface
(Elsevier, 2015)
In this work I explore the different discourse-syntax interface properties of focus fronting in Standard Spanish (SS) and Southern Peninsular Spanish (SPS) including Andalusian and Extremaduran varieties. In SS it is taken ...
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'Gylbart off kynloth lande': The uninflected genitive and the group genitive in Older Scots
(Modern Language Society, 2015)
The present paper studies the genitive construction in Older Scots using the largest corpus available for this period: The Linguistic Atlas of Older Scots (LAOS). It focuses, on the one hand, on the uninflected genitive, ...
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Trabajando con el "entre" en el aula de ELE
(Ministerio de Educación Cultura y Deporte, 2015)