Language semantics and syntax are crucial components of linguistics that explore how meaning is constructed and how sentences are structured. Recent research in this field has focused on various ...

In conversation, prosody complements words, forming a structured communication system distinct from, yet connected to, text. By analyzing large datasets of spontaneous conversations and clustering ...

In contrastive syntax, the main interests have been different clause and complex sentence structures and syntactic questions within the clauses, such as verbal and adjectival constructions and ...

Abstract: With the extensive use of XML in applications over the Web, how to update XML data is becoming an important issue because the role of XML has expanded beyond traditional applications in ...

1 School of Foreign Languages and Cultures, Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Nanjing, China 2 School of Foreign Languages and Cultures, Nanjing Normal University, Nanjing, China ...

Harold in Clifton Park, N.Y., wrote recently to ask me about the grammar of the sentences “I couldn’t care less” and “I could care less.” Until then, I thought there were just two kinds of people in ...

I present new data from European French involving embedded polar response particles (a.k.a. yes/no particles) in response to negative questions and develop a novel proposal which integrates the ...