bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025_split huggingface dataset:
Displaying recipiency in an interpreter-mediated dialogue
Authors: Vranjes Jelena , Bot Hanneke , Feyaerts Kurt , Brône Geert 
Published: October 2018

Abstract

This chapter discusses the findings of a study that used mobile eye-tracking in the context of a naturally occurring interpreter-mediated dialogue. This type of interaction is particularly interesting for the study of gaze and other (non-) verbal resources, as the primary interlocutors have no or limited access to each other’s languages and have to rely on the interpreter and other modalities for the successful accomplishment of the social interaction. The aim of the study was to examine the role of gaze in the multimodal displays of recipiency (backchannel responses) in one interpreter-mediated therapeutic encounter. Our study reveals asymmetrical gaze patterns of the three participants while listening to the ongoing talk. The analysis also shows that backchannel responses are found on different levels of communication and between all participants in an interpreter-mediated conversation. Moreover, this contribution demonstrates how eye-tracking technology can help us reveal specific micro-events between the participants in the conversation, which can strengthen our understanding of the interpreter-mediated talk as a joint action.
Verum focus, sentence mood, and contrast
Authors: Lohnstein Horst 
Published: October 2018

Abstract
Verum focus is a phenomenon which results from accentuation of a specific component (finite verb, complementizer, relative or wh-element) in the left peripheral position of a clause. It invokes the effect of emphasizing the expression of truth of a proposition as Höhle (1988; 1992), who coined the term, characterized the phenomenon. In German, verum focus typically appears in the left periphery in main as well as in embedded clauses. The distribution of the accent at the surface is driven by rather sophisticated conditions which relate the syntactic surface position of the accent to its PF and LF effects in systematic ways.
The close connection of the phenomenon with the concepts of truth, contrast, and sentential force calls for a theory which interrelates these notions. This leads to a perspective that connects verum focus to the part of the sentence that spells out the intention (not the intension) of the sentence meaning: sentence mood. The proposed line of reasoning intends to promote the view that verum focus can be derived from the systematic interaction of sentence mood with the regular properties of focus assignment. Since focus assignment relates accent and contrast, ‘truth’ is achieved by verum focus, if the sentence mood function is fulfilled.
In search for polarity contrast marking in Italian
Authors: Andorno Cecilia , Crocco Claudia 
Published: October 2018

Abstract
This paper examines polarity contrast marking in Italian, analyzing replies to questions and assertions in Map Task dialogues and read speech. We examine the frequency of echo replies, their syntactic and prosodic properties, and the frequency of verum focus. The results show that echo replies are recurrent, and even preferred, when a correction is involved. Narrow and verum focus are attested, although the latter is not common, and can also be due to morpho-syntactic manipulations such as clitic right dislocation. The results confirm the instability of polarity contrast marking in Italian and suggest that the use of marking devices is sensitive to pragmatic factors, especially in connection with the different functions of polarity contrast in discourse.
Applying metaphor analysis to academic literacy research
Authors: Wan Wan , Turner Sarah 
Published: October 2018

Abstract
The article aims to provide a critical review of 23 studies that have used metaphor analysis to provide insight into academic literacy research over the past 30 years. It begins by summarising some of the key issues and trends that have been addressed using metaphor analysis, grouping these into two broad categories: metaphor as a methodological tool, and metaphor as an intervention tool. Methods of metaphor collection and analysis are then outlined and discussed. It is noted that an increasing number of studies in this area have identified methodological issues resulting from what Armstrong et al. (2011) term ‘the subjectivity problem’, and the article thus discusses how such issues may be resolved in future research.
Negative existentials
Authors: Vecsey Zoltán 
Published: October 2018

Abstract
Negative existentials containing empty NPs are understood colloquially as representing how things stand in the world. Moreover,
utterances of such sentences seem to express propositions or thoughts that are informative and true. Standard static semantic
theories cannot provide a straightforward account of these intuitive phenomena. In such frameworks, sentences with empty NPs are
considered as being unable to express truth-evaluable contents. This paper investigates two alternative theories of negative
existentials. A common feature of these theories is that they adopt a dynamic approach to meaning. I will argue that neither of
these alternatives provides a reassuring solution to the apparent truth-conditional problem generated by the utterances of
negative existentials.
Diachronic collocations, genre, and DiaCollo
Authors: Jurish Bryan 
Published: October 2018

Abstract
This chapter presents the formal basis for diachronic collocation profiling as implemented in
the open-source software tool “DiaCollo” and sketches some potential applications to multi-genre diachronic corpora.
Explicitly developed for the efficient extraction, comparison, and interactive visualization of collocations from a
diachronic text corpus, DiaCollo is suitable for processing collocation pairs whose association strength depends on
extralinguistic features such as the date of occurrence or text genre. By tracking changes in a word’s typical
collocates over time, DiaCollo can help to provide a clearer picture of diachronic changes in the word’s usage,
especially those related to semantic shift or discourse environment. Use of the flexible DDC search engine1 back-end allows user queries to make explicit reference to genre and other
document-level metadata, thus allowing e.g. independent genre-local profiles or cross-genre comparisons. In addition
to traditional static tabular display formats, a web-service plugin also offers a number of intuitive interactive
online visualizations for diachronic profile data for immediate inspection.
Classical and modern Arabic corpora
Authors: Atwell Eric Steven 
Published: October 2018

Abstract
Our Artificial Intelligence research group at the University of Leeds has collected, analysed and annotated Classical
Arabic corpus resources: the Quranic Arabic Corpus with several layers of linguistic annotation; the
QurAna Quran pronoun anaphoric co-reference corpus; the QurSim Quran verse similarity corpus; the Qurany Quran corpus
annotated with English translations and verse topics; the Boundary-Annotated Quran Corpus; the
Quran Question and Answer Corpus; the Multilingual Hadith Corpus; the
King Saud University Corpus of Classical Arabic; and the Corpus for teaching about Islam. We have
also developed Modern Arabic corpus resources spanning several genres and language types: Arabic By
Computer; the Corpus of Contemporary Arabic; the Arabic Internet
Corpus; the World Wide Arabic Corpus; the Arabic Discourse Treebank; the
Arabic Learner Corpus; the Arabic Children’s Corpus; and the Arabic
Dialect Text Corpus. These corpus resources have informed Arabic corpus linguistics and Artificial
Intelligence research, and development of Arabic text analytics tools.
Scholastic genre scripts in English medical writing 1375–1800
Authors: Taavitsainen Irma 
Published: October 2018

Abstract
Late medieval scientific and medical writing had several different genres and levels of writing from the beginning.
Learned genres, including commentaries, were introduced into English with the vernacularization boom. The Latin “genre
script” lists ancient authorities’ opinions of a topic, finishing with the commentator’s own. Writing conventions were
adopted with a time lag, and fully-fletched commentaries emerge when the heyday of Scholasticism was already over.
Research became increasingly based on observation and new top genres were based on empirical science. This chapter
traces generic features derived from Scholasticism with genre dynamics and meaning-making practices at center stage.
The material comes from medical corpora with background metadata.
Concessive conjunctions in written American English
Authors: Schützler Ole 
Published: October 2018

Abstract
Based on the Corpus of Historical American English (COHA; Davies 2010–), this chapter inspects the frequencies and semantics of the concessive
conjunctions although, though and even though from the 1860s to the present day. In the data, although and
though predominantly express what Sweetser
(1990) has called speech-act concessives, while even
though mainly expresses content concessives. However, there is a general
development towards a higher proportion of speech-act concessives. Further, although and
even though increase in frequency, while though
decreases over time. Semantic properties and the double function of though (conjunction
and conjunct) are proposed as explanations. Frequency changes progress equally through all genres, but the semantic
change seems to have pervaded all genres only as far as although is concerned.
A comparison of multi-genre and single-genre corpora in the context of contact-induced change
Authors: Trips Carola , Stein Achim 
Published: October 2018

Abstract
This chapter discusses results from a quantitative study of possible contact-induced change in
Middle English in a multi-genre corpus (the Penn-Helsinki Parsed Corpus of Middle English
2 (PPCME2), Kroch & Taylor 2000, and a single-genre
corpus, the Penn Corpus of Early English Correspondence (PCEEC), Taylor et al. 2006). We claim that the data from the correspondence corpus are critical to
understanding the rise of the recipient passive (more traditionally called the indirect passive) in late ME because
they reflect the active competence of writers, much more than other genres do (at least in the PPCME2). More
precisely, we argue that our data reflect a verb class specific passive construction that seems to be firmly
established in the grammar of the writers. This construction is not calqued from the model language (Old French) but
the result of interpreting the French dative as different from the English ‘dative’.
Some methodological issues in the corpus-based study of morphosyntactic variation
Authors: Enrique-Arias Andrés 
Published: October 2018

Abstract
This paper has two main objectives: to point out some of the challenges surrounding the study of morphosyntactic
variation and change through historical corpora, and to present some methodological alternatives to help alleviate
these problems using the specific case study of the expression of possession in Old Spanish. The study highlights some
methodological issues such as the definition of the context of occurrence of morphosyntactic variables and the problem
of comparability of texts in diachronic corpora. In order to showcase some methodological alternatives the paper
presents the results of a study on Old Spanish possessives that uses data from a parallel corpus of medieval Bible
translations and a multinomial logistic regression analysis.
The interplay between genre variation and syntax in a historical Low German corpus
Authors: Farasyn Melissa , Walkden George , Watts Sheila , Breitbarth Anne 
Published: October 2018

Abstract
In this chapter, we focus on the choice of different genres in the Middle Low German part of the tagged and parsed
Corpus of Historical Low German and its implications for syntax. We discuss how the
inclusion or exclusion of genres has an impact on the study and the discovery of syntactic phenomena in Middle Low
German, such as null referential subjects, resumptive pronouns, relative particles and gaps in coordinations. This
interplay between genre and syntax also influences parsing decisions. Furthermore, we look at the influence of
(sparse) punctuation on (automatically) tagging the corpus itself, and how a closer study of genre-specific syntactic
elements contributes to the improvement of the accuracy of automatic classifiers.
Kandinsky’s colour-form correspondence theory
Authors: Walter Sebastian 
Published: October 2018

Abstract
About one hundred years ago, Wassily Kandinsky (1912) put forward a theory of aesthetically better or less fitting colour-form combinations, postulating that yellow corresponds with the triangle, red with the square, and blue with the circle. The present cross-cultural study, in Germany and Vanuatu (Melanesia), re-investigated the possible associations of triangle, square and circle with four colours – yellow, red, blue and green. The methodology was also extended to examine associations from the opposite perspective – of the four colours with the three forms. Results confirm the existence of non-arbitrary colour-form associations, but these are different from those posited by Kandinsky. For both German and Ni-Vanuatu participants, significant associations were found for the circle with yellow, and the square with blue. The two groups differed though in their choices of the form associated with red. The results complement findings in other recent investigations of colour-form associations and are explained by exposure to natural (and man-made) objects in the environment.
Divergence and shared conceptual organization
Authors: Bimler David , Uusküla Mari 
Published: October 2018

Abstract
To study associations among colour terms, we asked speakers of fourteen European languages to list terms in the order that they came to mind and converted each list into an array of “adjacencies”. Analysis of these pointed to possible differences among languages in the cognitive organization of colour concepts. Based on adjacency arrays, we defined an index of similarity between pairs of lists, within and between languages. Factor analysis identified a shared cognitive framework structuring the colour domain across languages. There is also enough heterogeneity that one can consider two alternative structures or “Points-of-View”, with individuals weighting these extremes in different proportions to yield their personal lists. Moreover, languages differ in the mean weights of their speakers.
Colour and ideology
Authors: Stanulewicz Danuta , Pawłowski Adam 
Published: October 2018

Abstract
The use of the Polish term for red, czerwony, was investigated in the press released in the period 1945–1954. The data have been extracted from ChronoPress: Chronologiczny Korpus Polskich Tekstów Prasowych (1945–1954), a corpus of Polish newspapers and magazines. At the time of writing this chapter, the number of occurrences of czerwony (and related words) in the corpus amounts to 3,688. The uses of czerwony are examined in the historical context of the new political system, Communism, introduced into Poland after World War II. Our analysis reveals that ideologized czerwony dominates in ChronoPress texts.
Colour terms in the blue area among Estonian-Russian and Russian-Estonian bilinguals
Authors: Loitšenko Olga 
Published: October 2018

Abstract
This chapter investigates the colour terms of Estonian-Russian (Estonian-dominant) and Russian-Estonian (Russian-dominant) bilinguals in the blue category. The blue category has been chosen because Russian and Estonian have different BCT (Basic Colour Term) inventories. Data was collected using a list task and a naming task. The list-task results show that both bilingual groups consider Estonian sinine and Russian sinij more salient than Estonian helesinine and Russian goluboj; therefore, the first two colour terms are encoded better in bilinguals’ semantic memories. The naming task results indicate a higher consensus in the more frequently used (dominant) language. The bidirectional (L1–L2–L1) convergence of linguistic form and semantics is apparent in both list and naming tasks, which consequently can be attributed to the activation of each language system through the priming effect.
The journey of the “apple from China”
Authors: Bogushevskaya Victoria 
Published: October 2018

Abstract
The designations of the orange fruit in Indo-European languages very often literally meant “apple from China”. Citrus species were known in the Chinese cultural area in the fifth century BCE and glossed in c.100 CE, but there is no basic colour term for orange in Modern Standard Mandarin. This colour category is psychologically salient, but it is still inseparable from a concrete object in the mind of a native speaker, and can therefore be defined as starting to become basic. This article also suggests modification of Berlin and Kay’s (1969: 6) first criterion for basicness in colour terms: applied to Chinese, a term should be monomorphemic and, moreover, monosyllabic – rather than just monolexemic – since almost every syllable is a morpheme in Chinese.
An empirical study on fabric image retrieval with multispectral images using colour and pattern features
Authors: Xin John , Wu Jack , Yao PengPeng , Shao Sijie 
Published: October 2018

Abstract
This article presents technical details of a fabric image retrieval system using multispectral images. The goal of the system is to retrieve similar fabric images effectively and efficiently when given a query image. The web-based retrieval system can be accessed through web browsers. The database contains 2,100 fabric images of both yarn-dyed and printed fabrics with a high variety of colours and patterns. The images were captured using the 16-channel multispectral Imaging Colour Measurement (ICM) System for ensuring colour accuracy. Six retrieval models are investigated and compared. Three of the models use colour features while the other three use local pattern features. Future research directions in fabric image retrieval are proposed.
Colour in the Pompeiian cityscape
Authors: Fridell Anter Karin , Weilguni Marina 
Published: October 2018

Abstract
Research on colour in Roman Pompeii has so far dealt almost exclusively with interiors. As part of a larger project on Pompeii’s urban space this study deals with the exterior colours of façades and pavings. Using as source material the existing remains of the town, excavation reports and artistic and other reproductions, we have tested the hypothesis that the colour character exhibited in the well-known and colourfully illustrated findings of Vittorio Spinazzola is also valid for the rest of the town. This hypothesis was supported for some streets and clearly contradicted for others. We have found certain patterns regarding colour and status, function and traffic and identified a number of typically different colour characters for different types of streets.
Falling on Deaf Ears? Exploring the Effects of Newspaper Coverage of the European Parliament on Public Support for it
Authors: Eisele Olga 
Published: October 2018

Abstract
The European Parliament (EP) is the only directly elected institution at the European Union (EU) level, and its empowerment was long regarded to quasi-automatically lead to greater legitimacy of EU politics. The strength of the EP has grown continuously. However, this has not translated into greater appreciation of a crisis-ridden EU which seems more fundamentally questioned than ever before. Starting from the assumption that mass media serve as the most important source of political information and therefore as a crucial connective interface, we explore newspaper contents about the EP and their effects on public support for it to assess the actual link between the people’s representation at EU level and the people at home. The analysis is conducted for EP elections of 2009 and 2014 in Finland, Germany and the UK. Results suggest that effects of coverage on public support of the EP became stronger and more direct in 2014, which is explained by the increased salience of EU politics in times of crisis. However, expectations of what the EP is or should be may have to be adapted to the reality of a second-order parliament.
LtrDetector: A modern tool-suite for detecting long terminal repeat retrotransposons de-novo on the genomic scale
Authors: Valencia Joseph D , Girgis Hani Z 
Published: October 2018

AbstractLong terminal repeat retrotransposons are the most abundant transposons in plants. They play important roles in alternative splicing, recombination, gene regulation, and genomic evolution. Large-scale sequencing projects for plant genomes are currently underway. Software tools are important for annotating long terminal repeat retrotransposons in these newly available genomes. However, the available tools are not very sensitive to known elements and perform inconsistently on different genomes. Some are hard to install or obsolete. They may struggle to process large plant genomes. None are concurrent or have features to support manual review of new elements. To overcome these limitations, we developed LtrDetector, which uses signal-processing techniques. LtrDetector is easy to install and use. It is not species specific. It utilizes multi-core processors available in personal computers. It is more sensitive than other tools by 14.4%–50.8% while maintaining a low false positive rate on six plant genomes.
A Versatile Rapture (RAD-Capture) Platform for Genotyping Marine Turtles
Authors: Komoroske Lisa , Miller Michael , O’Rourke Sean , Stewart Kelly R. , Jensen Michael P. , Dutton Peter H. 
Published: October 2018

AbstractAdvances in high-throughput sequencing (HTS) technologies coupled with increased interdisciplinary collaboration is rapidly expanding capacity in the scope and scale of wildlife genetic studies. While existing HTS methods can be directly applied to address some evolutionary and ecological questions, certain research goals necessitate tailoring methods to specific study organisms, such as high-throughput genotyping of the same loci that are comparable over large spatial and temporal scales. These needs are particularly common for studies of highly mobile species of conservation concern like marine turtles, where life history traits, limited financial resources and other constraints require affordable, adaptable methods for HTS genotyping to meet a variety of study goals. Here, we present a versatile marine turtle HTS targeted enrichment platform adapted from the recently developed Rapture (RAD-Capture) method specifically designed to meet these research needs. Our results demonstrate consistent enrichment of targeted regions throughout the genome and discovery of candidate variants in all species examined for use in various conservation genetics applications. Accurate species identification confirmed the ability of our platform to genotype over 1,000 multiplexed samples, and identified areas for future methodological improvement such as optimization for low initial concentration samples. Finally, analyses within green turtles supported the ability of this platform to identify informative SNPs for stock structure, population assignment and other applications over a broad geographic range of interest to management. This platform provides an additional tool for marine turtle genetic studies and broadens capacity for future large-scale initiatives such as collaborative global marine turtle genetic databases.