bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025_split huggingface dataset:
Shades of feeling
Authors: Lamond Margrete 
Published: January 2023

Abstract
This chapter discusses how author-illustrator Lane Smith manipulates formal aesthetic elements to activate involuntary emotional responses that influence meaning. Specifically, it works with systems neuroscience to discuss the unease in A Perfect Day and the ways the emotional impact of risky content gets flattened in Grandpa Green. Systems neuroscience examines processes that underlie and inform conscious thought and offers a complementary approach to the investigation of emotional meaning in picturebook illustration. Rather than addressing concepts of mental imagery, self-awareness, language, or mental activity that are the bedrock of normative analysis, the neuroscience of the visual system allows us to view picturebook narratives from a different perspective, and to discover significances that might not be evident by way of conceptual analysis alone.
The cultural politics of confidence in Chetan Bhagat’s select fiction
Authors: Dogra Sakshi 
Published: January 2023

Abstract
Chetan Bhagat’s fiction were not only immensely popular at the beginning of the twenty-first century among India’s young adults, but they also highlight a new Indian subjectivity that believes in the ethos of enterprise and an attitude of get-up-and-go. For this young generation, self-actualization is tied to national aggrandizement in inextricable ways. The chapter argues that an entanglement such as this is affective in nature. To be more precise, in portraying plotlines and characters that emphasize futurity, both personal and national, Chetan Bhagat’s fiction works by attuning youth to the emotion of confidence. In employing a vocal, oral, vernacular, and intimate English in his narrations, Bhagat’s writings capacitate young people to achieve maturation in post-liberalization India, to experience confidence in one’s language, and to find their place in the world.
The affective construction of Chinese child citizenship in Little Friend, 1945–1949
Authors: Xiang Lidong 
Published: January 2023

Abstract
After the Second Sino-Japanese War (1937–1945), Chinese society underwent a transition in imagining the nation and its citizenry. The visual and textual narratives in the long-running children’s periodical Little Friend highlight these changes as its post-war content features affective mechanisms to enlist children in a labor-oriented proletarian citizenship that emphasizes collectivism. Drawing on affect’s stickiness and retrospective way of working (Ahmed), the chapter details Little Friend’s affective crafting of a Chinese child citizenship through the periodical’s representations of laboring and disciplined child bodies, as well as its geographical discourses. This crafting, the chapter argues, served as a means to encourage children’s empathetic identification with the anticipated citizenship and the imagined nation during the late Republican period.
What everybody knows
Authors: Aikhenvald Alexandra Y. 
Published: January 2023

Abstract
Every language has a variety of ways of expressing how one knows what one is talking about. In quite a few of the world’s languages, one has to always specify the information source through grammatical means. Evidential terms may combine reference to the information sources of the speaker and of the addressee and to information shared by everyone. A special term for ‘common knowledge’ is a feature of a few large systems of evidentials. Sharing information source and common knowledge may constitute part of the meaning of an existing evidential within a large system. Shared context allows speakers and the audience to distinguish the exact reference of each evidential term. If a language becomes obsolescent, the meanings of the evidential terms change. This is illustrated with a case study from Tariana, an endangered Arawak language from north-west Amazonia, Brazil.
Revisiting verbs and plurality
Authors: Amaral Patrícia 
Published: January 2023

Abstract
This chapter examines a frequentative periphrasis found in Brazilian Portuguese (BP), formed by the verb viver ‘to live’ and a verb in the gerund, and analyzes its aspectual and evaluative properties. Building on data from contemporary BP (
Corpus NILC/São Carlos
and Twitter), it is proposed that the evaluative meaning of the periphrasis (a negative evaluation of the high number of event repetitions) is associated with its aspectual meaning of a large and unspecified number of event iterations. This chapter reassesses a previous proposal regarding the theoretical status of the negative implication of pluractional forms (Amaral 2013b) and discusses its context-dependence. A pragmatic account is proposed regarding the evaluative meaning of plurals in the nominal and verbal domains across languages.
(No) faltaba/faltaría más
Authors: Cifuentes Honrubia José Luis 
Published: January 2023

Abstract
In this paper we examine the functions and origins of the constructions (no) faltaba más and (no) faltaría más through the analysis of the examples extracted from the CDH and CORPES XXI. The different variants are formally and significantly grammaticalized as an interjective sentential idiom of an exclamatory nature. This grammaticalization is manifested by the fixation of the construction and by the loss of the verbal characteristics of faltar. We have confirmed how the change from full syntactic construction to epistemic discourse marker is rendered by the aspect of focalization, and we have differentiated five meanings of the construction. The meaning in the origin of the construction is rejection of something which was previously indicated. The epistemic change from rejection of something which was previously indicated to confirmation of a previous element is caused by the meaning of rejection of something negative, which results in its positive confirmation. The politeness value arises as confirmation of an expression of politeness, leading the construction to adopt this politeness value. Finally, confirmation of posterior elements was indicated from the meanings of confirmation (either positive or negative) of previous elements. This last confirmation is possible because it was frequent in cases of confirmation for the argumentation to continue, so that an argumentative line could be established with both the former and the latter. Finally, we have verified that the construction does not involve any type of covert negation, but instead, its grammaticalization as an interjective sentential idiom of an exclamative nature develops epistemic values intensified by means of exclamation, manifesting surprise, and whose epistemological link has been corroborated throughout the study.
The present tense as a mark of evidentiality and intersubjectivity in Spanish
Authors: Fernández Jaén Jorge 
Published: January 2023

Abstract
For some time now, studies about evidentiality have begun to explore the link between the grammatical coding of information sources and the expression of tense and aspect. Within this line of research, it is worth highlighting the works that have recently described the evidential nature of future. Our paper will present a study which delves deeper into this field of study, focusing on the interaction between evidentiality and grammatical present. Taking specific works as a reference and adopting a cognitive point of view, we will try to provide evidence that the present can assume evidential values – above all, visual and inferential ones – in Spanish. Our analysis will be exemplified by certain uses of perception verbs, which illustrate the interaction of tense, (inter)subjectivity and the information source in a particularly clear way.
Acostumar (a/de) + inf. From the habitual aspect to the generic aspect
Authors: Montserrat Buendia Sandra 
Published: January 2023

Abstract
This study is part of a project that aims to offer a complete analysis of aspectual verbal periphrases in Catalan from the Middle Ages to the present day. Using data provided by current grammatical studies, lexicographical works and corpora, we analyse the periphrasis acostumar (a/de) + inf in contemporary Catalan as a prelude to research on its uses in early (9th–13 centuries) and late medieval (13th–15th centuries) Catalan, which present various difficulties. The purpose is to determine the current meanings of the construction. We propose that the periphrasis fundamentally expresses
habituality, frequency, and
generality. To analyse this periphrasis, we apply a methodology based on the semantics of cognitive orientation. Specifically, we suggest a possible path of grammaticalization marked by the process of (inter) subjectification, which is one of the regularities of semantic change described by Traugott and Dasher (2002), Traugott (2010a, 2010b, 2012), and Nuyts (2001, 2005, 2012). and 2014) and is based on invited inferences from the communicative context (Invited Inferencing Theory of Semantic Change, TCSII)
Time after time
Authors: Rodríguez Rosique Susana 
Published: January 2023

Abstract
This paper analyzes the construction <No ir
Fut. a + infinitive> in Spanish. At first sight, the construction is made up of two futures: the so-called periphrastic future <ir a + infinitive> [going to + infinitive] and the morphological future (Fut.) in which the auxiliary of the periphrasis occurs. However, neither of them seems to denote posteriority. The construction is rather used to convey the speaker’s surprise towards a contextually activated situation that is considered inappropriate, which falls under the umbrella of mirativity. Both the deictic instruction of ‘distance forward’ invoked by the morphological future and the lexical characterization of the verb ir [‘to go’] are acknowledged as productive mechanisms in the creation of meaning. The uses of their respective spatial configurations, in the relevant contextual environment, explain the interaction between future and mirativity in Spanish.
Meaning, degrees of abstraction and shared knowledge
Authors: Sánchez-López Elena 
Published: January 2023

Abstract
Human communication has proven to be a complex, multi-layered phenomenon, embracing social and individual, abstract and concrete, conceptual and referential elements. This complexity has found its reflection in the several linguistic branches devoted to its study: cognitive and functional linguistics, semantics, pragmatics, sociolinguistics, psycholinguistics, discourse analysis, conversational analysis, among others. Far from excluding each other, these different strands can be complementary and contribute to a better understanding of human communication and the semiotic system attached to it. The main objective of this chapter is to bring together the knowledge on human communication, language and meaning construction in order to relate meaning with its different levels of abstraction and pinpoint a definition of shared knowledge.
The role of context in imperative form choice
Authors: Schwenter Scott A. , Hoff Mark R. 
Published: January 2023

Abstract
When languages have more than one dedicated imperative, the distinct forms often correspond to different person/number combinations. But what happens when there is variation between two forms for the same person/number combination, e.g. 2nd person singular? This chapter analyzes the competing 2sg imperatives in Brazilian Portuguese (BP), which illustrate this situation. BP permits this option in both affirmative and negative contexts, where the historical imperative tu form for 2sg alternates with the 3sg present subjunctive form used with the 2sg pronoun você (cf. Lamberti & Schwenter 2018). Through the multivariate analysis of an experimental survey, we argue that the variation between the two forms can be accounted for in terms of the semantic-pragmatic notion of presumed settledness (Hoff 2019), i.e. speaker confidence about how the future will unfold, and can be operationalized in terms of contextual characteristics such as markers of temporal immediacy and addressee specificity. More broadly, we suggest that these characteristics are relevant to accounting for contrasts between imperative forms across languages such as those with “delayed/deferred imperatives” (Aikhenvald 2014).
Posar fronteres a la mar
Authors: Nadal Josep M. 
Published: January 2023

Abstract
This programmatic text constitutes an unconventional theoretical approach to the linguistic fact, the foundation of the languages existence, the processes with which they have been constituted historically, the functions that correspond to them and the emotional implications that they always have for speakers.
Written for the purpose of an academic “ultima lectio” at the university, it becames a synthesis of the work and the often cross-disciplinary reflections that its author has carried out for years in the field of languages, and a starting point for innovative speculations, both in the field of linguistic theory and, more particularly, in that of studies on the Catalan language and its internal and territorial articulation.
Pour une autobiographie linguistique critique
Authors: Eloy Jean-Michel 
Published: January 2023

Abstract
At first we wonder if a linguistic autobiography is likely to be a valid document. Linguistic autobiography needs the notion of language to be put apart from language practices. Family biography, as well as individual, consists mainly in linguistic ideas about language practices, that’s why true story-telling is difficult.
Historical perspective helps to put the individual linguistic history in a social linguistic history. So experience may take sense in history, often using linguistic insecurity as a telling detail.
Territory and language from the perspective of 19th and 20th century Macedonia (as a representation of the Balkans)
Authors: Sujecka Jolanta 
Published: January 2023

Abstract
This work aims to present the image of Macedonian territory and the concept of language which emerged as an idea in the end of 19th and very beginning of 20th century, but have very significant continuation in the first half of 20th century. From this image and from this concept emanates the current idea that Macedonians have of themselves, the prevailing contemporary historical discourse, which significantly diverges from the historical reality of the Balkans.
Modelant l’estandardització
Authors: Ayres-Bennett Wendy 
Published: January 2023

Abstract
In this chapter, I outline certain developments in work on standardization since the turn of this century that has challenged traditional thinking on modelling standardization. From the 2000s, there has been a proliferation of publications and approaches, whether focusing on the linguistic, social, cultural, educational, political or other dimension, with the result that this discussion is necessarily highly schematic. I consider how work is opening out beyond the National and the European, and examine the increasing interest in agents of standardization and standardization “from below”. Also growing in importance is research on restandardization and destandardization, viewed as symptomatic of the increasingly anti-authoritarian, individualistic and democratic ideology of late modernity.
L’extensió del castellà a la Catalunya contemporània
Authors: Bernat Francesc , Galindo Mireia , de Rosselló Carles 
Published: January 2023

Abstract
Traditionally, the historical spread of Castilian in Catalonia has been studied from formal and elite contexts, but little is known about the effect of Spain’s language policies on the middle or lower-income classes, i.e. the majority of the Catalan population. This study presents an analysis of the life stories of Catalan-speaking people who are over 90 years of age. It aims to describe in a qualitative manner how the use of Castilian in Catalonia spread throughout the 20th century. Specifically, this study aims to answer two research questions. Firstly, how the bilingualization process of the Catalan population in the first half of the 20th century occurred. Secondly, when and how most of the Catalan population chose to converge to Castilian in intergroup encounters.
Towards an account of historical new-dialect formation in northern Africa
Authors: Benkato Adam 
Published: January 2023

Abstract
The two “waves” which are held to have brought Arabic to northern Africa are typically assumed to have been homogenous entities which subsequently developed in situ into the numerous dialects of the modern period. This paper argues that the complex distribution of phonological variants seen in the modern dialects can be better accounted for by assuming multiple input dialects and a sociolinguistic process of new-dialect formation leading to new output dialects. It uses the example of sibilant merging, attested in a number of dialects, wherein the Arabic non-emphatic sibilants s/š and z/ž merge their places of articulation. Sibilant merging in these dialects is argued to be an internal development preceding the spread of Arabic into northern Africa rather than solely the result of language contact.
Are Arabic listeners “stress deaf” to their own L2 pronunciation?
Authors: Albadar Iman , Vogel Irene 
Published: January 2023

Abstract
This study investigates to what extent Arabic speakers, whose L1 has predictable lexical stress, are “stress deaf” and whether their L1 prosodic properties influence their L2 stress perception. Arabic L2 English speakers and L1 English speakers performed an identification task with English nonce words produced by English and Arabic speakers. The results reveal that the Arabic speakers had more difficulty than the English speakers in identifying stress regardless of whether the words were produced by Arabic or English speakers, confirming their stress deafness in general. The Arabic speakers, nevertheless, exhibited greater sensitivity to stress produced by other Arabic speakers, especially in the position expected for Arabic, indicating further the effect of L1 prosodic properties on their perception of L2 stress.
Arabic and English plural formation in typically developing heritage speakers of Arabic
Authors: Khamis-Dakwar Reem , Salam Iman , Nagler Amanda , Froud Karen 
Published: January 2023

Abstract
The study of language development in Arabic heritage speaking children is scarce, and mostly constrained by cross-sectional designs (see Visonà & Plonsky, 2020), making it difficult to determine the course of language development or maintenance through the different stages of language exposure in Heritage Language Learners (HLLs). We present a longitudinal investigation of plural production in two Palestinian siblings sharing a parental background and home language exposure, starting one month after they immigrated to the United States. Real and Pseudoword Arabic plural, dual, and English plural productions were examined using child-friendly, interactive sentence completion task Effects of child’s age, immigration age, levels of language exposure and use, and assessed languages and structures were found, emphasizing the value of process versus outcome-oriented approaches to language development in HLLs.
Structural and functional connectivity of the inferior temporal numeral area
Authors: Conrad Benjamin N , Pollack Courtney , Yeo Darren J , Price Gavin R 
Published: January 2023

Abstract
A growing body of evidence suggests that in adults, there is a spatially consistent “inferior temporal numeral area” (ITNA) in the occipitotemporal cortex that appears to preferentially process Arabic digits relative to non-numerical symbols and objects. However, very little is known about why the ITNA is spatially segregated from regions that process other orthographic stimuli such as letters, and why it is spatially consistent across individuals. In the present study, we used diffusion-weighted imaging and functional magnetic resonance imaging to contrast structural and functional connectivity between left and right hemisphere ITNAs and a left hemisphere letter-preferring region. We found that the left ITNA had stronger structural and functional connectivity than the letter region to inferior parietal regions involved in numerical magnitude representation and arithmetic. Between hemispheres, the left ITNA showed stronger structural connectivity with the left inferior frontal gyrus (Broca’s area), while the right ITNA showed stronger structural connectivity to the ipsilateral inferior parietal cortex and stronger functional coupling with the bilateral IPS. Based on their relative connectivity, our results suggest that the left ITNA may be more readily involved in mapping digits to verbal number representations, while the right ITNA may support the mapping of digits to quantity representations.
Brain functional activity-based classification of autism spectrum disorder using an attention-based graph neural network combined with gene expression
Authors: Wang Zhengning , Xu Yuhang , Peng Dawei , Gao Jingjing , Lu Fengmei 
Published: January 2023

Abstract
Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is a complex brain neurodevelopmental disorder related to brain activity and genetics. Most of the ASD diagnostic models perform feature selection at the group level without considering individualized information. Evidence has shown the unique topology of the individual brain has a fundamental impact on brain diseases. Thus, a data-constructing method fusing individual topological information and a corresponding classification model is crucial in ASD diagnosis and biomarker discovery. In this work, we trained an attention-based graph neural network (GNN) to perform the ASD diagnosis with the fusion of graph data. The results achieved an accuracy of 79.78%. Moreover, we found the model paid high attention to brain regions mainly involved in the social-brain circuit, default-mode network, and sensory perception network. Furthermore, by analyzing the covariation between functional magnetic resonance imaging data and gene expression, current studies detected several ASD-related genes (i.e. MUTYH, AADAT, and MAP2), and further revealed their links to image biomarkers. Our work demonstrated that the ASD diagnostic framework based on graph data and attention-based GNN could be an effective tool for ASD diagnosis. The identified functional features with high attention values may serve as imaging biomarkers for ASD.
Common and distinct neural representations of imagined and perceived speech
Authors: Lu Lingxi , Han Meizhen , Zou Guangyuan , Zheng Li , Gao Jia-Hong 
Published: January 2023

Abstract
Humans excel at constructing mental representations of speech streams in the absence of external auditory input: the internal experience of speech imagery. Elucidating the neural processes underlying speech imagery is critical to understanding this higher-order brain function in humans. Here, using functional magnetic resonance imaging, we investigated the shared and distinct neural correlates of imagined and perceived speech by asking participants to listen to poems articulated by a male voice (perception condition) and to imagine hearing poems spoken by that same voice (imagery condition). We found that compared to baseline, speech imagery and perception activated overlapping brain regions, including the bilateral superior temporal gyri and supplementary motor areas. The left inferior frontal gyrus was more strongly activated by speech imagery than by speech perception, suggesting functional specialization for generating speech imagery. Although more research with a larger sample size and a direct behavioral indicator is needed to clarify the neural systems underlying the construction of complex speech imagery, this study provides valuable insights into the neural mechanisms of the closely associated but functionally distinct processes of speech imagery and perception.