cometadata/datacite-titles-descriptions-related-identifiers huggingface dataset:
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.14281063
title: The syntax and semantics of approximate indefinites in Spanish

description: ABSTRACT In Spanish, combining an indefinite plural article and a cardinal number leads to an approximative interpretation similar to that provided by approximators like ‘approximately’. In this paper, we advance a syntactic and semantic analysis of these structures. We show that the construction shares a number of properties with structures containing explicit approximative elements, so it justified to assume that a particular constituent contributes the approximative meaning. We propose that an approximative morpheme Approx is combined with the cardinal number; the morphological realization of this morpheme is as the plural affix on the indefinite article. We advance a denotation for Approx, and elaborate the necessary assumptions on the functioning of numerals for our analysis to work at a general level.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.14281066.v1
title: Que lindo o que vocês fizeram! - Brazilian Portuguese wh-exclamatives and the evidence for a split force

description: ABSTRACT Portuguese exhibits a great variety of wh-exclamative sentences, including sentential exclamatives, which are the main concern of this paper. Brazilian Portuguese sentential wh-exclamatives seem to provide evidence to propose a split Force in the periphery of the sentence (RIZZI, 1997) when one considers the cooccurrence of a relative and an exclamative in the same utterance. We assume there are at least two functional heads available in Force: a RelP (hosting relative WHs) and an ExclP, supposed to host exclamative WHs; analyzed data also show that exclamation must be higher than relativization in a Split Force projection, with some more place above ExclP for topicalizing other syntactic objects.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.14281065
title: The Portuguese spoken in Tupí-Guaraní indigenous communities in the states of Pará and Maranhão: the ethnic/non ethnic dialectal continuum in the semantic field Agropastoris Activities

description: ABSTRACT This study integrates the project “Linguistic Atlas of Portuguese spoken in Indigenous Areas (ALiPAI)”. The theoretical and methodological background is based on Pluridimensional and Relational Dialecology (Thun, 1998) and Geossociolinguistics (Razky, 1998). The paper aims at analyzing the lexical variation of Portuguese spoken by Indians of origin Tupí-Guaraní from the states of Pará and Maranhão. This lexical investigation focuses on the semantic field ‘agropastoral activities’ of the Semantic-Lexical Questionnaire (QSL) that was applied for this research. Diatopic, diasexual, diagenerational, diastratic and dialingual dimensions were considered for the analysis. The results indicate the existence of an ethnic non homogeneous dialect continuum in the areas considered, and a shared continuum that extends to the non indigenous areas next to the geographical space of the indigenous areas that were surveyed. Thus, it is concluded that the indigenous areas considered are strongly influenced by the non indigenous communities that surround them.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.14281065.v1
title: The Portuguese spoken in Tupí-Guaraní indigenous communities in the states of Pará and Maranhão: the ethnic/non ethnic dialectal continuum in the semantic field Agropastoris Activities

description: ABSTRACT This study integrates the project “Linguistic Atlas of Portuguese spoken in Indigenous Areas (ALiPAI)”. The theoretical and methodological background is based on Pluridimensional and Relational Dialecology (Thun, 1998) and Geossociolinguistics (Razky, 1998). The paper aims at analyzing the lexical variation of Portuguese spoken by Indians of origin Tupí-Guaraní from the states of Pará and Maranhão. This lexical investigation focuses on the semantic field ‘agropastoral activities’ of the Semantic-Lexical Questionnaire (QSL) that was applied for this research. Diatopic, diasexual, diagenerational, diastratic and dialingual dimensions were considered for the analysis. The results indicate the existence of an ethnic non homogeneous dialect continuum in the areas considered, and a shared continuum that extends to the non indigenous areas next to the geographical space of the indigenous areas that were surveyed. Thus, it is concluded that the indigenous areas considered are strongly influenced by the non indigenous communities that surround them.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.14281066
title: Que lindo o que vocês fizeram! - Brazilian Portuguese wh-exclamatives and the evidence for a split force

description: ABSTRACT Portuguese exhibits a great variety of wh-exclamative sentences, including sentential exclamatives, which are the main concern of this paper. Brazilian Portuguese sentential wh-exclamatives seem to provide evidence to propose a split Force in the periphery of the sentence (RIZZI, 1997) when one considers the cooccurrence of a relative and an exclamative in the same utterance. We assume there are at least two functional heads available in Force: a RelP (hosting relative WHs) and an ExclP, supposed to host exclamative WHs; analyzed data also show that exclamation must be higher than relativization in a Split Force projection, with some more place above ExclP for topicalizing other syntactic objects.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.14281070
title: Decomposing distribution across dimensions: evidence from Libras

description: ABSTRACT This paper focuses on the investigation of the meaning of reduplication in Brazilian Sign Language (Libras) analyzing the contribution of each of its forms: repetition (\rep) and alternation (\alt). In order to check their role, we proceeded a data collection with a native signer during elicitation sessions following the methodology for semantic elicitation (Matthewson, 2004). We also collected a spontaneous datum with another signer. We show that \rep is related to aspectual distribution, and \alt is associated to two pieces of information - participant-related distribution and aspectual distribution. We propose a formal analysis for each of the forms as well as of the way they interact compositionally.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.14281072
title: Contemporary Issues in Natural Language Semantics: an interview with Gennaro Chierchia

description: ABSTRACT Chierchia discusses his views on the frontiers of contemporary semantics: multidimensionality of meaning, alternative semantics, ‘mid level’ generalizations, the natural logicality of natural languages, the role of reference, and the place of new methodologies, i.e. lab-experiments.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.14281067
title: The Effect of Semantic and Discourse Features on the Use of Null and Overt Subjects - A Quantitative Study of Third Person Subjects in Brazilian Portuguese

description: ABSTRACT In a corpus study and two acceptability experiments, we investigate whether semantic and discourse features of the antecedents affect the use of null and overt subjects in Brazilian Portuguese. Previous literature has proposed two hypotheses: the Hierarchy of Referentiality Hypothesis (Cyrino et al. 2000, inter alia) and the Semantic Gender Hypothesis (Creus & Menuzzi 2004, among others). We show that animacy and specificity affect the relative frequency of null and overt subjects and their acceptability in sentences. We propose an approach that accounts for previously published results as well as our new data in the light of a theory of anaphora resolution (Ariel 1990, etc).
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.14281070.v1
title: Decomposing distribution across dimensions: evidence from Libras

description: ABSTRACT This paper focuses on the investigation of the meaning of reduplication in Brazilian Sign Language (Libras) analyzing the contribution of each of its forms: repetition (\rep) and alternation (\alt). In order to check their role, we proceeded a data collection with a native signer during elicitation sessions following the methodology for semantic elicitation (Matthewson, 2004). We also collected a spontaneous datum with another signer. We show that \rep is related to aspectual distribution, and \alt is associated to two pieces of information - participant-related distribution and aspectual distribution. We propose a formal analysis for each of the forms as well as of the way they interact compositionally.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.14281067.v1
title: The Effect of Semantic and Discourse Features on the Use of Null and Overt Subjects - A Quantitative Study of Third Person Subjects in Brazilian Portuguese

description: ABSTRACT In a corpus study and two acceptability experiments, we investigate whether semantic and discourse features of the antecedents affect the use of null and overt subjects in Brazilian Portuguese. Previous literature has proposed two hypotheses: the Hierarchy of Referentiality Hypothesis (Cyrino et al. 2000, inter alia) and the Semantic Gender Hypothesis (Creus & Menuzzi 2004, among others). We show that animacy and specificity affect the relative frequency of null and overt subjects and their acceptability in sentences. We propose an approach that accounts for previously published results as well as our new data in the light of a theory of anaphora resolution (Ariel 1990, etc).
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.14281072.v1
title: Contemporary Issues in Natural Language Semantics: an interview with Gennaro Chierchia

description: ABSTRACT Chierchia discusses his views on the frontiers of contemporary semantics: multidimensionality of meaning, alternative semantics, ‘mid level’ generalizations, the natural logicality of natural languages, the role of reference, and the place of new methodologies, i.e. lab-experiments.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.14281075
title: Are tourist website translations trending towards localization or culturalization?

description: ABSTRACT The use of websites has largely influenced the image that touristic towns portray of themselves as well as the way that they communicate. This article focuses on certain website features and their translations within the field of tourism. First we will engage in a theoretical study of the specifics of touristic discourse followed by an analysis of the websites for three different sized major cities: London, Paris and Ljubljana. On the one hand, we will question the translation strategies employed (adaptation, localization and culturalization) when translating tourist websites, while on the other, we will analyze the (inter)cultural factors that govern the need to adapt these sites to their visitors.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.14281075.v1
title: Are tourist website translations trending towards localization or culturalization?

description: ABSTRACT The use of websites has largely influenced the image that touristic towns portray of themselves as well as the way that they communicate. This article focuses on certain website features and their translations within the field of tourism. First we will engage in a theoretical study of the specifics of touristic discourse followed by an analysis of the websites for three different sized major cities: London, Paris and Ljubljana. On the one hand, we will question the translation strategies employed (adaptation, localization and culturalization) when translating tourist websites, while on the other, we will analyze the (inter)cultural factors that govern the need to adapt these sites to their visitors.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.14281076
title: Repairs in reading aloud as clues of sociolinguistic awareness

description: ABSTRACT Indirect clues of linguistic processing can contribute to the measurement of sociolinguistic awareness of a variable phenomenon, such as repairs in a situation of reading aloud, in a socially monitored situation, such as at university. Based on this premise, a study was carried by the control of the conservation rate of the segment in five variable phonological processes of Brazilian Portuguese and the rate of repair in case of non-performance, in the reading aloud of a text by 50 undergraduate students. The results point to differences between the processes related to the type of constraining for the conservation of the segment (morpheme and nonmorpheme value) and the difference in rate between the non-realization and the repair, which are taken as clues to the sociolinguistic salience.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.14281077
title: Water dripping day by day wears the hardest rock away: comparing proverb comprehension by children and adults

description: ABSTRACT Under the Cognitive Linguistics approach, we analyze proverb comprehension by children and adults, through a comprehension task. Three groups of participants were interviewed:.30 adults over the age of 18; 33 younger children (m=7,5 years old, sd=7,3 months); and 25 older children (m=10,59 years old, sd=7,92 months). A repeated measure analysis of variance (ANOVA) was conducted, complemented by a Tukey test. The items, the age groups, the nature of the questions and the interactions between these categories were analyzed. The analyses presented a main effect of age, nature of the question and item in the proverb comprehension competence of the interviewed groups (p&lt;0.05). The younger the participant, the lower was his/her tendency to comprehend the items.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.14281076.v1
title: Repairs in reading aloud as clues of sociolinguistic awareness

description: ABSTRACT Indirect clues of linguistic processing can contribute to the measurement of sociolinguistic awareness of a variable phenomenon, such as repairs in a situation of reading aloud, in a socially monitored situation, such as at university. Based on this premise, a study was carried by the control of the conservation rate of the segment in five variable phonological processes of Brazilian Portuguese and the rate of repair in case of non-performance, in the reading aloud of a text by 50 undergraduate students. The results point to differences between the processes related to the type of constraining for the conservation of the segment (morpheme and nonmorpheme value) and the difference in rate between the non-realization and the repair, which are taken as clues to the sociolinguistic salience.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.14281079
title: Disambiguation of Portuguese prepositions in Clavis Prophetarum’s third book

description: ABSTRACT The third book of Clavis Prophetarum (Clavis III PT), written by Father António Vieira, in its Portuguese translation published in 2000, is the corpus of this work. To be able to analyse this corpus, we need electronic language resources that are formalised in order to obtain the greatest possible coverage and to be used in appropriate systems. For the Portuguese language, we already have reliable resources, developed since the 90s by LabEL - Laboratory of Language Engineering. The main objective of this article is to develop rules of automatic disambiguation of prepositions and their syntagmata, as well as to assess the effectiveness of their application, in order to allow subsequent reliable approaches in the study of this category in the corpus using automatic techniques. The methodology used describes pari passu annotations, occurrences and the creation of electronic resources considered essential to the disambiguation process.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.14281077.v1
title: Water dripping day by day wears the hardest rock away: comparing proverb comprehension by children and adults

description: ABSTRACT Under the Cognitive Linguistics approach, we analyze proverb comprehension by children and adults, through a comprehension task. Three groups of participants were interviewed:.30 adults over the age of 18; 33 younger children (m=7,5 years old, sd=7,3 months); and 25 older children (m=10,59 years old, sd=7,92 months). A repeated measure analysis of variance (ANOVA) was conducted, complemented by a Tukey test. The items, the age groups, the nature of the questions and the interactions between these categories were analyzed. The analyses presented a main effect of age, nature of the question and item in the proverb comprehension competence of the interviewed groups (p&lt;0.05). The younger the participant, the lower was his/her tendency to comprehend the items.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.14281079.v1
title: Disambiguation of Portuguese prepositions in Clavis Prophetarum’s third book

description: ABSTRACT The third book of Clavis Prophetarum (Clavis III PT), written by Father António Vieira, in its Portuguese translation published in 2000, is the corpus of this work. To be able to analyse this corpus, we need electronic language resources that are formalised in order to obtain the greatest possible coverage and to be used in appropriate systems. For the Portuguese language, we already have reliable resources, developed since the 90s by LabEL - Laboratory of Language Engineering. The main objective of this article is to develop rules of automatic disambiguation of prepositions and their syntagmata, as well as to assess the effectiveness of their application, in order to allow subsequent reliable approaches in the study of this category in the corpus using automatic techniques. The methodology used describes pari passu annotations, occurrences and the creation of electronic resources considered essential to the disambiguation process.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.14281083
title: A look at WH-questions in direct and cross-examinations: Authentic vs. TV courtroom language

description: ABSTRACT Using a corpus-based register approach, this study explores language use of authentic and TV courtroom discourse through the lens of WH-questions, with a focus on direct and cross-examinations. Results show that in addition to differences as a result of these two discourse settings (i.e., authentic and TV courtroom), WH-questions accomplish different goals across the registers of direct and cross-examinations. For example, WH-questions are avoided in authentic cross-examinations, while in TV courtroom discourse WH-questions are used to engage viewers. Results explore how the different communicative purposes of authentic and TV courtroom settings impact the use of WH-questions in direct and cross-examinations.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.14281080
title: English and Portuguese consonant clusters: contrasts and challenges

description: ABSTRACT Consonant clusters occur both in Portuguese and English. However, clusters are more productive in English than in Portuguese and there are sequences which are only found in English.This study focuses on the contrasts between American English and Brazilian Portuguese consonant clusters and on three strategies Brazilian learners tend to apply when producing them: adding the high front vowel (epenthesis) between the consonants in the clusters, discarding consonants, or introducing phonetic changes. The relevance of introducing English clusters to Brazilian learners of English is pointed out and discussed under the framework of the Speech Learning Model (SLM).
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.14281083.v1
title: A look at WH-questions in direct and cross-examinations: Authentic vs. TV courtroom language

description: ABSTRACT Using a corpus-based register approach, this study explores language use of authentic and TV courtroom discourse through the lens of WH-questions, with a focus on direct and cross-examinations. Results show that in addition to differences as a result of these two discourse settings (i.e., authentic and TV courtroom), WH-questions accomplish different goals across the registers of direct and cross-examinations. For example, WH-questions are avoided in authentic cross-examinations, while in TV courtroom discourse WH-questions are used to engage viewers. Results explore how the different communicative purposes of authentic and TV courtroom settings impact the use of WH-questions in direct and cross-examinations.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.14281085
title: Transmedia Storytelling: from Convergence to Transliteracy

description: Abstract Stories and narrative represent meaningful communicative events, typical of human beings’ nature since everybody loves reading, telling, and listening to them. They may also constitute digital events, conveyed through virtual resources, and inserted in the convergence culture (Jenkins, 2006). Within this culture and responding to media expansion, there is transmedia, disseminating diverse but related contents, spread out through multiple media platforms, allowing meaning to converge from one to another. This context supports the transmedia storytelling concept: A transversal narrative process investigated by many researchers, but particularly by Jenkins (2006, 2011), Scolari (2013), and Gosciola (2014). This concept motivates the debate about transliteracy: a synchronized movement across, through and beyond contents and multiple media platforms. Considering this scenario, this article aims at presenting transmedia storytelling conceptually to exploit its potential to promote transliteracy. To reach this goal, transmedia storytelling concepts and features are discussed. After that, considerations are directed towards the transliteracy concept and implications. To conclude, remarks on the target relationship pointed out as the objective of the paper are addressed together with reflections upon the perception of transmedia storytelling and transliteracy as a concept and an area that are transdisciplinary, respectively.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.14281086
title: Effects of semantic compositionally in the interpretation of phraseological units in a second language

description: ABSTRACT This paper presents the results of a study on the influence of semantic compositionality on the interpretation of phraseological units (PU) in undergraduate students of Italian as a foreign language, and its similarity to the processes of interpretation in their native language. The data obtained indicate that semantic compositionality is a factor that favours the interpretation of PU in the foreign language. However, the data also show that students tend to prefer the intercultural strategy for the interpretation of transparent PU, which leads to a high rate of interpretation errors.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.14281085.v1
title: Transmedia Storytelling: from Convergence to Transliteracy

description: Abstract Stories and narrative represent meaningful communicative events, typical of human beings’ nature since everybody loves reading, telling, and listening to them. They may also constitute digital events, conveyed through virtual resources, and inserted in the convergence culture (Jenkins, 2006). Within this culture and responding to media expansion, there is transmedia, disseminating diverse but related contents, spread out through multiple media platforms, allowing meaning to converge from one to another. This context supports the transmedia storytelling concept: A transversal narrative process investigated by many researchers, but particularly by Jenkins (2006, 2011), Scolari (2013), and Gosciola (2014). This concept motivates the debate about transliteracy: a synchronized movement across, through and beyond contents and multiple media platforms. Considering this scenario, this article aims at presenting transmedia storytelling conceptually to exploit its potential to promote transliteracy. To reach this goal, transmedia storytelling concepts and features are discussed. After that, considerations are directed towards the transliteracy concept and implications. To conclude, remarks on the target relationship pointed out as the objective of the paper are addressed together with reflections upon the perception of transmedia storytelling and transliteracy as a concept and an area that are transdisciplinary, respectively.