Ritual, sprog og verden by Jeppe Sinding Jensen

“…Both works draw on theoretical linguistics, in particular the transformational and generative grammars formulated by Noam Chomsky and attempt to apply this theorizing in pursuit of formal properties of ritual system. whereas Staal concentrates on the purely rule-governed, Lawson and McCauley include semanti dimeensions in their investigations of ritual syntax. this article cirtically surveys both works, their theses and divergences, and their validity and applicability in the history of religion. …”
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Τhe primitives of the lexicon: Insights from aspect in idioms by Evelina Leivada

“…Bringing together insights from theoretical linguistics and neurolinguistic research, it is proposed that the existence of aspectual accomplishments in a particular type of idioms should lead to a re-evaluation of the frequently entertained idea of storing idioms (XPs) in the mental lexicon as elementary lexical units. …”
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Are Ellipses Important for Machine Translation? by Payal Khullar

“… AbstractThis article describes an experiment to evaluate the impact of different types of ellipses discussed in theoretical linguistics on Neural Machine Translation (NMT), using English to Hindi/Telugu as source and target languages. …”
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Aspetti del metalinguaggio di Coseriu by Vincenzo Orioles

“…KEYWORDS: Coseriu, metalanguage, history of linguistics, theoretical linguistics, metalinguistic concepts…”
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Information structure development: Evidence from the acquisition of word order in Russian and English by Marina Dyakonova

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Some Remaining Problems for Fictional File Theory. A Short Reply to Eleonora Orlando by Zoltán Vecsey

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Theoretical Limitations of Self-Attention in Neural Sequence Models by Hahn, Michael

“…These limitations seem surprising given the practical success of self-attention and the prominent role assigned to hierarchical structure in linguistics, suggesting that natural language can be approximated well with models that are too weak for the formal languages typically assumed in theoretical linguistics.…”
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The Problem of Merge by Mariela Destefano

“…Focusing on biolinguistic considerations, Merge is a formal operation proposed by theoretical linguistics and linked to specific principles of neural computation. …”
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The acquisition of compositional definiteness in Norwegian by Merete Anderssen

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Rhetorical strategies in German argumentative dialogs by Annette Hautli-Janisz, Mennatallah El-Assady

“…Capitalizing on theoretical linguistic insights into the semantics and pragmatics of discourse particles in German, we propose a categorization of rhetorical information that is highly relevant in natural transcribed speech. …”
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Activation levels by Lena Baunaz, Caterina Bonan

“… In the last five decades, French wh in-situ has been the center of much work in theoretical linguistics. Nonetheless, scholars still disagree on the distribution of these constructions, and on their interpretation. …”
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General introduction: A comparative perspective on probabilistic variation in grammar by Benedikt Heller, Benedikt Szmrecsanyi, Jason Grafmiller, Melanie Röthlisberger

“…This special collection brings together research exploring and evaluating probabilistic variation patterns from a comparative perspective, thus highlighting current work situated at the crossroads of research on usage-based theoretical linguistics, variationist linguistics, and sociolinguistics. …”
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The impact of language attrition on language teaching: the dynamics of linguistic knowledge retention and maintenance in multilingualism by Felipe Flores Kupske

“…Language attrition has become a vibrant theme as it has implications for theoretical linguistics, including, for example, the organization of linguistic information in the brain and language processing. …”
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USE, MISUSE AND OVERUSE OF ‘ON THE OTHER HAND’: A CORPUS STUDY COMPARING ENGLISH OF NATIVE SPEAKERS AND LEARNERS by Assiye Burgucu Tazegul

“…The learner corpus used is composed of academically-advanced non-native students’ doctoral dissertations (applied and theoretical linguistics fields) and the study also compiled the control corpora, the first one is a corpus of academic essays written by professional native speakers and the second control corpus is The Corpus of Contemporary American English (COCA). …”
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Metacognizione linguistica e insegnamento universitario delle lingue by Giuliana Giusti

“…Starting from the results of recent neurolinguistic experiments suggesting that the language faculty is activated also by explicit instruction, and from the well-established fact that metacognition supports learning, I propose that explicit instruction based on recent advances in theoretical linguistics should replace “traditional” grammars. …”
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Judicial Complex Strategies in Hungarian Courtroom Interrogation by Varga Marianna

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Children’s language in applied linguistic research by Liptakova Ludmila

“…Research on child language development also provides useful information for theoretical linguistics, as it points to tendencies in language ontogenesis that can be correlated with dynamic processes in language itself. …”
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Becoming and being an applied linguist: Celebrating the seminal work of Marilda Cavalcanti by Kanavillil Rajagopalan

“…After presenting a brief round-up of the challenges encountered by the pioneers and their tireless efforts to rid the field of the chokehold put on it by the so-called ‘theoretical’ linguistics, historically its ‘elder sister’, the text also proceeds to look at the ‘north-south’ stand-off that our researchers have been subjected to by their colleagues from the north, who still have difficulty in recognising that academic work of excellence can be carried out in our neck of the woods without the blessing or tutelage of whomsoever.…”
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The Biological Nature of Human Language by Anna Maria Di Sciullo, Massimo Piattelli-Palmarini, Kenneth Wexler, Robert C. Berwick, Cedric Boeckx, Lyle Jenkins, Juan Uriagereka, Karin Stromswold, Lisa Lai-Shen Cheng, Heidi Harley, Andrew Wedel, James McGilvray, Elly van Gelderen, Thomas G. Bever

“…These foundational questions are used here to frame a discussion of important issues in the study of language, exploring whether our linguistic capacity is the result of direct selective pressure or due to developmental or biophysical constraints, and assessing whether the neural/computational components entering into language are unique to human language or shared with other cognitive systems, leading to a discussion of advances in theoretical linguistics, psycholinguistics, comparative animal behavior and psychology, genetics/genomics, disciplines that can now place these longstanding questions in a new light, while raising challenges for future research.…”
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Constructions in Minimalism: A Functional Perspective on Cyclicity by Andreas Trotzke, Andreas Trotzke

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