Lingua

Papers
(The median citation count of Lingua is 0. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-12-01 to 2025-12-01.)
ArticleCitations
Editorial Board40
Polarity metaphor in English: Definition, identification, and categorization40
Editorial Board34
Object preference in the interpretation of floating numeral quantifiers of Korean28
Spatial language production in Chinese preschoolers: Developmental patterns and associated predictors25
Is there a polarity-prominent language? A typological perspective on Dagaare verbal systems21
Comparatives in Korean: A grammaticalization perspective18
A corpus analysis of two by-passives in Japanese from the viewpoint of information structure15
Declarative intonation of Japanese-Spanish bilinguals in Spanish casual speech12
Assessing structural language skills of autistic adults: Focus on sentence repetition11
Syntactic differences of the probabilistic valency of nouns in Chinese–English Code-switching11
Constructional variation, grammaticalization, and constructional network of extreme degree resultatives in Mandarin: A quantitative analysis10
Book Review10
Editorial Board9
Shocking projections: The rise of the [x-shock] construction complex in macroeconomics9
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Canonical and non-canonical roots: The diversity of roots in Mandarin Chinese8
Pitch syntax as part of an ancient protolanguage8
A functional model for the tag question paradigm: The case of invariable tag questions in English and Portuguese8
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The difference intersubjective grammar makes in protactile DeafBlind communities8
The role of semantics and orthography in modulating conscious access to Chinese words8
A better or worse communicator? Comparing human and machine translation in source language shining through across registers8
Interpreter mediation as other-initiated self-repair in court: Effects on the defence in Chinese bilingual criminal trials8
The development of VdeO clefts in Chinese: A diachronic constructionist approach7
A corpus-based study of phrasal and clausal temporal adjuncts at the left and right peripheries across genres of written English discourse7
Language contact and translation: dependency relations as a lens for source language influence in fiction7
Editorial Board7
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Towards a system of principles for identifying nominalizing metaphors7
Modality effect in interactive alignment: Differences between spoken and text-based conversation7
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Greek-Cypriot learners’ perception and production of L2 English vowels7
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Construal and impersonalization in German and English: Comparing impersonal pronouns in online hotel reviews6
How are neural machine-translated Chinese-to-English short stories constructed and cohered? An exploratory study based on theme-rheme structure6
Syllable structure and syllabification in Maaloula Aramaic6
Language interference in Mandarin Chinese-English simultaneous interpreting: insights from multi-dimensional syntactic complexity6
Verbal group complexes in Norwegian6
Effects of L2 experience on Mandarin listeners’ perception of Korean politeness6
Editorial Board6
Syntactic and typological properties of translational language: A comparative description of dependency treebank of academic abstracts6
Re-investigating the classification of definite CL-NP constructions in Chinese dialect: An empirical study based on semantic maps6
Book Review6
Interaction in bilingual early speech acquisition: Acceleration in the bilingual acquisition of English liquids for English-Spanish bilinguals5
The Chinese change-of-state token o in responsive units5
A multi-method approach to estimating subjectivity of causal connectives: The case of ‘poetomu’ and ‘tak chto’ in Russian5
ERP evidence for the effect of rhythmic patterns on the semantic processing of Chinese trisyllabic NN compounds5
Structural similarity in figurative language: A preliminary cognitive analysis5
Effects of frame-semantically (in)congruent food labels on taste in non-native English speakers5
Understanding depiction in tactile Norwegian sign language interpreting5
The effectiveness of metaphors in Chinese video advertisements for depression: An experimental study5
An intercultural analysis of metadiscourse in international mathematical contest papers: From research to EAP practice5
Epistemological challenges in the study of alternating constructions5
Book Review5
An extensive analysis of blending in Contemporary Italian5
Towards a description of palm-up in bidirectional signed language interpreting5
The effects of linguistic proximity on dependency distance and dependency direction of translated English from 35 languages4
Verbal effect on the processing of complement coercion: Distinguishing between aspectual verbs and psych verbs4
Pseudo-cleft constructions in Swedish talk-in-interaction: Turn projection and discourse organization4
Towards a speech-gesture profile of discourse markers: The case of ‘I mean’4
Editorial Board4
Nativeness perceptions and speaker voice as predictors of (non-)native English speaker evaluations in four ELF contexts4
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Exploring motion event construal: How much attention do speakers of different languages and cultures pay to context?4
Brain activation in noun-based- and predicate-Eojeol processing during Korean visual word recognition4
Formulaic expressions in Korean academic discourse: A corpus-based combinatoric morphemic analysis4
The semantic typology of expressive interjections: colexifications in pain, disgust and joy interjections across languages4
Editorial Board4
Sequential order of antonym pairs in Modern Standard Arabic: A corpus-based analysis4
Scalar pseudo-cleft constructions in Mandarin conversation: A multimodal approach4
Attentional semantics of deictic locatives4
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French V-N compounds: Plural marking, headedness endocentricity/exocentricity continuum3
Placeholders in written language: The case of Japanese kō and otsu3
An acceptability study of triadic constructions in Hong Kong Cantonese3
Mixtec negative existential cycles, standard negation and negative indefiniteness3
Editorial Board3
The role of interactional and cognitive mechanisms in the evolution of (proto)language(s)3
Definiteness in plural reference in Shaoxing Wu3
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L2 acquisition of classifier reduplication in Chinese3
How did language evolve in the lineage of higher primates?3
On the production of bare nouns and case marking in Korean heritage speakers in contact with English3
Frequency matters in second language acquisition too! Frequency effects in the production of preterit morphology with state verbs in Spanish second language learners and heritage speakers3
Retrieval practice enhances learning and memory retention of French words in Chinese-English bilinguals3
Verum shi, sentence-final de and the emphatic effects in Mandarin3
A multidimensional analysis of the Spanish reportative epistemic evidential dizque3
Bilingual influences and sources of variability in acceptability judgments: A case study of Chinese3
Editorial Board3
Variation in verbal negation in Jordanian Arabic: A corpus-based analysis3
Training non-native speech sounds results in long-lasting plastic changes – Hard-wiring new memory traces takes time3
A corpus-based analysis of the fortition of the word-initial /ʒ/ in French3
Editorial Board2
Pseudo-cleft-like structures in Hebrew and French conversation: The syntax-lexicon-body interface2
Functional profile of the lexeme ot in contemporary Polish: A cross-linguistic examination2
Proximity, polarity and scalarity: A semantic study of approximative sentence-final particles in Cantonese2
Coordinating individual actions in joint activities: The case of the German deictic so2
“I agree!” empathetic head-nodding and its role in cultural competences development2
Face-saving strategies: The case of Hebrew SAY expressions2
What do Chinese bidirectional Life–Xì (‘Drama’) similes/metaphors tell us about metaphorical bidirectionality?2
Conceptual metonymy and emotive-affective meaning at the interface: Examples from online medical consultations2
Referential choice in the narrative discourse of people with aphasia2
5–9-year-olds categorisation of regional accents: The role of exposure to variation2
Comparison-and-contrast in research articles of applied linguistics: A frame-based analysis2
Evidence for syntactic audience design from the production of active and passive relative clauses in Chinese2
Cultural conceptualisations of karma in American, Indian, and Hong Kong varieties of English2
Afrikaans discourse-pragmatic features in South African English2
Subjecthood and argument structure of synonymous Dat-Nom/Nom-Dat verbs across German and Icelandic2
Gratitude for compliance: A developmental study on the speech act of thanking2
Textual functions of low confidence adverbs: The case of perhaps2
Modelability of WAR metaphors across time in cross-national COVID-19 news translation: An insight into ideology manipulation2
Editorial Board2
Standard language dynamics in postcolonial Suriname2
Book Review2
Syntax, scope, and semantic identity: a genuine-sluicing approach to multiple sluicing in Mandarin Chinese2
Explicit and implicit (im)politeness: A corpus-based study of the Chinese formulaic expression “Nikezhen+X”2
Editorial Board2
Bound productivity in stem-formation and categorial separation2
Anaphora resolution and age effects in Greek-Spanish bilingualism: Evidence from first-generation immigrants, heritage speakers, and L2 speakers2
Form-function mismatches: The semantics of the definite article in Jordanian Arabic2
An empirical study on parameters affecting the recoverability of deictic null subjects in Korean2
Looking for someone: The encoding of indefinite human reference in Chinese/English aligned translation2
Derivational zero affixes worldwide2
Understanding spelling conflicts in Bosnian, Croatian, Montenegrin, and Serbian: Insights from speakers’ attitudes and beliefs2
What happened to the modal expressions? Modality in translating Chinese texts into English2
Acquisition of reflexive and reflexively used pronouns in Croatian and Austrian German: A corpus-based study2
Syntactic functions of words grammatically related to verbs in interlanguage: A valency perspective2
The interface issue in second language acquisition research: An interdisciplinary perspective2
Developing local grammars of speech acts in Italian: The case of apology2
An investigation of nominal copular sentences in three reading paradigms: Acceptability judgments, self-paced reading, and eye-tracking2
Diachronic changes in lexical density of research article abstracts: A corpus-based study2
Editorial Board2
Correlations of valency alternations and morphological types: A typological perspective2
How effective is expressive? Consumer perceptions of new vernacular features in Facebook webcare responses2
Metaphors and trauma: An image schematic analysis of symptom-specific metaphors2
Intersubjective understanding in finger braille interpreter-mediated interaction: Two case studies of other-initiated repair2
Telic motion constructions in French and the notion of tendentiality2
Reduplication in South African Englishes: A what-what borrowing gets a life of its own2
Implicit and explicit linguistic biases: The influence of social dominance orientation (SDO) upon hierarchical language attitudes2
Situation-bound utterances and constructional networks: The evolution of the Hebrew see-farewell family2
Gaplessness in Chinese relative clauses1
Editorial Board1
Gender classification of Korean personal names: Deep neural networks versus human judgments1
Projecting incongruity in turn and action: the TCU-medial particle ha in Chinese conversation1
Dynamics of scope ambiguities: comparative analysis of human and large language model performance in Korean1
Interpreters’ use of environmentally coupled gestures to achieve mutual understanding of speaker identity in a deaf and hearing classroom1
Lexical and sublexical effects on diachronic stability and instability of phonological systems1
Revisiting Chinese modality types: A collostructional approach to post-modal verbs1
Repair-by-deletion/insertion and the distribution of the copula in African American English1
‘What the X’ in Anglophone government meetings: Areal distribution, emotionality, and euphemism1
Syntactic simplification in interpreted English: Dependency distance and direction measures1
Lexical creativity in modern Nahuatl: An analysis of multidialectal data1
Pseudo-clefts in Italian talk-in-interaction and in interaction-as-represented1
From fear to grammar: The case of avoidives1
Three-layered hierarchical structure of Mandarin Chinese aspectual projections1
Salience-simplification strategy for markedness of causal subordinators: “Because” and “since” in argumentative essays1
Characterizing natural interpreters’ attitudes towards interpreting: The effect of experimental contexts1
Figuratively used product names: From ergonyms to eponyms and paragons1
Unraveling the logical status of sentential relative clauses in English: Constructing a multifunctional framework1
‘Did I repeat so many English words?’: Stability of L1 and L2 word association responses over time and across response positions1
Introduction to Evolving (Proto)Language/s1
Regional variation in conventional expressions: a comparative study of Mandarin in Mainland China and Taiwan1
Regional pragmatic variation in the use of conventional expressions at three Spanish-speaking sites1
A cognitive psychological model of linguistic intuitions: Polysemy and predicate order effects in copredication sentences1
Engaging social media users with attitudinal messages during health crisis communication1
The role of phonetic radical information in compound character recognition during sentence reading1
Italian verbal groups: A systemic functional perspective1
The power of swearing: What we know and what we don’t1
Psych verbs in Japanese: Inchoativity and boundary types1
How labial and alveolar consonants evoke the images of softness and cuteness?: Experiments with Korean speakers1
‘Jackpot!’: How social forces intertwine with language-internal mechanisms to turn Korean noun taypak into an interactive1
The acquisition of grammatical gender in German as an additional language: A comparison of L1 English and L1 Polish learners with and without knowledge of other gendered languages1
Pragmatics of second person address variation in New Zealand Sign Language1
Editorial Board1
The merger of falling tones: A perception study in Taiyuan Jin Chinese1
A labeling approach to the removal of island effects via head movement and its consequences1
Polyadic fronting does not exist in German (but crowded CPs do): Cyclic internal Merge and multiple external Merge in the left edge of the clause1
Final consonant clusters: A repair continuum1
Predictive processing of grammatical gender: Using gender cues to facilitate processing in Spanish1
The role of phonological overlap and cognates in dual logographic bilinguals’ phonological processing1
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Book Review1
Dashing is faster than lumbering by sound: Speed sound symbolism in English motion verbs1
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The typology of degree marking1
Referentiality and thematic importance: The discourse functions of Zauzou classifiers1
Perceptions of impoliteness in Twitter interactions: Evidence from Spanish Heritage speakers1
Dependencies between adverbs and sentence-final particles: A case of confirmative and non-confirmative modals in Cantonese1
The development of copula/affirmative response marker polysemy in Chinese and other languages in China1
Comparing Germanic, Romance and Slavic: Relationships among linguistic distances1
The use of gender-fair language in Austria, Germany, and Switzerland: A contrastive, corpus-based study1
Mandarin-speaking children’s acquisition of the additive particle ye ‘also’1
Editorial Board1
Chinese is a discourse-configurational language: Miyagawa’s typology revisited1
Emergence and evolution of language in multi-agent systems1
Altered speech act indication: A contrastive pragmatic study of English and Chinese Thank and Greet expressions1
From gestures to grammatical non-manuals in sign language: A case study of polar questions and negation in Hong Kong Sign Language1
Socio-cognitive influences on translating forward causal connectives: A multivariate analysis of English translations of Tao Te Ching1
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Complex interactions in the multilingual mind: Assessing metalinguistic abilities and their effects on decoding a new language system in trilingual learners1
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The motivations and limits of Mandarin contact-induced evolution: A case study of Xiaoling Junhua in contact with Min dialects in Hainan1
Chinese nouns are mass nouns: An information-theoretic computational proof1
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What is a morphological future doing in a si-clause? Traces of mirativity in Spanish0
The developmental trajectory of contrast markers in children’s writing across four grade levels0
Syntactic complexity of interpreted, L2 and L1 speech: A constrained language perspective0
L1 transfer and input demand in contact-driven syntactic change0
Referent accessibility and referential choice in Mandarin mother–child conversation: The incremental effect of accessibility0
Semantic scope in Q-float constructions: An experimental investigation0
‘‘I’m the ghost hunter’’: Self-disclosure and its membership categorization in Chinese police interrogations of suspects0
Do position and lexical knowledge matter in children’s second language speech perception?0
Do we swear more with friends or with acquaintances? F#ck in social networks0
The V-Neg-V complex predicates, two types of negation, and grammaticalization in Japanese0
Emotion at the end of life: Semantic annotation and key domains in a pilot study audiovisual corpus0
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The interactions between factivity and politeness in Korean discourse: An experimental approach0
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The position of the broken plural in the grammar: Rural Jordanian Arabic as a case study0
Effects of proficiency and gender on learners’ use of the pragmatic marker 吧ba0
The Chinese character you (有): A functional approach0
Construing virtual intercultural experiences: A transitivity analysis of pronominal use in students’ reflective journals0
Linguistic factors that condition the velarization of word final /n/ in Puerto Rican Spanish0
Versatile copulas and their stance-marking uses in conversational Odia, an Indo-Aryan language0
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Visualizing prosodic structure: Manual gestures as highlighters of prosodic heads and edges in English academic discourses0
Imageability norms for 90 English spatio-temporal prepositions and semantically similar expressions0
An experimental study of Mandarin-speaking children’s acquisition of recursion under a formal definition/classification system for recursion0
Spanish preverbal subjects and the cartography of the Spanish left periphery0
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Offers in Nigerian English0
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The natural history of negation phenomena0
Sundanese verbal groups: Towards a systemic functional linguistic description0
From nominal phrase ‘my word’ to agreement marker ‘Right(!)’: A pragmatic and prosodic analysis of Korean discourse marker nay mali0
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Stance-taking and (inter)subjective roles of Mandarin zhende (ma/a)0
Gender stereotypes, patriarchal beliefs, and normative generics: A survey-based measure of what Polish parents communicate in norm-breaching scenarios involving children0
Gradient perception of geminate consonants in Arabic: a perceptual study of durational thresholds0
Introduction to the Special Issue: Non-standard morphosyntactic variation in L2 Englishes world-wide: corpus-based studies0
(Non-)compositionality and complexity: A crosslinguistic investigation0
Vulgarity in online discourse around the English-speaking world0
Establishing a pseudo-cleft construction in Japanese: A perspective from everyday conversation0
Exploring Mandarin tone production: A Global Chinese perspective0
Nonverbal predication and SELF-assertive truth-conditionality in American Sign Language0
Argument structure of emotive interjections: Evidence from Polish0
Book Review0
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