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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)
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‘Using all English is not always meaningful’: Stakeholders’ perspectives on the use of and attitudes towards translanguaging at a Chinese university84
Funny but aversive: A large-scale survey of the emotional response to Covid-19 humor in the Italian population during the lockdown47
Altered speech act indication: A contrastive pragmatic study of English and Chinese Thank and Greet expressions33
The power of swearing: What we know and what we don’t20
Metadiscourse across languages and genres: An overview18
Simplification in translated Chinese: An entropy-based approach17
Proposing a revised functional classification of pragmatic gestures17
Sources for courses: Metadiscourse and the role of citation in student writing16
Stance expressions in academic writing: A corpus-based comparison of Chinese students’ MA dissertations and PhD theses16
Surprise markers in applied linguistics research articles: A diachronic perspective15
Framing metaphor use over time: ‘Free Economy’ metaphors in Hong Kong political discourse (1997–2017)15
‘The goal of this analysis …’: Changing patterns of metadiscursive nouns in disciplinary writing15
Conceptual attaching in perception and practice-based behavior13
Processing implicatures in English as a Lingua Franca communication13
Automated lexical and time series modelling for critical discourse research: A case study of Hong Kong protest editorials12
Agency and responsibility: A linguistic analysis of culpable acts in retraction notices12
Motion events again: Delimiting constructional patterns11
Emergent neologism: A study of an emerging meaning with competing forms based on the first six months of COVID-1911
Can explicit instruction of formulaic sequences enhance L2 oral fluency?10
Dialects or languages: A corpus-based quantitative approach to lexical variation in common signs in Chinese Sign Language (CSL)10
Narrative pantomime: A protolanguage for persuasive communication10
Interaction, speech acts and ritual: An integrative model9
Constructional idioms of ‘insanity’ in English and Spanish: A corpus-based study9
When the owner of information is unsure: Epistemic uncertainty influences evidentiality processing in Turkish9
What surprises, interests and confuses researchers? A frame-based analysis of knowledge emotion markers in research articles9
Syntactic complexity of interpreted, L2 and L1 speech: A constrained language perspective8
The emergence of referential shift devices in three young sign languages8
There may be differences: Analysing the use of hedges in English and Spanish research articles8
Parataxis or hypotaxis? Choices of taxis in Chinese–English translation7
Syntactic and typological properties of translational language: A comparative description of dependency treebank of academic abstracts7
Afrikaans discourse-pragmatic features in South African English7
Laryngeal vocalizations: Grunts as a gateway to language?7
Linguistic insecurity and discrimination among Italian school students7
How did language evolve in the lineage of higher primates?7
Development of voice onset time in monolingual and bilingual French-speaking children6
Home and away – Implications of short-term sojourning of young Australian bilinguals6
Cognitive control in older Minnan-Mandarin and Hakka-Mandarin bidialectal adults: Advantages in Stroop-type tasks6
Copulas ser and estar production in child and adult heritage speakers of Spanish5
Syntactic simplification in interpreted English: Dependency distance and direction measures5
Metadiscourse in academic writing: A systematic review5
Pseudo-cleft-like structures in Hebrew and French conversation: The syntax-lexicon-body interface5
Shell nouns as grammatical metaphor in knowledge construal: Variation across science and engineering discourse5
Exploring the ‘languaging habitus’ of a diasporic community: Colombians in New Zealand5
The role of interactional and cognitive mechanisms in the evolution of (proto)language(s)5
Cross-linguistic transfer in Turkish–English bilinguals’ descriptions of motion events5
Effects of proficiency and gender on learners’ use of the pragmatic marker 吧ba5
Emotion at the end of life: Semantic annotation and key domains in a pilot study audiovisual corpus5
Lexical use and social class: A study on lexical richness, word length, and word class in spoken English5
Towards a new typology of meteorological events: A study based on synchronic and diachronic data5
Nostalgic diaspora or diasporic nostalgia? Discursive and identity constructions of Greeks in Qatar5
Cross-linguistic collocational networks in the L1 Turkish–L2 English mental lexicon5
(Non-)propositional irony in Japanese – Impoliteness behind honorifics5
Semantic scope in Q-float constructions: An experimental investigation4
What you “mean” is not what I “mean”: Categorization of verbs by Germans and Koreans using the semantic differential4
Emergence and evolution of language in multi-agent systems4
Socioenvironmental affordances of an English-medium instruction international university specializing in English as a lingua franca communication: An exploratory study of L2 student voices4
‘De-ethnicization’ in New Englishes: Perception and recognition of ethnicity in Namibian English4
Comparison-and-contrast in research articles of applied linguistics: A frame-based analysis4
A multidimensional analysis of the Spanish reportative epistemic evidential dizque4
Neological intuition in French: A study of formal novelty and lexical regularity as predictors4
How Gbe is Guianese French Creole?4
Acoustic salience in the evaluations of intelligibility and foreign accentedness of nonnative vowel production4
Pitch syntax as part of an ancient protolanguage4
Assessing structural language skills of autistic adults: Focus on sentence repetition4
Inequalities in status: How do they show in discourse and what can be done about them?4
Animacy and agentivity of Subject Themes in English-German translation4
Investigating diachronic change in dependency distance of Modern English: A genre-specific perspective4
Emotional intelligence, working memory, and emotional vocabulary in L1 and L2: Interactions and dissociations4
Conceptual metonymy and emotive-affective meaning at the interface: Examples from online medical consultations4
Are there core and peripheral syntactic structures? Experimental evidence from Dutch native speakers with varying literacy levels4
Typological characteristics of interlanguage: Across native language types and L2 proficiency levels4
Dynamic modelling of context: Field, Tenor and Mode revisited4
Translatorial voice through modal stance: A corpus-based study of modality shifts in Chinese-to-English translation of research article abstracts4
Variation in verbal negation in Jordanian Arabic: A corpus-based analysis3
Exploring motion event construal: How much attention do speakers of different languages and cultures pay to context?3
The difference intersubjective grammar makes in protactile DeafBlind communities3
Anaphora resolution and age effects in Greek-Spanish bilingualism: Evidence from first-generation immigrants, heritage speakers, and L2 speakers3
Pushing SFL out of its comfort zone: The role of SPCA structure in English and Spanish3
The compositionality of English phrasal verbs in terms of imageability3
Retrieval practice enhances learning and memory retention of French words in Chinese-English bilinguals3
Corpus similarity measures remain robust across diverse languages3
Contextually categorised adjective as predicate in Mandarin3
Modelability of WAR metaphors across time in cross-national COVID-19 news translation: An insight into ideology manipulation3
Morphological processing and individual frequency effects in L1 and L2 Spanish3
The development of Latin alphabet identity markers: A comparison among three Romance graphemes3
Linguistic characteristics of online academic forum posts across subregisters, L1 backgrounds, and grades3
Variation and change of middle-class /r/ in Standard Scottish 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
Overlap not gap: Understanding the relationship between animal communication and language with Prototype Theory3
A corpus-based study of adjectivizations in English3
Northern Middle English spelling evidence in the Durham Account Rolls3
Exploring the effect of interpreting training: Eye-tracking English-Chinese sight interpreting3
Predictive processing of grammatical gender: Using gender cues to facilitate processing in Spanish3
Transitivity-ergativity perspectives on causation in legal texts: A contrastive study of Arabic and English website terms of service3
Comparatives in Korean: A grammaticalization perspective3
Expressions of interest in research articles: Geo-academic location and time as influencing factors2
No Gods and precious few heroes: SFL and evolutionary linguistics2
Does dialect matter in the expression of motion? Ways of encoding manner and path in Babao and standard Mandarin2
On the predicative use of Chinese gradable adjectives2
Particle stacking in Singlish – New data from the National Speech Corpus2
Intersubjective understanding in finger braille interpreter-mediated interaction: Two case studies of other-initiated repair2
A comparative study of the phrase frames used in the essays of native and nonnative English students2
Possessive pronouns, Condition C and Anti-Cataphora Effects2
Intersubjectivity and (non-)shared modes of interaction in Australian tactile signing2
Repair-by-deletion/insertion and the distribution of the copula in African American English2
Gratitude for compliance: A developmental study on the speech act of thanking2
The effectiveness of metaphors in Chinese video advertisements for depression: An experimental study2
Compliment patterns in English: L1 and L2 production in the virtual exchange environment2
Pseudo-clefts: An interactional analysis across languages2
Perception of foreign segments in loanword phonology2
Figuratively used product names: From ergonyms to eponyms and paragons2
The vowel system of Eastern Andalusian Spanish speakers with articulation disorders2
Listening to accents: Comprehensibility, accentedness and intelligibility of native and non-native English speech2
Linguistic encounters in real world prescriptivism: Acknowledging its place and role2
The functions and evolution of xob ‘well’ in Persian: A thetical analysis2
Fulfillment types in Realization events: Definition, distinctions, and diagnostics2
Understanding spelling conflicts in Bosnian, Croatian, Montenegrin, and Serbian: Insights from speakers’ attitudes and beliefs2
Is Hanja represented in the Korean mental lexicon?: Encoding cross-script semantic cohorts in the representation of Sino-Korean2
Engaging social media users with attitudinal messages during health crisis communication2
Gender dissimilarity between subject and object facilitates online-comprehension of agent–patient–relations in German: An eye-tracking study with 6- to 10-year-old monolingual children2
Compound words are decomposed regardless of semantic transparency and grammatical class: An fMRI study in Persian2
To combine is to divide: Evidence of the noun-verb distinction at the morphemic level in compound nouns2
An intercultural analysis of metadiscourse in international mathematical contest papers: From research to EAP practice2
How are neural machine-translated Chinese-to-English short stories constructed and cohered? An exploratory study based on theme-rheme structure2
Retracing the phonesthemic {gr-/prehension}, {sm-/oral phenomena} and {sn-/nasality} relations in English to Proto-Indo-European and beyond within a semiogenetic perspective2
The origin and development of the question particle me1 in Cantonese2
Visualizing prosodic structure: Manual gestures as highlighters of prosodic heads and edges in English academic discourses2
Exploring color metaphor with Behavioral Profiles: A usage-based analysis on the metaphorical meanings of the Chinese color term bái “white”2
Metaphors and trauma: An image schematic analysis of symptom-specific metaphors2
Knowledge of idiomatic expressions in the native language: Do emigrants lose their touch?2
The role of semantics and orthography in modulating conscious access to Chinese words2
The Chinese character you (有): A functional approach2
Intonation and exchange: A dynamic and metafunctional view2
Paragon and antonomasia: Similar but/and different?2
It's as far as the arm can raise: Pointing height marks target distance among the San Juan Quiahije Chatino2
Fitting in: Stylizing and (re)negotiating Congolese youth identity and multilingualism in Cape Town2
An extensive analysis of blending in Contemporary Italian2
Introduction: Reimagining language and belonging in the diaspora2
The interactions between factivity and politeness in Korean discourse: An experimental approach1
Motion events in early child Mandarin: How preschoolers communicate dynamic spatial information in toy-play context?1
Prosody and sentencehood in Chinese: A case study with reference to Chinese-English comparison1
Pseudo-cleft constructions in Swedish talk-in-interaction: Turn projection and discourse organization1
A feature-based approach to the acquisition of L2 Chinese negation by L1-English and L1-Korean learners1
SFL approaches to language dynamics and contrast1
Taking taxonomy seriously in linguistics: Intelligibility as a criterion of demarcation between languages and dialects1
A corpus-based analysis of the effect of syntactic complexity on disfluency in consecutive interpreting1
Lexical creativity in modern Nahuatl: An analysis of multidialectal data1
Inference-based form selection in native and non-native speakers: Evidence from subject-verb agreement error detection in French1
Towards a systemic functional model for characterizing Chinese loanwords in English: The case of kowtow1
Definite description of episodic free relatives in Jordanian Arabic: A choice function analysis1
Attitudes towards Nigerian Englishes: Ethnic categorisation and underlying reasons for categorisation1
On the extended uses of -ki and -m nominalization constructions as face-threat mitigators in Korean1
Textual functions of low confidence adverbs: The case of perhaps1
From gestures to grammatical non-manuals in sign language: A case study of polar questions and negation in Hong Kong Sign Language1
What do Chinese bidirectional Life–Xì (‘Drama’) similes/metaphors tell us about metaphorical bidirectionality?1
A cognitive psychological model of linguistic intuitions: Polysemy and predicate order effects in copredication sentences1
On the disjunctive constructions and related constructions in Zhoutun1
‘Jackpot!’: How social forces intertwine with language-internal mechanisms to turn Korean noun taypak into an interactive1
Independent versus latched interjections: Co-textual differences and their expendability in film subtitling1
What’s figurative about figurative language?1
Attitudes to regional and standard accents in commercial and non-commercial contexts1
A focus-based analysis of Nominative objects in Japanese1
Deverbal nominals possess no internal VP structure1
Technical vocabulary in languages for special purposes: The corpus-based Russian economics word list1
‘‘I’m the ghost hunter’’: Self-disclosure and its membership categorization in Chinese police interrogations of suspects1
Exploring the role of phraseological knowledge and syntactic knowledge in L2 listening comprehension1
Subjects, topics and the accusative case alternation in Finnish. A discourse-related “split” account of the Subject function1
Interaction in bilingual early speech acquisition: Acceleration in the bilingual acquisition of English liquids for English-Spanish bilinguals1
An experimental study of Mandarin-speaking children’s acquisition of recursion under a formal definition/classification system for recursion1
A dual pathway analysis of information structure1
Modality effect in interactive alignment: Differences between spoken and text-based conversation1
Kimian/Davidsonian, Individual/Stage and non-verbal predication: A Romance perspective1
Micro-sociolinguistic outcomes of language contact in different lects of Indian English1
Defocusing and the third-person viewpoint: The pronoun uno and its covariation with clitic se in Spanish1
On referential abilities in personal narratives of Mandarin-speaking children aged three to six years1
The interface issue in second language acquisition research: An interdisciplinary perspective1
Forging and negating diasporic linguistic citizenship in ethnocratic Malaysia1
Structural similarity in figurative language: A preliminary cognitive analysis1
Syntactic differences of the probabilistic valency of nouns in Chinese–English Code-switching1
Towards a description of palm-up in bidirectional signed language interpreting1
Evaluating word lists against word frequency, lexical age-of-acquisition and concreteness1
Syntactic functions of words grammatically related to verbs in interlanguage: A valency perspective1
The syntactic marking of emotional intensity: Psycholinguistic evidence from French1
Comparing Germanic, Romance and Slavic: Relationships among linguistic distances1
The natural history of negation phenomena1
Proximity, polarity and scalarity: A semantic study of approximative sentence-final particles in Cantonese1
Object preference in the interpretation of floating numeral quantifiers of Korean1
“I agree!” empathetic head-nodding and its role in cultural competences development1
Play it by ear? An ERP study of Chinese polysemous verb yǒu1
The developmental trajectory of contrast markers in children’s writing across four grade levels1
Epistemological challenges in the study of alternating constructions1
Negotiating male homosociality: Chronotopic identities of ji-you in China1
Origin of Modern Chinese pragmatic markers bushi: Negative copula or negative adjective?1
The V-Neg-V complex predicates, two types of negation, and grammaticalization in Japanese1
Coordinating individual actions in joint activities: The case of the German deictic so1
Situation-bound utterances and constructional networks: The evolution of the Hebrew see-farewell family1
Variation in formant dynamics of L1 and L2 Spanish vowels1
A labeling approach to the removal of island effects via head movement and its consequences1
Causation in Polish anticausatives1
A functional model for the tag question paradigm: The case of invariable tag questions in English and Portuguese1
Why quantifiers float: A response to Kim (2013)1
The anaphoric properties of spatial nouns and prepositions in Mandarin: A formal account1
Explicit and implicit (im)politeness: A corpus-based study of the Chinese formulaic expression “Nikezhen+X”1
On the role of syllabic neighbourhood density in the syllable structure effect in European Portuguese1
Adult Mandarin Chinese speakers’ acquisition of locational and directional prepositional constructions in second language English1
Polarity metaphor in English: Definition, identification, and categorization0
The impact of directionality on interpreters’ syntactic processing: Insights from syntactic dependency relation measures0
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Complex interactions in the multilingual mind: Assessing metalinguistic abilities and their effects on decoding a new language system in trilingual learners0
Mixtec negative existential cycles, standard negation and negative indefiniteness0
Verbal effect on the processing of complement coercion: Distinguishing between aspectual verbs and psych verbs0
French V-N compounds: Plural marking, headedness endocentricity/exocentricity continuum0
L2 acquisition of classifier reduplication in Chinese0
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Language dominance influences bilingual lexical selection quantitatively but not qualitatively in language production: Evidence from Chinese-English bilinguals0
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Translanguaging, transculturality, and the English naming practice for children in China0
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Morphosyntactic variation in spoken English in Dominica0
Training non-native speech sounds results in long-lasting plastic changes – Hard-wiring new memory traces takes time0
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RETRACTED: Spatiality and temporality: The fundamental difference between Chinese and English0
Intertwined grammaticalization, degrammaticalization, and pragmaticalization: The case of ppwun ‘share’ in Korean0
Unraveling the logical status of sentential relative clauses in English: Constructing a multifunctional framework0
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Introduction to Evolving (Proto)Language/s0
Verum shi, sentence-final de and the emphatic effects in Mandarin0
Argument structure of emotive interjections: Evidence from Polish0
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Offers in Nigerian English0
Towards a comprehensive pragmatic model of subjectivity: Empirical evidence from French0
What is in a word? An exploration of the metaphorical use of schizophrenia in general American English0
The position of the broken plural in the grammar: Rural Jordanian Arabic as a case study0
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Definiteness in plural reference in Shaoxing Wu0
A corpus-based analysis of the fortition of the word-initial /ʒ/ in French0
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Chinese is a discourse-configurational language: Miyagawa’s typology revisited0
Imageability norms for 90 English spatio-temporal prepositions and semantically similar expressions0
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